'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.

"The authors allow medieval man and woman to speak for themselves through selections from past journals, songs, even account books."-- Time

This new volume in the Crowell Medieval Life Series gives a full and authentic picture of daily life in and around that most fascinating of buildings, the medieval castle. While centering their account on Chepstow, a great English fortress whose well-preserved ruins still command the approaches to Wales, Joseph and Frances Gies have ranged widely in space and time, drawing upon...(展开全部)

"Castle" is a wide-ranging history of some of the most magnificent buildings in Britain. It explores many of the country's most famous and best-loved castles, as well as some little-known national treasures. The story begins in the 11th century, when castles were introduced to Britain, and ends in the 17th century, when they were largely abandoned. It is, in some respects, an e...(展开全部)

Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this is an epic tale, driven by characters like William the Conqueror, King John and Edward I, full of sieges and conquest on an awe...(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

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)

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)

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)