Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.

With the same brilliance that characterized his classic I, Claudius , Robert Graves continues the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emperor in spite of himself and his handicaps. Claudius the God reveals the splendor, vitality and decadence of the Roman Empire through the eyes of the wry and bemused Claudius who reigns as emperor for thirteen years. The crippled Claudi...(展开全部)

罗伯特·格雷夫斯（Robert Graves) 1895年出生于温布尔登，父亲是爱尔兰作家阿尔弗雷德·珀西瓦尔·格雷夫斯，母亲是阿玛莉亚·冯·兰克。一战爆发时，他离开学校入伍，成了皇家威尔士步兵团的一名上尉。1926年，他在开罗大学当过一年的英国文学教授，除此之外，他都以写作为生，作品多为历史小说。1929年，他写出了自传《向一切告别》，这本自传很快就成为公认的当代经典，同时也是一部特别有价值的战争文献。 1961年，他当被聘为牛津大学教授，并于1971年成为牛津大学圣约翰学院的荣誉研究员。1985年12月7日，罗伯特·格雷夫斯逝世于马略卡岛，1929年以后他就一直住在此地。他去世时，《泰晤士报》写道：“作为风格独特的散文作家、历史小说家和记录者，罗伯特·格雷夫斯的斐然成就会让他名垂青史。”

在线阅读本书 Claudius has survived the murderous intrigues of his predecessors to become, reluctantly, Emperor of Rome. Here he recounts his surprisingly successful reign: how he cultivates the loyalty of the army and the common people to repair the damage caused by Caligula; his relations with the Jewish King Herod Agrippa; and his invasion of Britain. But the growing paranoia of a...(展开全部)

John Updikes's nineteenth novel tells the story of Claudius and Gertrude, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing the nomenclature and certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the da...(展开全部)

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"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this ...(展开全部)

"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is populated by a cast as strange as that of the most fantastic fiction. The subject of this strange and wonderful book is what happens when things go wrong with parts of the brain most of us don't know exist ...Dr Sacks shows the awesome powers of our mind and just how delicately balanced they have to be' - "Sunday Times". 'Who is this ...(展开全部)

威尔基·柯林斯 （William Wilkie Collins，1824—1889） 19世纪英国维多利亚时代最富盛名的作家之一，英国文学史上第一位侦探小说作家，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”，是他第一个将短篇侦探小说引向长篇的创作。他一生创作了 大量长篇小说，代表作有《月亮宝石》《白衣女人》，等等。有评论指出：“创造英国侦探小说并赋予它那些至今保持不变的基本特征的功劳应归于狄更斯和柯林斯。” 译者 潘华凌 男，江西上高人，教授，中国译协专家会员、理事，多年从事翻译研究、翻译教学和翻译实践，已在多家出版社出版文学译作和学术译著近四十部，计近一千万字，主要译作有《全球时代的欧洲》《大卫·科波菲尔》《爱玛》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《人鼠之间》《动物农场》《1984》《消失的地平线》等。