'If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent it really as it was.' In the last of his major writings, Samuel Johnson looked back over the previous two centuries of English Literature in order to describe the personalities as well as the achievements of the leading English poets. The major Lives - of ...(展开全部)

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is d...(展开全部)

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an early-twentieth-century idyll is d...(展开全部)

忧郁的解剖 （The Anatomy of Melancholy；全称：The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up）一书是由在牛津大学里牧师兼学者的罗伯特·伯顿撰写 ，于1621年首次出版。 概述 这本书从封面外表来看，不过就是一本探讨忧郁症的医学教科书（其中还包括现在被称为的临床...(展开全部)

忧郁的解剖 （The Anatomy of Melancholy；全称：The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up）一书是由在牛津大学里牧师兼学者的罗伯特·伯顿撰写 ，于1621年首次出版。 概述 这本书从封面外表来看，不过就是一本探讨忧郁症的医学教科书（其中还包括现在被称为的临床...(展开全部)

The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London - Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. Along with lively descriptions of his socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going & music-making. Unequaled for its frankness, high spirits & sharp observations, the...(展开全部)

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY EVERETT WARD OLMSTED

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Ma...(展开全部)

乔治・瓦萨里（Giolgi Vasarl，1511一1574），意大利作家、画家和建筑师。瓦萨里生于阿雷佐。自幼学习艺术，后赴佛罗伦萨，在安德烈亚・德尔・萨尔托的作坊里干活，受到梅迪奇家族的保护。瓦萨里遗世的主要绘画作品，是佛罗伦萨老宫和罗马梵蒂冈宫内的壁画。作为建筑师，瓦萨里是同时代伟大的米开朗琪罗的追随者。他设计的重要建筑有佛罗伦萨乌菲齐宫（现为博物馆）、比萨和阿雷佐的若干宫殿和教堂。但是，他对艺术史的主要贡献是他的意大利文艺复兴时期重要艺术家的传记。

绮拉•凯斯（KIERACASS）是纽约时报畅销书榜单冠军小说《决战王妃》系列的作者，其成名作品是《警笛》（TheSiren）。她毕业于美国莱德福大学，目前和家人生活在维吉尼亚州的克里斯琴斯堡（Christiansburg）。您可以在www.kieracass.com上查看更多关于绮拉的书、视频和她最爱的蛋糕等资讯。