Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.

Subtitled "A Novel of Many Manners, " Evelyn Waugh's notorious first novel lays waste the "heathen idol" of British sportsmanship, the cultured perfection of Oxford, and the inviolable honor codes of the English gentleman.

Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of HM prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh immediately caught the ear of the public with his account of an ingenu abroad in the razzmatazz of Twenties high society.

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune....(展开全部)

From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune....(展开全部)

约翰·朱利叶斯·诺里奇(John Julius Norwich)，出生于1929年，逝世于2018年，英国著名历史学家、游记作家。诺里奇爵士曾任世界文化遗产基金会联合主席，英国皇家文学学会、英国皇家地理学会和英国皇家古文物学会的会员，在1993年获得维多利亚十字勋章（CVO）。 他的作品包括《南方的诺曼人》（TheNormansintheSouth）和《阳光之下的王国》（The Kingdom in the Sun），集合在《西西里的诺曼王朝》（The Normans in Sicily）之中出版；《阿索斯圣山》（Mount Athos，与里尔斯比•西特韦尔合著）和《撒哈拉》（Sahara）等游记；以及《威尼斯史》（A History of Venice）等。

[美]爱德华•德瑞（Edward Drea），毕业于纽约州布法罗市凯尼休斯学院，曾在日本和越南服过兵役。后经学习，在日本东京上智大学获得国际关系学的文科硕士，并又于堪萨斯大学取得了日本现代史专业的博士学位。他曾任教于堪萨斯州利文沃思堡美国陆军指挥参谋学院和宾夕法尼亚州美国陆军战争学院。他还曾担任华盛顿特区美国陆军军事历史中心研究与分析部门的主管。他的其他著作包括《麦克阿瑟的超极机密：对日密码战 1942-1945》（MacArthur’s ULTRA：Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945）和《效忠天皇：日本陆军研究文集》(In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army)。