A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers – a leading light of literary modernism and feminism – and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville-West, and they remained friends until Virginia’s death in 1941. The he...(展开全部)

【作者简介】克莱尔·卡莱（Clare Carlisle） 曾在剑桥大学三一学院学习哲学和神学，1998年获得学士学位，2002年获得博士学位。现为伦敦国王学院的哲学教授。代表作《心灵哲学家:索伦·克尔凯郭尔的不安生活》《斯宾诺莎的宗教:伦理学新论》等。 【译者简介】徐颖 国际关系学院教师，北京大学英美文学博士。译著代表作为《奥兰多》《伊芙琳的七次死亡》《爱·不释手》等，已发表多篇关于乔治·爱略特创作的研究性论文。

In his celebrated bestsellers Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat , Ben Macintyre told the dazzling true stories of a remarkable WWII double agent and of how the Allies employed a corpse to fool the Nazis and assure a decisive victory. In Double Cross , Macintyre returns with the untold story of the grand final deception of the war and of the extraordinary spies who achieved i...(展开全部)

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir .

The original edition of Double Game, published by Violette Editions in 1999, was the first important book by Sophie Calle to be published in English and earned fervent international praise for its concept, content and stunning design. Writing for Bookforum, Barry Schwabsky called "this elegant, ribbon-wrapped compendium My vote for the most beautiful art book of 1999." And Eye ...(展开全部)

This is the first major publication in English on the work of French artist Sophie Calle, yet this volume is in no way an ordinary monograph. In fact, it takes the form of a "double jeu", a "double game," between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. Representing an imaginative interplay of fact and fiction, "Double Game" creates a publication of endless intr...(展开全部)

""Double Jeopardy" recounts the twin stories spanning two generations of two pairs of male buddies. . . . Transglobal gunrunning, insurrection in a Malaysian rubber plantation, storm-tossed stowaways, mutiny at high sea, armed bank robberies, cannibalism under the streets of Paris and, of course, the infinite complications of unrequited love--all drive the reader from page to p...(展开全部)

In a typical conflation of mystery, comedy, and the remarkable, fortune-teller Bouc Bel-Air tells Paul J., "Everything will come in twos, always more or less in twos." Little does Paul realize that he and his friend will be caught in a wild adventure of gun running, robbery, and insurrection, taking them to distant Malaysia aboard the mutinous Boustrophedon in which characters,...(展开全部)

In a typical conflation of mystery, comedy, and the remarkable, fortune-teller Bouc Bel-Air tells Paul J., "Everything will come in twos, always more or less in twos." Little does Paul realize that he and his friend will be caught in a wild adventure of gun running, robbery, and insurrection, taking them to distant Malaysia aboard the mutinous Boustrophedon in which characters,...(展开全部)