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悲惨世界(五卷之第五卷)(英语文库)
悲惨世界(五卷之第五卷)(英语文库)
维克多·雨果
¥16.99
本书作为我社“*经典英语文库”第14辑中的一种,精选法国著名作家维克多·雨果的经典作品《悲惨世界 (五卷之第五卷)》(前四卷已出)。作品讲述了主人公土伦苦刑犯冉·阿让(Jean Valjean)的个人经历,并融了法国的历史、革命、战争、道德哲学、法律、正义、宗教信仰。《悲惨世界》以冉·阿让出狱后的种种经历贯穿全书,深刻反映了时代的问题。雨果在作品中融了从拿破仑在滑铁卢的失败到反对“七月王朝”的人民起义这一阶段的历史,反映了当时的社会生活和政治状况。作品不仅描述了获释犯人冉·阿让和流浪妇女芳汀的不幸生活以及芳汀的私生女柯赛特的悲惨遭遇,而且揭示了当时社会中勤劳善良的劳动人民却受歧视和压迫的不公平命运。雨果还在作品中揭露了当时残酷不公的法典和秩序,猛烈抨了那种人们饿死可以而偷面包却要坐牢的社会制度,谴责了那些安于现状和铁石心肠的市民在面对处于困境中的他人时的那种袖手旁观的冷漠态度。
十年以后(英语文库)
十年以后(英语文库)
大仲马
¥23.99
本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种,精选法国十九世纪著名作家大仲马所作长篇小说《十年以后》。本书是《三个火枪手》的续集。为“达塔尼昂浪漫三部曲”之一。三部曲的故事发展到《十年以后》一书中的阶段,个中的场景已不再是三十年前的刀光剑影、血雨腥风,取而代之的是法王路易十四挥金如土、宫闱暧昧、官场明争暗斗以及贵妇人之间争风吃醋等情节。其中,柔弱质朴、胆小怕事的路易丝·德拉瓦利埃小姐如何一步步被设局沦落为路易十四情妇的经过,为下来《路易丝·德拉瓦利埃》的展做足了铺垫。
雅各的房间(英语文库)
雅各的房间(英语文库)
弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙
¥7.99
本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种,精选由英国著名作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的经典作品《雅各的房间》。作品讲述了一位年轻人短暂的一生。海边的童年、剑桥求学、独立成长、与不同女性的情感、到法国及希腊游学、及后丧生于次世界大战中。此书通常被认为是伍尔夫在文学创新方面次较大规模的探索和实验,是她创作过程中的一个转折,是她尝试用意识流手法创作的一个端。这本小说时间背景设置在英格兰,始于雅各的童年。
虹(英语文库)
虹(英语文库)
D· H· 劳伦斯
¥20.99
本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种,精选由英国著名作家D.H劳伦斯劳伦斯创作的长篇小说《虹》。本书通过一家三代人的遭遇,描述了工业革命给传统的乡村带来的巨大变化,同时以巨大的热情和深度,探索有关性的心理问题。代人的生活带有田园诗的色彩,同时也预示古老文明即将结束。第二代人精神的苦闷和呆滞的目光,是令人窒息的工业化社会的好注解。第三代人的探索具有积极的社会意义,表达了人们要冲破狭窄的生活圈子,渴望一种自然和谐的生活。
Flush 阿弗小传(英文版)
Flush 阿弗小传(英文版)
[英]弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫
¥29.99
“事情并不简单,而是错综复杂的。如果它咬了布朗宁先生,那是因为他也咬了她。仇恨并非只是仇恨;仇恨也可以是爱。” 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫为诗人伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁(Elizabeth Barrett Browning)的西班牙猎犬所著的传记,令人愉悦,探讨了作为人类以及作为狗的意义。
夜与日(英语文库)
夜与日(英语文库)
弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙
¥19.99
本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种,精选由英国著名作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙的经典作品《夜与日》。故事发生在爱德华七世时期的伦敦,将两位女主人公——凯瑟琳·希尔伯里和玛丽·达切特的日常生活和浪漫情怀行了对比,探讨了爱情、婚姻、幸福和成功之间的关系。故事有四位主人公:凯瑟琳·希尔伯里,玛丽·达切特,拉尔夫·德纳姆,和威廉·罗德尼,他们苦苦探索人生,追求爱情的真谛,找寻真正的自我。《夜与日》提到了妇女的参政权、爱情和婚姻是否可以共存、婚姻是否是幸福的前提等问题。贯穿全书的主题有星空、泰晤士河和切恩道。
契诃夫短篇小说精选集(英语文库)
契诃夫短篇小说精选集(英语文库)
安东·契诃夫
¥8.99
本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种,精选俄国著名剧作家和短篇小说大师契诃夫的短篇小说。其以语言精练、准确见长,善于透过生活的表层行探索,将人物隐蔽的动机揭露得淋漓尽致。他的优秀剧本和短篇小说没有复杂的情节和清晰的解答,集中讲述一些貌似平凡琐碎的故事,创造出一种特别的,有时可以称之为令人难以忘怀的或是抒情味极浓的艺术氛围。他采用简洁的写作技巧避免炫耀文学手段,被认为是19世纪末俄国现实主义文学流派的杰出代表。
无意识幻想曲(英语文库)
无意识幻想曲(英语文库)
D· H· 劳伦斯
¥8.99
本书作为我社“经典英语文库”第15辑中的一种,精选由英国著名作家D. H. 劳伦斯的作品《无意识幻想曲》。D.H.劳伦斯被称为“英国文学伟大的人物之一”,长期以来受到大家的广泛关注。与任意时期任何国家的作家相比,劳伦斯有一极其鲜明,他的写作形式相当广泛,包括小说,短篇故事诗,意大利和俄国文学的英译,新建文学评论,社会评论,编史心理学笔记游记,他的游记覆盖了以上诸多的写作形式本书是其在心理学方面的代表作。
Castles, Battles, and Bombs
Castles, Battles, and Bombs
Brauer, Jurgen
¥147.15
Castles, Battles, and Bombs reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics-with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle Ages seems almost inevitable: though stunningly expensive, a strong castle was far cheaper to maintain than a standing army. The authors also reexamine the strategic bombing of Germany in World War II and provide new insights into France's decision to develop nuclear weapons. Drawing on these examples and more, Brauer and Van Tuyll suggest lessons for today's military, from counterterrorist strategy and military manpower planning to the use of private military companies in Afghanistan and Iraq.?"e;In bringing economics into assessments of military history, [the authors] also bring illumination. . . . [The authors] turn their interdisciplinary lens on the mercenary arrangements of Renaissance Italy; the wars of Marlborough, Frederick the Great, and Napoleon; Grant's campaigns in the Civil War; and the strategic bombings of World War II. The results are invariably stimulating."e;-Martin Walker, Wilson Quarterly?"e;This study is serious, creative, important. As an economist I am happy to see economics so professionally applied to illuminate major decisions in the history of warfare."e;-Thomas C. Schelling, Winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics
Politics and Partnerships
Politics and Partnerships
Elisabeth S. Clemens and Doug Guthrie
¥206.01
Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times of crisis, and the voluntary efforts of ordinary citizens are now seen as a necessary supplement to government intervention.But despite the ubiquity of the idea of volunteerism in public policy debates, analysis of its role in American governance has been fragmented. Bringing together a diverse set of disciplinary approaches, Politics and Partnerships is a thorough examination of the place of voluntary associations in political history and an astute investigation into contemporary experiments in reshaping that role. The essays here reveal the key role nonprofits have played in the evolution of both the workplace and welfare and illuminate the way that government's retreat from welfare has radically altered the relationship between nonprofits and corporations.
High-Performing Preschool
High-Performing Preschool
McNamee, Gillian Dowley
¥182.47
The High-Performing Preschool takes readers into the lives of three- and four-year-old Head Start students during their first year of school and focuses on the centerpiece of their school day: story acting. In this activity, students act out stories from high-quality children's literature as well as stories dictated by their peers. Drawing on a unique pair of thinkers-Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and renowned American teacher and educational writer Vivian G. Paley-Gillian Dowley McNamee elucidates the ways, and reasons, this activity is so successful. She shows how story acting offers a larger blueprint for curricula that helps ensure all preschools-not just those for society's well-to-do-are excellent.McNamee outlines how story acting cultivates children's oral and written language skills. She shows how it creates a crucial opportunity for teachers to guide children inside the interior logic and premises of an idea, and how it fosters the creation of a literary community. Starting with Vygotsky and Paley, McNamee paints a detailed portrait of high-quality preschool teaching, showing how educators can deliver on the promise of Head Start and provide a setting for all young children to become articulate, thoughtful, and literate learners. ?
In the Home of the Famous Dead
In the Home of the Famous Dead
McDougall, Jo
¥192.08
In the Home of the Famous Dead will appeal to newcomers as well as to avid followers of Jo McDougall's long career and complex work, providing valuable insights to the development of a poet's signature, inimitable style. This collection presents work known for its sparse, compact language; surprising metaphor; humor; irony; idiomatic speech; and a stoic, sadly earned wisdom concerning death and loss. In McDougall's world, folks making do with what they have take the stage to speak of, in the words of one critic, "e;the tangled mysteries of their faltering lives."e; Her work has been described as having "e;excruciating honesty"e; (Gerald Stern), giving voice to the "e;ineffable emotions of plain people"e; (Judith Kitchen). Miller Williams notes that the work has "e;cleanness and clarity . . . in all the funk and smell of humanity."e; This is the poetry of midwestern plains and southern botttomlands, of waitresses and professors, farmers and bankers, the disadvantaged and privileged alike. Often beginning in the personal and expanding to the universal, this poet takes note of the phenomenological world with a mixture of joy, despair, and awe, providing a haunting look at the cosmic irony of our existence. McDougall's style is indescribable, yet wholly accessible. As Kelly Cherry notes, "e;Call it magic, call it art; either way [Jo McDougall's work] is something like a miracle."e;
Measuring the New World
Measuring the New World
Safier, Neil
¥247.21
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans.?But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a "e;sacred fire"e; passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.?
Rome Measured and Imagined
Rome Measured and Imagined
Maier, Jessica
¥412.02
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "e;crumbling city"e; populated by "e;broken ruins"e; into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by Rome were spurred to develop new graphic modes for depicting the city-and the genre known as the city portrait exploded.In Rome Measured and Imagined, Jessica Maier explores the history of this genre-which merged the accuracy of scientific endeavor with the imaginative aspects of art-during the rise of Renaissance print culture. Through an exploration of works dating from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, her book interweaves the story of the city portrait with that of Rome itself.Highly interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated with nearly one hundred city portraits, Rome Measured and Imagined advances the scholarship on Renaissance Rome and print culture in fascinating ways.
Persius
Persius
Bartsch, Shadi
¥412.02
The Roman poet and satirist Persius (34-62 CE) was unique among his peers for lampooning literary and social conventions from a distinctly Stoic point of view. A curious amalgam of mocking wit and philosophy, his Satires are rife with violent metaphors and unpleasant imagery and show little concern for the reader's enjoyment or understanding.In Persius, Shadi Bartsch explores this Stoic framework and argues that Persius sets his own bizarre metaphors of food, digestion, and sexuality against more appealing imagery to show that the latter-and the poetry containing ?it-harms rather than helps its audience. Ultimately, he encourages us to abandon metaphor altogether in favor of the non-emotive abstract truths of Stoic philosophy, to live in a world where neither alluring poetry, nor rich food, nor sexual charm play a role in philosophical teaching.
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
Lena Dunham
¥66.22
Lena Dunham, acclaimed writer-director-star of HBO and Sky Atlantic’s ‘Girls’ and the award-winning movie ‘Tiny Furniture’, displays her unique powers of observation, wisdom and humour in this exceptional collection of essays. “If I could take what I’ve learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine was worthwhile. I’m already predicting my future shame at thinking I had anything to offer you, but also my future glory in having stopped you from trying an expensive juice cleanse or thinking that it was your fault when the person you are dating suddenly backs away, intimidated by the clarity of your personal mission here on earth. No, I am not a sexpert, a psychologist, or a dietician. I am not a mother of three or the owner of a successful hosiery franchise. But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.”
The Child Bride
The Child Bride
Cathy Glass
¥58.86
Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family. When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what? Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cathy and her family, Zeena gradually settles into her new life, but misses her little brothers and sisters terribly. Prevented from having any contact with them by her family who insist she has brought shame and dishonour on the whole community, Zeena tries to see them at school. But when her father and uncle find out, they bundle her into a car and threaten to set fire to her if she makes anymore trouble. Zeena is too frightened to press charges against them despite being offered police protection in a safe house. Eventually, Cathy discovers the devastating truth from Zeena, and with devastation she believes there is little she can do to help her.
The Special One: The Dark Side of Jose Mourinho
The Special One: The Dark Side of Jose Mourinho
Diego Torres
¥95.75
An explosive and shocking biography of Jose Mourinho - revealing the dark side of 'the special one'. When José Mourinho announced his return to English football, it sparked celebrations from fans and press alike. As one of the most charismatic figures in the game, his reappearance could surely only be a good thing… But is there a darker side to the Mourinho? A mischievous, scheming, even tyrannical quality to the man beneath the veneer of charm? As part of El Pais, Diego Torres is one of the premier investigative journalists in Spanish football, and in this explosive biography of 'the special one' he uncovers secrets and lies that will change the way we see Mourinho. From dodgy dealings to assassinations of players both outside and within his own team, and other shocking revelations, Prepare To Lose reveals Mourinho as a man far removed from the hero so many people consider him to be.
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography
Mike Tyson
¥80.25
One of the most talked-about and bestselling books of last year, this is the no-holds-barred autobiography of a sporting legend driven to the brink of self-destruction. The bestseller that has everyone talking. In this, his first, autobiography, ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson pulls no punches and lays bare the story of his remarkable life and career. Co-written with Larry Sloman, author of Antony Keidis’s best-selling memoir ‘Scar Tissue’, this is a visceral, and unputdown-able story of a man born and raised to brutality, who reached the heights of stardom before falling to crime, substance abuse and infamy. Full of all the controversy and complexity that you would expect from a man who delighted as much as he shocked, this is a book that will surprise and reveals a fascinating character beneath the exterior of violence. If you think you know all about Mike Tyson, read this book and think again.
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
Humphrey Carpenter
¥58.47
‘It is not possible even at great length to "pot" The Lord of the Rings in a paragraph or two. It was begun in 1936, and every part has been written many times… the labour has been colossal; and it must stand or fall, practically as it is.’ J.R.R. Tolkien was one of the most prolific letter writers of this century. Over the years he wrote to his publishers, his family, to friends (including C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison) and to fans of his books. The letters present a fascinating and highly detailed portrait of the man in many of his aspects: as storyteller, scholar, Catholic, parent and observer of the world around him. They also shed much light on his creative genius and grand design for the creation of a whole new world – Middle-earth. This collection will appeal not only to the legions of Tolkien fans, but will entertain anyone who appreciates the art of letter-writing, of which Tolkien was a master. ‘I am nearly always written to as Tolkein (not by you): I do not know why, since it is pronounced by me always -keen.’
Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere
Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere
Perec, Georges
¥147.15
Puckish and playful, Georges Perec infused avant-garde and experimental fiction with a wit and wonder that belied the serious concerns and concepts that underpinned it. A prominent member of the OuLiPo, and an abiding influence on fiction writers today, Perec used formal constraints to dazzling effect in such works as A Void-a murder mystery that contains nary an "e;e"e;-and Life A User's Manual, in which an apartment building, systematically canvassed, unfolds secrets and, ultimately offers a reflection on creation, destruction, and the devotion to art.?Before embarking on these experiments, however, Perec tried his hand at a relatively straightforward novel, Portrait of a Man. His first book, it was rejected by publishers when he submitted it in 1960, after which he filed it away. Decades after Perec's death, David Bellos discovered the manu*, and through his translation we have a chance to enjoy it in English for the first time. What fans will find here is a thriller that combines themes that would remain prominent in Perec's later work, such as art forgery, authenticity, and murder, as well as craftsman Gaspard Winckler, who whose namesakes play major roles in Life A User's Manual and W or The Memory of Childhood.?Engaging and entertaining on its own merits, and gaining additional interest when set in the context of Perec's career, Portrait of a Man is sure to charm the many fans of this postmodern master.