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[美]南希·戈德斯通 畅销书女作家，毕业于康奈尔大学、哥伦比亚大学历史系。她的写作专注于中世纪和近代早期欧洲历史与王室传奇。 已有多部畅销著作出版：《玛戈王后与波旁王朝的崛起》、《四王后：左右欧洲的普罗旺斯姐妹》、《淑女王后：那不勒斯、耶路撒冷西西里女王乔安娜一世的荒淫统治》、《女仆与王后：圣女贞德秘史》、《修道士与密码：罗哲尔·培根与世界最神秘的手稿》。

[美]南希·戈德斯通 畅销书女作家，毕业于康奈尔大学、哥伦比亚大学历史系。她的写作专注于中世纪和近代早期欧洲历史与王室传奇。 已有多部畅销著作出版：《玛戈王后与波旁王朝的崛起》、《四王后：左右欧洲的普罗旺斯姐妹》、《淑女王后：那不勒斯、耶路撒冷西西里女王乔安娜一世的荒淫统治》、《女仆与王后：圣女贞德秘史》、《修道士与密码：罗哲尔·培根与世界最神秘的手稿》。

Sixteenth-century Europe: Renaissance masters paint the ceilings of Florentine churches, kings battle for control of the Continent, and the Reformation forever changes the religious organisation of society. Amidst it all, three young women come of age and into power in an era of empires and revolutions. Catherine de' Medici's story begins in a convent stormed by soldiers intent...(展开全部)

尤里•波里索维奇•叶拉金（Юрий Борисович Елагин，1910—1987），曾供职于苏联瓦赫坦戈夫剧院担任小提琴手，后毕业于莫斯科音乐学院。“二战”后，辗转至美国，在休斯顿交响乐团任第一小提琴手。对苏联艺术生活有深刻观察，另著有《弗谢沃洛德•梅耶荷德（1874—1940）——黑色的天才》。

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a gl...(展开全部)

A compelling vision of a disorietating and barbaric future from Doris Lessing, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Many years in the future, city life has broken down, communications have failed and food supplies are dwindling. From her window a middle-aged woman - our narrator - watches things fall apart and records what she witnesses: hordes of people migrating to...(展开全部)

In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and the philosophy that...(展开全部)