Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive. Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In...(展开全部)

After twenty years apart, two cousins reunite in Eastern Europe to renovate a medieval castle. The cousins are irrevocably bound to one another through the shared experience of their youth, when a childhood prank with devastating consequences changed both their lives forever. In an environment of desolation, isolation and paranoia, the cousins are falling under the gothic spell...(展开全部)

After twenty years apart, two cousins reunite in Eastern Europe to renovate a medieval castle. The cousins are irrevocably bound to one another through the shared experience of their youth, when a childhood prank with devastating consequences changed both their lives forever. In an environment of desolation, isolation and paranoia, the cousins are falling under the gothic spell...(展开全部)

&quote;Keep the Aspidistra Flying&quote;, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930s London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to de

在线阅读本书 Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity and his spirit. Only Rosemary, ever-faithful Rosemary, has the strength to challenge his commitment to his ch...(展开全部)

Gordon Comstock is a poor young man who works in a grubby London bookstore and spends his evenings shivering in a rented room, trying to write. He is determined to stay free of the “money world” of lucrative jobs, family responsibilities, and the kind of security symbolized by the homely aspidistra plant that sits in every middle-class British window.

弗雷德里克·刘易斯·艾伦，研究美国20世纪前半时期的知名历史学家。曾任《世纪》杂志和《哈珀》杂志主编。 其最为著名的著作就是人们津津乐道的“美利坚帝国成长三部曲”系列：《大繁荣时代》（Only Yesterday）、《大衰退时代》（Since Yesterday）和《大转型时代》（The Big Change ）。此外，他还著有《保罗·R.雷诺兹》、《伟大的摩根》、《万物之灵》、《看美国》等书。

弗雷德里克·刘易斯·艾伦，研究美国20世纪前半时期的知名历史学家。曾任《世纪》杂志和《哈珀》杂志主编。 其最为著名的著作就是人们津津乐道的“美利坚帝国成长三部曲”系列：《大繁荣时代》（Only Yesterday）、《大衰退时代》（Since Yesterday）和《大转型时代》（The Big Change ）。此外，他还著有《保罗·R.雷诺兹》、《伟大的摩根》、《万物之灵》、《看美国》等书。

THE KEY TO A BETTER BODY—in shape, energized, and youthful—is a healthy brain. Based on the latest medical research, as well as on Dr. Amen’s two decades of clinical practice at the renowned Amen Clinics, where Dr. Amen and his associates pioneered the use of the most advanced brain imaging technology, Change Your Brain, Change Your Body shows you how to take the very best ca...(展开全部)

You might describe Richard Saul Wurman as a provocateur, a pioneer, a creative genius. Inspirational, innovative, larger-than-life ... legendary, even. Others have. But the most apt description of this singular individual -- this architect, designer, creator of the celebrated TED Conference, and prolific author -- is storyteller. Springing to life from the mind of the world's o...(展开全部)