乔治·桑，（1840～1876）法国女小说家。她原名奥罗尔·杜邦，1804年7月1日生于巴黎，父亲是第一帝国的军官。她从小由祖母抚养，13岁进入巴黎的修道院，18岁时嫁给杜德望男爵，但她对婚姻并不满意，1831 年到巴黎，开始独立生活。 乔治·桑移居巴黎后开始从事文学创作，从初期的作品中可以看到卢梭、夏多布里昂和拜伦对她的复杂影响。七月革命后不久，她发表了第一部长篇小说《安蒂亚娜》（1832），一举成名，从此一发而不可收。乔治 ·桑是一位多产作家，她一生写了100卷以上的文艺作品、20卷的回忆录《我的一生》以及大量书简和政论文章。她的小说创作大致可分四阶段：早期作品称为激情小说，代表作有《安蒂亚娜》、《华伦蒂娜》（1832）、《莱莉亚》（1833）等，都描写爱情上不幸的女性，对生活感到失望，不懈地追求独立与自由，充满了青春的热情与反抗的意志。第二阶段...(展开全部)

From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines. It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy.An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets. For th...(展开全部)

Summer 1999.Russia stands on the threshold of anarchy.An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation iswracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets.For them, only one man holds out hope.The striking voice of Igor Komarov, waiting in the wings for the presidential election of January 2000, rings out ov...(展开全部)

From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines. It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy.An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption, and seething hordes of the unemployed roam the streets. For th...(展开全部)

Elite Guardians bodyguard Haley Callaghan may be in South Carolina, but when a photo leads investigators in West Ireland to open a twenty-five-year-old cold case, her life is suddenly in danger. Haley

The photographs of Sarah Jones address established pictorial genres and our associated expectations by paring back space, subject and gesture. This book--the first major monograph on this young British artist--brings together work from an 18-year period, including many photographs never previously published, and looks at the themes and concerns that have remained constants in h...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 《Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (汤姆 琼斯)》讲述了：Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels.It is certainly the funniest.Tom Jones,the hero of the book,is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire.Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.Misfortune,followed ...(展开全部)

Book Description This revised Norton Critical Edition is based upon the fourth edition of "Tom Jones", the last to be published during Fielding's lifetime. Contemporary reactions to the novel's publication and 12 critical essays are included.

A 2012 Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret gl...(展开全部)

Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's ho...(展开全部)