本书乃陆谷孙翻译之爱德华·李尔之《胡诌诗集》（A Book of Nonsense）。英国文学中向有童谣儿歌传统，这胡诌打油诗，初兴于十八世纪，越百年，到了里尔手中，势更大炽，因当时多用于幼儿教育，严格讲究格律。胡诌诗的这种音乐感，对于矫正幼儿音素误读，对于幼儿体验英语的节律，习惯成自然，逐步形成敏感，进一步发展到理性认知，大有裨益。更何况里尔本人还是画家——传说曾教过维多利亚女王作画——为一诗配一图（都是漫画），当能进一步激发学童兴趣。

讽刺（Satire）并不是最重要的文学类型，却是最富创造力和挑战性、最值得铭记的文学形式之一。著名古典学家与文学批评家吉尔伯特·海厄特将讽刺文学分为独白、戏仿与叙事三种类型，并以此为脉络在西方文学中寻踪讽刺文学的各类范本——从古希腊到现当代美国，从阿里斯托芬到欧仁·尤内斯库，从荷马到艾森豪威尔，从贺拉斯到乔伊斯，从柏拉图到乔治·奥威尔——如数家珍般勾勒出作为一种文学与文化形态的讽刺，其起源与流变，目的与方法，其或谑或虐外壳下的理想主义光辉。

On 9 September this year, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest reigning monarch in British history, breaking the record set by her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria, who was on the throne for 63 years and seven months. To celebrate this remarkable milestone, the BBC today announces a new BBC One (1x60) documentary, The Queen’s Longest Reign: Elizabeth & Victoria, presented by Sophie Raworth, which looks at the long reigns of these two extraordinary women, asking how they have managed to provide such enduring stability in an ever-changing world. Phil Dolling, Head of BBC Events, says: “For all of us alive, today, September 9th, is something we will not know again in our lifetimes – a British monarch reigning for more than 63 years and seven months. It’s a remarkable achievement and we’re delighted to be able to pay tribute to Her Majesty the Queen with this documentary.” Including contributions from Professor Kate Williams, Lord Professor Peter Hennessy, Sir Roy Strong, William Shawcross, Lord Julian Fellowes, Robert Lacey, AN Wilson, and Matthew Dennison among others, the film highlights the challenges and achievements the Queen has faced - and compares her reign with that of her great-great grandmother, Queen Victoria. Following the Queen on many of her recent public engagements both in the UK, and abroad, it will feature scenes at Buckingham Palace, Balmoral, Windsor Castle, Holyroodhouse and Kensington Palace as well as following her on a recent State Visit to Germany, where the Queen visits the site of the former Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. It will look at the similarities - and differences - of the two reigns, and how neither expected to ascend to the throne, yet, as the result of deaths and abdication, both found themselves crowned at remarkably young ages, Queen Elizabeth at 25, and Queen Victoria at just 18. This comparison of the two reigns brings to light key questions regarding the nature of sovereignty, longevity, and stability during periods of significant social change, and how in a 1,000-year history of the British Monarchy only these two have celebrated their Diamond Jubilees after six decades on the throne. The Queen’s Longest Reign: Elizabeth & Victoria, will TX on BBC One on Sunday 6 September, time TBC. It has been commissioned by Martin Davidson, Head of Specialist Factual for Charlotte Moore, Controller of BBC One. The film has been produced and directed by Sally Norris who made the highly acclaimed The Diamond Queen series.

Phillipa Gregory reveals the women at the heart of the War of the Roses.

主持人杰里米·帕克斯曼，从他热爱的维多利亚时期画作出发，带领我们审视维多利亚时期的生活。（文：life_is_good@YDY） Jeremy Paxman takes his love of Victorian paintings as the starting point for a journey into Victorian Britain. Such pictures may not be fashionable today, but they are a goldmine of information about the most dynamic age in British history.

