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Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to Engl...(展开全部)

The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Among this rising new elite ar...(展开全部)

The first novel of Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of fertility Spring Snow is set in Tokyo in 1912, when the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders -- rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Among this rising new elite ar...(展开全部)

Dazzling in its originality, witty and perceptive in unearthing patterns of behavior that history has erased, RITES OF SPRING probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I -- from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. "The Great War," as Modris Eksteins writes, "was the psychological turning point . . ....(展开全部)

【作者简介】 莫德里斯•埃克斯斯坦是多伦多大学历史系荣休教授。他受人称道的畅销书《春之祭》曾在九个国家出版，并荣获华莱士•K. 弗格森奖和延龄草图书奖，还被《环球邮报》和《纽约时报》列为当年的优秀图书之一。《漫步天明后》(Walking Since Daybreak)也是一部全国畅销书，获得过皮尔逊作家信托基金非虚构图书奖，并被《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《洛杉矶时报》和《环球邮报》列为2000年优秀图书之一。他备受期待的《春之祭》续篇《太阳舞》(Solar Dance)也已出版。 【译者简介】 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》《朱可夫：斯大林的将军》《斯大林的战争》。

【作者简介】 莫德里斯•埃克斯斯坦是多伦多大学历史系荣休教授。他受人称道的畅销书《春之祭》曾在九个国家出版，并荣获华莱士•K. 弗格森奖和延龄草图书奖，还被《环球邮报》和《纽约时报》列为当年的优秀图书之一。《漫步天明后》(Walking Since Daybreak)也是一部全国畅销书，获得过皮尔逊作家信托基金非虚构图书奖，并被《泰晤士报文学增刊》、《洛杉矶时报》和《环球邮报》列为2000年优秀图书之一。他备受期待的《春之祭》续篇《太阳舞》(Solar Dance)也已出版。 【译者简介】 李晓江，北京大学哲学博士。爱书。教书、读书之余，亦以译书为乐。译有《失败的帝国：从斯大林到戈尔巴乔夫》《朱可夫：斯大林的将军》《斯大林的战争》。