"Lavishly crammed with the songs, smells, and costumes of late Victorian England" (The Daily Telegraph), this delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty But...(展开全部)

"Lavishly crammed with the songs, smells, and costumes of late Victorian England" (The Daily Telegraph), this delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty But...(展开全部)

"Lavishly crammed with the songs, smells, and costumes of late Victorian England" (The Daily Telegraph), this delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty But...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 米克洛什·哈拉兹蒂（Miklós Haraszti），1945 年出生在耶路撒冷，后随父母回到匈牙利。他是匈牙利当代重要作家、思想家、人权运动者、大学教授，同时也是匈牙利民主派异议者最重要的地下期刊《讲述者》的编辑和突出贡献者。20世纪70年代匈牙利民主与自由出版运动发起者之一。2004—2010年曾指导欧洲安全与合作委员会（OSCE）媒体自由监督机构。另有著作《工人国家的工人》。作品被翻译多种语言，在欧美影响深远。 【译者简介】 戴潍娜，毕业于牛津大学。致力于“智性”与“灵性”相结合的文学创作和研究。著有诗文集《瘦江南》、童话小说集《仙草姑娘》。翻译作品包括伊塔洛·卡尔维诺短篇小说《组合与反组合》，雷蒙•格诺实验文本《格诺二题》《乌力波简史》等。

Beyond surreal and bordering on the indescribable, Velvet Glove is a perfectly-executed serial of the strange and macabre, held together with a rigorous dream-logic only Clowes could conjure. Couched within a detective genre structure and rich with recurring motifs and repeated imagery, the plot follows Clay Loudermilk as he searches for a former lover.

Beyond surreal and bordering on the indescribable, Velvet Glove is a perfectly-executed serial of the strange and macabre, held together with a rigorous dream-logic only Clowes could conjure. Couched within a detective genre structure and rich with recurring motifs and repeated imagery, the plot follows Clay Loudermilk as he searches for a former lover.

After Napoleon’s downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a new global history of French imperialism in the nineteenth century, providing new insights into the mechanisms of imperial collaboration that extended France’s power from the Middle East to ...(展开全部)