Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to p...(展开全部)

Richard Wagner's vast Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle comprises four full-length operas (Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung) and is arguably the most extraordinary achievement in the history of opera. His own libretto to the operas, translated by Andrew Porter, is an intricate system of metric patterns, imaginative metaphors and alliteration, combining to p...(展开全部)

罗杰·斯克鲁顿，作家、哲学家、英国国家学术院和英国皇家文学学会研究员，在伦敦大学、牛津大学、波士顿大学、圣安德鲁斯大学等知名学府拥有职位。他的作品涵盖了艺术、建筑、音乐、美学等诸多领域。他的作品包括如今已成为经典的《现代哲学简史》（1981）、《音乐美学》（1997）、《至死不渝的心:瓦格纳<特里斯坦与伊索尔德>中的性和神圣感》(2004)以及《傻瓜、骗子和煽动者》（2015年再版）。

罗杰·斯克鲁顿，作家、哲学家、英国国家学术院和英国皇家文学学会研究员，在伦敦大学、牛津大学、波士顿大学、圣安德鲁斯大学等知名学府拥有职位。他的作品涵盖了艺术、建筑、音乐、美学等诸多领域。他的作品包括如今已成为经典的《现代哲学简史》（1981）、《音乐美学》（1997）、《至死不渝的心:瓦格纳<特里斯坦与伊索尔德>中的性和神圣感》(2004)以及《傻瓜、骗子和煽动者》（2015年再版）。

帕诺威奇是美国南方一名土生土长的佐治亚人，他的两部短篇小说《假若我终有一日能下山》和《下山》曾获得2013年“惊奇奖”提名（Spinetingler Prize)。《公牛山》是该系列的第一部长篇小说。

From the Giller Prize–winning author of Fifteen Dogs, the final installment in the massively ambitious Quincunx by one of Canada’s literary giants “Love comes from uncertainty! In fact, love is uncertainty’s greatest gift!” This is the message at the heart of Ring, André Alexis’s last installment of the Quincunx, a sequence of five novels that each borrow from a very different ...(展开全部)

From the Giller Prize–winning author of Fifteen Dogs, the final installment in the massively ambitious Quincunx by one of Canada’s literary giants “Love comes from uncertainty! In fact, love is uncertainty’s greatest gift!” This is the message at the heart of Ring, André Alexis’s last installment of the Quincunx, a sequence of five novels that each borrow from a very different ...(展开全部)

Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly -- until a chance conversation rev...(展开全部)

paperback edition of Anatoly M. Khazanov's famous comparative study of pastoral nomadism. Hailed by reviewers as "majestic and magisterial," Nomads and the Outside World was first published in English in 1984. With the author's new introduction and an updated bibliography, this classic is now available in an edition accessible to students.

'I've always wanted to be a Star Hunter. But I don't want to be the kind that looks for old stars that have already been burning for millions of years. I want to find the brand new ones - the ones that have only just been born and are searching for the people they've left behind...'Following the disappearance of her mum, 10-year-old Aniyah suddenly finds herself living in foste...(展开全部)