The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exi...(展开全部)

The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exi...(展开全部)

Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839–45. Textual notes illuminate the novel’s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wea...(展开全部)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world--a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisone...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown—and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart. With her trademark spare, crystalline prose—a voice infused with “intimate, fragile, desperate humanness”...(展开全部)

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Allende's latest novel introduces yet another unforgettable woman--a slave and concubine determined to claim her own destiny against impossible odds.

For many, the Mediterranean conjures tranquil images – whether it’s the warm weather and good food of Italy’s coastline, or the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul; gateway between West and East. But as Ernle Bradford details, the Mediterranean, while geologically young, is home to a long and bloody history, it is a sea that has witnessed many an empire rise and fall. From its origin...(展开全部)

A compulsively readable literary masterpiece, A Reunion of Ghosts is the shared confessional of three sisters who have decided to kill themselves at the end of the 20th century, honoring the dark legacy that has haunted their extraordinary family for decades How do three sisters write a single suicide note? In the waning days of 1999, the Alter sisters—Lady, Vee, and Delph—fina...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 厄恩利·布拉德福德（Ernle Bradford，1922—1986）是著名的英国历史学家，专精地中海和海军方面主题。布拉德福德曾是一名水手，扬帆泛舟于地中海上近30年。第二次世界大战期间在皇家海军服役，后以驱逐舰副舰长的身份退役。他在马耳他寓居多年，供职于BBC，还是一名杂志编辑。著有《大围攻：马耳他1565》（The Great Siege: Malta 1565）、《克里斯托弗·哥伦布》（Christopher Columbus）、《汉尼拔》（Hannibal）、《尤利乌斯·凯撒：权力的追逐》（Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power）等书。 【译者简介】 杨春景，清华大学法学博士，主要关注领域为国际法、国际关系史和国际贸易，译有《建筑涌现：自然和文明形态之进化》、《次终极追问：科学与宗教的纠葛》等著...(展开全部)

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra—spectacularly audacious, violent, vengeful, lustful, and instantly compelling—and her children. “I have been acquainted with the smell of death.” So begins Clytemnestra’s tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband ...(展开全部)