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Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-s...(展开全部)

Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-s...(展开全部)

In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism. Examining Frank through the eyes of both ...(展开全部)

作者简介：[英]克拉克·约翰·威利斯（1833—1910），英国历史学家、剑桥大学研究员。1833年6月24日出生于剑桥，是该大学解剖学教授威廉·克拉克博士的儿子，也是罗伯特·威利斯教授的侄子。他在剑桥伊顿和三一学院（1856年，学士），1858年成为研究员。1866—1891年任剑桥动物博物馆馆长，1891—1910年任剑桥大学注册馆长。1875年，威利斯教授将《剑桥大学建筑史》的未完成手稿遗赠给克拉克，克拉克完成了该书的出版工作，并监督了该书的出版。他于1910年10月10日在剑桥去世。 译者简介： 黄瑶，英国威斯敏斯特大学媒体管理学硕士，曾赴牛津大学埃克塞特学院进修英国古典文学，译有《早知今日》《从天而落》《书信的历史》等文学作品。曾经游历欧亚17个国家，译有法国、西班牙、泰国等国的导游类书籍。

An Essay on the Development of Libraries and their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century

威廉·布莱兹（William Blades，1824—1890），英国著名的印刷商、藏书家、书目学家，热衷于收藏旧书与版画。出于对印刷的兴趣，布莱兹对英国印刷出版界名人卡克斯顿出版的作品颇有研究，对英国早期的印刷历史也了如指掌。代表作有《书之大敌》《威廉·卡克斯顿的生平与印刷术》等。

The Nobel Prize–winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas—and a new unrest—begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he...(展开全部)

In THE BOOKS OF JACOB, Tokarczuk traverses the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in search of Jacob Frank, a highly controversial historical figure from the eighteenth century and the leader of a mysterious, heretical Jewish splinter group that converted at different times to both Islam and Catholicism. Examining Frank through the eyes of both ...(展开全部)

巴里·施特劳斯（Barry Strauss），美国康奈尔大学古典学系和历史学系教授，研究方向为古代军事史。他撰写了多部著作，包括《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯战争》等。