A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, an...(展开全部)

约翰•狄克森•卡尔（1906－1977） 史上最伟大的推理小说作家之一，举世公认的“密室推理之王”。其小说素以公平著称，线索隐蔽，解答惊人，具有超乎寻常的逻辑性、趣味性。他一生共设计了超过五十种密室，几乎每个都是构思精巧、无以复加；又兼其小说一贯具有的浓郁哥特风格，以及其谋篇布局的架构能力之强，自会让读者大呼过瘾，竞相传读。读推理，岂能不读密室；读密室，岂能不读卡尔！

Zizek returns to untangle a heady mix of fantasy and ideology. With his idiosyncratic blend of ideas from Lacan and Hegel, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has emerged as one of the most original thinkers of our time. Never missing an opportunity to recount a revealing anec-dote or joke his writing is as entertaining as it is informative. In his latest book, Zizek approac...(展开全部)

Modern audiovisual media have spawned a 'plague of fantasies', electronically inspired phantasms that cloud the ability to reason and prevent a true understanding of a world increasingly dominated by abstractions--whether those of digital technology or the speculative market. Into this arena, enters Zizek: equipped with an agile wit and the skills of a prodigious scholar, he c...(展开全部)

In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory that stretched from Britain to Egypt. The Roman-made peace, or Pax Romana, seemed to be permanent. Then, apparently out of nowhere, a sudden sickness struck the legions and laid waste to cities, including Rome itself. This fast-spreadin...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking historical account of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering―it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale n...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking historical account of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering―it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale n...(展开全部)

伍连德（Wu Lien-teh，1879-1960），祖籍广东台山，生于槟榔屿。剑桥大学医学博士。1908年归国任天津陆军军医学堂帮办，1910-1911年为防治鼠疫出任东三省防疫总医官，扑灭了鼠疫大流行。1937年返回马来亚，定居怡保行医为业。主要著作有《肺鼠疫论述》《鼠疫概论》《霍乱概论》《中国医史》等。 译者简介： 程光胜， 1958年毕业于北京大学生物系，中国科学院微生物研究所研究员，曾任中国微生物学会秘书长。编著有《显微镜下的生命世界》《小生物，大世界》《方心芳传》等。 马学博，哈尔滨医科大学医史学教研室副研究员，主要从事东北近代防疫史研究。 王丽凤，新加坡电视制作人，美国印第安纳大学大众传播系毕业。电视纪录片《伍连德博士传》的总导演、总监制。