艾莉森•威尔（Alison Weir），英国著名历史传记作家。目前生活、工作在英国萨里。著有一系列英国王室史著作，大多为优秀畅销历史著作。主要有《不列颠王室家族》、《玛丽，苏格兰女王》、《亨利八世》、《伊莎贝拉》等等。

艾莉森•威尔（Alison Weir），英国著名历史传记作家。目前生活、工作在英国萨里。著有一系列英国王室史著作，大多为优秀畅销历史著作。主要有《不列颠王室家族》、《玛丽，苏格兰女王》、《亨利八世》、《伊莎贝拉》等等。

Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one--not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating new book, acclaimed biographer Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fre...(展开全部)

From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that turns on the death of a vivid and particular woman, and becomes the occasion for a man's deeper examination of love, friendship, and biography This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, take...(展开全部)

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, "Elizabeth Costello" is, on the surface, the story of a womanas life as mother, sist...(展开全部)

In sixteenth-century Europe, two women came to hold all the power, against all the odds. They were Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici. One a Virgin Queen who ruled her kingdom alone, and the other a clandestine leader who used her children to shape the dynasties of Europe, much has been written about these iconic women. But nothing has been said of their complicated relationsh...(展开全部)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers ...(展开全部)