Barchester towers is the Second of trollope's six Barsetshire novels.following on directly from The Warden,though each novel is complete in itself,The political intrigues of the cathedral close unfold and we are delighted by the donimant Mrs Proudie Wife of the ineffectual Bishop;the scheming Chaplain,Obadiah Slope;and the Worldly and ambitious Archdeacon Grantly.We meet again....(展开全部)

特罗洛普（1815-1882），英国文学史上最高产最伟大的小说家。共创作长篇小说47部，还有大量短篇小说、游记、传记及一部自传。前期发表的一组六部总名为《巴塞特郡》的小说为他奠定了基础，其中以《养老院院长》和《巴切斯特塔》最为脍炙人口。后期小说中也有一组六部作品名为《巴里塞小说》，属于政治小说或称议会小说，其中以《首相》最出色，写当时英国上层政治家的相互斗争。一般认为，特罗洛普最好的作品是包括《巴彻斯特养老院》、《巴彻斯特大教堂》、《索恩医生》、《弗雷姆利教区》、《阿林顿小屋》、《巴塞特的最后纪事》六部长篇小说在内“巴塞特郡”系列。 晚年还有两部优秀作品《如今世道》和《斯卡包鲁一家》。他的写实手法揭露讥讽英国维多利亚女王时代中、上层社会，并自觉灌注道德教育意图。他的小说情节发展自然流畅，文笔犀利幽默，人物形象生动，心理刻画逼真深刻。生前未给予充分评价...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, introducing that oily symbol of progress Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked D...(展开全部)

The first ever illustrated paperback of part two of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring 16 colour paintings by Alan Lee.

The Last Battle has started. The seals on the Dark One’s prison are crumbling. The Pattern itself is unraveling, and the armies of the Shadow have begun to boil out of the Blight. The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age. Perrin Aybara is now hunted by specters from his past: Whitecloaks, a slayer of wolves, and the responsibilities of leadership. All the while, an unseen ...(展开全部)

In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic f...(展开全部)

作者介绍： [美]伊莱恩·肖瓦尔特（Elaine Showalter，1941— ） 美国著名女性主义批评家，美国的女性主义文学批评的创立者之一，普林斯顿大学荣休教授。曾任美国现代语言学会（MLA）会长，享有盛誉的布克国际文学奖评审主席（2007年）。著有《她们自己的文学：从勃朗特到莱辛》（A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing）、《女性的不适：女人、疯狂和英国的文化，1830－1908》（The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980）、《历史：歇斯底里症与现代媒体》（Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Med...(展开全部)

"I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice," Elaine Showalter writes, "once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred being cast as the luscious Concord grape to my role as the withered prune." In the d...(展开全部)

The second volume of The Lord of the Rings trilogy relates a tale of the eternal battle between good and evil. "The author has intimate access to an epic tradition of Germanic history, civilized by the gentler genius of modern England." -- New York Times