在线阅读本书 Strauss's Radetzky March, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a met...(展开全部)

The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian Empire just before World War I. The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for our times.

A biography of the three sisters who as Mrs. H. H. Kung, Mme Sun Yat-sen, and Mme Chiang Kai-shek exerted more influence upon United States policy toward China than almost "any other person or persons in this century."

In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed...(展开全部)

桑顿•怀尔德（Thornton Wilder，1897-1975），美国小说家、剧作家，其作品探讨了人类体验的普遍性和宇宙维度之间的联系。他凭小说《圣路易斯雷大桥》荣获了普利策小说奖，另凭《我们的小镇》《九死一生》两获普利策戏剧奖。怀尔德是一位多才多艺的艺术家，他同时也是一名成功的改编者和译者、歌剧作家、演员、教师、编剧，他的作品在今天依然广受阅读并被搬上银幕。 了解更多关于桑顿•怀尔德的生平和作品，请浏览： www. ThorntonWilder.com

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick. From the author of the acclaimed 'Year of Wonders' and 'People of the Book', a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American Civil War. Set during the American Civil War, 'March' tells the story of John March, known to us as the father away from his family...(展开全部)

From Louisa May Alcottas beloved classic "Little Women," Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story afilled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war upon the mind and heart of one unforgettable mana (Sue Monk Kidd). With apitch-perfect writinga ("USA Today"), Brooks follows March as he leaves behind his famil...(展开全部)

'a distinguished book, a masterly reworking of what fiction and history have afforded Brooks' vibrant and questing imagination' The Age

Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women.