Before the revolution, the Shah of Iran seemed invincible. The world watched in awe as he commanded a huge army and oversaw an economy awash with billions of dollars of oil revenues. The regime’s secret police had crushed communist opposition and the Shah appeared to have bought off the conservative Muslim clergy inside the country. On the international stage, Iran had become a...(展开全部)

马克·劳伦斯，生于1968年1月1日，拥有英美双重国籍，科学家，人工智能领域专家，作家。2011年凭借处女座《荆棘王子》在欧美奇幻文坛崭露头角。其代表作为“破碎帝国”三部曲——《荆棘王子》、《荆棘国王》、《荆棘皇帝》。2014年荣获“大卫·盖梅尔传奇奖”。

The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition. To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I've walked from pawn to player and I'll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood...The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lord...(展开全部)

The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition. To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I've walked from pawn to player and I'll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood...The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lord...(展开全部)

The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition. To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I've walked from pawn to player and I'll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood...The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lord...(展开全部)

From the author of the acclaimed New York Times bestseller LAWRENCE IN ARABIA a stunningly revelatory narrative history of one of the most momentous events in modern times, the jaw-dropping stupidity of the American government, and the dawn of the age of religious nationalism. On November 16th, 1977, at a state dinner in the White House, President Jimmy Carter toasted Shah Moha...(展开全部)

Sexuality is power. So says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer. His virtuous Justine, who keeps to the rules, is rewarded with rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. With brilliance and wit, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sade's extreme imagination and transforms ...(展开全部)

关于作者 安吉拉·卡特（Angela Carter，1940—1992），英国女作家，凭借《染血之室》《马戏团之夜》《焚舟纪》《安吉拉·卡特的精怪故事集》《明智的孩子》等新颖无畏、独树一帜的作品，成为一代人的偶像，被萨尔曼·鲁西迪、伊恩·麦克尤恩、石黑一雄、玛格丽特·阿特伍德等大作家拥戴为一代文学教母。2008年，《泰晤士报》将她列为“1945年以来50位伟大英国作家”第10位。时至今日，她仍是女性主义的象征。 关于译者 曹雷雨，女，四川人，文学博士，北京师范大学外文学院英文系教授。近年致力于文学作品和艺术图书翻译，已出版译著十余部。译有安吉拉•卡特的长篇小说处女作《影舞》（河南大学出版社，2016）。 姜丽，女，山东人，兰州大学英美文学专业硕士，瑞士伯尔尼大学语言学博士。长期在高校从事英语教学工作，有二十多年的翻译经验。