Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

Set in a villa in the hills above Florence, this moving novel reveals the power of desperate love. Mary Panton ignores her desires as she contemplates her loveless marriage, but a single act of compassion begins a nightmare of violence that destroys her serenity.

帕乌斯托夫斯基(1892～1968)，俄罗斯作家。出身于莫斯科一个铁路员工家庭。从中学时代起他就醉心于文学，1912年发表了第一个短篇小说。在十月革命和国内战争时期他比较广泛地接触俄国的社会生活，参加过红军，当过记者及报社编辑。这期间他创作了许多作品。使他一举成名的是中篇小说《卡拉－布加兹海湾》(1932)。后来他还写了一系列画家、作家的传记小说和历史题材的作品，如《伊萨克·列维坦》(1937)、《塔拉斯·谢甫琴柯》(1939)、《北方故事》(1938)等。卫国战争时期他当过战地记者。他于1956年发表的《金玫瑰》是一本创作札记，其中谈了许多创作体会和经历，受到广泛欢迎。后期他致力于创作长篇自传体小说《一生的故事》(1945～1963)，反映了19世纪末直到20世纪30年代作者的经历，是作者对创作历程和道德、精神内容的思考、探索的总结。 帕乌斯托夫斯...(展开全部)

ロウランド伯爵邸に家庭教師として来たレイチェルは、そのひたむきさで徐々に生徒であるロウランド家の子供たちと心を通わせつつあった。ただ一人の心を除いては…。

19世紀英国。没落貴族の公爵家の娘・グレースは愛人のロウランド宅で謎の死を遂げた。彼女の息子ライナスとロレンスは実父・ロウランド伯爵に引き取られるが、ライナスは母の死にロウランド家の人々が関わっていると疑念を抱く。真相を究明しようとするライナスの孤独な闘いが始まった。

'If any man or woman should ask what I wish this romance...to be called, it is the Romance of the Rose, in which the whole art of love is contained'. Guillaume de Lorris's own introduction to his allegorical account of the progress of a courtly love affair gives no indication of the eventual scale and scope of the work, which became the most popular and influential of all medie...(展开全部)

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. William collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs ...(展开全部)

Read the enthralling medieval murder mystery. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. William collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs ...(展开全部)

One of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family's sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-sensuality, vivacity, and willfulness. Using diaries and letters, Andrea Stuart expertly re-creates Josephine's whirlwind of a life, which began with an isolated Caribbean childhood ...(展开全部)

帕特里克•莫迪亚诺，法国当代著名作家，2014年诺贝尔文学奖获得者。 莫迪亚诺1945年生于巴黎郊外布洛涅—比扬古地区，父亲是犹太金融企业家，母亲是比利时演员。1968年莫迪亚诺在伽利玛出版社出版处女作《星形广场》一举成名。1972年的《环城大道》获法兰西学院小说大奖，1978年的《暗店街》获得龚古尔奖。1996年，莫迪亚诺获得法国国家文学奖。他还分别于2010年和2012年获得法兰西学院奇诺•德尔杜卡基金会世界奖和奥地利欧洲文学奖这两项终身成就奖。 莫迪亚诺的小说常常通过寻找、调查、回忆和探索，将视野转回到从前的岁月，描写“消逝”的过去；也善于运用象征手法，通过某一形象表现出深远的含义。 自1968年至今，莫迪亚诺已经创作近三十部小说，在三十多个国家出版。