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No Easy Day
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Mark Owen / Kevin Maurer publishing house: Dutton Adult 2012 - 9
For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments. From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group--commonly known as SEAL Team Six-- has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history. In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers onto the field of battle in America’s ongoing War on Terror and details the selection and training process for one of the most elite units in the military. Owen’s story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALs’ quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes numerous previously unreported missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11. In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe.
金融的逻辑
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★ 7.2 34 ratings
[美国] 陈志武 publishing house: 国际文化出版公司 2009 - 8
《金融的逻辑》探讨金融发展和一般市场发展对文化和社会带来的影响。作者从理论到事实对西方金融的发展正本清源,追溯财富基因,解读资本密码,剖析金融危机。作者创造性地从金融作为“大社会”中一分子的角度研究金融,对儒家文化进行金融学反思,直言市场经济是个人解放的必由之路,发展金融是中国的唯一出路。作者长期关注社会转型问题,痛击时弊,观点振聋发聩。“政府有钱不如民间富有”、“西方的兴起主要靠制度而不是掠夺”、“消费驱动型模式不会改变” 等观点启发了更多人思考转型中的中国社会、经济和文化。
看懂世界格局的第一本书
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★ 6.6 10 ratings
王伟 publishing house: 南方出版社 2011 - 3
用一本书看懂世界格局! 听不懂新闻,看不清局势,时政谈话无从插口?现在可以和这些困窘说拜拜。 《看懂世界格局的第一本书》细数近代世界史政事件,从资本流向和地缘政治的角度,将其中的是非曲直剖析的淋漓尽致,呈上一部国与国之间的精彩大戏。 这是一本给人意外惊喜的书!除了作为普及世界格局的入门读本,本书作者用超脱常规的经济学、军事、国际关系思维客观深刻地解构了当前国际格局背后的利益格局以及大集团之间的微妙博弈,本书难能可贵的同时受到多名专家学者的击手称赞,凤凰卫视主持人杨锦麟、曹景行,上海交大著名学者江晓原、人大教授张鸣老师对本书作者给与了极高评价,江晓原老师将作者称为“本年度最应被请进大学校园讲课的人”。 这本书是观察世界、了解世界当下的第三只眼睛。(杨锦麟 凤凰卫视主持人) 理解今日的世界格局,是为了开创明日属于中国的新格局。(江晓原 上海交通大学教授) 世界格局是个很俗的词,大学里的国政专业的人老是讲,但却讲不过出租车司机。出租车司机会讲,但讲不出道理。第一次听人讲格局,讲得这么通俗、这么有趣,用经济学的原理,把世界的变迁,讲得津津有味。(张鸣 人民大学教授) 放眼看世界,花精力去了解世界,有了解才有客观实际。(曹景行 新闻时事评论员) 读完本书,世界格局的全貌就在你的面前!(张宇清 《世界新闻报》总编) 本书用大开大合的笔法将复杂多变的世界全景呈现出来,并从政治经济和地缘政治的角度对以上这段历史加以回顾和剖析,将其中所隐含的背后规律一一展现,使读者能够了解当今世界格局形成的由来以及未来的走向。更重要的是,我们可以在这一过程中,为未来的中国找出一些启示。正如江晓原先生所说:“理解今日的世界格局,是为了开创明日属于中国的新格局。”
我的邻居是妖怪
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★ 6.0 5 ratings
天下霸唱 2011 - 11
天下霸唱说:这次不是写小说、讲故事,都是自己亲身经历的离奇诡异事件,有七分真实三分传奇。从天津子牙河旧桥墩子里封着的僵尸,到公司的夜半闹鬼事件;从韦陀庙的耗子避乱搬家,到我那“宅仙”托生的妖怪邻居,都是耳闻目见、亲身所历,在此如实叙述,其实,正是这些元素成就了《鬼吹灯》的写作。此次翻开这本书,传奇即将揭晓……
Country Driving
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★ 8.6 26 ratings
[美国] 彼得·海斯勒 publishing house: Harper 2010 - 2
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker , acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. Country Driving begins with Hessler's 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital's auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center. Peter Hessler, whom The Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.
