Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultur...(展开全部)

A pithy work of philosophical anthropology that explores why humans find moral orders in natural orders. Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? From ancient India and ancient Greece, medieval France and Enlightenment America, up to the latest controversies over gay marriage and cloning, natural ord...(展开全部)

A wildly original fin-de-siecle novel, Against Nature follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess. Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally en...(展开全部)

于斯曼，法国19世纪著名作家，前期拥护自然主义，和左拉、莫泊桑等人合著了短篇集《梅塘夜话》，之后转向象征主义，《逆流》就是于斯曼转型之后的代表作。于斯曼具有极高的审美品位和时代触觉，在绘画方面推崇印象主义画派，在文学方面赞赏波德莱尔、爱伦坡、拉马丁等人。于斯曼的《逆流》启发了后世很多作品，王尔德在《道连·葛雷的画像》中也提到了此书。

于斯曼，法国19世纪著名作家，前期拥护自然主义，和左拉、莫泊桑等人合著了短篇集《梅塘夜话》，之后转向象征主义，《逆流》就是于斯曼转型之后的代表作。于斯曼具有极高的审美品位和时代触觉，在绘画方面推崇印象主义画派，在文学方面赞赏波德莱尔、爱伦坡、拉马丁等人。于斯曼的《逆流》启发了后世很多作品，王尔德在《道连·葛雷的画像》中也提到了此书。

About this book “Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly examines the meaning and cultura...(展开全部)

Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the...(展开全部)

Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her life with Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. Hope Against Hope is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. But it is also ...(展开全部)

Hope Against Hope was first published in English in 1970. It is Nadezhda Mandelstam's memoir of her life with Osip, who was first arrested in 1934 and died in Stalin's Great Purge of 1937-38. Hope Against Hope is a vital eyewitness account of Stalin's Soviet Union and one of the greatest testaments to the value of literature and imaginative freedom ever written. But it is also ...(展开全部)

In his articles and in best-selling books such as The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan has established himself as one of our most important and beloved writers on modern man's place in the natural world. A new literary classic, Second Nature has become a manifesto not just for gardeners but for environmentalists everywhere. Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of...(展开全部)