Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) This trilogy of novels about World War II, largely based on his own experiences as an army officer, is the crowning achievement of Evelyn Waugh’s career. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, bu...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is superbly re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of Crouchback's war. When action comes in Crete...(展开全部)

He should never have opened the envelope ...Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the results can only be pitiful. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave - except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter Adam fears can only bring further disgrace to the family name. Against his mother's wishes, Adam opens the letter, and immediately real...(展开全部)

胡达·巴拉卡特（1952— ） 黎巴嫩作家，旅居法国，阿拉伯离散文学代表人物。 以短篇小说集《访客》踏入文坛，凭长篇小说《炼笑石》斩获评论奖最佳长篇首作奖。后出版长篇小说《幻想的人》《耕水者》《这片土地上的王国》《夜间来信》，散文集《陌生女人的来信》，剧本《迪瓦万岁》《夜之将尽》等，先后斩获纳吉布·马哈福兹文学奖、奥瓦斯文学奖、意大利双年展一等奖等，更是以本书荣膺2019年国际阿拉伯小说奖。还曾入围2015年国际布克奖。 译者简介： 陆怡玮 博士，上海外国语大学东方语学院副院长、阿拉伯语系主任、教授、博士生导师，中国外国文学学会阿拉伯文学研究分会副会长，主要研究方向为阿拉伯现当代文学。 马琳瑶 法国索邦大学阿拉伯文学博士在读。

Christopher Marley's graceful arrangements of jewel-like arthropods make converts of those who have seen insects as creepy--these are stunning works of art, his delicate butterfly assemblages sublime. Marley's keen eye for design combines with his entomological education to produce mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic bug mandalas and striking up-close-and-personal single-insect portrait...(展开全部)

Christopher Marley's graceful arrangements of jewel-like arthropods make converts of those who have seen insects as creepy--these are stunning works of art, his delicate butterfly assemblages sublime. Marley's keen eye for design combines with his entomological education to produce mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic bug mandalas and striking up-close-and-personal single-insect portrait...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 劳伦斯•凡•德•普司特，1906年出生于南非，20世纪著名作家、探险家、人类学家、语言学家和哲学家。1934年出版的处女作《在某省》，是第一本出自南非人之手的反种族歧视小说。两本描述沙漠布须曼人的著作《卡拉哈里沙漠的失落世界》（1958年）和《猎人之心》（1961年），被世人赞誉为拯救这支神秘种族免于灭绝命运的伟大著作。 日本著名导演大岛渚执导、豆瓣高分电影《战场上的快乐圣诞》（又译作《圣诞快乐，劳伦斯先生》）即根据他的作品《种子与播种者》（1963年）改编而来。 【译者简介】 周灵芝，曾任报社编译，现专职从事翻译及艺术创作。译作有《山高水清：五百天徒步跨欧之旅》《人生的9个学分》《在我道别之前》《迷路的地图》《解放儿童》等。