First published in 1955, England Under the Tudors has remained a classic text on Tudor history. This fully revised third edition contains an expanded bibliography, taking into account the latest research in sixteenth-century British history.

`Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions' mouths.' G.R. Elton, Preface Geoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publica...(展开全部)

`Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions' mouths.' G.R. Elton, Preface Geoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an outstanding history of a crucial and turbulent period in British and European history. Revised several times since its first publica...(展开全部)

彼得•阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd，1949— ） 英国历史作家和小说家，著有“英格兰史六部曲”、《伦敦传》和《莎士比亚传》等六十多部作品。1984年当选英国皇家文学学会成员，曾获毛姆文学奖、惠特布雷德传记奖和英国皇家文学学会的威廉•海涅曼奖，2003年因其在写作方面的卓越贡献被授予大英帝国司令勋章。 【译者简介】 赵国新 北京外国语大学英语学院教授、博士生导师，中国外国文学学会英语文学研究分会常务理事，中国国家图书馆“文津讲坛”特聘教授。主要从事西方文论和19世纪英国小说研究，主持过多项国家级和省部级课题。已出版《20世纪西方文论选读》《西方古典文论选读》《自由及其背叛》《现代西方思想史：1789年至今》等专著或译著二十余部。

彼得•阿克罗伊德（Peter Ackroyd，1949— ） 英国历史作家和小说家，著有“英格兰史六部曲”、《伦敦传》和《莎士比亚传》等六十多部作品。1984年当选英国皇家文学学会成员，曾获毛姆文学奖、惠特布雷德传记奖和英国皇家文学学会的威廉•海涅曼奖，2003年因其在写作方面的卓越贡献被授予大英帝国司令勋章。 【译者简介】 赵国新 北京外国语大学英语学院教授、博士生导师，中国外国文学学会英语文学研究分会常务理事，中国国家图书馆“文津讲坛”特聘教授。主要从事西方文论和19世纪英国小说研究，主持过多项国家级和省部级课题。已出版《20世纪西方文论选读》《西方古典文论选读》《自由及其背叛》《现代西方思想史：1789年至今》等专著或译著二十余部。

Booker Prize Finalist "Wickedly funny." -- The New York Times Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint,where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry.This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks to accomplish on the Isle of Wight, a "destination" w...(展开全部)

From a writer acclaimed by everyone from Graham Greene to John Fowles to John Irving, a new novel, short-listed for the Booker Prize, which The Sunday Times of London calls "both funny and serious, a double-act that English novels rarely manage . . . A commanding imaginative achievement." Picture an England where all the pubs are quaint, the Royals behave themselves (more or l...(展开全部)

As every schoolboy knows, you can fit the whole of England on the Isle of White. Grotesque, visionary tycoon Sir Jack Pitman takes the saying literally and does exactly that. He constructs on the island 'The Project', a vast heritage centre containing everything 'English', from Big Ben to Stonehenge, from Manchester United to the white Cliffs of Dover. The project is monstrous,...(展开全部)

Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenth-century New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage gardens surrounding her hand-hewn house. Until now we've only caught glimpses of Tasha T...(展开全部)

Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenth-century New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage gardens surrounding her hand-hewn house. Until now we've only caught glimpses of Tasha T...(展开全部)