In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, and#64257;red up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He wa...(展开全部)

约翰•威廉斯（John Williams，1922-1994） 美国作家、诗人、学者。辍过学，当过电台播音，从过军。退役后入大学就读并获博士学位，于1954-1985年间在母校丹佛大学教授大学英语及创意写作。曾编选《文艺复兴时期的英语诗歌》，也创作过两本诗集。一生只写了四部小说：《惟有黑夜》（1948）、《屠夫十字镇》（1960）、《斯通纳》（1965）、《奥古斯都》（1973，本书获得当年美国国家图书奖）。 对约翰•威廉斯的写作，英国作家朱利安•巴恩斯评论：“当我称之为‘绝佳’，我的意思是它们（《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》）已经超越了各自类型范围内的评价标准。”

In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek ''an original relation to nature,'' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes u...(展开全部)

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, and#64257;red up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature," drops out of Harvard and heads west. He wa...(展开全部)

约翰•威廉斯（John Williams，1922-1994） 美国作家、诗人、学者。辍过学，当过电台播音，从过军。退役后入大学就读并获博士学位，于1954-1985年间在母校丹佛大学教授大学英语及创意写作。曾编选《文艺复兴时期的英语诗歌》，也创作过两本诗集。一生只写了四部小说：《惟有黑夜》（1948）、《屠夫十字镇》（1960）、《斯通纳》（1965）、《奥古斯都》（1973，本书获得当年美国国家图书奖）。 对约翰•威廉斯的写作，英国作家朱利安•巴恩斯评论：“当我称之为‘绝佳’，我的意思是它们（《屠夫十字镇》《斯通纳》）已经超越了各自类型范围内的评价标准。”

In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America. It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek ''an original relation to nature,'' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes u...(展开全部)

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of The Days of Abandonment, The Lost Daughter is Elena Ferrante's most compelling and perceptive meditation on womanhood and motherhood yet. Leda, a middle-aged divorce, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpecte...(展开全部)

Spies, poison, and curses surround her…. Is there anyone she can trust? In The Kingmaker’s Daughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory presents a novel of conspiracy and a fight to the death for love and power at the court of Edward IV of England. The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the “Kingmaker,” Richard Nev...(展开全部)

'I have lost my father in battle, my sister to Elizabeth Woodville's spy, my brother-in-law to Elizabeth Woodville's executioner, my nephew to her poisoner, and now my son to her curse...' The gripping and ultimately tragic story of Anne Neville and her sister Isabel, the daughters of the Earl of Warwick, the most powerful magnate in England through the Cousins' Wars. In the ab...(展开全部)

Spies, poison, and curses surround her... Is there anyone she can trust? The Kingmaker's Daughter is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the "Kingmaker," Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to ...(展开全部)