This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition presents the acclaimed scholarly translation with supporting materials not available elsewhere in a single volume. The text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, an essay on the metrical form, the translator's note, marginal glosses and explanatory annotations to assist in the study of this canonical Arthurian romance.

《努门诺尔与中洲之未完的传说》汇集了自远古至魔戒大战结束、时间跨度足有数千年之久的种种中洲逸事： 巫师甘道夫对促成矮人聚首袋底洞、谋复孤山的生动叙述； 伊熙尔杜身遭不测，魔戒落入大河的前因后果； 加拉德瑞尔的过往与力量之戒的铸成； 刚铎与洛汗两国缘何结下同仇敌忾的生死盟约； 沉沦之地努门诺尔漫长历史遗留的唯一记载； 以及初代黑暗魔君尚未败亡之时，杜内丹人的先祖图奥是如何亲见司掌众水之神乌欧牟现身于贝烈瑞安德的海滨，传奇英雄图林又何以慨叹自己“自童年起就在魔苟斯的黑暗迷雾中摸索”。 本书是为渴望更加了解中洲的语言文化、历史传说、风土人情的读者准备的厚礼。 诚然，书中“每个故事都是‘未完’的，差别只在程度的深浅，并且是多种意义上的‘未完’”，但传奇本无穷尽，故也永不终结。

Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment with communism. In a yellow one she writes a novel in which the heroine relives part of her own experience. And in a blue one she keeps a personal diary. Finally, in love with an American writer and threatened with insanity, Anna resolves to bring the threads of all four books together in a golden notebook. Doris Lessing's best-known and most influential novel, "The Golden Noteboo"k retains its extraordinary power and relevance decades after its initial publication.

Fifth edition of this best-selling guide to plants and flowers, updated and revised from the experts at the RHS RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers is an expert guide to planning your dream garden, redesigned to aid navigation and make identifying plants easier than ever. Over 8,000 easy-to-find plants and thousands of photographs will give you all the guidance you need. Each variety is photographed and the new "how to" section tells you all you need to know on cultivation, pruning and care. Plus, use the special plant selector to grow for every possible situation and condition, from sunless walls to sandy soil. The perfect addition to any gardener's bookshelf.

《佛罗伦萨的神女》是一部跨越东西方文化、宗教、民族的历史魔幻巨著，也是一部超越时空与想象力边陲的“爱情传奇”。在一个阔大的历史背景上——印度的莫卧儿帝国、意大利的美第奇政权、土耳其的奥斯曼帝国、伊朗的波斯帝国、中亚的乌兹别克王国，以及英国与西班牙争夺海上霸权、哥伦布发现美洲——东西方世界皆为一个似真似幻的黑眼睛公主而疯狂……历史有多么宏大，情爱就有多么离奇！且不说主角的舞台和魅力，单就其中的细枝末节：佛罗伦萨的交际花、马基雅维利、虚幻的王后、乖戾的王子、不可思议的妓女、诡异的宠臣、为画中人而匿毙画页一角的宫廷画师、神秘的阉人以及“性爱秘药”“记忆之宫”“四个巨人”… 就足以令人眼花缭乱、不能自拔。

理查德·梅比：当代不列颠最伟大的博物学作家 一部跨越园艺、文学、历史的典范之作！ 杂草的传奇故事 野性从未走远…… 杂草是某种类型的植物还是一种人类的思维？它们是生物品种还是文化的产物？它们为何存在？如果没有它们，世界将会怎样？英国博物学作家理查德•梅比讲述了在人类与自然的抗争过程中，四处流浪的杂草是如何被定义、被诠释、被限制和被不公平地对待，又是如何冲破文明的边界并影响人类对自然的看法。理查德•梅比一方面为自然界不被待见的植物辩护，一方面从历史、小说、诗歌、戏剧和民间故事中钩沉杂草与人类剪不断理还乱的关系。文明背后的野性从未走远，一部立足英国本土的杂草变迁史，却勾勒出全球化视野中一幅包罗万象的野生植物迁徙和狂欢的图景。

“莎士比亚全集·英汉双语本”系列书由英国皇家莎士比亚剧团和外语教学与研究出版社合作推出，根据皇家版《莎士比亚全集》翻译而成，英汉对照。 《科利奥兰纳斯》讲述罗马共和国战功彪炳的将军科利奥兰纳斯性格高傲暴烈，因而遭人设计，最终被逐出罗马、复仇未果的悲剧。

