Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha dist...(展开全部)

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto. He quickly becomes obsessed with the beauty of the temple. Even when tempted by a friend into exploring the geisha dist...(展开全部)

"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

"The Sea of Fertility is a literary legacy on the scale of Proust's" National Review The story of one man's obsessive pursuit of a beautiful woman and his equally passionate search for enlightenment, The Temple of Dawn powerfully dramatises the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the post-war era. Honda, a brilliant lawyer and man of reason, is called to Ba...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991，旧译爱德华•谢弗），美国著名汉学家和语言学家，二十世纪下半叶美国唐代研究乃至整个西方唐代研究的领军人物。1938年获伯克利加州大学学士学位，攻读人类学；1947年获哈佛大学东方语言学博士学位。之后一直任教于柏克莱加州大学，直至1984年退休。曾出任美国东方学会会长，并长期主编《美国东方学会会刊》（JAOS）。 他深受传统欧洲汉学影响，重视历史语言文献的研究（精通十几种古今语言），加之他在民族学、民俗学和人类学方面的丰厚学养，使他的中国中古研究呈现出开阔的视野与多视角融合的特点。他的主要研究领域在中外史学界均享有盛誉，如：唐代的社会文化史，尤其是物质文化（名物）研究、唐代的外来文明、中原汉文化与周边民族文化的融合、道教与文学的关系，尤其是唐诗与道教在唐代文化中的作用等。 译者简介 ...(展开全部)

The 400 years which followed the spread of Islam in the 7th century brought a unique fusion of cultures to Persia as Islam was embraced and continuity with Persian heritage maintained. This book describes these centuries of great achievement in the arts, sciences and medicine.

A real-life detective story, investigating how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction, writing books casting new light on unsolved murders whilst hiding clues to their authors’ darkest secrets. This is the first book about the Detection Club, the world’s most famous and most mysterious social network of crime writers. Drawing on y...(展开全部)