Elizabeth Wilson's life of Jaqueline Du Pre is authorized by Barenboim and has exclusive access to familly papers. She has tracked down hitherto unheard recordings, and the book is the most authoritative and rounded account yet of anartist permanently held in high public affection.

伊莉莎白．威爾森 出生於倫敦，曾在英國、中國和美國求學，後來在莫斯科音樂學院與羅斯托波維奇學習大提琴。回到倫敦之後，她開始了演奏與教學生涯。她也寫作關於音樂和音樂家的書籍，包括一九九四年在英國和美國出版的一冊蕭斯塔柯維契的傳記（《追憶蕭斯塔柯維契》）。

This is the first collection of the writings of Edmund Burke that precede Reflections on the Revolution in France. A thinker whose range transcends formal boundaries, Burke has been highly prized by both conservatives and liberal socialists, and this new edition charts the development of his thought and its importance as a response to the events of his day. Burke's mind spanned...(展开全部)

This is the first collection of the writings of Edmund Burke that precede Reflections on the Revolution in France. A thinker whose range transcends formal boundaries, Burke has been highly prized by both conservatives and liberal socialists, and this new edition charts the development of his thought and its importance as a response to the events of his day. Burke's mind spanned...(展开全部)

Synopsis Hotel du Lac tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her own novels, however, Edith flees to Switzerland, where the quiet luxury of the Hotel du Lac promises to restore her to her senses. But instead of peace and rest, Edith finds herself sequestered at the hotel with an assortment of love...(展开全部)

This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh appraisal of the Pre-Raphaelite artists of mid-Victorian England and their radical departure from artistic conventions. Tim Barringer explores the meanings encoded in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and finds a dynamic energy that arises from paradoxes at the heart of the movement, between past and present, historicism and modernity, and...(展开全部)

This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh appraisal of the Pre-Raphaelite artists of mid-Victorian England and their radical departure from artistic conventions. Tim Barringer explores the meanings encoded in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and finds a dynamic energy that arises from paradoxes at the heart of the movement, between past and present, historicism and modernity, and...(展开全部)

-Albert Cohen est né à Corfou,dans une famille juive d'origine grecque et vénitienne . Il n'a que cinq anse lorsque ses parents quittent l'île ,fuyant la pauvreté et les pogroms,pour s'installer en France en 1900. Sur les bancs de l'école ,à Marseille,il se prend d'un amour immédiat pour la langue française qui n'est pas sa langue maternelle .Ses camarades de classe ,en 6e,se m...(展开全部)