Chantal THOMAS 法國國家科學研究中心研究員，傑出的十八世紀思想史專家，其關於薩德（Sade）、瑪麗·安托奈特以及十八世紀自由精神的學術著作最為知名，經常受邀在耶魯，普林斯頓等歐美名校講學。 深受早年師從羅蘭巴特的影響，她的學術著作跨越史學、哲學及社會學的界線，如 Comment supporter sa liberté （自由怎堪消受）、Un air de liberté （自由之風）及2016年出版的Pour Roland Barthes （致羅蘭巴特）等作品，都在含蓄的文字中具有詩性的韻味，細膩的描繪中處處顯露思辯。 香塔勒·托瑪同時是位作家，從散文，劇作到小說，創作了許多膾炙人口的作品。她的第一部小說《再見吾后》是以王后朗讀官第一人稱自述的小說，讀者藉由她愛戀的眼神，凝望了法國最後的王后瑪麗·安托奈特，也目睹了巴士底監獄被攻陷之後...(展开全部)

A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution. Now exiled in Vienna, Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and, overcome with ...(展开全部)

It was once the job of Madame Agathe-Sidonie Laborde to read books aloud to Marie-Antoinette. Now exiled in Vienna, she looks back twenty-one years to the legendary opulence of Versailles and meticulously reconstructs July 14, 15, and 16 of 1789. When Agathe-Sidonie is summoned to the Queen's side on the morning of the 14th, Versailles is a miniature universe, sparkling with ...(展开全部)

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his ...(展开全部)

In this dark farce of a novel, set in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, eight characters are swept up in an accelerating dance: a pretty nurse and her repairman boyfriend; an oddball gynecologist; a rich American (at once saint and Don Juan); a popular trumpeter and his beautiful, obsessively jealous wife; an disillusioned former political prisoner about to leave his ...(展开全部)

Two women competing for a man's heart Two queens fighting to the death for dominance The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Sco...(展开全部)

Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" ("USA Today") Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Phili...(展开全部)

Philippa Gregory, "the queen of royal fiction" ("USA Today") Presents the first of a new series set amid the deadly feuds of England known as the Wars of the Roses.Brother turns on brother to win the ultimate prize, the throne of England, in this dazzling account of the wars of the Plantagenets. They are the claimants and kings who ruled England before the Tudors, and now Phili...(展开全部)

Two women competing for a man's heart Two queens fighting to the death for dominance The untold story of Mary, Queen of Scots This dazzling novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a new and unique view of one of history's most intriguing, romantic, and maddening heroines. Biographers often neglect the captive years of Mary, Queen of Sco...(展开全部)