One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel’s trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidel...(展开全部)

As Britain’s first woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher brought about the biggest social and political revolution in the nation’s post-war history. She achieved this largely by the driving force of her personality – a subject of endless speculation among both her friends and her foes. Jonathan Aitken has an insider’s view of Margaret Thatcher’s story. He is well qualified to ...(展开全部)

希拉里•曼特尔出生于英国格罗索普市，于伦敦经济学院和谢菲尔德大学攻读法律。2009年、2012年凭借历史小说《狼厅》和《提堂》两次摘得布克奖。目前，“克伦威尔三部曲”系列的第三部《镜与光》正在创作中。曼特尔是首位两次获得布克奖的女性作家，此前只有J•M•库切和彼得•凯里两次获此殊荣。 1974年，希拉里•曼特尔开始了创作生涯。第一部小说《一个更安全的地方》重现了法国大革命的恢弘场面，获1992年《周日快报》年度小说奖。1995年《爱情实验》获霍桑登奖。2005年《黑暗深处》入围英联邦作家奖和橘子奖短名单。2003年出版了以童年生活为主题的短篇小说集《学说话》。迄今为止，希拉里•曼特尔已经出版十一部长篇小说、两部短篇小说集和一部自传。最新出版的作品是2014年的短篇小说集《暗杀》。2006年希拉里•曼特尔受封大英帝国司令勋章（CBE），2014年受封大...(展开全部)

Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore's biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on 8 April 2013, immediately supersedes all earlier books written about her. A...(展开全部)

With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and first years as prime minister of the woman who transformed Britain and the world in the late twentieth century. Moore has had unique access to all of Thatcher’s private and governmental papers, and...(展开全部)

The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. She was a maverick with a strong and sometimes difficult personality, and this biography follows her from childhood years in Pennsylvania, to college days with her pals nicknamed the Ash Can Cats, to tutelage under the preeminent anthropologist, Franz B...(展开全部)

This sequel to Faulkner's most sensational novel, 'Sanctuary', was written twenty years later but takes up the story of Temple Drake eight years after the events related in 'Sanctuary'. Temple is now married to Gowan Stevens. The book begins when the death sentence is pronounced on the nurse Nancy for the murder of Temple and Gowan's child. In an attempt to save her, Temple goe...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love tha...(展开全部)