《AWorld on Fire》是2012年Foreman Amanda編著的圖書。
基本介紹
- 外文名：AWorld on Fire
- 作者：Foreman Amanda
- 出版時間：2012年6月
- 出版社： Little Brown
- 頁數：1008 頁
- ISBN：9780375756962
- 定價：22.6 美元
作者簡介,媒體推薦,
作者簡介
Amanda Foreman is a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. She won the Whitbread Prize for Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, which was adapted for the screen as The Duchess. Educated as an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College and withmaster’s and doctorate degrees in history from Oxford University, she is now married with five children and lives in New York.
媒體推薦
“So expansive in its scope, and so well written, that to call it a masterpiece somehow doesn’t seem to do it justice. . . . Foreman displays her exceptional gift for storytelling and for making history both fascinating and relevant.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“History as a Cecil B. DeMille epic . . . One puts down A World on Fire with a sense of awe.”—The Boston Globe
“Thrilling narrative on a grand scale.”—History Today
“[A] remarkable book . . . an extraordinary cast.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[A] magisterial history.”—Newsweek
