Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father propels them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls’ self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly. Lulu had been warned not let her father in, but when he shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past L...(展开全部)

作者： 凯瑟琳•柯里森（Catherine Kerrison，1953—），历史学博士，美国维拉诺瓦大学历史系副教授，教授殖民地历史、美国革命史以及妇女和性别史课程。她的第一本著作《笔的诉求：美国早期的南方女性及其智识生活》（Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South）获美国教育史学会杰出著作奖。 译者： 吴秀杰、白岚玲，合译有《技术、性别、历史：重新审视帝制中国的大转型》《工开万物：17世纪中国的知识与技术》等；吴秀杰另有译作《人类的群星闪耀时》《昨日的世界：一个欧洲人的回忆》等。 丛书主编： 林鹤，清华大学建筑历史与理论硕士，后留校任教，之后转为自由作者。著译作品有《西方20世纪别墅二十讲》《流水别墅传：赖特、考夫曼与美国最杰出的别墅》《水晶之...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: A ';monumental' saga of four ordinary American women from the author of The Blackboard Jungle (The New York Times Book Review). Amanda, a small-town minister's daughter with

在线阅读本书 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them ...(展开全部)

It is wonderful to have in English these three essays by Roberto Longhi. With the exception of Walter Pater, it is difficult to think of a critic whose work is so close to the art it embraces that it becomes itself a kind of art. Yet Pater's criticism is always on the verge of metamorphosing into poetry. With Longhi, the scholar and the poet are seamlessly fused, resulting in p...(展开全部)

It is wonderful to have in English these three essays by Roberto Longhi. With the exception of Walter Pater, it is difficult to think of a critic whose work is so close to the art it embraces that it becomes itself a kind of art. Yet Pater's criticism is always on the verge of metamorphosing into poetry. With Longhi, the scholar and the poet are seamlessly fused, resulting in p...(展开全部)