Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultur...(展开全部)

About this book “Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly examines the meaning and cultura...(展开全部)

Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the...(展开全部)

Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against Nature is the story of Des Esseintes, an aesthete who attempts to escape Paris and, along with it, the vulgarity of modern life. As Des Esseintes hides away in his museum of high taste, Huysman offers the reader a treasury of cultur...(展开全部)

Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the...(展开全部)

About this book “Will all the adulterers in the room please stand up?” So begins Laura Kipnis’s profoundly provocative and waggish inquiry into our never-ending quest for lasting love, and its attendant issues of fidelity and betrayal. In the tradition of social critiques such as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Against Love keenly examines the meaning and cultura...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛丽·露易丝·凯利（Mary Louise Kelly） 美国国家公共电台（NPR）和英国广播公司（BBC）的记者，喜欢周游世界，曾在哈佛大学和剑桥大学就读。她拥有丰富的时政报道经历，是一个经验老道的情报记者。 《时间的谎言》一上市便以惊险跌宕的情节、出人意料的设定，一鸣惊人，赢得了媒体和读者的热评。美国前中央情报局秘密行动官瓦莱丽·普拉姆也大加赞赏：“这是一本让人心跳加速的佳作”。 译者简介： 姚静，安徽人，硕士研究生，毕业于北京语言大学，研究方向为英美文学，现为中央戏剧学院英语讲师。

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作者简介 玛丽·露易丝·凯利（Mary Louise Kelly） 美国国家公共电台（NPR）和英国广播公司（BBC）的记者，喜欢周游世界，曾在哈佛大学和剑桥大学就读。她拥有丰富的时政报道经历，是一个经验老道的情报记者。 《时间的谎言》一上市便以惊险跌宕的情节、出人意料的设定，一鸣惊人，赢得了媒体和读者的热评。美国前中央情报局秘密行动官瓦莱丽·普拉姆也大加赞赏：“这是一本让人心跳加速的佳作”。 译者简介： 姚静，安徽人，硕士研究生，毕业于北京语言大学，研究方向为英美文学，现为中央戏剧学院英语讲师。