This fifth and final volume of Joseph Frank's justly celebrated literary and cultural biography of Dostoevsky renders with a rare intelligence and grace the last decade of the writer's life, the years in which he wrote "A Raw Youth", "Diary of a Writer", and his crowning triumph: "The Brothers Karamazov". Dostoevsky's final years at last won him the universal approval toward wh...(展开全部)

This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels - "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", and "The Devils" - and two of his best novellas, "The Gambler" and "The ...(展开全部)

This volume, the fourth of five planned in Joseph Frank's widely acclaimed biography of Dostoevsky, covers the six most remarkably productive years in the novelist's entire career. It was in this short span of time that Dostoevsky produced three of his greatest novels - "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", and "The Devils" - and two of his best novellas, "The Gambler" and "The ...(展开全部)

Most people in the West know very little about the prophet Muhammad. The acclaimed religious writer Karen Armstrong has written a biography which will give us a more accurate and profound understanding of Islam and the people who adhere to it so strongly. Muhammad also offers challenging comparisons with the two religions most closely related to it - Judaism and Christianity. '...(展开全部)

In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great rel...(展开全部)

In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great rel...(展开全部)

"In the 1930s, Trotsky, with a handful of followers, attempted to block the path of Stalin's relentless hurricane of betrayal and murder. His epic defence of the soul of the Revolution against its bureaucratic executioners was a torchlight in the storm. In one of the very greatest modern biographies, Isaac Deutscher redeems the legacy of this astonishing revolutionary and human...(展开全部)

"The Silent Prophet" is a vivid attempt to explain the Russian Revolution and its betrayal by exposing the personal motivations of its leaders. It focuses on the power struggle between the illegitimate and rootless Friedrich Kargan (based on Trotsky) and the coldly amoral Savelli (Stalin) to form a brilliant portrayal of revolutionary idealism-turned-cynicism.

The original, enthusiastically acclaimed Prince of Nothing fantasy series continues with a griping novel of Holy War and court intrigue. The Holy War continues its inexorable march southward. But the suspicion begins to dawn that the real threat comes not from the infidel but from within... Steering souls through the subtleties of word and expression, Kellhus strives to extend ...(展开全部)

普里德里格·奇乔瓦茨基（Predrag Cicovacki），1960 年生于南斯拉夫贝尔格莱德（现属塞尔维亚），现任圣十字学院（美国伍斯特市）名誉教授和英国剑桥大学高级研究员。 撰有专著13部，主编图书12部。文章及专著以多种语言公开发表，并以多语种翻译传播，包括英文、塞尔维亚文、德文、俄文、西班牙文、斯洛文尼亚文、马其顿文、中文、日文。近期主要著作有《向上凝视的伦理》（The Ethic of the Upward Gaze: Essays Inspired by Immanuel Kant and Nicolai Hartmann , 2024）、《上帝、人与托尔斯泰》（God, Man, and Tolstoy , 2022）和《生命的意义》（The Meaning of Life. A Quick Immersion, 2021）。