艾丽丝•默多克（Iris Murdoch，1919—1999）是英国二十世纪最著名的小说家之一, 同时也是位货真价实的哲学家，被誉为 “全英国最聪明的女人”。她的哲学思想深受克尔凯郭尔和萨特的存在主义影响，哲学写作又深受西蒙娜•韦伊与柏拉图的影响，其小说创作致力于探讨善与恶、性关系、道德困境与无意识的力量，以其对于个体内心生活的关注和深入探讨，延续了托尔斯泰、陀思妥耶夫斯基、乔治•爱略特与普鲁斯特等小说大师的伟大传统。默多克共六次进入布克奖短名单，为该奖历史上获得提名最多的作家，并以《大海，大海》夺魁。 年已六十的查尔斯‧阿罗比，集导演、剧作家和演员于一身，是英国戏剧界备受崇拜的偶像人物。当他准备从自己光彩夺目的伦敦世界退休，“誓言要弃绝魔法，成为一个隐者”时，他选择回到大海边定居。他希望，至少，可以逃离“那些女人”……但出乎意料地，他竟然遇到了旧日的初恋情人，查尔斯笃信佛教的堂弟詹姆斯也来到了海边，原本期望的平静生活就此完全改变。他不但看到有怪物从海浪中腾空升起而惊骇不已，也发现自己虽想离群索居，却被自己的幻想与妄想所包围而深感困扰。小说气势宏伟、复杂精妙，充分展示了各主要人物行为动机的矛盾混杂：人性的虚荣、嫉妒以及社会伪装之下的自私和冷酷。

达夫·库珀奖获奖作品 纽约书评图书“经典重现”书系选书 赫尔佐格“无赖电影学校”必读书目 影响持续半个世纪的经典首次引进中国 “猎人必须成为他所追捕的猎物。” 内容简介 从秋天到春天，在英格兰东部一片 平坦的湿地上，J. A. 贝克追逐着一对游隼的身影。他沉迷其间，痴痴地追随这种鸟，观察它们——在天空中，在地面上，追逐、捕杀、进食、休憩……他描述这些活动，语言精确，且带有非同寻常的诗意。 他保持这项神秘的个人追求，同时他作为人类自身的意识逐渐消融，转而被一种异己的、无法排遣的鹰的意识所取代。这种不同寻常的蜕变，不可思议又隐隐令人生畏，使得这迷人的篇章成为经典。 这并不是一本关于观鸟的书，它是一本关于如何成为一只鹰的书。关于一个人，渴望成为人以外的存在。 名家推荐 厌倦人类世界的人，跟游隼一起飞吧。 ——小说家，朱岳 20世纪自然文学最重要的作品之一。 ——诗人，特德·休斯 （在书里）你不时能看出他已经完全成为了一只游隼。而这也正是我在拍电影时所做的，步出自身，神游其外——也就是说走出自己的身体，去到外界的某一点。 ——电影导演，赫尔佐格 我拿起它（《游隼》）随手翻开一页。那一页绝妙描绘了一只鸮无声寻猎的画面。我被它的细节击中，震惊于他的文字唤起的听觉上的感受。似乎我正在当时当地，通过作者的耳朵体验那一刻。我翻到下一页，一章没读完我知道我已经被俘获了。 ——作曲家，劳伦斯·英格里斯 现在，我不再认为《游隼》是一本关于“成为鸟”的书。更准确的说，这本书是在写“想成为一只鸟而不得”。 ——自然文学作家，罗伯特·麦克法伦

侦探波洛在叙利亚完成了一项委托，要搭乘辛普朗号东方快车回国。奇怪的是，似乎全世界的人都选在那一夜出行，这列铺位一向宽裕的豪华列车竟然一票难求。幸好他遇到了好友、国际客车公司的董事布克先生，这才挤上了车。 午夜过后，一场大雪迫使辛普朗号停了下来。第二天一早，大家发现少了一名乘客。一个美国人死在了他的包厢里，被刺了十二刀，可他包厢的门却是反锁的。随着调查的深入，案情却似乎更加扑朔迷离，大侦探波洛想出了两种截然不同的解释……

Travesties was born out of Stoppard's noting that in 1917 three of the twentieth century's most crucial revolutionaries -- James Joyce, the Dadaist founder Tristan Tzara, and Lenin -- were all living in Zurich. Also living in Zurich at this time was a British consula official called Henry Carr, a man acquainted with Joyce through the theater and later through a lawsuit concerning a pair of trousers. Taking Carr as his core, Stoppard spins this historical coincidence into a masterful and riotously funny play, a speculative portrait of what could have been the meeting of these profoundly influential men in a germinal Europe as seen through the lucid, lurid, faulty, and wholy riveting memory of an aging Henry Carr.

