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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATHERLAND AND POMPEII COMES THE MOST PROVOCATIVE AND BRILLIANT NOVEL OF ANTIQUITY SINCE I, CLAUDIUS --
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A CAUTIONARY TALE OF CICERO, THE GREATEST ORATOR OF ALL TIME, AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN ROME.
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When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero -- an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium -- supreme power in the state.
Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro -- the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages) -- was always by his side.
Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his -- or any other -- age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history.
Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own -- a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism -- to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top.

《大江东去》是著名财经作家阿耐继《不得往生》畅销后创作的一部全景表现改革开放30年来中国社会、经济、生活变迁历史的长篇小说。小说以经济改革为主线，全面、细致、深入地表现了1978年以来中国改革开放三十年的伟大历史进程。展现了中国改革开放三十年来经济领域的改革、社会生活的变化、政治领域的变革以及人们精神面貌的改变等方方面面；生动而真实地刻画了活跃在改革开放前沿的代表人物，如国营企业的领导，农民企业家，个体户，政府官员，海归派，知识分子等等。人物典型，故事精彩！从表现历史的深度和广度上来说，在表现中国改革开放历史进程这一题材里，这部作品具有很大的分量和特殊意义，是一部“改革开放三十年之书”。应该书在部分网络选载后获得高度关注和追捧。

A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.

万历十五年，亦即公元1587年，在西欧历史上为西班牙舰队全部出动征英的前一年；而在中国，这平平淡淡的一年中，发生了若干为历史学家所易于忽视的事件。这些事件，表面看来虽似末端小节，但实质上却是以前发生大事的症结，也是将在以后掀起波澜的机缘。在历史学家黄仁宇的眼中，其间的关系因果，恰为历史的重点，而我们的大历史之旅，也自此开始……
《万历十五年》是黄仁宇的成名之作，也是他的代表作之一。这本书融会了他数十年人生经历与治学体会，首次以“大历史观”分析明代社会之症结，观察现代中国之来路，给人启发良多。英文原本推出后，被美国多所大学采用为教科书，并两次获得美国书卷奖历史类好书的提名。
中华书局的增订版，重新核校全部文字，增收黄仁宇《1619年的辽东战役》等数篇文字，精选彩色历史图片10余幅。

- Internationally bestselling author: "Imperium" was hailed as "quite possibly Harris's most accomplished work to date" ( "Los Angeles Times" ) and has received rave reviews from across the globe. Robert Harris's novels have sold more than 10 million copies and have been translated into thirty-seven languages.. - Powerful protagonist: Cicero returns to continue his struggle to grasp supreme power in the state of Rome. Amidst treachery, vengeance, violence, and treason, this brilliant lawyer, orator, and philosopher finally reaches the summit of all his ambitions. Cicero becomes known as the world's first professional politician, using his compassion, and deviousness, to overcome all obstacles.. - Compelling historical fiction at its best: Harris employs historical detail and an engrosing plot to give readers a man who ?is by turns a sympathetic hero and compromising manipulator who sets himself up for his own massive, violent ruin. This trilogy charges forward, propelled by the strength of Harris's stunningly fascinating prose..

《五胡录》内容简介：两汉以来，就有胡人不断向中原内地迁徙，逐渐盘踞中国北部地区，势力不断壮大。在漫长的中原文明发展史中，曾有长达约150年的时间，被汉人称为“夷狄”、“五胡”的勇武剽悍的马背民族，征服了黄河以北的中原腹地，第一次将优越感极强的汉民族打得落花流水，一败涂地，驱赶着汉民族狼狈南逃，喘息度日，史称“五胡乱华”。对这段“五胡乱华”的历史，中原文明一直讳莫如深，鲜有史录……

《五胡录》中文网络世界风行五载的激扬文字，火焰塔打造的五胡十六国历史传奇！《五胡录》以史诗般的气魄、谐趣生动的语言全景式地记录了从西晋灭吴到刘宋与北魏南北对峙这段中国历史上最惨烈、最奇特的段落——五胡十六国时期。这一时期，辽阔的华夏大地头一次被勇武剽悍的少数民族所统治，他们驱动本部族的铁骑，把自命正统的汉族军队打得落花流水，一败涂地。

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.

“风流”这个词语，早在无数凡夫俗子的意淫下变得庸俗，甚至有些下流。想当年，“风流”是孔融让梨的风度，是阮籍赶着牛车直到穷途末路之际的泣血哭嚎，是嵇康临终回望落日的一曲《广陵散》，是曹丕在王粲坟前为亡友学的一声驴叫，是王徽之为弟弟献之最后调的一次琴弦。 弦音断，风流绝。 所幸，我们还有《世说新语》，我们还有《风流绝》。 本书可以看作是魏晋文人的风流志，亦可看成是另类青年的展览秀。他们是政治家，哲学家，文学家，诗人，是历史上最“装”与最不“装”的那群人。 孔融装狂、阮籍装傻、刘伶装浑、谢安装镇定、王导装受气的小媳妇；卫玢不装，他不用装，他就是那么帅；桓温不装，他不用装，他就是那么拽；嵇康不装，他不用装，结果被自己的不装害死了。 但似乎，装与不装的人，都成了贴在中国历史上最独特的审美标本。

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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A thrilling and revelatory narrative of one of the most epic and consequential periods in 20th century history – the Arab Revolt and the secret “great game” to control the Middle East
The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” Amidst the slaughter in European trenches, the Western combatants paid scant attention to the Middle Eastern theater. As a result, the conflict was shaped to a remarkable degree by a small handful of adventurers and low-level officers far removed from the corridors of power.
Curt Prüfer was an effete academic attached to the German embassy in Cairo, whose clandestine role was to foment Islamic jihad against British rule. Aaron Aaronsohn was a renowned agronomist and committed Zionist who gained the trust of the Ottoman governor of Syria. William Yale was the fallen scion of the American aristocracy, who traveled the Ottoman Empire on behalf of Standard Oil, dissembling to the Turks in order gain valuable oil concessions. At the center of it all was Lawrence. In early 1914 he was an archaeologist excavating ruins in the sands of Syria; by 1917 he was the most romantic figure of World War One, battling both the enemy and his own government to bring about the vision he had for the Arab people.
The intertwined paths of these four men – the schemes they put in place, the battles they fought, the betrayals they endured and committed – mirror the grandeur, intrigue and tragedy of the war in the desert. Prüfer became Germany’s grand spymaster in the Middle East. Aaronsohn constructed an elaborate Jewish spy-ring in Palestine, only to have the anti-Semitic and bureaucratically-inept British first ignore and then misuse his organization, at tragic personal cost. Yale would become the only American intelligence agent in the entire Middle East – while still secretly on the payroll of Standard Oil. And the enigmatic Lawrence rode into legend at the head of an Arab army, even as he waged secret war against his own nation’s imperial ambitions.
Based on years of intensive primary document research, LAWRENCE IN ARABIA definitively overturns received wisdom on how the modern Middle East was formed. Sweeping in its action, keen in its portraiture, acid in its condemnation of the destruction wrought by European colonial plots, this is a book that brilliantly captures the way in which the folly of the past creates the anguish of the present.

《采桑子》是一部讲述民国以来满族贵胄后裔生活的长篇小说,是一幅描摹人物命运、充满文化意蕴的斑斓画卷，是一曲直面沧桑、感喟人生的无尽挽歌。清已降，大宅门儿里的满人四散，金家十四个兄妹及亲友各奔西东：长子反叛皇族当了军统，长女为票戏而痴迷；次子因萧墙之祸自尽，次女追求自由婚姻被逐家门……　　一个世家的衰落，一群子弟的遭际，形象地展现了近百年间中国历史的风云、社会生活的变造与传统文化的嬗变，令人思绪绵绵。
“采桑子”本为词牌，此书名借用之。满族著名词人纳兰性德所著《采桑子.谁翻乐府凄凉曲》，曾被梁启超先生赞为“时代哀音”，称其“眼界大而感慨深”，此书亦然。写没落而不颓放，叹沧桑终能释怀，娓娓道来，不瘟不躁，实有大家遗风。其“京味”，较之一般“京味小说”更为浓郁、醇厚，是从生活深层涌流出来的上层老北京的情趣与意蕴，具有独特的艺术魅力。

《康熙大帝》是一部系列长篇小说。它的第一卷《夺宫》着重描写康熙八岁即位后，在极其险恶的政治环境里，与辅政大臣鳌拜集团的篡位阴谋作斗争的故事。经过多次较量，他终于在十五岁时，智擒了鳌拜，巩固了帝王权力，为清王朝的振兴打下了良好的政治基础。
清康熙皇帝爱新觉罗·玄烨，以他聪慧的才智和政治品格，一生为国家民族创建了从衰败到鼎盛的伟业，是中国历代帝王中文韬武略最突出的一位君王被誉为“千古一帝”。《康熙大帝》，共分“夺宫”、“惊风密雨”、“玉宇成祥”、“乱起萧墙”四册，讲述了康熙大帝的丰功伟绩。他一生中除鳌拜、平三蕃、视察黄河、北定疆界、与蒙古诸王结盟、西徵葛而丹，汲取汉文化，发展民族经济，推行富国强民的政策措施，完成统一中华、振兴中华的大业。

像是安排一趟远行，设定的目标是《左传》，想办法在那里生活一整年，不一样的人，不一样的话语，不一样的周遭世界及其经常处境，不一样的忧烦和希望……远游回来，就是这本《眼前》了，我的读《左传》之书。
我设想每个人的视线都是一道道光、一次次的直线，孤独的，能穿透也会被遮挡，能照 亮开来某个点、某条路径却也总是迷途于广漠的幽深暗黑空间里时间里——春秋时日那些人的眼前，《左传》作者的眼前，我的眼前，我希望能把它们叠放一起；我想象这些纵横四散的直线能相交驳，这样我们就可望得到一个一个珍罕的定点，知道自己身在何时何处，这也是最基本最简单的“定位”方式。
《左传》这样一部破旧沉厚的阖上之书，仍让我感觉蓄着风雷，有我还不知道以及永远不可能知道的某些东西，好像还听得到远方隐隐滚动的雷声。
——唐诺
唐诺反复出入《左传》的世界，一次次试图走入子产、赵武、申公巫臣乃至孔子、左丘明等历史人物的内心世界，探索春秋时代最杰出的头脑在其时其地究竟看到、想到了什么，他们某一言行究竟有着何种深远的积淀与思考，从而认出藏在历史缝隙里最好的人最好的事，也让春秋时代呈现出一个更为复杂深邃、立体可感的世界。情欲之事、鬼神之说、弭兵之会、小国家的大灵魂、两千多年前的梦、春秋战国的繁花般思维……由此出发，作者旁征博引，以文学的视角，围绕八个问题进行叩问和延伸，令人惊叹地将实然历史变成哲学思索的场域，陈旧的千年文本开始荡漾进此时此刻，是为《眼前》。

Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley’s readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a precursor to the current jihad between the West and the Middle East.

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland’s enthralling account tells the story of Caesar’s generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero, Spartacus, and Brutus, to Cleopatra, Virgil, and Augustus, here are some of the most legendary figures in history brought thrillingly to life. Combining verve and freshness with scrupulous scholarship, Rubicon is not only an engrossing history of this pivotal era but a uniquely resonant portrait of a great civilization in all its extremes of self-sacrifice and rivalry, decadence and catastrophe, intrigue, war, and world-shaking ambition.

With Dictator, Robert Harris brings the saga of Cicero's life to a time when some of the most epic events in human history occurred: the collapse of the Roman republic, the subsequent civil war, the murder of Pompey and the assassination of Julius Caesar. Yet the question it asks is a timeless one: how is political freedom to be safeguarded against the triple threat of unscrupulous personal ambition, of an electoral system dominated by vested financial interests, and of the corrupting impact of waging ceaseless foreign wars? And in the very human figure of Cicero--brilliant, flawed, frequently fearful, and yet ultimately brave--Harris gives us a hero for both his own time, and for ours.

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Publication Date: May 22, 2001
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the moving love stories in American history.
Like his masterly, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Truman, David McCullough's John Adams has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. It is both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, much of it drawn from an outstanding collection of Adams family letters and diaries. In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era.
As he has with stunning effect in his previous books, McCullough tells the story from within -- from the point of view of the amazing eighteenth century and of those who, caught up in events, had no sure way of knowing how things would turn out. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, the British spy Edward Bancroft, Madame Lafayette and Jefferson's Paris "interest" Maria Cosway, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, the scandalmonger James Callender, Sally Hemings, John Marshall, Talleyrand, and Aaron Burr all figure in this panoramic chronicle, as does, importantly, John Quincy Adams, the adored son whom Adams would live to see become President.
Crucial to the story, as it was to history, is the relationship between Adams and Jefferson, born opposites -- one a Massachusetts farmer's son, the other a Virginia aristocrat and slaveholder, one short and stout, the other tall and spare. Adams embraced conflict; Jefferson avoided it. Adams had great humor; Jefferson, very little. But they were alike in their devotion to their country.
At first they were ardent co-revolutionaries, then fellow diplomats and close friends. With the advent of the two political parties, they became archrivals, even enemies, in the intense struggle for the presidency in 1800, perhaps the most vicious election in history. Then, amazingly, they became friends again, and ultimately, incredibly, they died on the same day -- their day of days -- July 4, in the year 1826.
Much about John Adams's life will come as a surprise to many readers. His courageous voyage on the frigate Boston in the winter of 1778 and his later trek over the Pyrenees are exploits that few would have dared and that few readers will ever forget.
It is a life encompassing a huge arc -- Adams lived longer than any president. The story ranges from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam, from the Court of St. James's, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation, to the raw, half-finished Capital by the Potomac, where Adams was the first President to occupy the White House.
This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war and social issues, but also about human nature, love, religious faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, John Adams is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
Amazon.com Review
Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams--who, David McCullough writes, was "not a man of the world" and not fond of politics--came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders. He found reason to dislike sectarian wrangling even more in the aftermath of war, when Federalist and anti-Federalist factions vied bitterly for power, introducing scandal into an administration beset by other difficulties--including pirates on the high seas, conflict with France and England, and all the public controversy attendant in building a nation.
Overshadowed by the lustrous presidents Washington and Jefferson, who bracketed his tenure in office, Adams emerges from McCullough's brilliant biography as a truly heroic figure--not only for his significant role in the American Revolution but also for maintaining his personal integrity in its strife-filled aftermath. McCullough spends much of his narrative examining the troubled friendship between Adams and Jefferson, who had in common a love for books and ideas but differed on almost every other imaginable point. Reading his pages, it is easy to imagine the two as alter egos. (Strangely, both died on the same day, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.) But McCullough also considers Adams in his own light, and the portrait that emerges is altogether fascinating. --Gregory McNamee
From Publishers Weekly
Here a preeminent master of narrative history takes on the most fascinating of our founders to create a benchmark for all Adams biographers. With a keen eye for telling detail and a master storyteller's instinct for human interest, McCullough (Truman; Mornings on Horseback) resurrects the great Federalist (1735-1826), revealing in particular his restrained, sometimes off-putting disposition, as well as his political guile. The events McCullough recounts are well-known, but with his astute marshaling of facts, the author surpasses previous biographers in depicting Adams's years at Harvard, his early public life in Boston and his role in the first Continental Congress, where he helped shape the philosophical basis for the Revolution. McCullough also makes vivid Adams's actions in the second Congress, during which he was the first to propose George Washington to command the new Continental Army. Later on, we see Adams bickering with Tom Paine's plan for government as suggested in Common Sense, helping push through the draft for the Declaration of Independence penned by his longtime friend and frequent rival, Thomas Jefferson, and serving as commissioner to France and envoy to the Court of St. James's. The author is likewise brilliant in portraying Adams's complex relationship with Jefferson, who ousted him from the White House in 1800 and with whom he would share a remarkable death date 26 years later: July 4, 1826, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration. (June) Forecast: Joseph Ellis has shown us the Founding Fathers can be bestsellers, and S&S knows it has a winner: first printing is 350,000 copies, and McCullough will go on a 15-city tour; both Book-of-the-Month Club and the History Book Club have taken this book as a selection.

Vivid and dramatic, this is a dazzling history of the modest family which rose to become one
of the most powerful in Europe.
The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition. Against the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, Paul Strathern explores the intensely dramatic rise and fall of the Medici family in Florence, as well as the Italian Renaissance which they did so much to sponsor and encourage. Interwoven into the narrative are the lives of many of the great Renaissance artists with whom the Medici had dealings, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Donatello, as well as scientists like Galileo and Pico della Mirandola, both of whom clashed with the religious authorities.
In his enthralling study, Strathern also follows the fortunes of those members of the Medici family who achieved success away from Florence, including the two Medici popes and Catherine de Medici, who became Queen of France and played a major role in that country through three turbulent reigns.
Vivid and accessible, the book ends with the gloriously decadent decline of the Medici family in Florence as they strove to be recognized as European princes.

The rise and fall of the Venetian empire stands unrivaled for drama, intrigue, and sheer opulent majesty. In City of Fortune, Roger Crowley, acclaimed historian and New York Times bestselling author of Empires of the Sea, applies his narrative skill to chronicling the astounding five-hundred-year voyage of Venice to the pinnacle of power.
Tracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga for the first time, City of Fortune is framed around two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade, which culminated in the sacking of Constantinople and the carve-up of the Byzantine Empire in 1204, and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503, which saw the Ottoman Turks supplant the Venetians as the preeminent naval power in the Mediterranean. In between were three centuries of Venetian maritime dominance—years of plunder and plague, conquest and piracy—during which a tiny city of “lagoon dwellers” grew into the richest place on earth.
Drawing on firsthand accounts of pitched sea battles, skillful negotiations, and diplomatic maneuvers, Crowley paints a vivid picture of this avaricious, enterprising people and the bountiful lands that came under their dominion. Defiant of emperors, indifferent to popes, the Venetians saw themselves as reluctant freebooters, compelled to take to the open seas “because we cannot live otherwise and know not how except by trade.” From the opening of the spice routes to the clash between Christianity and Islam, Venice played a leading role in the defining conflicts of its time—the reverberations of which are still being felt today. Only an author with Roger Crowley’s deep knowledge of post-Crusade history could put these iconic events into their proper context.
Epic in scope, magisterial in its understanding of the period, City of Fortune is narrative history at its most engrossing.