文學作品絕非憑空而生，而是時空的產物。本書透過歷史分期、思想流派等介紹，勾勒出維多利亞的時代風貌，並且對當時最具代表性的小說家、詩人、散文家逐一評介，引領讀者走進維多利亞的文學世界。

本书精选22本来自19世纪末20世纪初的古旧插画书，从一个侧面展示了英国插画书黄金时代的面貌。书中囊括了诸多插画大师的作品，包括伦道夫•凯迪克、沃尔特•克莱恩、凯特•格林纳威、莫里斯•德•蒙维尔、约翰•坦尼尔、彼得•阿诺、肯尼•梅多斯等，风格各异，有的画面轻盈浪漫、色彩明媚，有展现繁华都市和市井文化的，有的古老神秘，有的宁静抒怀。就表现技巧而言，这些插画也颇具代表性，有纹理丰富、具有层次感的铜版画，有表现力细腻的钢版画，有层层上色、堪比彩笔绘制效果的石版画，也有通过木刻彩印技术大批量印制的插画。

Picking up one year after the end of the first series, while Fleabag appears to be more at ease with herself and her newly bustling café, her family seems to be whirling into further turmoil around her. Having not spoken to her sister since we last left her, Fleabag reconnects with Claire at their father’s engagement party, which turns out to be far from a celebration. There, she meets a Catholic priest who turns her life upside down… Series 2 is an exploration into everything that makes us human: love, religion, hope and heartbreak.

《艾凡赫》（1819）是司各特最出名的小说，也是他描写中世纪生活的历史小说中最优秀的一部。我国早在一九○五年就出版了林纾和魏易合译的文言文译本，改名为《撒克逊劫后英雄略》，嗣后又陆续出版过好几种语体文译本，但都是节译本和改写本。 小说的故事发生在十二世纪末英王狮心理查一世被囚在国外前后。理查王黩武喜功，一一九一年发起十字军东征，因参加远征的基督教国家内部分崩离析，不久就被迫班师。在归途中遇风暴，理查率领少数随从乔装平民取道维也纳回英，被奥地利公爵所俘，囚禁在多瑙河上城堡中一年余，后来付了大量赎金，才于一一九四年获释归国。 小说《艾凡赫》的卓越成就，在于它真实而生动地再现了十 二世纪末英国封建主义全盛时期的历史，比较全面而深刻地反映了当时社会中复杂的矛盾。自从一○六六年诺曼的威廉公爵征服英国后，英国的盎格鲁·萨克逊民族受到异族的压迫，广大 的农民沦为农奴，原萨克逊封建主也受到诺曼封建贵族的欺凌。当时的统治阶级主要由两个阶层所组成：封建贵族和僧侣。封建贵族中还建立了各级骑士的食邑制度。在十二世纪末，封建主们经过一百多年的休养生息，在各自领地上的统治已比较巩固，日趋骄横自满，有的相互兼并，有的公然反叛国王。他们为了满足自己骄奢淫逸的生活需求，不断加重对农民的剥削和压迫，迫使部分农民铤而走险，例如本书中的罗宾汉和他手下的绿林豪杰们。当时的教会则自成一股势力，直接归罗马教廷管辖，拥有全国三分之一的土地。一些有势力的教派如本书中的圣殿骑士派，甚至敢于跟王室对抗。这些尖锐、复杂的社会矛盾，在小说中都有生动的描写和反映，如诺曼征服者统治集团内部以约翰亲王为代表的诺曼封建贵族与国王理查一世之间争夺王位的斗争，以塞得利克为代表的萨克逊贵族与以布里昂·德·波阿—基尔勃为代表的诺曼贵族之间的民族矛盾和纷争，以及以罗宾汉为代表的被压迫农民与弗朗·德·别夫等诺曼封建主之间的阶级矛盾和斗争。 作者在小说中再现中世纪英格兰生活的时候，虽然描绘了一些富于浪漫色彩的比武、决斗等场面，但并没有把中世纪社会美化，而是用生动的文笔，揭露了封建贵族和僧侣们的腐化堕落，并在书中意味深长地指出：“小说书里的描述，还未将那一时代中黑暗悲惨的实况完全揭露出来。”

1964 film directed by Paul Almond

The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.

1985 film directed by James Ivory

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.

A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a new home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family.

Paddington, now happily settled with the Browns, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy, but it is stolen.

The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.

2016 film directed by Thea Sharrock

1995 film by Ang Lee