Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état he end...(展开全部)

Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives. In the space of just twenty years, from October 1795 when as a young artillery captain he cleared the streets of Paris of insurrectionists, to his final defeat at the (horribly mismanaged) battle of Waterloo in June 1815, Napoleon transformed France and Europe. After seizing power in a coup d'état he end...(展开全部)

There can be few more mesmerizing historical narratives than the story of how the confident monarchy left by Louis XIV in 1715 became the discredited failure toppled by revolution in 1789. This brilliant new book is the first in forty years to describe the whole period, from the last days of the “Sun King” to the wars of Napoleon. In a groundbreaking work of scholarsh...(展开全部)

科林·琼斯，英国历史学家、法国史专家，曾任英国皇家历史学会主席。毕业于牛津大学，现于伦敦大学任教，曾在斯坦福大学、芝加哥大学、普林斯顿大学、巴黎八大、法兰西公学院等著名高校及科研机构任访问学者。著有《剑桥插图法国史》《凡尔赛宫》《微笑革命》《伟大民族》等十余部著作。2014年，因其在历史研究和高等教育领域的杰出贡献荣获大英帝国勋章。

There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding. Colin Jone...(展开全部)

保罗·约翰逊（Paul Johnson）：英国资深记者、历史学家、作家，美国《时代周刊》（Time ）评选的2000年“百大影响力人物”之一。著有多部畅销书，其中《摩登时代》（Modern Times ）、《美国人的历史》（A History of the American People ）、《基督教的历史》（The History of Christianity ）等已被翻译成多国语言；长期为《纽约时报》（The New York Times ）、《华尔街日报》（The WallStreet Journal ）、《旁观者》（The Spectator ）等媒体撰写专栏。现居伦敦。

保罗·约翰逊（Paul Johnson）：英国资深记者、历史学家、作家，美国《时代周刊》（Time ）评选的2000年“百大影响力人物”之一。著有多部畅销书，其中《摩登时代》（Modern Times ）、《美国人的历史》（A History of the American People ）、《基督教的历史》（The History of Christianity ）等已被翻译成多国语言；长期为《纽约时报》（The New York Times ）、《华尔街日报》（The WallStreet Journal ）、《旁观者》（The Spectator ）等媒体撰写专栏。现居伦敦。

[美]克莉丝汀·汉娜 1960年出生于美国南加州，曾在广告公司工作，也当过律师。可她心中始终记得母亲说过：“你将来注定要当作家的。”事实证明母亲的话永远是正确的。 现在，克里斯汀·汉娜已经是23本畅销书的作者，作品畅销全球50个国家和地区，全系列销量超过2000万册，被誉为美国当代小说天后。

F.R. Leavis was born in 1895 in Cambridge, where he would live and teach for most of the rest of his life. He volunteered as a stretcher-bearer in the First World War, and was badly gassed on the Western Front. Appointed Director of Studies in English at Downing College, Cambridge, in 1930, he remained there for the next thirty years, often at odds with the University establish...(展开全部)

弗•司各特•菲茨拉德(F.Scott Fitzgerald ，1896——1940)是二十世纪美国著名作家,"迷惘一代"的代表作家,短暂一生中只写有为数不多的几部作品，《了不起的盖茨比》是作家最具代表性的作品。 Book Description The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles. This novel is a summary of the "roaring twenties", ...(展开全部)