The first published work of fiction by legendary author and poet Gertrude Stein, Three Lives is a collection of two short stories and a novella focusing on the bleak existence that faced immigrant and minority women in turn-of-the-century America. 　　Each impoverished woman must labor as a domestic worker to survive, and all three protagonists have their own tales of hardship. "...(展开全部)

[英]朱利安•费罗斯（Julian Fellowes） 1949年8月17日出生于埃及开罗，毕业于剑桥大学，英国著名作家、编剧、导演、演员、制片人。2010年被女王册封为“终身贵族”。 2002年朱利安•费罗斯凭借《高斯福庄园》获第74届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创剧本奖、美国作家协会、纽约影评人协会及全国影评人协会最佳剧本奖。 2011年朱利安•费罗斯担任编剧的英剧《唐顿庄园》，获第63届美国电视艾美奖最佳编剧等奖项，亦创下全球收视纪录，超过一亿人观看。

Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. He has but one concern: who should inherit his fortune... PAST IMPERFECT is the story of a quest. Damian Barker wishes to know if he has a living heir. By the time he married in his late thirties he was sterile (the result of adult...(展开全部)

""Damian Baxter was a friend of mine at Cambridge. We met around the time when I was doing the Season at the end of the Sixties. I introduced him to some of the girls. They took him up, and we ran about together in London for a while...." "Nearly forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter and would gladly forget their disastrous last encounter. But if it is pleasant to...(展开全部)

The Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120), a vast retrospective series of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen, have always been one of the most widely read of the works which survive from classical antiquity. They were written when Roman imperial power was reaching its height, and are sophisticated examples of a renaissance classicism - linguistic, literary, philosophi...(展开全部)

The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

Understanding the experiences of men in U.S. society Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, Men's Lives, 9th edition, reflects on the question "What does it mean to be a man in contemporary U.S. society?" Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader uses a social-constructionist view to examine how men construct masculinity within a social and ...(展开全部)

This textis intended as a broad introduction to the many types of inequality– economics, status, political power, sex and gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity– in U.S. society and in a global setting. Gender; Men; Masculinity; Work, Relationships; Sexuality. For anyone interested in understanding men and their roles in society.

From the author of The Last Mughal , an enlightening book that explores with remarkable compassion and expansive insight nine varieties of religious devotion in India today. In portraits of people we might otherwise never know William Dalrymple distills his twenty-five years of travel in India to explore the challenges faced by practitioners of traditional forms of faith in c...(展开全部)