The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation’s political future. It offers a characterization of the present, a blueprint of the future, and the image of the heroes needed to get there. With the standing it gained during its meteoric rise, the political novel helped elev...(展开全部)

The political novel, which enjoyed a steep yet short rise to international renown between the 1830s and the 1910s, is primarily concerned with the nation’s political future. It offers a characterization of the present, a blueprint of the future, and the image of the heroes needed to get there. With the standing it gained during its meteoric rise, the political novel helped elev...(展开全部)

"Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me: dragging myself across the field, fingers clutching dirt, my legs twisted behind. The arid moonscape of wheatgrass and timothy. That dilapidated house in the distance, looming up like a secret that won’t stay hidden." To Christina Olson, the entire world was her ...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle ...(展开全部)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three ...(展开全部)

From the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning The Harmony Silk Factory comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening time and place. Map of the Invisible World is the masterly, psychologically rich tale of three lives indelibly marked by the past—their own and Indonesia's. Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three ...(展开全部)

毕嘉珍（Maggie Bickford），美国布朗（Brown）大学艺术与建筑史系教授，主要致力于宋元时期中国画的研究。主要著作有Ink Plum：The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre，剑桥大学出版社，1996年（获美国亚洲研究学会列文森图书奖）；Bones of Jade，Soul of Ice，the Flowering Plumin Chinese Art，耶鲁大学艺术馆，1985年（获美国博物馆协会优异奖）；与伊沛霞（Patricia Buckley Ebrey）合编EmperorHuizongandLateNorthernSongChina：thePoliticsofCultureandtheCultureofPolitics，哈佛大学出版社，2006年。

毕嘉珍（Maggie Bickford），美国布朗（Brown）大学艺术与建筑史系教授，主要致力于宋元时期中国画的研究。主要著作有Ink Plum：The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre，剑桥大学出版社，1996年（获美国亚洲研究学会列文森图书奖）；Bones of Jade，Soul of Ice，the Flowering Plumin Chinese Art，耶鲁大学艺术馆，1985年（获美国博物馆协会优异奖）；与伊沛霞（Patricia Buckley Ebrey）合编EmperorHuizongandLateNorthernSongChina：thePoliticsofCultureandtheCultureofPolitics，哈佛大学出版社，2006年。

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(展开全部)

Marcel Gauchet has launched one of the most ambitious and controversial works of speculative history recently to appear, based on the contention that Christianity is 'the religion of the end of religion'. In "The Disenchantment of the World", Gauchet reinterprets the development of the modern west, with all its political and psychological complexities, in terms of mankind's cha...(展开全部)