Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was a Pulitzer Prize- winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930. Wharton combined her insider's view of American's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural with to write humorous, incisive novels and short stories of social and psychological insight.
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"Roman Fever"
"Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton. It was first published in the magazine Liberty in 1934, and was later included in Wharton's last short- story collection, The World Over.
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Charles Dickens.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (born in Portsmouth, 7 February 1812- 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
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Oliver Twist.
Oliver Twist , or The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-9. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets, which is led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
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A Tale of Two Cities.
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period. a Tale of Two cities was published in weekly installments from April 1859 to November 1859 in Dickens's new literary periodical titled All the Year Round.
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The Western Canon.
The Western Canon; The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature. It is his best- known book along side The Anxiety of Influence, and was a surprise bestseller upon its release in the United States, In the book, Bloom defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.
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Harold Bloom.
Harold Bloom (born July 11,1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and a novel. Bloom came to public attention in he United States as a commentator during the Canon wars of the early 1990s.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?(Sonnet 18)
Vocabulary.
1. Chapel: 小禮拜堂，小教堂；禮拜
2. Church: 教堂；禮拜；教派
3. Exemplary: 典範的；懲戒性的；可仿效的
4. Delphin Slade: 法國王儲的斯萊德
5. Memento Mori: 死的警告；死的象徵
6. Dynamic: 動態的；動力的；有活力的
7. Overrate: 過高估計
8. Stairway: 階梯， 樓梯
9. The Colosseum: 古羅馬鬥獸場
John Keats.
John Keats ( 31 October 1795- 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, desspite his work having been in publication for only four years before his death.
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The Age of Innocence.
The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review maganize in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s, during the so called Gilded Age.
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