In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag , acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control o...(展开全部)

In the long-awaited follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag , acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union to its surprise and delight found itself in control o...(展开全部)

From Anne Applebaum, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, comes a major new work of historical and moral reckoning: the story of life behind the Iron Curtain. Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead, they found themselves subjected to a tyranny that was in many ways as ...(展开全部)

Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will be his last.

Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will be his last.

特德•休斯（1930—1998），英国著名作家，20世纪最重要的诗人之一。他出生于英国一个偏远而荒凉的小镇米索尔姆洛伊德，那里质朴、原始的高沼地风景，在他心中留下了抹不去的印迹。他一生出版过九十多部作品，荣获无数国际荣誉，包括哈珀出版奖、毛姆奖等。1977年，他被授予帝国荣誉勋章。1984年，他被评为桂冠诗人。1998年，他被授予功绩勋章。在创作后期，他只为孩子执笔创作。其中，《铁巨人》《铁巨人和他的朋友》是两部经典的寓言小说，被评为“最伟大的现代童话故事之一”。《很久很久以前》是一部动物在世界之初寻求自我的童话作品集。休斯这些为自己孩子创作的儿童文学作品，以悠远的意境和敏锐的洞察力，走进了孩子的内心世界，为孩子营造了一座充满天马行空想象力的城堡。