著者 卡韦赫·法鲁赫：于不列颠哥伦比亚大学取得博士学位，历史学者，对伊朗历史研究颇有造诣。他出身于伊朗的显赫家族，其家族对近现代伊朗历史具有一定影响。他的祖父马赫迪·法鲁赫曾任驻华大使，受到蒋介石的接见。 译者 高万博：1990出生，研究生毕业，现就职于某研究所。自幼喜爱历史，大学时因偶然的契机涉足翻译，自此将翻译作为个人兴趣。 李达：山东大学在读博士生，史学爱好者，主要方向为古代世界军事史与地中海政治史及制度史，参与翻译的作品逾百万字。

著者 卡韦赫·法鲁赫：于不列颠哥伦比亚大学取得博士学位，历史学者，对伊朗历史研究颇有造诣。他出身于伊朗的显赫家族，其家族对近现代伊朗历史具有一定影响。他的祖父马赫迪·法鲁赫曾任驻华大使，受到蒋介石的接见。 译者 高万博：1990出生，研究生毕业，现就职于某研究所。自幼喜爱历史，大学时因偶然的契机涉足翻译，自此将翻译作为个人兴趣。 李达：山东大学在读博士生，史学爱好者，主要方向为古代世界军事史与地中海政治史及制度史，参与翻译的作品逾百万字。

These remarkable novellas by one of the outstanding French writers of the present time are now translated into English for the first time. They are all about human relationships and human decisions—about power, money, nostalgia and regret for missed opportunities; the author shows how our lives are shaped by the associations the mind puts together and the memories behind those ...(展开全部)

"A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the hea...(展开全部)

爱德华・阿比，出生于美国西南部宾西尼亚州的一个农场。除了《孤独的沙漠》以外，他的代表作还有《痛苦的猴群》、《黑日》、《山火》、《勇敢的牛仔》、《回家》、《阿比的路》、《好消息》、《河下游》、《石盐与樱桃派》等。他于1989年3月去世，享年62岁。

Jules Verne's career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. In "Around the World in Eighty Days", Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions GBP20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his dail...(展开全部)

The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakam...(展开全部)

Jules Verne's career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction - stories that combined popular science and exploration. In "Around the World in Eighty Days", Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions GBP20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his dail...(展开全部)

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most ...(展开全部)