This is a collection of 13 original essays on Plutarch, a writer crucial for the understanding of classical Greece and Rome. Plutarch's writings, for a long time treated in a fragmentary way as a source for earlier periods, are now increasingly studied in their own right. The essays in this volume range over Plutarch's relations with his contemporaries and his engagement in phi...(展开全部)

编者：伯特斯坦（Leon Botstein，1946－)，美国指挥家，Bard学院校长，现任美国国家交响乐团和耶路撒冷交响乐团首席指挥兼艺术总监，Bard音乐节的艺术总监，欧洲中央大学董事长。 编者：杨燕迪（1963-），音乐学家、音乐评论家、音乐翻译家，现任上海音乐学院副院长、教授。 译者：张慧（1970-），女，青岛大学公共外语教学部教师，硕士，主要研究方向：语言学及翻译学。

编者：伯特斯坦（Leon Botstein，1946－)，美国指挥家，Bard学院校长，现任美国国家交响乐团和耶路撒冷交响乐团首席指挥兼艺术总监，Bard音乐节的艺术总监，欧洲中央大学董事长。 编者：杨燕迪（1963-），音乐学家、音乐评论家、音乐翻译家，现任上海音乐学院副院长、教授。 译者：张慧（1970-），女，青岛大学公共外语教学部教师，硕士，主要研究方向：语言学及翻译学。

This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and tex...(展开全部)

A vivid account of Marco Polo’s astounding, continent-spanning adventures. Aged seventeen, Marco Polo left his home in Venice on a continent-spanning adventure that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Imprisoned in Genoa five years later, he collaborated with Arthurian romance writer Rustichello of Pisa on a work they called The Description of the World. Their book recoun...(展开全部)

"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, ...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 罗伯特·K. 马西（Robert K. Massie），美国历史学家、作家、普利策奖得主、罗德学者。生于美国肯塔基州，曾在耶鲁大学攻读美国史，在牛津大学攻读欧洲史，1987—1991年间担任美国作家协会主席。其写作主要集中于对罗曼诺夫王朝及俄国皇室的研究，著有《通往权力之路：叶卡捷琳娜大帝》（Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman）、《尼古拉和亚历山德拉：对罗曼诺夫王朝覆灭的经典描述》（Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty）、《罗曼诺夫王朝：终章》（The Romanovs: The Final Chapter）等。 【译者简介】 孟嘉伦，作家、译者，爱好文史，著有《枭雄录》，...(展开全部)

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Robert K. Massie—also available are Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, crowned co-tsar at the age of ten. The acclaimed author of Catherine the Great...(展开全部)

"Enthralling . . . As fascinating as any novel and more so than most." The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bestseller by the author of DREADNOUGHT. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great, one of the most extraordinary rulers in history. Impetuous and stubborn, ...(展开全部)