本書收錄莎士比亞三部膾炙人口的悲劇：「Romeo and Juliet (羅密歐與茱莉葉)」、「Macbeth (馬克白)」和「李爾王 (King Lear)」。羅密歐和茱莉葉相互愛戀，但這兩家人卻是宿敵，在絕望之餘，這兩個愛人決定祕密結婚，但悲劇卻悄悄展開…；馬克白得知他將成為蘇格蘭國王，而預言也一一成真了，他的未來是好是壞？李爾王決定讓大女兒和二女兒劃分王國勢力，但是隨之而來的羞辱和悲痛把李爾王推向發瘋邊緣。
這些悲劇中的角色都反映了真實的人性，像是軟弱、貪婪、愚昧，但是也讓我們發現人性中偉大與美麗的一面。[Penguin經典故事系列]
Romeo and Juliet are in love, but their families are enemies. In desperation, they marry in secret but tragedy unfolds ... Macbeth is to be King of Scotland– but at what cost? King Lear divides his kingdom between his daughters with unexpected consequences.
本書級數：Level 4
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A major discovery: The lost diary of a great mind—and an intimate, deeply moving study of grief
The day after his mother’s death in October 1977, the influential philosopher Roland Barthes began a diary of mourning. Taking notes on index cards as was his habit, he reflected on a new solitude, on the ebb and flow of sadness, and on modern society’s dismissal of grief. These 330 cards, published here for the first time, prove a skeleton key to the themes he tackled throughout his work. Behind the unflagging mind, “the most consistently intelligent, important, and useful literary critic to have emerged anywhere” (Susan Sontag), lay a deeply sensitive man who cherished his mother with a devotion unknown even to his closest friends.
