A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love.

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling. I...(展开全部)

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In sp...(展开全部)

An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print and a winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984. Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras’s childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In sp...(展开全部)

🎆著者简介 曼努埃尔·普伊格（Manuel Puig，1932—1990） 阿根廷著名作家，1932年生于潘帕斯大草原上的比耶加斯将军镇。1956年，普伊格去罗马学习电影，之后教过西班牙语、意大利语，洗过盘子，在法国航空做过小职员。1990年逝世于墨西哥。 普伊格有志于成为一名导演，或者电影编剧，但均以失败告终，于是逐渐转向文学创作。《丽塔·海华丝的背叛》他的初试啼声之作，1968年首次出版。普伊格借用浪漫小说和电影杂志的语言，辅以现代主义的技巧及电影蒙太奇手法，创造了一种汪洋恣肆的酷儿美学。本书也是作者的半自传作品，同本书的主人公一样，他从小便喜欢泡在电影院，尤爱20世纪30年代至40年代的好莱坞电影。他的其他代表作有《蜘蛛女之吻》《布宜诺斯艾利斯事件》等。 🎆译者简介 吴彩娟，西班牙纳瓦拉大学人文学院硕士，巴塞罗那自治大学翻译理论博士。

Manuel Puig's "dazzling and wholly original debut" (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip--but most of all, to the movies. When it appeared in 1968, Manuel Puig’s debut—a portrait of the artist as a child in small-town Argentina—was hailed as revolutionary. Borrowing from the ...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence's last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husband's estate. The most controversial of Lawrence's books, Lady Chatterly's Lover joyously affirms th...(展开全部)

Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and THE QUEEN'S FOOL Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert D...(展开全部)

Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and THE QUEEN'S FOOL Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Du...(展开全部)