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)

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the constructi...(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)

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)

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in "Hyperion,"Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secretsthey contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever bethe same.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in "Hyperion,"Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secretsthey contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever bethe same.

Yet that might and that greatness were reduced to a mere show before his long reign terminated; and the Moghul Empire resembled -- to use a familiar image -- one of those Etruscan corpses which, though crowned and armed, are destined to crumble at the breath of heaven or at the touch of human hands. And still more did it resemble some splendid palace.

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作者： 唐纳德•卡根（Donald Kagan），耶鲁大学史特林讲席荣休教授，美国国家人文奖章获得者，曾任耶鲁学院院长。卡根教授是西方古典学界修昔底德学与伯罗奔尼撒战争研究方面的泰斗，著有“伯罗奔尼撒战争史论”四卷（《伯罗奔尼撒战争的爆发》《阿奇达慕斯战争》《尼基阿斯和约与西西里远征》《雅典帝国的覆亡》），以及《论战争之源起与和平之存续》《伟大的对话：从荷马到波里比乌斯的古希腊政治思想史》《雅典的伯利克里与民主的诞生》《修昔底德：再造历史》等。同时，卡根教授也是美国外交政策的积极批评者，是罗伯特•卡根等人所创立的新保守主义智库“新美国世纪计划”成立宣言的最早签署人之一，并著有《当美利坚沉睡》，他的研究、教学、评论对美国对外政策产生了深刻影响。 译者： 李隽旸，中国社会科学院世界经济与政治研究所助理研究员， 毕业于中国人民大学，获得法学博士学位，研究方...(展开全部)

Yet that might and that greatness were reduced to a mere show before his long reign terminated; and the Moghul Empire resembled -- to use a familiar image -- one of those Etruscan corpses which, though crowned and armed, are destined to crumble at the breath of heaven or at the touch of human hands. And still more did it resemble some splendid palace.