本书是英国畅销小说作家肯·福莱特最受欢迎的作品，自1989年问世以来已被翻译成近30种语言，曾登上英、法、德、西、美等各国畅销书排行榜首位，总销售量超过1400万本。12世纪的英格兰，高耸的哥特式教堂的出现象征着一个新时代的开端。小说就以此为背景，以修建世界第一座哥特式大教堂为经，以王位、爵位争夺战为纬，描绘了善恶交战引发的政教冲突、兄弟阋墙，讲述了一段有关勇气、奉献、梦想、爱情、贪婪和复仇的故事。本书被评论家誉为“史诗般的巨著”，真实的历史背景和细致入微的细节描写，让读者仿佛置身混沌的中世纪，与主人公们一起经历了那段惊心动魄的时光。

本书是英国畅销小说作家肯·福莱特最受欢迎的作品，自1989年问世以来已被翻译成近30种语言，曾登上英、法、德、西、美等各国畅销书排行榜首位，总销售量超过1400万本。12世纪的英格兰，高耸的哥特式教堂的出现象征着一个新时代的开端。小说就以此为背景，以修建世界第一座哥特式大教堂为经，以王位、爵位争夺战为纬，描绘了善恶交战引发的政教冲突、兄弟阋墙，讲述了一段有关勇气、奉献、梦想、爱情、贪婪和复仇的故事。本书被评论家誉为“史诗般的巨著”，真实的历史背景和细致入微的细节描写，让读者仿佛置身混沌的中世纪，与主人公们一起经历了那段惊心动魄的时光。

《失乐园》(Paradise Lost)，全文12卷，以史诗一般的磅礴气势揭示了人的原罪与堕落。诗中叛逆天使撒旦，因为反抗上帝的权威被打入地狱，却仍不悔改，负隅反抗，为复仇寻至伊甸园。亚当与夏娃受被撒旦附身的蛇的引诱，偷吃了上帝明令禁吃的分辨善恶的树上的果子。最终，撒旦及其同伙遭谴全变成了蛇，亚当与夏娃被逐出了伊甸园。该诗体现了诗人追求自由的崇高精神，是世界文学史、思想史上的一部极重要的作品。网格本原来采用的就是朱维之先生的译本，经典传神，这次再版，重新扫描了古斯塔夫·多雷的50幅精美插图，以更高质量的书品，还原网格本的魅力。

This Norton Critical Edition is designed to make Paradise Lost accessible for student readers, providing invaluable contextual and biographical information and the tools students need to think critically about this landmark epic. Gordon Teskey's freshly edited text of Milton's masterpiece is accompanied by a new introduction and substantial explanatory annotations. Spelling and punctuation have been modernized, the latter, importantly, within the limits imposed by Milton's syntax. "Sources and Backgrounds" collects relevant passages from the Bible and Milton's prose writings, including selections from The Reason of Church Government and the full text of Areopagitica. "Criticism" brings together classic interpretations by Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, Victor Hugo, and T. S. Eliot, among others, and the most important recent criticism and scholarship surrounding the epic, including essays by Northrop Frye, Barbara Lewalski, Christopher Ricks, and Helen Vendler. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

《四个四重奏：艾略特诗选》的作者艾略特是西方现代派诗歌代表诗人。他的诗代表着现代主义诗歌的巅峰，为现代主义诗歌的代名词。《四个四重奏：艾略特诗选》收入艾略特所有重要的诗歌作品（《荒原》《四个四重奏》《灰星期三》《空心人》《普鲁弗洛克和其他观察到的事物》），捕捉住了第一次世界大战后西方世界一片荒原般的“时代精神”，表达了整整一代人精神上的幻灭和绝望。译者裘小龙曾师从卞之琳攻读现代主义诗歌。因翻译艾略特、叶芝，以及美国意象派诗人的诗作而闻名，尤其是他翻译的艾略特诗歌，一直被推崇为权威译本。译有《意象派诗选》《四个四重奏》《拜伦传》《抒情诗人叶芝诗选》《丽达与天鹅》，其中《四个四重奏》曾获上海青年文学翻译奖。
收入《荒原》《四个四重奏》《灰星期三》《空心人》等艾略特所有重要作品。在一个没有秩序、没有意义、没有美的世俗世界中，现代人“可怕的空虚”以一种强烈的诚实跃然纸上。炉火纯青的文字，细腻而精确地表达了他的心灵。

本书依据费伯出版社1969年出版的《托•斯•艾略特诗歌戏剧全集》中的戏剧部分译出，收录了艾略特的五部主要戏剧作品：十七世纪以来最著名的英国诗剧《大教堂凶杀案》、融合希腊戏剧和十二世纪中期侦探戏剧元素、展现主人公自我就赎过程的作品《家庭团聚》；以探讨扭曲的人生观为主题的、艾略特最受欢迎的剧作《鸡尾酒会》；过去三十多年里唯一一本登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜的戏剧作品《机要秘书》；以及作者的最后一部作品《老政治家》。他的现实主义手法和故事情节以及作品中对深层次象征意义的追求，对同时代的剧作家产生了巨大的影响。

