The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon "Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-Newark Star Ledger "Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography."-Chicago Sun Times "This is a fun book. How could it not be? Watts aims to give a full account of the man, ...(展开全部)

The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon "Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-Newark Star Ledger "Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography."-Chicago Sun Times "This is a fun book. How could it not be? Watts aims to give a full account of the man, ...(展开全部)

When Jenny was published in 1911, Undset found herself called immoral — “this is a side of the free, artistic life that the vast majority of citizens would rather not know.” The novel tells the story of Jenny Winge, a talented Norwegian painter who goes to Rome to seek artistic inspiration but ultimately betrays her own ambitions and ideals. After falling into an affair wit...(展开全部)

本著作并不是特供给那些“为了看到赤裸的玩伴女郎以及泛滥的性而买《花花公子》的人”。严肃地说，这是一本关于整个20世纪美国人的性态度史，以及著名的老花花公子赫夫纳如何成就了20世纪最臭名昭著的杂志的传奇故事。 本书详细描绘了在20世纪的后50年里，《花花公子》通过怎样的手段而成为全球最流行也最具影响力的杂志，它一流的人体艺术、充满挑战性的人体的摄影、由性引导的漫画和那些曾改变美国人的玩伴女郎的杂志封面，是如何改变整个美国主流性观念的。 书中珍藏的图片揭密了《花花公子》何以如此臭名昭著，在美国20世纪那个墨守成规的压抑时代，《花花公子》如何用它老练戏谑的语言为人们的生活观念带来颠覆性的革命。 本书详细而又深刻地解读《花花公子》哲学，事实上，杂志的每一页中都浸满了这样的哲学理念——“活着不止是为受难，还要享乐才是最重要的。”

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, THE YEARS is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising, and news headlines. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for ever-proliferating objects are given voice here. The voi...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters， a large middle-class London family， from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endures and remembers heart-break， loss， radical change and stifling conformity， marriage and regret. Written in 1937， this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's nov...(展开全部)

弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫（Virginia Woolf，1882—1941），英国女作家，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义文学的先锋。第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物，是布卢姆茨伯里派的成员之一。最知名的小说包括《达洛维太太》、《到灯塔去》、《雅各的房间》等。 吴尔夫革新了英语语言，在小说中尝试意识流的写作方法，试图描绘在人们心底里的潜意识。她在文学上的成就和创造性至今仍然产生很大的影响。

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, THE YEARS is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising, and news headlines. Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for ever-proliferating objects are given voice here. The voi...(展开全部)