Book Description Winner of the Pulizer Prize for Fiction The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an American family's traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons' pre-eminence as society's elite is threatened -- not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneur -- but from its own arrogance...(展开全部)

The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his Grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so Young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seed his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's Journey Dickens created many vividly realiz...(展开全部)

The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his Grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so Young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seed his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's Journey Dickens created many vividly realiz...(展开全部)

There are books that enlarge the mind, there are books that enrich the soul, but rarely comes a book so beautifully-written and profound that it manages to do both -- ELIF SHAFAK, author of The Island of Missing Trees The most daring history book of the year ... told in the present tense with all the dash and flair of a novel. The research is faultless: we are immersed ... it b...(展开全部)

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du Tilh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the noted historian who served as a consultant for the film, adds new dimensions to this famous legend.

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du Tilh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the noted historian who served as a consultant for the film, adds new dimensions to this famous legend.

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The semiautobiographical "Martin Eden" is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco, this is the story of Martin Eden, an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame. London, dissatisfied with the rewards of his own success, intended Martin Eden as an attack on individualism and ...(展开全部)

This Martin Parr retrospective is rich in the wit and colour that Parr's work is best known for, but also offers the first serious assessment of the career of this major contemporary photographer. Parr combines an urge to document with a bemusement about social behaviour. Author Val Williams, a distinguished writer and curator, considers his better known later work in the conte...(展开全部)