A lively account of the 1936 Olympics told through the voices and stories of those who witnessed it, from an award-winning historian and biographer Berlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympiad, describing the events in the German capital through the eyes of a select cast of characters--Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, sportsmen and journalists, write...(展开全部)

威廉•福克纳（1897—1962），美国文学史上最具影响力的作家之一，意识流文学在美国的代表人物，1949年诺贝尔文学奖得主，瑞典学院对他的评价是：“他对当代美国小说做出了强有力和艺术上无与伦比的贡献。”

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new l...(展开全部)

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new l...(展开全部)

威廉•福克纳（1897—1962），美国文学史上最具影响力的作家之一，意识流文学在美国的代表人物，1949年诺贝尔文学奖得主，瑞典学院对他的评价是：“他对当代美国小说做出了强有力和艺术上无与伦比的贡献。”

Joe Christmas does not know whether he is black or white. Faulkner makes of Joe's tragedy a powerful indictment of racism; at the same time Joe's life is a study of the divided self and becomes a symbol of 20th century man.

New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlinand survived: ';Consummately suspenseful' (Los Angeles Times). When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, appr

During the night of 12-13 August 1961, a barbed-wire entanglement was hastily constructed through the heart of Berlin. It metamorphosed into a structure that would come to symbolise the insanity of the Cold War: the Berlin Wall. Frederick Taylor tells the story of the post-war political conflict that led to a divided Berlin and unleashed an East-West crisis, which lasted until ...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克·泰勒，曾在艾尔斯伯里文法学校受教，在牛津大学研读历史和现代语言学。在苏塞克斯大学攻读硕士学位期间，获得大众奖学金。做过出版商，创作过四部小说，编辑并翻译了《戈培尔日记1939-1941》；畅销书《德累斯顿：1954年2月13日，星期二》的作者。