"New York Times" bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties. Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, h...(展开全部)

In this great drama, Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival - first agains...(展开全部)

Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. But in this age of magnificent truumph and barbaric cruelty, internal rebellion threatens the stability and survival of the mighty Republic. And an aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh co...(展开全部)

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. AS they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the s...(展开全部)

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits--an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies--who one day take up residence in a tree house. AS they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the s...(展开全部)

Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC. Special attention is paid to violent sports of boxing, wrestling and pancration. We meet the great athletes of the past and discove...(展开全部)

Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC. Special attention is paid to violent sports of boxing, wrestling and pancration. We meet the great athletes of the past and discove...(展开全部)

Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and at...(展开全部)

沃尔夫冈·克彭（Wolfgang Koeppen，1906—1996） 德国作家，战后德国文坛传奇。早年做过记者、演员、戏剧顾问、报刊编辑，20世纪30年代开始文学创作，著有长篇小说《伤心情事》等。1951年起发表的“战后三部曲”——《草中鸽》《温室》《死于罗马》以独特的现代主义风格完整呈现了战后德国的社会政治氛围，轰动当时的德语文坛，被公认为战后德语文学经典，奠定了克彭的大师地位。德国著名作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主君特·格拉斯称其为“当代德国最伟大的小说家”。后期著有一些游记以及回忆录《青春》。1962年荣获德语文学最高奖项“毕希纳奖”。 【译者简介】 庄亦男 1985年出生于上海，2008年毕业于复旦大学德语系，后留学德国耶拿大学，2011年取得硕士学位，同年开始在同济大学留德预备部任教。主要翻译作品有伊尔泽·艾兴格《更大的希望》、约瑟夫·罗特《造反...(展开全部)

Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a be autifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, a...(展开全部)