d**t
发帖数: 328 | 1 近来在看new moon，越看越无聊，各位最近在看什么书？什么方向的都可以，不过不要
数学物理类的 | x*****u
发帖数: 3419 | 2 Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales
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: 近来在看new moon，越看越无聊，各位最近在看什么书？什么方向的都可以，不过不要
: 数学物理类的
| wh
发帖数: 141625 | 3 来写个读坡后感不。
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: Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Tales
| wh
发帖数: 141625 | 4 版上聊过很多书，要不要考古一下。前一阵不少人说起的是那个dragon tattoo的书，
还有胡赛尼的风筝男孩和灿烂千阳。booker刚刚贴过国内最畅销的几本书。
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: 近来在看new moon，越看越无聊，各位最近在看什么书？什么方向的都可以，不过不要
: 数学物理类的
| B****n
发帖数: 11290 | 5 I just wanted to recommend a recent book I read "mathematics and the
physical world", writeen by Kline.
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: 近来在看new moon，越看越无聊，各位最近在看什么书？什么方向的都可以，不过不要
: 数学物理类的
| s******e
发帖数: 16668 | 6
这本书没有读，但是电影看了。很推荐。一共三部，目前只有前两部在美国公开发行，
尽管其实三部是一起拍完的。
第一部《THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATOO》最好，集悬念，虐杀，性虐待，情色，纳
粹各种元素于一身，非常吸引
眼球。
据说好莱坞要翻拍，怀疑伊们能超越原创。
【在 wh 的大作中提到】
: 版上聊过很多书，要不要考古一下。前一阵不少人说起的是那个dragon tattoo的书，
: 还有胡赛尼的风筝男孩和灿烂千阳。booker刚刚贴过国内最畅销的几本书。
| s******e
发帖数: 16668 | 7 我推荐THE OUTLIERS，BY MALCOLM GLADWELL，不是小说。
很好的如厕或睡前读物。 | d**t
发帖数: 328 | 8 多谢，下次试试dragon tattoo
【在 wh 的大作中提到】
: 版上聊过很多书，要不要考古一下。前一阵不少人说起的是那个dragon tattoo的书，
: 还有胡赛尼的风筝男孩和灿烂千阳。booker刚刚贴过国内最畅销的几本书。
| d**t
发帖数: 328 | 9 靠。。。难道是索多玛一般的神作。。。
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: 我推荐THE OUTLIERS，BY MALCOLM GLADWELL，不是小说。
: 很好的如厕或睡前读物。
| d**t
发帖数: 328 | 10 不要数理书了，要工作之余看点不同视野的。不过kline这个人写书不错，而且热衷于
写这种东西。
【在 B****n 的大作中提到】
: I just wanted to recommend a recent book I read "mathematics and the
: physical world", writeen by Kline.
| x*****u
发帖数: 3419 | 11 Here is one, not mine, before Poe's stories
NOTES
What is a literary classic and why are these classic works important to the
world?
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something
important to say about life and/or the human condition and says it with
great artistry. A classic, through its enduring presence, has withstood the
test of time and is not bound by time, place, or customs. It speaks to us
today as forcefully as it spoke to people one hundred or more years ago, and
as forcefully as it will speak to people of future generations. For this
reason, a classic is said to have universality.
While even casual readers are familiar with Edgar Allan Poe’s more famous
stories and poems, not everyone realizes the depth and richness of his other
writings. In compiling this collection of his poems and stories, Prestwick
House has made a deliberate effort to include some lesser-known works, along
with the ones that are usually included in anthologies. We hope readers
will come to see that Poe should be remembered for works in addition to The
Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart.
One reason that Poe is one of the most widely read of all American authors
is his subject matter and his imaginative use of words, syntax, and sound.
The selections in The Best of Poe highlight these literary traits. Poe’s
stories and poems are remarkable, not only for an unusual anxiety about life
, a preoccupation with loss, an all-consuming terror, and a unique
perspective on death, but also for their rich mixture of beauty, the sensual
, and the supernatural. Many readers wonder whether Poes odd perspectives
were the result of his unconventional lifestyle, but the debate over whether
drugs or alcohol fueled his imagination and caused his death is
inconclusive. Most modern critics recognize the emotional difficulties that
Poe experienced in his life, but they also doubt that binge drinking and
opium use were the inspirations for his fascination with the macabre. It is
just as likely that Poe’s series of wrenching losses contributed to a
lifelong struggle with depression. His mother and two other women who served
as mother figures to him, died prematurely. His wife was ill for years
before she succumbed to tuberculosis, and a fiancée rejected him.
