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.

This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his political affiliations to Nazism. But it is more than that: it is also a study, by the leading sociologist in France today, of some of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse. Drawing on his distinctive...(展开全部)

Martn Rivas, one of the most important novels by Alberto Blest Gana constitutes a clear example of the best chilean narrative tradition. Over the background of a frustrated liberal rebellion, amidst the growing opportunism of the political ruling class, the author sketches a love and social climb story, told with remarkable tact, equilibrium and vivacity. Province and capital, ...(展开全部)

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believ...(展开全部)

布莱斯特·加纳（1830～1920）Blest Gana，Alberto，智利作家。生于圣地亚哥，不来斯特 加纳 卒于法国巴黎。父为定居智利的爱尔兰医生。他自幼喜爱文学。青年时期曾留学法国，回国后当过军事工程师、议员。1867 年出使英国 。1887年退休 ，长期侨居法国。

威廉•戈尔丁（William Golding，1911—1993），英国二十世纪最伟大的小说家之一，他的小说富含寓意，广泛地融入了古典文学，神话、基督教文化以及象征主义，一九八三年因其小说“具有清晰的现实主义叙述艺术以及神话的多样性与普遍性，揭示了当今世界的人性状况”而荣获诺贝尔文学奖；一九八八年获封爵士，二○○八年《泰晤士报》在“一九四五年以来最伟大的五十位英国作家”名单中将戈尔丁名列为第三位。

威廉•戈尔丁（William Golding，1911—1993），英国二十世纪最伟大的小说家之一，他的小说富含寓意，广泛地融入了古典文学，神话、基督教文化以及象征主义，一九八三年因其小说“具有清晰的现实主义叙述艺术以及神话的多样性与普遍性，揭示了当今世界的人性状况”而荣获诺贝尔文学奖；一九八八年获封爵士，二○○八年《泰晤士报》在“一九四五年以来最伟大的五十位英国作家”名单中将戈尔丁名列为第三位。