Each edition includes: · Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play · Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play · Scene-by-scene plot summaries · A key to famous lines and phrases · An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language · An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on...(展开全部)

大洋导读： 在古罗马，每年十月的伊德斯日，人们通过祭献最好的战马——十月马，祈求帝国永远拥有无人匹敌的威严和荣光。“十月马”正是恺撒戎马一生和悲情命运的象征。　　帝国的垂暮之年，尤利乌斯·恺撒是一位极富争议性的人物。有人崇拜他，另一些人则鄙视他，但是他在元老院的统治地位却丝毫未受撼动。迫于内战的压力，他不得不置天香国色、精明诡诈的情人 ——埃及艳后克利奥帕特拉于不顾，开始着眼于帝国的未来：谁才是继承罗马帝国最高统治权的合适人选？帝国的阴影之下，谋杀无处不在。谁的智慧和狡计足以颠覆帝国的巨人？谁又可以坦然地直面巨人坍塌后的混乱与纷争？

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Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to ...(展开全部)

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to ...(展开全部)

威尔·杜兰特（Will Durant，1885—1981），美国作家、哲学家、历史学家，普利策奖（1968年）、美国总统自由勋章（1977年）获得者。 早年与胡适均曾师从美国实用主义哲学家杜威，1917年获哥伦比亚大学博士学位，前期著作以《哲学的故事》一书畅销成名。此后著作亦以其鲜明主张的自由和公平，赢得东方读者包括亚洲首位诺贝尔文学奖得主泰戈尔的尊重。后半生更以莫大的毅力和勇气撰写《文明的故事》，超级马拉松般持续近半世纪，曾环球考察实地历史（包括广东、上海等地），最后一段写作行程幸有金婚伴侣杜兰特夫人执笔加入，终于留下这一部传世之作。 杜兰特博士亦可谓20世纪最会讲故事的人，讲完了“哲学的故事”，再讲“文明的故事”。终其一生，他都热情地致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来，化复杂为易懂，我们读者获益良多。 他说，历史的教训，就是我们总也记不住...(展开全部)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, ...(展开全部)