The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun - a rapid rise from lowly shipping clerk to millionaire industrialist. Yet behind Glover's astonishing su...(展开全部)

The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II. From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years ...(展开全部)

Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land , Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we’ve all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-...(展开全部)

米沃什，一九一一年生于立陶宛，二战时参加了华沙的抵抗纳粹的运动，战后作为波兰文化专员在纽约、华盛顿和巴黎工作。一九五一年出走巴黎，一九六〇年到美国加州大学伯克利分校任教，是美国人文艺术学院会员之一。一九八〇年获诺贝尔文学奖。二〇〇四年去世。米沃什的诗歌注重内容和感受，广阔而深邃地映射了二十世纪东欧、西欧和美国的动荡历史和命运。其主要著作除了诗歌外，还有《乌尔罗地》《路边狗》《被禁锢的头脑》等随笔和思想性著作，被视为二十世纪东欧Z重要的思想家之一。

This major prose work, originally published in English in 1985, is both a moving spiritual self-portrait and an unflinching inquiry into the genesis of our modern afflictions. A man who was raised a Catholic in rural Lithuania, lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland, and emerged, first in Europe and then in America, as one of our most important men of letters, speaks here ...(展开全部)

Across the Ravaged Land is the third and final volume in Nick Brandt's trilogy of books documenting the disappearing natural world and animals of East Africa. The book's title, combined with the titles of Brandt's first two books, captures the change he has witnessed: "On this Earth, a shadow falls across the ravaged land." The book offers a darker vision of the world that Bran...(展开全部)

DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hope...(展开全部)

简介：他们来自精神病院，性格各异，但都因自身血脉受到歧视。在那天，一个家喻户晓但有着神秘气息的组织找到他们，从此，他们走上了人生中的隐藏选项…

Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today. In Ill Fares The Land , Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we’ve all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-...(展开全部)