The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the...(展开全部)

鲁齐乌斯·阿普列尤斯(124?-175?)出生于北非一个官吏家庭，后来入了埃及的伊希斯教门，在罗马作过律师。他的主要作品是《变形记》，又名《金驴记》。这是罗马文学中最完整的一部小说。青年鲁齐乌斯因事赴希腊北部帖萨利地方，这是有名的妖术之邦，他止宿于高利贷者米罗家中，米罗的妻子是个女术士，青年误敷了她的魔药，变成一头驴子，被一群强盗劫去，后来落到奴隶主庄园，又辗转卖给磨坊主和菜农，又为军人劫去，卖给贵族厨奴，最后伊希斯女神把他救了，他恢复了人形，就皈依伊希斯教门。 这部小说以主人公的遭遇为纽带，真实而广泛地描写了罗马帝国外省生活。例如贵族地主纵犬咬死小农三个儿子，强占土地；罗马军官强夺人民财产；富人豢养野兽，举办斗兽会等。小说也叙述了不少由于贪图金钱、遗产，或由于情欲而引起的凶杀。作者利用主人公变驴后的遭遇和感受，刻画了穷人和奴隶受奴役和虐待的处境。主...(展开全部)

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the...(展开全部)

鲁齐乌斯·阿普列尤斯(124?-175?)出生于北非一个官吏家庭，后来入了埃及的伊希斯教门，在罗马作过律师。他的主要作品是《变形记》，又名《金驴记》。这是罗马文学中最完整的一部小说。青年鲁齐乌斯因事赴希腊北部帖萨利地方，这是有名的妖术之邦，他止宿于高利贷者米罗家中，米罗的妻子是个女术士，青年误敷了她的魔药，变成一头驴子，被一群强盗劫去，后来落到奴隶主庄园，又辗转卖给磨坊主和菜农，又为军人劫去，卖给贵族厨奴，最后伊希斯女神把他救了，他恢复了人形，就皈依伊希斯教门。 这部小说以主人公的遭遇为纽带，真实而广泛地描写了罗马帝国外省生活。例如贵族地主纵犬咬死小农三个儿子，强占土地；罗马军官强夺人民财产；富人豢养野兽，举办斗兽会等。小说也叙述了不少由于贪图金钱、遗产，或由于情欲而引起的凶杀。作者利用主人公变驴后的遭遇和感受，刻画了穷人和奴隶受奴役和虐待的处境。主...(展开全部)

This is a major new launch for the paperback edition of the most original, captivating and award-winning memoir of the year. "Stuart, A Life Backwards", is the story of a remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator ('a middle class scum ponce, if you want to be honest about it, Alexander) and a chaotic, knife-wielding beggar whom he gets to know during a ca...(展开全部)

亚历山大•马斯特斯（Alexander Masters, 1965— ），英国传记作家，现居英国剑桥，曾在一家流浪汉收容所工作过。《倒带人生》（2005）是其处女作，该书荣获《卫报》“第一书奖”，并被英国广播公司（BBC）制作成电影，由汤姆•哈迪和本尼迪克特•康伯巴奇饰演剧中角色。他的第二部书《我地下室里的天才》（2011）是关于住在他所住公寓地下室里的一位天才数学家西蒙•菲利浦斯•诺顿的生平。

This eye-opening book offers a revelatory scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern humans living lon...(展开全部)

This eye-opening book offers a revelatory scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all. Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless quest for the fountain of youth. Yet, despite modern humans living lon...(展开全部)

This guide to playreading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather then contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.Ball developed his method during his work as Literary Director at the Guthrie Theater, building his guide on the crafts playwrights of every period and style use to make their plays stagewort...(展开全部)