'A Medieval Castle' examines the development of forts and strongholds from the beginning of the Middle Ages, looking at the motives behind the building of castles and the variety of people needed to make castle life run smoothly.

作者 乌韦·诺伊玛尔丨Uwe Neumahr，罗曼语文学与德语文学博士。目前是一名自由作家兼文学经纪人。著有《作家城堡：纽伦堡1946，深渊旁的聚会》《不羁的一生：塞万提斯传》。 译者 柳雨薇，毕业于北京大学德语系，后于慕尼黑大学取得德语文学硕士学位。

作者 乌韦·诺伊玛尔丨Uwe Neumahr，罗曼语文学与德语文学博士。目前是一名自由作家兼文学经纪人。著有《作家城堡：纽伦堡1946，深渊旁的聚会》《不羁的一生：塞万提斯传》。 译者 柳雨薇，毕业于北京大学德语系，后于慕尼黑大学取得德语文学硕士学位。

It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed, and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, their wives, mistresses, flunkies, and Nazi protectors including Celine, his wife, their cat, and an actor friend attempt to...(展开全部)

路易-费迪南•塞利纳（Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1894－1961），法国天才小说家和医生， 20世纪最有影响的作家之一，代表作有《茫茫黑夜漫游》《死缓》《一座城堡到另一座城堡》《北方》等。他通过运用新的写作手法，使得法国乃至整个世界文学走向现代。 法国当代著名文学评论家菲利普•索莱尔斯认为20世纪法国虽有不少优秀的作家,但真正的大师却只有两位，那就是普鲁斯特和塞利纳，他认为，“塞利纳凭借着自己炉火纯青的技艺留下了许多部杰作，譬如《一座城堡到另一座城堡》和《北方》，在我看来，这两本书超过了《茫茫黑夜漫游》和《死缓》。”。塞利纳对杰克•凯鲁亚克、让-保罗•萨特、雷蒙•格诺、让•热内以及众多当代作家都产生过深刻影响，罗兰•巴特、阿兰•罗伯-格里耶、昆德拉，以及索尔•贝娄、略萨、萨缪尔•贝克特、克洛德•西蒙、让-马里•古斯塔夫•勒克莱齐...(展开全部)

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople There h...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father...(展开全部)

Book Description The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and d...(展开全部)

This ground-breaking book traces the story of castles at war in England and Wales from their introduction by the Normans in the eleventh century until the end of the reign of Henry VIII in the sixteen

Superb design, magnificent illustrations, and clearly presented information distinguish all of David Macaulay's books. Whether chronicling the monumental achievements of past civilizations or satirizing modern architecture, he is concerned above all in how constructions are made and what their effects are on people and their lives.