在线阅读本书 Book Description Spain. A land of eternal passion and unceasing bloodshed. From the vengeance of a pitiless tyrant, four women flee the sacred, once-safe walls of a convent: LUCIA, the proud survivor harboring a murderous secret from the savage clan wars of Sicily...GRACIELLA, the beauty still unpurged of guilt from one reckless, youthful sin...MEGAN, the orphan seeki...(展开全部)

The civilization of ancient Persia was among the most splendid, powerful and long lasting of the great historical cultures. But our knowledge of it is all too often confined to a few masterpieces of early Persian art and the Persians' role of Goliath to the Greeks' David. The Heritage of Persia is based on a firsthand study of the sources archaeological, documentary and linguis...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

若热•亚马多（1912—2001），巴西当代著名作家，才华横溢，勤奋多产，在巴西拥有最广泛的读者，作品长年畅销不衰。1931年发表处女作《狂欢节之国》，1933年因发表以可可种植园农民的苦难生活为题材的小说《可可》一举成名。1937年由于参加进步政治运动被捕入狱，他的书被认为颠覆政权，《狂欢节之国》、《可可》、《汗珠》、《儒比亚巴》、《死海》、《沙滩船长》等被当众焚烧。后流亡国外，1952年回国后专事写作，1958年推出《加布里埃拉》，首印两万册，几天内销售一空。1961年当选为巴西文学院院士，五年后获得诺贝尔文学奖提名。 若热•亚马多在近七十年的文学生涯中创作了三十多部长篇和短篇小说，以及诗歌、散文。其作品被译成四十九种文字，在五十五个国家出版。他在作品中反映了巴西社会生活的许多方面，创造了五百多个生动的人物形象，其中不少人物在巴西家喻户晓。他的作...(展开全部)

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.' Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important pr...(展开全部)

A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich: Julian Barnes’s first novel since his best-selling, Man Booker Prize–winning The Sense of an Ending. In 1936, Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will...(展开全部)

In 1936, Shostakovitch, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, executed on the spot), Shostakovitch reflects on his predicament, his personal history, his parents, various women and wives, his childre...(展开全部)

In three parts, Jameson presents the postmodern problem of Utopia, attempting to diagnose the cultural present and to open a perspective on the future of a world that is all but impossible to predict with any certainty -- "a telling of the future," as Jameson calls it, "with an imperfect deck."

In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. So begins Julian Barnes’s first novel since his Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending. A ...(展开全部)