《项狄传》全名为《绅士特里斯舛•项狄的生平与见解》，但全书既无主人公翔实的生平故事，更没有他的深刻见解，小说以“回顾”自己在母体中受孕开篇，绝大部分却在以特里斯舛的嘴讲述别人，主要是他父亲和他叔叔的生平与见解，至于特里斯舛的生平则只是蜻蜓点水断断续续提了几处。叙述的顺序则是东一榔头西一棒，完全打破了叙述的时间顺序，遵循的只是事件进入叙述人脑海的先后顺序。书中更是不时出现黑页、白页、大理石纹页和各种图解；还有大量的星号，无数的破折号，任意的标点和半截的断句，零星的或整段整页的希腊文、拉丁文。
米兰•昆德拉曾把《项狄传》纳入欧洲最伟大的小说行列，认为其写作的无序性，散漫的没有主题却具有复调性质的文本，实在成为了西方小说朝意识流方向发展的源泉宝库。的确，《项狄传》既是英国乃至世界小说史上里程碑式的巨著，又堪称英国文学史上最离奇的小说，是一部闻名世界的奇书；《项狄传》既被尊为“世界文学中最典型的小说”，又被誉为现代小说的“伟大泉源和先驱”。

Edited by Joan New and Melvyn New.

The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 ...more [close] The year 1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "negative utopia"--a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing, from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny the novel's hold on the imaginations of the whole generations, or the power of its admonitions--a power that seem to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

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The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
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William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Overseeing their efforts are Ralph, "the boy with fair hair," and Piggy, Ralph's chubby, wisdom-dispensing sidekick whose thick spectacles come in handy for lighting fires. Although Ralph tries to impose order and delegate responsibility, there are many in their number who would rather swim, play, or hunt the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or challenged outright. His fiercest antagonist is Jack, the redheaded leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join his band of painted savages. The situation deteriorates as the trappings of civilization continue to fall away, until Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters, he and Piggy have become the hunted: "He forgot his words, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet." Golding's gripping novel explores the boundary between human reason and animal instinct, all on the brutal playing field of adolescent competition.
--Jennifer Hubert
From School Library Journal
Grade 10 Up?A solid tool for the study of William Golding's classic novel. Sixteen critical selections from both journals and books are arranged in chronological order by date of publication from 1961 to 1993. The examined topics, length and completeness of entries, and depth of analysis present a wide range of material. Articles selected by Bloom have not previously appeared in works easily accessible to most readers. There is little duplication with "Contemporary Literary Criticism" (Gale) or with "British Writers" (Scribners); both cover less ground. Clarice Swisher's Readings on Lord of the Flies (Greenhaven, 1997) includes two of the same critics, but Bloom's book has complete articles rather than excerpts. While some readers may struggle with these selections, the book is an excellent resource.
Gail Richmond, San Diego Unified Schools, CA
From Booklist
A plane crashes on an uninhabited tropical island during wartime. A group of schoolboys--the sole survivors--form their own society, an experiment that quickly descends into chaos and death in Golding's classic allegory. Listening Library recently rereleased this historic 1976 recording, and the timing could not be more apt. As CNN keeps viewers on edge with the latest military overtures in the real world and the reality TV show "Survivor" offers escape in the form of backstabbing, bug-eating "tribal" rituals, LORD OF THE FLIES gives the reader a lucid and chillingly objective mirror to our modern society. William Golding's narration is as impartial as his work, yet his grumbly, grandfatherly voice, complete with mid-sentence sniffs and swallows, is intimate. Included on the tapes is background on how he came to conceive the book and a brief rebuttal to critics about its meaning. M.M.O. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award
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Subject of this extraordinary novel is the daily life of an English family in the Hebrides. "Radiant as To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality."-Eudora Welty, from her Introduction.

