The year is 1857. In Krishnapur, the British community carries on its serene existence, complacently ignoring the rumours of trouble among the native troops elsewhere in Hindustan. Life is dull, but the trappings of Civilisation must be earnestly preserved. Only the Collector, Mr Hopkins, senses danger. When the sepoys in the nearby cantonment rise in bloody revolt, the Britis...(展开全部)

The year is 1857. In Krishnapur, the British community carries on its serene existence, complacently ignoring the rumours of trouble among the native troops elsewhere in Hindustan. Life is dull, but the trappings of Civilisation must be earnestly preserved. Only the Collector, Mr Hopkins, senses danger. When the sepoys in the nearby cantonment rise in bloody revolt, the Britis...(展开全部)

A special limited edition of nine classic novels produced to coincide with Weidenfeld & Nicolson's 60th anniversary. Designed by the award-winning advertising agency Fallon with special endpapers commissioned from ground-breaking artists. The endpapers for this title have been designed by Mikko Rantanen. In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mut...(展开全部)

卡伊斯•阿克巴尔•奥马尔在喀布尔经营家族的地毯生意，同时也写书。2007年，他成为科罗拉多大学的访问学者。他曾在布兰代斯大学学习商业，目前在波士顿大学攻读创意写作硕士学位。奥马尔关于阿富汗地毯的主题演讲在阿富汗、欧洲和美国相继开展。他与斯蒂芬•兰德里根合著了《莎士比亚在喀布尔》。

卡伊斯•阿克巴尔•奥马尔在喀布尔经营家族的地毯生意，同时也写书。2007年，他成为科罗拉多大学的访问学者。他曾在布兰代斯大学学习商业，目前在波士顿大学攻读创意写作硕士学位。奥马尔关于阿富汗地毯的主题演讲在阿富汗、欧洲和美国相继开展。他与斯蒂芬•兰德里根合著了《莎士比亚在喀布尔》。

Cecil Scott "C.S." Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 - 2 April 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of naval warfare. His most notable works were the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic era, and "The African Queen" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston). His novels "A Shi...(展开全部)

Two stunning, Booker Prize-winning historical novels that vividly chronicle the crumbling edges of the British Empire in India and Ireland--in one Contemporary Classics hardcover. Inspired by historical events, The Siege of Krishnapur is the mesmerizing tale of a British outpost, under siege during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, whose residents find their smug assumptions of m...(展开全部)

From Ismail Kadare, winner of the inaugural Man Booker International Prize -a novelist in the class of Coetzee, Pamuk, Marquez, and Rushdie-the stunning new translation of one of his major works. In the early fifteenth century, as winter falls away, the people of Albania know that their fate is sealed. They have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire, and war is now inevi...(展开全部)