From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (recently released in its sixth edition), David Thomson has been one of our most provocative authorities on all things ci...(展开全部)

本书描述了上世纪40年代英国伦敦女同性恋、男同性恋和直人（异性恋）的生活。 《守夜》，故事跨越了上个世纪整个四十年代的伦敦，重点以1947，1944 和1941 年为时空背景，描绘了空袭、灯火管制下黑漆漆的街道，偷偷摸摸的违法关系和性冒险，最后回到其起点 1941 年，可说是极具吸引力。故事围绕着四个伦敦人——三个女人和一个年轻男人而推开，他们都有着不为人知的过去。Kay 在战争时期是开救护车的，生活紧张压抑，现在她却穿着男人装，带着不安定的心和无休止的渴望在大街小巷徘徊并寻觅着；Helen，聪明、可爱，讨人喜欢，却深藏着令人痛苦的秘密；Viv，迷人的姑娘，固执地甚至是愚蠢地忠贞于她那个士兵情人；Duncan ，外表纯真无邪，却在战争中发现了自己内心深藏的邪恶并与之搏斗。在小说中，莎拉·沃特斯一如既往的以她纤细的笔调、写实的技巧，编织出一部结构严谨、...(展开全部)

A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith. Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated the genres of both historical and lesbian fiction, returns with novel that marks a...(展开全部)

'In a prologue set in 1901 London, a woman is apparently killed outside her home after her gold watch falls out of her pocket. Flash forward to 1991... playwright André Lévêque seeks help identifying a film he saw at a friend’s house when he was 10, whose story seems to match the circumstances of the 1901 crime. And in the winter of 1911, Victoria Sanders... has invited guests ...(展开全部)

A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith. Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated the genres of both historical and lesbian fiction, returns with novel that marks a...(展开全部)

本书描述了上世纪40年代英国伦敦女同性恋、男同性恋和直人（异性恋）的生活。 《守夜》，故事跨越了上个世纪整个四十年代的伦敦，重点以1947，1944 和1941 年为时空背景，描绘了空袭、灯火管制下黑漆漆的街道，偷偷摸摸的违法关系和性冒险，最后回到其起点 1941 年，可说是极具吸引力。故事围绕着四个伦敦人——三个女人和一个年轻男人而推开，他们都有着不为人知的过去。Kay 在战争时期是开救护车的，生活紧张压抑，现在她却穿着男人装，带着不安定的心和无休止的渴望在大街小巷徘徊并寻觅着；Helen，聪明、可爱，讨人喜欢，却深藏着令人痛苦的秘密；Viv，迷人的姑娘，固执地甚至是愚蠢地忠贞于她那个士兵情人；Duncan ，外表纯真无邪，却在战争中发现了自己内心深藏的邪恶并与之搏斗。在小说中，莎拉·沃特斯一如既往的以她纤细的笔调、写实的技巧，编织出一部结构严谨、...(展开全部)

'In a prologue set in 1901 London, a woman is apparently killed outside her home after her gold watch falls out of her pocket. Flash forward to 1991... playwright André Lévêque seeks help identifying a film he saw at a friend’s house when he was 10, whose story seems to match the circumstances of the 1901 crime. And in the winter of 1911, Victoria Sanders... has invited guests ...(展开全部)

In this gigantic mystery story, Mr. Keeler has employed atavism in his plot, a thing that has probably never before been attempted in mystery fiction. Starting in pirate days with the bitter enmity between Captain Kidd and Captain Quarlbush whom Kidd marooned on a desert island for mutiny and thus deprived of a share in the spoils, Mr. Keeler conjures up in modern times a desce...(展开全部)

The Battle is the book Balzac always wanted to write and, beginning his story with Balzac's own words ('On Tuesday 16th May 1809 ...'), Rambaud has finally achieved his predecessor's dream. The eponymous battle now commonly described as Napoleon's first major defeat on land in Europe took place at Essling, near Vienna; forty thousand men died in forty-eight hours. With vivid de...(展开全部)

The winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat. The battle of Essling has long been overlooked by historians and novelists, but Rambaud, relying on research notes compiled by Honore de Balzac, has re-created the confrontation with exceptio...(展开全部)