Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blu...(展开全部)

A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging of a play about Elizabeth I.

A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided.

The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.

他，在英国媒体的民意测验中被评选为“英国最聪明的人”； 他，往往有惊人之举，曾经裸奔宣传公司产品，是英国最抢镜头的”嬉皮士资本家”； 他，曾经驾驶热气球环行地球； 他，曾经驾驶坦克驶入纽约的“时代广场”； 他，曾经在海湾战争时驾驶自己的飞机进入巴格达解救人质； 他，被看成是一个傲慢的暴发户，却同时是世界各大公司CEO的偶像…… 这些天马行空、看似毫无关联的因素构成了理查德·布兰森， 维珍集团的董事长兼总裁，企业界的顽童， 欧美家喻户晓的明星，世界上最富传奇色彩的亿万富翁

他，在英国媒体的民意测验中被评选为“英国最聪明的人”； 他，往往有惊人之举，曾经裸奔宣传公司产品，是英国最抢镜头的”嬉皮士资本家”； 他，曾经驾驶热气球环行地球； 他，曾经驾驶坦克驶入纽约的“时代广场”； 他，曾经在海湾战争时驾驶自己的飞机进入巴格达解救人质； 他，被看成是一个傲慢的暴发户，却同时是世界各大公司CEO的偶像…… 这些天马行空、看似毫无关联的因素构成了理查德·布兰森， 维珍集团的董事长兼总裁，企业界的顽童， 欧美家喻户晓的明星，世界上最富传奇色彩的亿万富翁

The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding centuries. This book, however, provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cult in England from c. 700 to the Conquest. Interest in and devotion to Mary flourished in the late seventh and eighth centuries and, especially, in the period of the Benedictine reform from the mid-tenth centu...(展开全部)