Cleopatra: A Life

入选《纽约时报》2010年度十大好书

埃及艳后的一生，已经被无数人讲了无数次。然而即使在她自己的那个时代，这位埃及女王就被蒙上了神话化的色彩，为人们所误传。在斯泰西·西弗版本的《埃及艳后：一生》中，西弗运用其特色鲜明的融风趣、智慧和高超文笔于一体的写作风格，简练而又优雅地为我们重新描述了埃及艳后克丽奥佩特拉的一生，摒除了2000年来世人加诸在她身上的偏见和传言。

作者：Stacy Schiff 

出版社: Virgin Books (2011年7月7日)

平装: 400页

语种： 英语

ISBN: 075353956X

条形码: 9780753539569

商品尺寸: 12.6 x 2.5 x 19.8 cm

商品重量: 295 g

内容简介

Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. 

Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order, a generation before the birth of Christ. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff's is a luminous reconstruction of a dazzling life.

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"Under [Schiff's] pen, the mirage of Cleopatra shimmers down the deserts of time and suddenly stands before us, in new and thrilling sharp focus ... full of well researched context and much learned speculation" (Jan Moir Daily Mail)

"We see a great queen painted in dazzling colours in the twilight of a dazzling kingdom ... new life is breathed into an indisputably authentic icon" (Sunday Times)

"An inspired combination of carefully parsed texts, new research and pulse-quickening descriptive writing ... formidable and spellbinding achievement" (Guardian)

"[Schiff] has done her homework and writes elegantly and wittily, creating truly evocative word pictures." (Independent)

"Schiff has produced a highly literary, imaginative, coherent narrative, "restoring context" to the sources she delves into in an intelligent way. Her writing is energetic, evocative... She also has an unerring nose for what is interesting" (Daily Telegraph)

作者简介

Stacey Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review and The Times Literary Supplement and she has also received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2000 Schiff won the Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Saint-Exupéry: A Biography about Antoine de Saint Exupéry. In 2006 she received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta.