尼可斯·卡赞扎基斯（1883－1957）是20世纪享有国际声誉的希腊作家，代表作有《自由与死亡》《基督的最后诱惑》《奥德修记现代续篇》和《希腊奇人佐尔巴》等。他的作品广为传颂，也引起了广泛的争议。 “希腊人”这个词，已经足以说明卡赞扎基一些不同于他人的个性魅力。他的作品被誉为 复活了荷马的精神，具有古代英雄史诗的气概。确实，很少有当代作家能够写出这样气势磅礴、充满酒神精神，又洋溢着对理性的追求的作品，能够用这样博大的胸怀去审视人类的诱惑和苦难，把奔放和压抑、偏执和对自由的追求结合得如此之好，如此残酷又如此优美。

杰克·特纳(Jack Turner)1968年生于澳大利亚墨尔本，在墨尔本大学荻古典文学艺术专业学士学位。后获罗兹奖学金在牛津大学学习，并以麦克阿瑟基金会初级研究员身份在那里从事研究，获牛津大学国际关系学博士学位。现与妻子海伦娜及儿子旅居瑞士。《香料传奇》是他的第一本著作。

A history of the trade that controlled the world and left an indelible impression on our taste buds; a sweeping story of avarice, ingenuity and exploration, spanning the globe and the centuries in its epic reconstruction of this magnificent obsession. Spices: for centuries the staple of cuisine, remedies and ritual, they have commanded the highest of prices. To this day, saffr...(展开全部)

A brilliant, original history of the spice trade—and the appetites that fueled it. It was in search of the fabled Spice Islands and their cloves that Magellan charted the first circumnavigation of the globe. Vasco da Gama sailed the dangerous waters around Africa to India on a quest for Christians—and spices. Columbus sought gold and pepper but found the New World. By the tim...(展开全部)

How did marriage, considered a religious duty in medieval Europe, become a venue for personal fulfillment in contemporary America? How did the notion of romantic love, a novelty in the Middle Ages, become a prerequisite for marriage today? And, if the original purpose of marriage was procreation, what exactly is the purpose of marriage for women now? Combining "a scholar's rigo...(展开全部)

Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, dra...(展开全部)

A community devoured by greed, cowardice, and fear. A man persecuted by the ghosts of his painful past. A young woman searching for happiness. In one eventful week, each will face questions of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path. Will they choose good or evil? </p> In the remote village of Viscos -- a village too small to be on any map, a place where time ...(展开全部)

凌道羲是個資優生，最最資優的那種。 家世、成績、相貌，樣樣皆好，完美，無懈可擊。 無人知道，彷彿是站在金字塔頂端俯視眾生的他， 關起門來後，便成了跪在祁東腳邊的一條狗。 一切源於高中時霸凌的一腳。 祁東這一腳，踩醒了凌道羲的受虐之心， 令他費盡心思接近祁東， 總算成功地在上大學後成了祁東的室友──以及狗。 人前是體育健將與優秀班長的室友關係， 人後則是嗜虐主人和他低賤的狗， 凌道羲原有的高傲自尊引起了祁東馴服他的興致， 祁東的強悍則更刺激了凌道羲骨子裡的臣服心理， 調教與被調教， 兩個人，不可自拔地沉陷其中……

"Tan is one of the prime storytellers writing fiction today." NEWSWEEK Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the past--including the terible truth even Helen does not know. ...(展开全部)

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife , shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journal...(展开全部)