Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scientific and medical discovery which defined the era, The Essex Serpent has at its heart the story of two extraordinary people who fall for each other, but not in the usual way. They are Cora Seaborne and Will Ransome. Cora is a well-to-do London widow who moves to the Essex parish of ...(展开全部)

莎拉·佩里 英国作家，1979年出生于埃塞克斯。她拥有英国皇家霍洛威学院创意写作博士学位，除了小说写作，也为《卫报》和《金融时报》撰写评论。2016年，莎拉在布拉格被联合国教科文组织授予“文学之都驻地作家”称号。 《埃塞克斯之蛇》是她的第二部作品，书写了关于生命、爱情和信仰之间的隐秘碰撞，是一部充满智慧与波动的小说。这本书获得了多个文学奖项，包括2016年水石年度图书、2017年英国国家图书奖，并入围2017年科斯塔小说奖、2017年英国女性小说奖和2018年都柏林文学奖长名单。由小说改编的同名电视剧已经上映。

羊眼鳥喙、長著一對飛翼，「艾塞克斯之蛇」再度現蹤，是惡兆還是天啟…… 十九世紀末，一個迷信與科學交織的年代，經濟和工業的發達拉大了貧富差距，達爾文的學說引發了信仰危機，外科醫學手術剛有創新革命，階級隔閡仍持續加深。 年輕寡婦珂拉擺脫了不幸的家暴婚姻，帶著保姆和兒子搬離倫敦，來到風光明媚的艾塞克斯郡附近村落。她得以脫掉緊身束衣，追求自己的人生，循著偶像古生物學家瑪麗‧安寧的腳步，一頭栽進熱愛的生物學和考古學之中。 當地盛傳有古老怪物「艾塞克斯之蛇」出沒，相傳這隻怪物1669年當時曾經肆虐黑水河畔，而後突然消失，如今因為一場八年前的地震，彷彿從水底被釋放。關於「牠」的種種傳聞不亞於尼斯湖水怪。珂拉堅信「艾塞克斯之蛇」是某種尚未被發現的古生物，執意解開這個傳說之謎，然而當地的教區牧師威廉則認為這只是老百姓的迷信作祟。 欲望與信念在沼澤裡交融，但真正的奇蹟是...(展开全部)

The story of a European woman's self-annihilating plunge into the intrigues, passions, and pagan rituals of Mexico. Lawrence's mesmerizing and unsettling 1926 novel is his great work of the political imagination.

A Fast-Paced Follow-up to the BestsellingSuspense Elisha's Bones!Just three years after the recovery of Elisha's bones, Dr. Jack Hawthorne has given up teaching and resumed the practice of archaeology

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleb...(展开全部)

The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the sinking of the Titanic was in the twentieth. In 1819, the Essex left Nantucket for the South Pacific with twenty crew members aboard. In the middle of the South Pacific the ship was rammed and sunk by an angry sperm whale. The crew drifted for more than ninety days in three tiny whaleb...(展开全部)

One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes, Strachey portrays the Queen's and the Ear...(展开全部)

Named for two primary motifs in Buddhist art, the sacred bodhi tree and the protective snake, Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India is the first publication to foreground devotional works produced in the Deccan from 200 BCE to 400 CE. Unlike traditional narratives, which focus on northern India (where the Buddha was born, taught, and died), this groundbreaking book presen...(展开全部)

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