The War is just over. In Venice, a city elaborately and affectionately described, the American Colonel, Richard Cantrell, falls passionately in love with Renata, a young Italian countess who has 'a profile that could break your or anyone else's heart'. Cantrell is embittered, war-scarred and old enough to be Renata's father, but he is overwhelmed by the selflessness and freshne...(展开全部)

托马斯·克莱顿·沃尔夫(1900—1938)出生于北卡罗来纳州一个石匠家庭。自幼酷爱阅读与幻想，二十岁毕业于北卡罗来纳州立大学，进入哈佛研究院学习戏剧，获英国文学硕士学位，并在纽约大学任教。一丸二九年，他凭自传体小说《天使，望故乡》蜚声文坛，被认为是最有前途的美国小．说家。一九三五年《时间与河流》出版，成为畅销书。仅三年后，沃尔夫便因病去世。他的大量遗藕经编辑出版，成为另两部长篇小说《蛛网与磐石》和《你不能再回家》，短篇小说集《从死亡到早晨》，以及一部未完成的杂集《远山》。沃尔夫的自传体小说围绕作者的生平经历与感受形成了一个整体。从出生开始写起，一直到主人公以成名作家的身份重回故乡为止，重现了作者本人充溅孤独、幻想、思索与渴望的一生。

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them ...(展开全部)

The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their unspecified original location, the father leads the boy south, through a desolate American landscape along a ...(展开全部)

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them ...(展开全部)

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits...(展开全部)

The King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. Tracing the arduous journeys of diplomatic envoys, Xin Wen presents a rich social history of long-distance travel that played out in deserts, post stations, palaces, and polo fields. The book tells the story of the everyday...(展开全部)

The King’s Road offers a new interpretation of the history of the Silk Road, emphasizing its importance as a diplomatic route, rather than a commercial one. Tracing the arduous journeys of diplomatic envoys, Xin Wen presents a rich social history of long-distance travel that played out in deserts, post stations, palaces, and polo fields. The book tells the story of the everyday...(展开全部)

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The relationships which have previously defined his life - with his son, his wife, and his attractive daughter-in-law - are dissolving, and Shingo is caught between love and destruction. Lyrical and precise, The Sound of the Mountain exp...(展开全部)

作者簡介 彼得‧Peter Boardman 彼得．博德曼出生於1950年聖誕節，其後成為英國最受敬重的高海拔登山家之一。他曾是凱恩戈姆國家公園格蘭莫爾山屋（Glenmore Lodge）的登山指導員，也是英國登山協會的全國事務官，之後被任命為瑞士萊辛（Leysin）國際登山學校總監。 他是1975年克里斯．鮑寧頓聖母峰遠征隊的一員，1976年他與喬．塔斯克成功登上難度幾近無法攀越的強卡邦峰，接著又攀登了干城章嘉峰（Kangchenjunga），並且嘗試攻克K2的峰頂，但惡劣天氣加上體力耗竭而功敗垂成。 隨後是1981年的公格爾峰（Mount Kongur），並在1982年3月參加克里斯．鮑寧頓、喬．塔斯克和迪克．阮修的小型遠征隊，他試圖首攀高難度的聖母峰東北脊，途中與喬．塔斯克兩人不幸喪命。 彼得和喬留下了兩則傳奇。一則是他們偉大的努力，以大膽、輕...(展开全部)