The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, ...(展开全部)

The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, ...(展开全部)

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the dep...(展开全部)

Born in 1922, Michael Loewe attended the Perse School in Cambridge and Magdalen College Oxford. War service forced him to interrupt his residence at Oxford. Michael became part of one of the first groups of Englishmen to be trained in Japanese for the purpose of deciphering military codes. From 1942 to 1956, he worked as a specialist officer in the British Government Communicat...(展开全部)

Born in 1922, Michael Loewe attended the Perse School in Cambridge and Magdalen College Oxford. War service forced him to interrupt his residence at Oxford. Michael became part of one of the first groups of Englishmen to be trained in Japanese for the purpose of deciphering military codes. From 1942 to 1956, he worked as a specialist officer in the British Government Communicat...(展开全部)

A fading beauty has resorted to seducing workmen in her palatial home, but when she sets her sights on craftsman Teddy Brex, the tired pattern of her life shifts from pathetic to deadly. Reprint.