It is obvious that an artist as sensitive as Poe would reflect this pain in
his writings. In addition, it is well known that he revised his work
painstakingly. The hours that Poe spent revising his work also belie any
claim that his work was the product of something other than his own innate
genius and craftsmanship.
Poet, storyteller, respected literary critic-Poe was and still remains one
of the defining contributors to American literature. It is our hope that
this collection will not only afford you the opportunity to revisit some of
your favorite Poe writings, but also give you the chance to experience a
side of his genius that, perhaps, you never knew existed.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809. Both
his mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, and his father, David Poe, Jr., were
employed as actors in the Boston Theatre. After his father abandoned the
family and his mother‘s death a year later, Poe was taken in by Mr. and Mrs
. John Allan, but they never adopted him. While they lived in England, Poe
and his stepfather began to argue fiercely and frequently Mrs. Allan died,
John remarried, and he and Poe became even further estranged. In 1826, Poe
began attending the University of Virginia, but was expelled later that year
. He attended West Point for a short time; while there, he accumulated some
gambling debts. John Allan would not help pay them and Poe left the Academy.
He went to Boston in 1827 and, finding that he could not support himself,
enlisted in the United States Army under the name Edgar A. Perry. After two
years, he was released and moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where his maternal
relatives lived. During this period, newspapers and literary magazines began
to be published Poe’s work. Tamerlaine and Other Poems appeared in 1827
and Al Aaraaf in 1829. His Manuscript Found in a Bottle won a literary
contest in 1833.
Three years later, however, his life would change drastically. In May of
1836, he married his 14-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, who convinced Poe
to settle in Philadelphia, where he obtained regular employment as an editor
. In 1844, Poe moved to New York City, taking a job as editor for another
literary magazine, The Evening Mirror. His most famous and popular poem, The
Raven, was published in this magazine; through this one poem, Poe finally
achieved his well-deserved reputation as a great writer. In January of 1847,
however, after a long illness, Virginia died of tuberculosis. Poes grief,
combined with the stress caused by years of caring for his invalid wife,
caused him to collapse emotionally after her death; it is believed that this
loss accelerated his drinking problem.
Yet two years later, in 1849, he moved back to Richmond and planned to wed
Sarah Elmira Royster Shelton, a woman Poe had been engaged to marry earlier
in life. (John Allan had forced Poe to abandon any thoughts of marrying her
because of a lack of money) Poe and Shelton, both now having lost a spouse,
renewed their relationship. They would, however, not marry due to Poes
untimely death, the circumstances of which remain a mystery, even today.
He had left Richmond for Baltimore on September 27, 1849, and was found
unconscious in a gutter there on October 3'd. Poe had collected
approximately $1,500 for subscriptions to his literary magazine, The Stylus,
but no money was found with him, leading to the speculation that he might
have been robbed. He was taken to a hospital where he regained consciousness
a few times, but Poe was never coherent enough to explain what had happened
to him. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. One doctor reported to the
newspapers that Poe died from a “congestion of the brain.” Poe was known
to have a tendency toward binge drinking; this, along with the subject
matter of his stories and poems, caused many contemporaries to speculate
that alcohol or drugs played a role in his death, but the truth may never be
known. Some modern critics speculate that he might have been an undiagnosed
diabetic. Other theories include the possibility of a brain lesion. One
historian theorizes that Poe was kidnapped, given alcohol, beaten, and
forced to vote time and again for sheriff; this was called “cooping" and
was a practice in Baltimore elections at the time. The possibility also
exists that Poe encountered a spurned lover, who wounded him in the neck.
What is certain, however, is that Edgar Allan Poe left behind an enduring
legacy of work that will long outlive the circumstances of his death.
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发帖数: 141625 | 12 写点带自己个性色彩的感想啊……
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: Here is one, not mine, before Poe's stories
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: NOTES
: What is a literary classic and why are these classic works important to the
: world?
: A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something
: important to say about life and/or the human condition and says it with
: great artistry. A classic, through its enduring presence, has withstood the
: test of time and is not bound by time, place, or customs. It speaks to us
: today as forcefully as it spoke to people one hundred or more years ago, and
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