Robert Graves begins anew the tumultuous life of the Roman who became emporer in spite of himself. Captures the vitality, splendor, and decadence of the Roman world at the point of its decline.

Gustav Mahler and Alma Maria Schindler were married in . . . 1902. The bride was twenty-one and a half years old, her groom a few months short of forty-two. Apart from their substantial age difference, it seems to have been the very disparity of their intellectual and social backgrounds that drew them together. Mahler was attracted to Alma by her beauty, her alert mind and emot...(展开全部)

古斯塔夫·马勒，奥地利作曲家，指挥家。犹太人，出生于波希米亚。作为作曲家，一生创作了10部交响曲，与理查·施特劳斯、西贝柳斯一道，唱出了19世纪浪漫主义最后的挽歌。他的音乐直接影响了勋伯格、贝尔格和韦伯恩，也包括肖斯塔科维奇和布里顿。作为指挥家，他的成就在生前就已得到广泛认可，不但演出水平优异，还具有创新性。作为历史上最伟大的歌剧指挥家之一，对瓦格纳和莫扎特歌剧的诠释尤为突出。 曹利群，20世纪50年代生人。种过田，做过工，大学毕业后当编辑。主编过《爱乐》杂志，写过一些和古典音乐有关的文章。出版的书主要有：《缪斯的琴弦》、《永远的珍藏》、《历史旁的花园》、《五音不全》、《肖邦不住17号》。翻译有《梅纽因访谈录》、《歌剧——一种新的聆听方法》（合译）。 庄加逊，2007年毕业于上海交通大学外国文艺理论专业，获硕士学位。近年来为《爱乐》、...(展开全部)

威尔基·柯林斯 （William Wilkie Collins，1824—1889） 19世纪英国维多利亚时代最富盛名的作家之一，英国文学史上第一位侦探小说作家，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”，是他第一个将短篇侦探小说引向长篇的创作。他一生创作了 大量长篇小说，代表作有《月亮宝石》《白衣女人》，等等。有评论指出：“创造英国侦探小说并赋予它那些至今保持不变的基本特征的功劳应归于狄更斯和柯林斯。” 译者 潘华凌 男，江西上高人，教授，中国译协专家会员、理事，多年从事翻译研究、翻译教学和翻译实践，已在多家出版社出版文学译作和学术译著近四十部，计近一千万字，主要译作有《全球时代的欧洲》《大卫·科波菲尔》《爱玛》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《人鼠之间》《动物农场》《1984》《消失的地平线》等。

In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world--the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime.

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale. Man and Wife was first published in 1870 and was a biting attack on Victorian marriage laws in England. Th...(展开全部)

On a summer's morning between thirty and forty years ago- two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship- bound outward from Gravesend to Bombay.' (Excerpt form Chapter 1)

Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, poet, and playwright writing in the mid 19th century. His writing was very popular consisting of 27 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and over 100 poems. His best-known works were The Woman in White, The Moonstone and Armadale. Man and Wife was first published in 1870 and was a biting attack on Victorian marriage laws in England. Th...(展开全部)

威尔基·柯林斯 （William Wilkie Collins，1824—1889） 19世纪英国维多利亚时代最富盛名的作家之一，英国文学史上第一位侦探小说作家，被誉为“英国侦探小说之父”，是他第一个将短篇侦探小说引向长篇的创作。他一生创作了 大量长篇小说，代表作有《月亮宝石》《白衣女人》，等等。有评论指出：“创造英国侦探小说并赋予它那些至今保持不变的基本特征的功劳应归于狄更斯和柯林斯。” 译者 潘华凌 男，江西上高人，教授，中国译协专家会员、理事，多年从事翻译研究、翻译教学和翻译实践，已在多家出版社出版文学译作和学术译著近四十部，计近一千万字，主要译作有《全球时代的欧洲》《大卫·科波菲尔》《爱玛》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《人鼠之间》《动物农场》《1984》《消失的地平线》等。

In three months from the memorable day when his solicitor had informed him that he was a free man, Mr. Vanborough possessed the wife he desired, to grace the head of his table and to push his fortunes in the world--the Legislature of Great Britain being the humble servant of his treachery, and the respectable accomplice of his crime.