Amazon.com Fans of Latin American literature will be thrilled by Oxford University Press's new translations of works by 19th-century Brazilian author Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. His novels are both heartbreaking and comic; his limning of a colonial Brazil in flux is both perceptive and remarkably modern. The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas is written as an auto...(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 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 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)

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)

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迪米特里·迪米特里耶·肖斯塔科维奇（俄语：Дмитрий·Дмитриевич·Шостакович，英文：Dmitri·Dmitriyevich·Shostakovich，1906年9月25日－1975年8月9日），原苏联最重要的作曲家之一，20世纪世界著名作曲家之一；生于圣彼得堡，1919—1925年在彼得堡音乐学院学习钢琴与作曲；1923、1925年先后毕业于钢琴、作曲专业，以毕业作品第1交响曲的演出而成名；1927年在肖邦钢琴比赛中获奖；卫国战争中所创作的第7交响曲享誉世界；1957、1962年先后因第10、13交响曲引起争论；1960年加入苏联共产党；1975年在莫斯科去世。 所罗门·伏尔科夫（Solomon Volkov 1944- ）， 俄裔美国作家。1944年生于中亚细亚列宁纳巴德，1967年毕业于里姆斯基-科萨科夫国家音乐学院。他主...(展开全部)

迪米特里·迪米特里耶·肖斯塔科维奇（俄语：Дмитрий·Дмитриевич·Шостакович，英文：Dmitri·Dmitriyevich·Shostakovich，1906年9月25日－1975年8月9日），原苏联最重要的作曲家之一，20世纪世界著名作曲家之一；生于圣彼得堡，1919—1925年在彼得堡音乐学院学习钢琴与作曲；1923、1925年先后毕业于钢琴、作曲专业，以毕业作品第1交响曲的演出而成名；1927年在肖邦钢琴比赛中获奖；卫国战争中所创作的第7交响曲享誉世界；1957、1962年先后因第10、13交响曲引起争论；1960年加入苏联共产党；1975年在莫斯科去世。 所罗门·伏尔科夫（Solomon Volkov 1944- ）， 俄裔美国作家。1944年生于中亚细亚列宁纳巴德，1967年毕业于里姆斯基-科萨科夫国家音乐学院。他主...(展开全部)

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginat...(展开全部)

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginat...(展开全部)