In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms . In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the ...(展开全部)

A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1929...

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his ...(展开全部)

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his ...(展开全部)

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms . In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the ...(展开全部)

A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway, first published in 1929...

Chantal THOMAS 法國國家科學研究中心研究員，傑出的十八世紀思想史專家，其關於薩德（Sade）、瑪麗·安托奈特以及十八世紀自由精神的學術著作最為知名，經常受邀在耶魯，普林斯頓等歐美名校講學。 深受早年師從羅蘭巴特的影響，她的學術著作跨越史學、哲學及社會學的界線，如 Comment supporter sa liberté （自由怎堪消受）、Un air de liberté （自由之風）及2016年出版的Pour Roland Barthes （致羅蘭巴特）等作品，都在含蓄的文字中具有詩性的韻味，細膩的描繪中處處顯露思辯。 香塔勒·托瑪同時是位作家，從散文，劇作到小說，創作了許多膾炙人口的作品。她的第一部小說《再見吾后》是以王后朗讀官第一人稱自述的小說，讀者藉由她愛戀的眼神，凝望了法國最後的王后瑪麗·安托奈特，也目睹了巴士底監獄被攻陷之後...(展开全部)

Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

In this new work Michel Serres, France's foremost philosopher of science, explores how traditional images of angels in art and legend foretell the preoccupations of modern life. Divided, as between Heaven and Hell, into First and Third Worlds, our societies search for ways to make contact, both by means of the most basic interpersonal relations and high-tech communications. The...(展开全部)