在线阅读本书 The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

在线阅读本书 The classic bestselling bookthe subject of a play, a movie, and a songthat tells the darkly fascinating story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special, and ultimately dangerous, relationship with six of her students. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

缪丽尔•斯帕克（Muriel Spark，1918-2006） 英国著名女作家，出生在苏格兰爱丁堡，并在此完成学业。曾在两家杂志社担任编辑。斯帕克的创作领域很广，包括中长篇小说、短篇小说、舞台剧、诗歌、儿童作品、传记及文艺批评。获得过包括意大利文学奖、詹姆斯•特艾特•布雷克纪念奖、索尔•泰厄十字奖、英格兰T.S.艾略特奖等在内的多项文学奖。1978年她被选为美国文学艺术学会名誉会员，1988年又被选为法国文学艺术学会会员。 而将缪丽尔•斯帕克与其作品推到了世人面前并引起了广大读者的浓厚兴趣的，正是本书《布罗迪小姐的青春》，小说改编成话剧后轰动了伦敦西区舞台，后又由美国20世纪福克斯公司改编成电影，二十多年未曾间断过上映。

Muriel Spark's classic "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" features a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged "Penguin Essentials" edition. 'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life...' Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia...(展开全部)

Much against his will, the Duke of Omnium consents to lead a coalition government. The Duchess quickly becomes a social figure of great power striving to consolidate his support. Together they make their way to the centre of society and, like Phineas Finn before them, they find it hollow. The novel is haunted by the mysterious Ferdinand Lopez whose pernicious influence the Duk...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie with each other to exert influence on his behalf - even Palliser's o...(展开全部)

'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator, he determines to marry into respectability and wealth, much against the wishes of his prospective father-in-law. One of the nin...(展开全部)

The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cinéma vérité and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropolog...(展开全部)

Like a Phoenix from the ashes, she will rise! Years ago, Jean Grey died at the hands of a villainous mutant - and the X-Men mourned her. But that was then - and in the years that have passed since that shocking loss, the world has changed. Jean's teammates have lived without her, and some have died without her. But now, when strange and mysterious events start happening all ove...(展开全部)

恩斯特·卡西勒被西方学术界公认为本世纪以来最重要的哲学家之一。在西方世界影响甚广的“在世哲学家文库”将他与爱因斯坦、罗素、杜威等当代名家相提并论，并在扉页上将其誉为“当代哲学中最德高望重的人物之一，现今思想界具有百科全书知识的一位学者”。卡西勒曾任汉堡大学哲学教授，后担任汉堡大学校长，并逐渐创立了他自己的“文化哲学体系”。希特勒在德国上台，卡西勒愤怒地称“这是德国的末日”，遂于同年5月2日辞去汉堡大学校长职务，离开德国，开始了他十二年的流亡生活，先后任教于牛津大学、耶鲁大学和哥伦比亚大学。