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吉尔伯特·阿代尔（Gilbert Adair），苏格兰作家、电影评论家和记者。 阿代尔1944年出生于爱丁堡。青年时期的吉尔伯特曾长期定居巴黎，后移居英国伦敦。他的作品涉猎广泛，包括：儿童文学、批评文学、小说、剧本和翻译文学。他曾凭借翻译作品《空虚》获得斯科特•蒙克里夫翻译奖。早年他在未经授权的情况下创作了两部著名的维多利亚时期英语文学作品（分别是《爱丽丝梦游仙境》和《彼得·潘》）的续集。1992年至1996年，他为《星期日泰晤士报》的专栏撰稿。他的小说《长岛爱与死》（1990）由导演理查德·科维特诺斯基改编为电影。他最著名的作品无疑是《神圣的纯真》，这部小说为他赢得了1988年的作家俱乐部处女作奖，后由意大利导演贝托鲁奇改编为电影《戏梦巴黎》。之后，吉尔伯特修改了自己的初稿并以同样的名字再次出版。他的最新作品是自2006年起创作的一组侦探小说，旨在...(展开全部)

For much of its extraordinary life, Baghdad, known for centuries as the "City of Peace," enjoyed both cultural and commercial preeminence. For five centuries it was the seat of the Abbasid Empire, a marvel of glittering palaces, exquisite parks, magnificent mosques, and Islamic colleges. It was a city boasting the most accomplished astronomers, mathematicians, doctors, musician...(展开全部)

Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions...(展开全部)

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20世纪初期，中国正经历着一场重大的社会文化变革，千年帝国分崩离析，民族面临着巨大的变革。现代化的边缘。在这样的背景下，一位来自北方的沉默寡言男子，在狂风暴雨中，踏上了前往南方城市的危险旅程。他怀着一个新生婴儿，寻找孩子的母亲和一座已不存在的城市。 这是一个关于两个人的故事：一个男人在回到抛弃他的女人的故乡后，获得了意想不到的成功；另一个男人在寻找的女人，却神秘失踪，踏上了充满波折的旅程。这是一个关于消失的工艺和古老的风俗的故事，关于暴力、爱情和友情。重要的是，这是一个关于变化和叙事本身的故事，充满了生动的人物和出人意料的转折——一个史诗般的故事，如时间本身般无情，又如经典的冒险故事般扣人心弦。 In the early 20th century, China is a land undergoing a momentous social and c...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

"Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are." Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mo...(展开全部)

St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and "City of God" is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions of Rome, the arguments of the Greek philosophers and the revelations of the Bibl...(展开全部)

In this extensively updated second edition, including an up-dated index and bibliography, J. W. Roberts explores the main features of Athenian life in the latter half of the fifth century BC.