Axel Heyst, a dreamer and a restless drifter, believes he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from others. Then he becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, and when it fails he turns his back on humanity once more. But his life alters when he rescues a young English girl, Lena, from Zangiacomo’s Ladies’ ...(展开全部)

A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers – a leading light of literary modernism and feminism – and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville-West, and they remained friends until Virginia’s death in 1941. The he...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, "Pyrrhic Victory" is destined to become the stand...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favouring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts ar...(展开全部)

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine enco...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. An unparalleled work in French or English literature on the war, "Pyrrhic Victory" is destined to become the stand...(展开全部)

As the driving force behind the Allied effort in World War I, France willingly shouldered the heaviest burden. In this masterful book, Robert Doughty explains how and why France assumed this role and offers new insights into French strategy and operational methods. French leaders, favouring a multi-front strategy, believed the Allies could maintain pressure on several fronts ar...(展开全部)

埃米尔·路德维希(Emil Ludwig，1881-1948)。德国作家，以撰写通俗传记而享有国际声誉。所写传记强调人物个性，被称为"新传记派"，是20世纪最伟大的传记作家。 路德维希1881年生于德国布雷斯劳(今属波兰)。他在大学的专业是法学，却选择了作者和记者生涯。1906年移居瑞士，并于1932年获瑞士国籍。《歌德传》及《拿破仑传》的出版使他成为享誉世界的传记作家，他开创了传记写作的新流派，以描写人物的心路历程以及性格分析而享有盛名。代表作品有《拿破仑》、《俾斯麦》、《歌德》、《人之子》、《林肯》、《兴登堡》、《克娄巴特拉:一个女王的故事》、《罗斯福:命运和权利的研究》、《三幅画像:希特勒、墨索里尼、斯大林》、《贝多芬》、《奥瑟罗》、《蓝色地中海》、《青白尼罗河》等…… 另外还有描写德国公元800年至公元1941年的为德国二战所写的《德国人》。...(展开全部)

In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat , Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross , Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achieved i...(展开全部)