★ 诺奖得主威廉•戈尔丁诞辰110周年纪念版文集
★诺奖得主威廉•戈尔丁继《蝇王》之后，一部反思人类文明继承、主题宏伟深刻的杰作
★ 题材聚焦原始人类，以史前的尼安德特人视角代入，见证了尼安德特人与智人的矛盾冲突——对人类的文明继承做了深刻反思，剖析了人类进化、文明进步所需付出的残忍血腥的代价
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诺奖作家威廉•戈尔丁将《继承者》视为自己的最成功之作，其主题甚至比《蝇王》更宏伟深刻。小说讲述了春季来临，一小群原始尼安德特人像往年一样返回他们熟悉的栖息地。但是这一年，发生了诡异的事情——神秘莫测的声响和气味，难以解释的暴力行径，还有那些藏在树叶之后、若隐若现、无法想象的生物。这些尼安德特人，他们生死难料，他们的世界悬而未决。故事透过他们的眼睛探查了一个新的种族——我们自身，智人——的出现，以及伴随着其支配地位的不断加强，对古老种族带来的灭顶之灾。小说的最后，智人抢走了一个尼安德特人的婴儿，留下了一丝希望——尼安德特人与智人之间曾经共同繁衍生存。
《继承者》的伟大之处在于戈尔丁创造了一种用来表达尼安德特人的语言——一种混合了手势、舞蹈和心灵感应的语言，带领读者从尼安德特人的视角看一切，进入一个生命的内部，体验其种种感官。同时，戈尔丁用平淡、冷漠、拙朴的语言描述出世间最凝重的残忍与苦痛，人类文明的进步竟要付出如此冷酷血腥、道德堕落的代价。

Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit. Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, won the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature.

《海浪》是20世纪英国著名女作家弗吉尼亚•伍尔夫创作力达到鼎盛时期的作品，出版于1931年。这部高度诗意化、抽象化、程式化的实验作品没有严格意义上的故事，倒更像是一部由九个乐章构建而成的音乐作品：每个引子都是一篇精致的散文诗，以太阳和海浪的涨落与变迁对应生命的兴衰沉浮；跟在每段引子后面的是六个没有姓氏的、高度形式化的人物在各自相应人生阶段——从儿童时代、学生时代、青春时代、中年时代直到老年时代——的瞬间内心独白。引子与正文互相映射，为读者的感官辟开前所未有的、细致入微的通道，最大限度地接近生命、时间、意识以及感觉的实质。这是一部在现代文学的殿堂中占据重要地位的作品，时至今日，仍以其精美绝伦的文本结构和诗意盎然的笔调激荡着我们的灵魂。

The Waves, more than any of Virginia Woolf's novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age.
While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that conveys the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫（1882-1941），英国著名女作家，意识流小说家的代表之一。《达洛卫夫人》是她的代表作。
《达洛卫夫人》描写了一位议员夫人一天的活动过程。全书以主人公为核心，以她的生日晚宴为枢纽，突出地塑造了两个截然不同的典型：代表上流社会及习惯势力的“大医师”布雷德肖和平民出生的史密斯；同时对当时英国社会的上层阶级中形形式式的人物做了入木三分的刻画，让读者领略到典型意识流小说的各种特色，并以其“一天写尽一个女人的一生”的艺术功力，淋漓尽致地展现了这部作品的独特性，同时还告诉人们，意识流小说并非仅仅是艺术技巧的创新，它们也可以具有深刻的思想性和社会意义。

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.

《奥兰多》被列入BBC评选出的“100部塑造我们世界的小说”，故事始于十六世纪伊丽莎白时代，历时四百年。奥兰多是一位天真无邪的贵族少年，因深受伊丽莎白女王宠爱而进入宫庭。詹姆斯王登基后，大霜冻降临，奥兰多偶遇一位俄罗斯公主，坠入情网，结果是失恋亦失宠，隐居乡间大宅。奥兰多从小迷恋文学和诗歌，莎士比亚的身影令他难以忘怀，设法与小有名气的诗人格林相识，不料又受戏弄，加之不堪忍受罗马尼亚女大公的纠缠，遂请缨出使土耳其。在君士坦丁堡的一场大火之后，奥兰多变为女子，离开官场，混迹于吉卜赛人之间。再后她返回英国，成为上流社会的贵妇，结识一批当时著名文人。之后，奥兰多漫长的生命便一直以女人的形象存在，带着前三十年男子的记忆和认知对男女的差异和世界观重新进入新的生活。到故事结尾时，奥兰多已是二十世纪的获奖诗人，回到那贯穿全书、象征传统的大宅，来到大橡树下，回顾她对文学与诗歌的永恒的追求。

Orlando’s journey, from the court of Queen Elizabeth I to modern times will also be an internal one. He is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matters of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia’s Woolf’s most unusual and fantastic creation is a funny, exuberant tale which examines the very nature of sexuality.

★ BBC“最伟大的英国小说”榜首
★《时代周刊》“史上最伟大的100部长篇小说”第8名
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《米德尔马契》以十九世纪三十年代的英国乡村为背景，描写了众多的人物，并借此展现了一幅社会图景。本书有两条叙事线索，一方面讲述了年轻女性多萝西娅的灾难性婚姻与理想的破灭，另一方面讲述了青年医生利德盖特可悲的婚姻与事业的失败。作者运用对比、对称、平行和重复等手法，把这两条主线巧妙地交织在一起，把众多人物写了进去，成功地表现了“社会挫败人”这样一个幻灭主题。
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“有史以来最伟大的英语小说。”
——文学评论家F. R. 利维斯