Shaw radically reworks Ovid's tale with a feminist twist: while Henry Higgins successfully teaches Eliza Doolittle to speak and act like a duchess, she adamantly refuses to be his creation. This brilliantly witty exposure of the British class system will always entertain-first produced in 1914, it remains one of Shaw's most popular plays.

In Einstein in Love , Dennis Overbye has written the first profile of the great scientist to focus exclusively on his early adulthood, when his major discoveries were made. It reveals Einstein to be very much a young man of his time-draft dodger, self-styled bohemian, poet, violinist, and cocky, charismatic genius who left personal and professional chaos in his wake. Drawing up...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·奥弗比，美国知名科普作家，《纽约时报》科学编辑，《时代》、《纽约时代杂志》科学作家，毕业于美国麻省理工学院物理系。他的第一本书《环宇孤心》曾入围“美国国家书评人奖”和“《洛杉矶时报》科学图书奖”，并获得“美国物理科学学会作品奖”。本书是奥弗比的最新力作。

From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James’s lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her ...(展开全部)

Once the capital of the five-hundred-year Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1897) and the Taehan Empire (1897–1910), the city of Seoul posed unique challenges to urban reform and modernization under Japanese colonial rule in the early twentieth century, constrained by the labyrinthian built environment of the old Korean capital. Colonial authorities attempted to employ a strategy of "erasur...(展开全部)

张爱玲，1920年9月30日出生於上海，原名张煐。1922年迁居天津。1928年由天津搬回上海，读《红楼梦》和《三国演义》。1930年改名张爱玲，1939年考进香港大学，1941年太平洋战争爆发，投入文学创作。两年後，发表《倾城之恋》和《金锁记》等作品，并结识周瘦鹃、柯灵、苏青和胡兰成。1944与胡兰成结婚，1945年自编《倾城之恋》在上海公演；同年，抗战胜利。1947年与胡兰成离婚，1952年移居香港，1955年离港赴美，并拜访胡适。1956年结识剧作家赖雅，同年八月，在纽约与赖雅结婚。1967年赖雅去世，1973年定居洛杉矶；两年后，完成英译清代长篇小说《海上花列传》。1995年九月逝於洛杉矶公寓，享年七十四岁。

在线阅读本书 In Salthill-on-Hudson, a half-hour train ride from Manhattan, everyone is rich, beautiful, and -- though they look much younger -- middle-aged. But when Adam Berendt, a charismatic, mysterious sculptor, dies suddenly in a brash act of heroism, shock waves rock the town. But who was Adam Berendt? Was he in fact a hero, or someone more flawed and human?