Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the High Alps of France. Her autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that has emerged to take its place.

在这本错综复杂、私密性强、独具匠心的集体传记中，乔安娜-比格斯（Joanna Biggs）审视了八位女作家，她们在各自的一生中都在寻求自由和思想上的满足，她问道：为什么女性之间的相互阅读如此重要？通过阐明玛丽-沃斯通克拉夫特（Mary Wollstonecraft）、乔治-艾略特（George Eliot）、佐拉-尼尔-赫斯顿（Zora Neale Hurston）、弗吉尼亚-伍尔夫（Virginia Woolf）、西蒙娜-德-波伏娃（Simone de Beauvoir）、西尔维娅-普拉斯（Sylvia Plath）、托尼-莫里森（Toni Morrison）和埃琳娜-费兰特（Elena Ferrante）的动机、愿望和失望，比格斯为我们指明了一条超越传统女性目标和期望的道路，通往一种为自己而活的慷慨而快乐的生活。 In this intricat...(展开全部)

A piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the same. The day I took my wedding ring off for the last time—a gold band with half a line of “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath etched inside—my thumb at first kept on reaching across my palm for the warm brig...(展开全部)

The 20th century was a dynamic period for the theatrical arts in China. Booming urban theater, the interaction between commercial practice and theater, dramas staged during the War of Resistance against Japan and an in-depth communication between Western and Eastern theater all contributed to the momentousness of this period. The four volumes of “A History of Chinese Theater in...(展开全部)

From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. In 1898 Spain was in a state of despair and unrest. They had lost the war with America and with it the last of their major colonies: Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The catastrophe stoked Spain’s...(展开全部)

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . </p> Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . </p> ...(展开全部)

This is the genealogy of architecture in the 20th century by Kenneth Frampton - the doyen of architecture history. His approach is impressively clear: he traces four lines that are recognizable as the powers that propel renewal in architecture. He structures his observations by focusing on the relevant periods in the following order: 1st, the Avant-Garde (1887-1986); 2nd, organ...(展开全部)