A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. The attic is in Montefort, a corroding country house in County Cork, which harbours a collection of people held there by ties of kinship or habit, and haunted by the memory of its former owner. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings, while not far off the rich, promiscuou...(展开全部)

From the first Union rout in Virginia to the last tragic moments of surrender, here is a gigantic five-year panorama(全景)of the Civil War! Hostilities divide the Hazards and the Mains, testing them with loyalties(忠诚)more powerful than family ties. While soldiers from both families clash on the battlefields of Bull Run(布尔河战役), Fredericksburg(弗雷德里克斯堡，南军重创北军之地) and Antietam(安提塔姆，李将...(展开全部)

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the...(展开全部)

"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the co...(展开全部)

"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir It’s What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped her life. What she does, with clarity, beauty, and candor, is to document, often in their most extreme moments, the co...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)