The definitive biography of the twentieth century’s great poet. T. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a whole school of literary criticism. Today, as long-awaited personal papers and letters emerge, there is a new impetus t...(展开全部)

Lyndall Gordon's biographical work on T. S. Eliot has won many dramatic accolades. In this "nuanced, discerning account of a life famously flawed in its search for perfection" ( The New Yorker ), Gordon captures Eliot's "complex spiritual and artistic history . . . with tact, diligence, and subtlety" ( Boston Globe ). Drawing on recently discovered letters, she addresses in fu...(展开全部)

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel's edge. Complications lays bare a science not in its idealized form but as it actually is--uncertain, perplexing, and profoundly human.

[英]朱利安•费罗斯（Julian Fellowes） 1949年8月17日出生于埃及开罗，毕业于剑桥大学，英国著名作家、编剧、导演、演员、制片人。2010年被女王册封为“终身贵族”。 2002年朱利安•费罗斯凭借《高斯福庄园》获第74届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创剧本奖、美国作家协会、纽约影评人协会及全国影评人协会最佳剧本奖。 2011年朱利安•费罗斯担任编剧的英剧《唐顿庄园》，获第63届美国电视艾美奖最佳编剧等奖项，亦创下全球收视纪录，超过一亿人观看。

Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune... PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult...(展开全部)

""Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London for a while...." "Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to...(展开全部)

""Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London for a while...." "Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to...(展开全部)

Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune... PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult...(展开全部)

[英]朱利安•费罗斯（Julian Fellowes） 1949年8月17日出生于埃及开罗，毕业于剑桥大学，英国著名作家、编剧、导演、演员、制片人。2010年被女王册封为“终身贵族”。 2002年朱利安•费罗斯凭借《高斯福庄园》获第74届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创剧本奖、美国作家协会、纽约影评人协会及全国影评人协会最佳剧本奖。 2011年朱利安•费罗斯担任编剧的英剧《唐顿庄园》，获第63届美国电视艾美奖最佳编剧等奖项，亦创下全球收视纪录，超过一亿人观看。