In this "astounding Borgesian document of clarity and brilliance" (Sebastian Barry), best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn pushes against the boundaries of genre as he explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, fiction, history, and literary criticism, Three Ring...(展开全部)

In this "astounding Borgesian document of clarity and brilliance" (Sebastian Barry), best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn pushes against the boundaries of genre as he explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, fiction, history, and literary criticism, Three Ring...(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。

Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ot...(展开全部)

Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact. From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul--resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ot...(展开全部)

贝塔妮•休斯（Bettany Hughes） 屡获殊荣的历史学家、作家，英国ZUI具影响力的媒体BBC主持人，专长是古代及中世纪历史与文化。贝塔妮长年在牛津大学和剑桥大学任教，还曾在康奈尔大学、布里斯托大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校等地开设讲座，曾获颁萨金德教育奖、英国历史学会的梅德利科历史奖。她目前也在伦敦国王学院担任研究员和伦敦新人文学院的客座教授。贝塔妮的首部著作《特洛伊的海伦》（Helen Of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore）被译为十国语言，广受好评；第二部作品《毒堇之杯》（The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life）不但是《纽约时报》畅销书，还获得英国作家协会奖。此外，她也为英国广播公司、国家地理频道、Discovery、历史...(展开全部)

8 pp. illustrations, 1 folded map. This book describes the travels undertaken by Alexander Hosie during his tenure as a British consular agent in Chungkiung, from 1882–1884. At the time this was the most important city in Szechuan Province, W. China; situated on the Yangtze River, 1, 500 miles inland from its mouth, it was seen as the potential nexus for trade, giving access in...(展开全部)

8 pp. illustrations, 1 folded map. This book describes the travels undertaken by Alexander Hosie during his tenure as a British consular agent in Chungkiung, from 1882–1884. At the time this was the most important city in Szechuan Province, W. China; situated on the Yangtze River, 1, 500 miles inland from its mouth, it was seen as the potential nexus for trade, giving access in...(展开全部)

Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)

Love and darkness are just two of the powerful forces that run through Amos Oz's extraordinary, moving story. He takes us on a seductive journey through his childhood and adolescence, along Jerusalem's war-torn streets in the 1940s and '50s, and into the infernal marriage of two kind, well-meaning people: his fussy, logical father, and his dreamy, romantic mother. Caught betwee...(展开全部)