Edvard Radzinsky is justly famous as both a biographer and a dramatist, and he brings both skills to bear in this vivid, page-turning, rich portrait of one of the greatest of all Romanovs. Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln -- he freed the serfs, promised a new, more liberal state for everyone, yet was brought down by a determined group of terrorist anarchists who tried to kill ...(展开全部)

Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but the hunt grows more dangerous, until it's no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kuluma...(展开全部)

米亚·科托（Mia Couto）,莫桑比克诗人、小说家，当今非洲葡萄牙语文学的中坚力量。十四岁开始在报刊发表诗歌，已出版作品三十多部，译成二十三种语言，长篇小说处女作《梦游之地》入选“20世纪最伟大的12部非洲小说”，2013年获葡语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖，与萨拉马戈 同等殊荣；2014年击败村上春树，获得有“美国诺贝尔文学奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖；2015年凭《耶稣撒冷》入围布克国际文学奖，2017年，最新作品《母狮的忏悔》入选都柏林文学奖短名单，被认为是近年来诺贝尔奖最有力竞争者。他开创性地将葡萄牙语与莫桑比克民族性相融合，使非洲文学焕发出前所未有的新生机。

Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but the hunt grows more dangerous, until it's no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kuluma...(展开全部)

米亚·科托（Mia Couto）,莫桑比克诗人、小说家，当今非洲葡萄牙语文学的中坚力量。十四岁开始在报刊发表诗歌，已出版作品三十多部，译成二十三种语言，长篇小说处女作《梦游之地》入选“20世纪最伟大的12部非洲小说”，2013年获葡语文学最高奖项卡蒙斯文学奖，与萨拉马戈 同等殊荣；2014年击败村上春树，获得有“美国诺贝尔文学奖”之称的纽斯塔特国际文学奖；2015年凭《耶稣撒冷》入围布克国际文学奖，2017年，最新作品《母狮的忏悔》入选都柏林文学奖短名单，被认为是近年来诺贝尔奖最有力竞争者。他开创性地将葡萄牙语与莫桑比克民族性相融合，使非洲文学焕发出前所未有的新生机。

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma. Curtius' History offers a great deal of information unobtainable from other sou...(展开全部)

Quintus Curtius was apparently a rhetorician who lived in the first century of the Roman empire and, early in the reign of Claudius (41-54 CE), wrote a history of Alexander the Great in 10 books in clear and picturesque style for Latin readers. The first two books have not survived--our narrative begins with events in 333 BCE--and there is material missing from books V, VI, and...(展开全部)

The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma. Curtius' History offers a great deal of information unobtainable from other sou...(展开全部)