"White Guard", Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Russian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's saga, Bu...(展开全部)

The setting is Kiev in 1918, a time of revolution, turmoil and civil war. The Germans have occupied the city, Petlyura's Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment, while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating their buried armaments. It is a time of suspense and anguished uncertainty for everyone, including the once-wealthy Turbin family, who, like the other last supporte...(展开全部)

“Great and terrible was the year of Our Lord 1918, of the Revolution the second.” It is 1918: the Russian Revolution has just ended, Ukraine is in the midst of civil war, and in Kiev, the two Turbin brothers are preparing to fight for the White Guard in the wake of their beloved mother’s death. Friends charge in from the streets amid an atmosphere of heady chaos, downing vodka,...(展开全部)

Discover Mikhail Bugakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv. Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-w...(展开全部)

利迪娅•若热（Lídia Jorge，1946— ），葡萄牙当代最重要的作家之一，其作品代表了近代葡萄牙语写作风格，即所谓的“后革命一代”，斩获国内外奖项无数，赢得了国际认可，包括欧洲年度作家（2000）、法国艺术与文学勋章（2005）、拉丁语联盟国际奖（2011）、西 葡艺术文化奖（2014）、FIL罗曼语文学奖（2020）、葡萄牙作家协会编年史和文学散文大奖（2021）等。 吕婷婷，北京大学外国语学院世文所在读研究生。本科毕业于北京大学外国语学院西葡语系，主要研究方向为非洲葡语文学、女性主义文学，曾参与翻译《马查多·德·阿西斯小说集》《中国日记——一个巴西人眼中的真实中国》。

In the Winter of 1152, the Mouse Guard face a food and supply shortage threatening the lives of many mouse through a cold and icy season. Some of the Guard's finest — Saxon, Kenzie, Lieam, and Sadie, led by Celanawe, the legendary Black Axe — traverse the snow-blanketed territories acting as diplomats to improve relations between the mouse cities and the Guard, and find themsel...(展开全部)

Endless sunshine, endless beaches, wildlife like you've never seen it - and a boomtown city perched on the edge of a vast desert. Western Australia is best done slowly, so set the speedometer to 'snail' and drink it in. This revised edition focuses on the must-visit destinations, including Margaret River and the Southwest Coast and includes a new "Travel with Children" chapte...(展开全部)

被称为业界传奇LoneIy Planet出版公司的创始人托尼．惠勒和莫琳·惠勒已经出版了很多的旅行指南，这些指南覆盖了这个星球的每一个国家。 Lonely Planet创立于1973年，当时惠勒夫妇自己动手出版了一本非常独特的旅游指南：《便宜走亚洲》。之后他们又出版了《鞋带上的东南亚》，这本书很快被人们称为背包客的“圣经”。当时他们勇敢地踏入了别的旅游出版商未曾涉足的市场，他们专为一个新兴的自助旅行人群服务，而这些人群的出现要远远早于大众旅游市场的兴起。

简介：保护或者毁灭，这是他的唯一一个问题

Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in t...(展开全部)