Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Set

出版者:Everyman's Library

作者:Everyman's Library

页数:0

出版时间:2007-01-31

价格:USD 1732.40

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307383952

具体描述

From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author chronologies.

This set includes one each of the following titles:

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Best of Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse

The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window by Raymond Chandler

Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh

The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

Carried Away by Alice Munro

The Castle by Franz Kafka

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Collected Stories by Franz Kafka

Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler

Collected Stories by Roald Dahl

Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham

The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran

The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike

The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh

The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories by Dashiell Hammett

Death Comes for the Archbishop b y Willa Cather

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Dubliners by James Joyce

Essays by George Orwell

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani

The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Human Factor by Graham Greene

If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann

The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback by Raymond Chandler

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett

Mr. Sampath--The Printer of Malgudi, The Financial Expert, Waiting for the Mahatma by R. K. Narayan

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

My Ántonia by Willa Cather

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

The Periodic Table by Primo Levi

The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays by Albert Camus

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories by James M. Cain

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Driver’s Seat, The Only Problem by Muriel Spark

Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan

The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Ulysses by James Joyce

Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion

The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston

Zeno’s Conscience by Italo Svevo

Everyman’s Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everyman’s Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines.

用户评价

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这次的阅读体验，完全打破了我对“当代文学”的刻板印象。我一直以为当代小说会过于关注碎片化和即时性的情绪表达，缺乏传统小说的厚重感。然而，这套精选中收录的几部作品，却成功地融合了现代主义的实验精神和现实主义的深刻洞察力。我尤其享受那种“阅读的对抗感”——作者故意设置的叙事障碍，让你必须投入极大的注意力去解码文本。这并非折磨，而是一种邀请，邀请你成为文本意义的共同建构者。比如，其中一本采用了多重不可靠叙述者的手法，直到最后一章，真相才像冰山浮出水面，那种被作者玩弄于股掌之间的智力上的满足感，是其他通俗小说无法比拟的。它要求读者拿出最好的状态去与之对话，读完后，你会觉得自己也变得更聪明、更有耐心了。

这部精选集真是让人爱不释手，尤其是那些初次接触现当代文学的读者，简直是打开了一个新世界的大门。我记得我第一次翻开其中的一本，是那个关于二战后欧洲知识分子精神困境的小说，作者的笔触细腻得仿佛能触摸到人物内心的颤抖。他不仅仅是在讲述一个故事，更是在解剖一个时代的集体焦虑。那种从字里行间渗透出来的疏离感和对意义的追问，让人在合上书本之后，依然需要花很长时间去消化。这本书的选材很有眼光，它没有选择那些太过晦涩难懂的纯实验性作品，而是挑选了那些虽然立意深刻，但在叙事上依然保持了极高可读性的经典。排版和装帧也绝对是加分项，那种沉甸甸的质感，拿在手里就有一种对文学的敬畏感，就像是在收藏一件艺术品。对我来说，这套书里的几部作品，已经成了我书架上“精神避难所”的存在，每当我感到世界嘈杂不安时，我就会抽出其中一本，重新沉浸到那种冷静、深刻的文学氛围中去。它提供的不仅仅是阅读体验，更是一种精神上的慰藉和思想上的梳理。

说实话，我最初对这套“当代经典”的定位有些怀疑，总觉得“经典”这个词现在用得太泛滥了，什么都想往上凑。但真正深入阅读后，才发现这里的每一部作品都经受住了时间的考验，并且具有跨越文化和时代的穿透力。比如那部探讨记忆与遗忘的长篇，叙事结构极其复杂，时间线跳跃得让人一开始有些摸不着头脑，但一旦抓住作者抛出的线索，那种精妙的设计感简直令人拍案叫绝。它不是那种读完就忘的流水账，而是需要你反复咀嚼的文学盛宴。我尤其欣赏作者对于语言的掌控力，有些句子，单独拿出来看就是一首诗，充满了张力和隐喻。而且，这套书收录的作家的视角非常多元化，没有局限于某一特定的地域或阶层，这让读者能够更全面地理解“当代”这个概念的复杂性和丰富性。它强迫你去思考，什么才是真正值得被铭记的时代声音。