The Hangman of Paris is set in France around the time of the Revolution and centers on Charles-Henri de Sanson, the country's most famous hangman. Born into a family of executioners, young Sanson was not given a choice. He wantd to study medicine and learn how to cure people, but his family demanded that he follow in his father's foosteps—killng, not healing. Sanson becomes a v...(展开全部)

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the 'Final Solution', Heydrich played a central role in...(展开全部)

Part of Emile Zola’s multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga, The Belly of Paris is the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil’s Island. Returning to his native Paris, Florent finds a city he barely recognizes, with its working classes displaced to make way for broad boulevards and bourgeois flats. Living with his brother’s family in th...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 罗斯·金(Ross King，1962—)，加拿大学者、畅销书作家，长期在欧洲和北美讲学。著有《莱昂纳多和最后的晚餐》、《米开朗琪罗与教皇的天花板》、《布鲁内莱斯基的穹顶》（《圆顶的故事》）、《帕里斯的裁判》、《马基雅维利：权力的哲学家》及两本小说《藏书票》和《多米诺》。 【译者简介】 冯璇，北京外国语大学英语学院毕业，曾在出版社从事版权工作，现在专门从事翻译工作，已经翻译出版了《郁金香热》、《美第奇家族的兴衰》、《安第斯山脉的生与死》、《印加帝国的末日》、《布鲁内莱斯基的穹顶》、《皮毛、财富和帝国》、《利维坦：美国捕鲸史》等作品。

“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an un...(展开全部)

“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an un...(展开全部)

In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from...(展开全部)

In an original and evocative journey through modern Paris from the mid-eighteenth century to World War II, Patrice Higonnet offers a delightful cultural portrait of a multifaceted, continually changing city. He explores Paris as the capital of revolution, science, empire, literature, and art, describing such incarnations as Belle Epoque Paris, the Commune, the surrealists' city...(展开全部)

保罗·查特考，前美联社驻外记者，目前为自由撰稿人，栏目作家。他绝大部分时间都在云游天下，撰写知名艺术家、梦想家和商界先驱的故事。他的许多著作包括为法国男影星杰拉尔·德帕尔迪约立传的《德帕尔迪约》；美国葡萄酒业传奇人物罗伯特·蒙大维的回忆录《收获快乐人生》；讲述改变全球银行业、商业及消费者生活的维萨卡的故事《维萨：创意的力量》。 查特考居住在一座于19世纪80年代建成、俯瞰纳帕谷的农场住宅中。他的两个儿子贾斯汀和伊森都是国际教育工作者，热爱旅游、美食以及拥有非凡心灵的流浪狗。

"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be...(展开全部)