每位艺术家，都与他那个时代的颜色有一份属于自己的约定。 一部揭示艺术、科学与文化协同演进历程的力作，获评第十八届引进版优秀图书，美术史学家范景中作序推荐 。 ▼内容简介 艺术史的书写向来重技艺而轻材料，英国作家菲利普·鲍尔却让调色板上的无名英雄列队登场，以外观、气味、质地和名称彰显了颜料迷人的物质 属性。他搅动炼金术师的坩埚，聆听画家与画材商的争执，又拈起科学家的色卡和棱镜，细腻地谱写出梦想家与手艺人协力合作、发明新颜料的漫长故事：千百年来，艺术需求刺激了化学工艺的演进，绘画乃至整个社会生活的色彩谱系又因科学而扩张。名画背后的科技革新，给我们带来了理解西方艺术史的独特维度。 ▼媒体专家推荐 这部书用科学和艺术的精工去绘制金碧山水，从而创造一套色彩的语言，帮助眼睛重新观看色彩的绘画和色彩的世界。——范景中 这部作品是对西方绘画的一次全新审视，叙述简洁，构思精巧。在学术史与一系列可读性极强的奇闻趣事和艺术家传略之间，鲍尔恰如其分地挥洒着他的渊博才学。——《每日邮报》 一部研精究微、信息量极大的色彩大全。——《泰晤士报文学副刊》 充满了妙趣横生的小插曲……鲍尔动人地书写了诸多复杂的主题。——《星期日电讯报》

Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, The Nature of Crops takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, The Nature of Crops documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber. In The Nature of Crops John Warren reveals: – Why the Egyptians worshipped onions; – Why red-flowering runner beans provide fewer beans than white-flowering; – The inherent dangers of being a pineapple worker; and – Why a bird will always beat you in a chilli pepper eating competition!

《染匠之手》收录了一代文学巨匠W.H.奥登精彩纷呈的散文作品，包括他作为牛津大学诗歌教授发表的著名讲演录。书中的文章题材广泛却又互有关联，对诗歌，对艺术，对人生的种种境况都提出了自己的看法。这些所思、所感独出机杼，不落窠臼，核心的关注点虽然是文艺，立论的背后却是作者在二十世纪中的全部经验。

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis 'It is a horrorshow story ...' Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters. This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews, shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet and juicy criminality'. Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei. After the success of his Malayan Trilogy, he became a full-time writer in 1959. His books have been published all over the world, and they include The Complete Enderby, Nothing Like the Sun, Napoleon Symphony, Tremor of Intent, Earthly Powers and A Dead Man in Deptford. Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993. Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. His publications include a biography, The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, which won the Portico Prize in 2006. He is currently editing the letters and short stories of Anthony Burgess.

A postmodern visionary who is also a master of styles of genres, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian lore of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction as profund as it is playful. Now in his new novel, David Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity. Cloud Atlas begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. . . . Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife and a nubile daughter. . . . From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s and a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed and murder that threatens to claim her life. . . . And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then boomerangs back through centuries and space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point. Along the way, Mitchell reveals how his disparate characters connect, how their fates intertwine, and how their souls drift across time like clouds across the sky. As wild as a videogame, as mysterious as a Zen koan, Cloud Atlas is an unforgettable tour de force that, like its incomparable author, has transcended its cult classic status to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line (with a foreword attempting to explain the National Health Service to a non-UK audience). Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know—and more than a few things you didn't—about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In Romeo and Juliet, Lady Capulet calls for quinces to make pies for the marriage feast of her daughter. This fruit was traditionally connected with weddings and fertility, as echoed by John Gerard in his herbal where he also explained that eating quinces would 'bring forth wise children, and of good understanding'. Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, Margaret Willes gives these botanical references their social context to provide an intriguing and original focus on daily life in Tudor and Jacobean England, looking in particular at medicine, cookery, gardening and folklore traditions. Exquisitely illustrated with unique hand-painted engravings from the Bodleian Library's copy of John Gerard's herbal of 1597, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeare's lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly