In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism. Examining Frank through the eyes of both ...(展开全部)

The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he...(展开全部)

In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism. Examining Frank through the eyes of both ...(展开全部)

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, F...(展开全部)

作者简介：[英]克拉克·约翰·威利斯（1833—1910），英国历史学家、剑桥大学研究员。1833年6月24日出生于剑桥，是该大学解剖学教授威廉·克拉克博士的儿子，也是罗伯特·威利斯教授的侄子。他在剑桥伊顿和三一学院（1856年，学士），1858年成为研究员。1866—1891年任剑桥动物博物馆馆长，1891—1910年任剑桥大学注册馆长。1875年，威利斯教授将《剑桥大学建筑史》的未完成手稿遗赠给克拉克，克拉克完成了该书的出版工作，并监督了该书的出版。他于1910年10月10日在剑桥去世。 译者简介： 黄瑶，英国威斯敏斯特大学媒体管理学硕士，曾赴牛津大学埃克塞特学院进修英国古典文学，译有《早知今日》《从天而落》《书信的历史》等文学作品。曾经游历欧亚17个国家，译有法国、西班牙、泰国等国的导游类书籍。

An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century

威廉·布莱兹（William Blades，1824—1890），英国著名的印刷商、藏书家、书目学家，热衷于收藏旧书与版画。出于对印刷的兴趣，布莱兹对英国印刷出版界名人卡克斯顿出版的作品颇有研究，对英国早期的印刷历史也了如指掌。代表作有《书之大敌》《威廉·卡克斯顿的生平与印刷术》等。

In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian ’s claim that “each of his books seems entirely different from that which preceded it.” The Thousand Autumns of Jac...(展开全部)

Volume 2 of 3-volume set containing complete English text of all 13 books of the "Elements" plus critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition. Covers textual and linguistic matters; mathematical analyses of Euclid's ideas; classical, medieval, Renaissance and modern commentators; refutations, supports, extrapolations, reinterpretations and historical notes. ...(展开全部)

The author of 13 1and#8260; 2 Lives of Captain Bluebear transports us to a magical world. Optimus Yarnspinner, finds himself marooned in the subterranean world of Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, where reading can be dangerous, where ruthless Bookhunters fight to the death. "From the Hardcover edition."