There were two Norman Conquests. John Julius Norwich is writing about the 'other' one, the conquest of Sicily. When on Christmas Day 1130, Roger de Hauteville had himself crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was as brilliant as it was cosmopolitan; to an i...(展开全部)

Mo Willems continues hisbest-selling Elephant and Piggie first reader series. The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (andsometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant. Children who sat on their parents’ laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own.Each book has been vetted...(展开全部)

Mo Willems continues hisbest-selling Elephant and Piggie first reader series. The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (andsometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant. Children who sat on their parents’ laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own.Each book has been vetted...(展开全部)

First published in 1920, The Mad Toy is set in Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Feeling the alienation of youth, Silvio Astier's gang tours neighbourhoods, inflicting waves of petty crime, stealing from homes and shops until the police are forced to intervene. Drifting then from one career and subsequent crime to another, Silvio's main difficulty is his own intellig...(展开全部)

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period...(展开全部)

This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period...(展开全部)

◎著者简介 约翰·朱利叶斯·诺威奇（John Julius Norwich,1929—2018），英国历史学家，毕业于牛津大学，曾任世界文化遗产基金会联合主席。诺威奇一生著述颇丰，包括《四君主》（Four Princes）、《地中海史》（The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean）、《教皇史》（The Popes: A History）、《威尼斯史》（A History of Venice）等。 ◎译者简介 李强，毕业于东北师范大学、希腊约阿尼纳大学，现任东北师范大学副教授，主要研究拜占庭文献学、法律、钱币、印章、外交等领域。