Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world...(展开全部)

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world...(展开全部)

杜黑1869年5月30日，杜黑出生于意大利南部那不勒斯以北23公里处一个名叫卡塞塔的小镇。他出身于军人世家，家中几代都为萨伏依王室服务。由于受家庭熏陶，杜黑自幼立志继承父业，从军习武。他先是进入都灵军事工程学校学习，由于学习刻苦，成绩优异，1888年毕业时，被直接授予炮兵中尉军衔，时年19岁。后来，杜黑又进入陆军大学学习，研究有关现代战争的战略战术以及战争中的后勤问题。毕业后，他被派到陆军许多岗位上工作。无论在哪里，他都致力于科学技术与军事应用相结合。深厚的科技知识和军事知识功底，使他工作成绩十分突出，很快就晋升为上尉，并调到陆军参谋部工作。20世纪初，他受命参加研究意大利军队的机械化问题，预见到飞机在军事上将有重大的作用，从此走上了一条探索研究空军理论的坎坷人生之路。 1903年12月17日，美国莱特兄弟在北卡罗来纳州的基蒂霍克首次驾驶一架有动力的...(展开全部)

舍伍德•安德森（Sherwood Anderson,1876——1941年），美国现代文学史上最伟大的作家之一。他出身贫寒，早早离家谋生，后来成为了一名成功的企业主。却在鼎盛时期突然一夜间抛弃了名利和家庭，以一种近似癫狂的偏执走上了孤独的创作之路。 他是美国第一位成熟的现代意义上的小说家，被誉为是“美国现代文学的先驱者”。他的作品深刻地影响了海明威、福克纳、菲茨杰拉德、斯坦贝克、考德威尔等一系列的大师级作家，是美国文学史上著名的“迷惘的一代”的先辈人物。 海明威称他为“我们所有人的老师”，而福克纳称他为“我们这一代作家的父亲”。是他发掘并出版了海明威、福克纳的首部作品，并引领他们进入了主流文学界，可以说他是大师的老师。

舍伍德•安德森（Sherwood Anderson,1876——1941年），美国现代文学史上最伟大的作家之一。他出身贫寒，早早离家谋生，后来成为了一名成功的企业主。却在鼎盛时期突然一夜间抛弃了名利和家庭，以一种近似癫狂的偏执走上了孤独的创作之路。 他是美国第一位成熟的现代意义上的小说家，被誉为是“美国现代文学的先驱者”。他的作品深刻地影响了海明威、福克纳、菲茨杰拉德、斯坦贝克、考德威尔等一系列的大师级作家，是美国文学史上著名的“迷惘的一代”的先辈人物。 海明威称他为“我们所有人的老师”，而福克纳称他为“我们这一代作家的父亲”。是他发掘并出版了海明威、福克纳的首部作品，并引领他们进入了主流文学界，可以说他是大师的老师。

A magical Arabian Nights tale from the captivating creator of fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones. The dazzling sequel to Howls Moving Castle, now a major animated film. Far to the south in the Land of Ingary, lives a young carpet merchant called Abdullah. In his dreams, he is the long-lost son of a great prince. This dream is a complete castle in the air! or is it? Abdullah's day-dre...(展开全部)

Young merchant Abdullah leads a humble life. Or he did until a stranger sold him a threadbare—and disagreeable—magic carpet. Now Abdullah is caught in the middle of his grand daydreams. Waking one night in a luxurious garden, he meets and falls instantly in love with the beautiful and clever Flower-in-the-Night. But a wicked djinn sweeps the princess away right before Abdullah'...(展开全部)

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in t...(展开全部)

According to Peter Sloterdijk, the twentieth century started on a specific day and place: April 22, 1915, at Ypres in West Flanders. That day, the German army used a chlorine gas meant to exterminate indiscriminately. Until then, war, as described by Clausewitz and practiced by Napoleon, involved attacking the adversary’s vital function first. Using poison gas signaled the pass...(展开全部)