That saying? Behind every famous man ...? From Mrs Midas to Queen Kong, from Elvis' twin sister to Pygmalion's bride, they're all here, in Carol Ann Duffy's inspired and inspirational collection, "The World's Wife". Witty and thought-provoking, this is a tongue-in-cheek, no-holds-barred look at the real movers and shakers across history, myth and legend. If you have ever wonder...(展开全部)

A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, ...(展开全部)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)

When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing. Twisted and deliciously chilling, Greer Hendricks and ...(展开全部)

"Be terrified. "" It's you I love, ""perfect man, ""Greek God, my own; ""but I know you'll go, "" betray me, stray""from home.""So better by far for ""me if you were stone."--from "Medusa" Stunningly original and haunting, the voices of Mrs. Midas, Queen Kong, and Frau Freud, to say nothing of the Devil's Wife herself, startle us with their wit, imagination, and incisiveness in...(展开全部)

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and ba...(展开全部)

谭恩美：著名美藉化裔女作家。1952年出生于美国加州奥克兰，曾就读医学院，后取得语言学硕士学位。她因处女作《喜福会》而一举成名，成为当代美国的畅销作家。著有长篇小说《灶神之妻》《灵感女孩》和为儿童创作的《月亮夫人》《中国暹罗猫》等，作品被译成20多种文字在世界上广为流传。

The Good Soldier is a masterpiece of twentieth-century fiction, an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are 'playing the game, in style. That ...(展开全部)

福特·马多克斯·福特（Ford Madox Ford, 1873—1939），英国小说家、诗人、评论家、编辑。他主编的杂志引领20世纪早期英语文学的发展，发表过乔伊斯、庞德、T.S.艾略特、D.H.劳伦斯、海明威等人的作品。《好兵》是福特的代表作，也是现代主义文学的杰作，与《尤利西斯》和《荒原》一同被视为具有突破性的实验作品。