January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, George Picquart, witnessed a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying “Death to the Jews!” The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of “the Statistical Section” – t...(展开全部)

In his new novel, Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Adultery, brings to life one of history's most enigmatic women: Mata Hari. HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she b...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price ("The New York Times") described this classic that has been a favorite of readers, both here and in Europe, for almost forty years. Set in provincial France in the 1960s, it is the intensely carnal story--part shocking reality, part feverish dream --of a love affair between a footloose Yale dropout and a ...(展开全部)

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.

丹尼尔·门德尔松（Daniel Mendelsohn，1960— ） 美国作家、文学评论家、翻译家、文学教授，普林斯顿大学古典学博士。 门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C.P.卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、《等...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·门德尔松（Daniel Mendelsohn，1960— ） 美国作家、文学评论家、翻译家、文学教授，普林斯顿大学古典学博士。 门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C.P.卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C.P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、《等...(展开全部)