古董局中局
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★ 7.3 155 ratings
马伯庸 publishing house: 凤凰出版社 2012 - 9
字画、青铜、金石、瓷器……每一件古董背后,都是深厚的历史积淀和文化传承。而每一件仿冒品背后,都是机关算尽的机巧和匪夷所思的圈套。 古董造假、字画仿冒,古已有之。东晋时,康昕仿冒王羲之的书法真迹,连他儿子王献之也辨认不出来;宋朝皇帝宋徽宗喜欢造假,仿制了一大批商代的青铜兵器,摆在宫廷里,乐此不疲。在古董斑驳的纹理中,承载着一个民族的文化,一个时代的风貌,它的价值,不是金钱可以衡量的,但可怜的人类却只会用金钱去衡量它。而本来一文不值的东西,精心涂抹一番,就可以价值连城;巨大的利益,令无数人铤而走险,更有一些家族,父传子,子传孙,世世代代在这个晦暗不明、凶险万状的江湖上营生。 许愿就是这样一个家族的传人,北京城琉璃厂一家古董店的店主,30岁,平时靠家传的半本鉴宝书混饭吃,青铜玉器、字画金石,一眼就断得出真伪,说得出渊源传承,靠这点儿绝活,过着平静而滋润的日子。但有一天,一个突然到来的访客,把他带进了一个做梦都想不到的阴谋中,一件坊间传说的稀世珍宝,竟然和自己有着千丝万缕的联系,一个几十年前做的局,竟然已经编排进自己的命运。许愿将使出浑身解数,置身生死之间,和蛰伏了几十年的各方神圣斗智斗勇,和古董江湖里造假做局的各种奇技淫巧一一遭遇……
A Feast for Crows
A Feast for Crows Douban Goodreads Eggplant.place Skybridge
★ 8.8 17 ratings
[美国] 乔治·R·R·马丁 publishing house: Bantam 2007 - 10
It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears. . . . With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in King’s Landing. Robb Stark’s demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist—or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces—some familiar, others only just appearing—are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes . . . and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests—but only a few are the survivors. Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy that began with A Game of Thrones. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace . . . only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.
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Feb. 3, 2013
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云梦城之谜
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黄易 publishing house: 云南出版集团公司、云南人民出版社 2009 - 4
《云梦城之谜》开场悬疑,云梦泽凶案后,十年来朝中多次派人进入云梦泽搜索古城,每次都无功而返,古城就像消失了……清楚整件事来龙去脉者,只有五个半,五个人分别是皇上、权倾朝中的凤公公、厂卫第一高手季聂提、“御前猎手”辜月明,湖广布政史司钱世臣。另外半个,则是人称“道家行者”的戈墨,此人道法高明,有捉鬼驱魔的特殊本领。与辜月明更是势不两立。辜明月奉命要拿回楚盒与夫猛人头,他究竟能否解开云梦城消失之谜?解开自己害怕战争这无可告人的心结?千年前到底发生了什麼事?为什麼他们都曾像置身其中?而在千年後彼此纠缠不休。寻找真相的前路步步凶险,他能揭开整件事是鬼神之力亦或是政治之谜?……
Economics in One Lesson
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Henry Hazlitt publishing house: Three Rivers Press 1981 - 4
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others. Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson , his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Many current economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than 50 years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson . Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong — and strongly reasoned — anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson , every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication.
Chronicles of Narnia Audio Collection
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C. S. Lewis publishing house: HarperChildrensAudio 2000 - 11
The Chronicles of Narnia Audio Collection brings all seven of C.S. Lewis's beloved Narnia tales to life as they are read by some of the world's most celebrated and renowned performers. Read by a professional reader.
狂风沙(上下册)
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司马中原 publishing house: 译林出版社 2011 - 6
本书是司马中原的传世经典之作,它以北方农村为背景,以关八爷带领的一群饱受北洋军阀盘剥和欺凌的北方汉子为主要人物,以走私盐为主线,深情传神地刻画了一幅宏伟壮阔而又神秘传奇的历史画卷。在这里,关八爷把抵抗北洋军阀、暗助北伐军的统一大业,在盐城起义、解救百姓作为自己毕生的大事。他通达世故,明辨是非,以一种特有的草根智慧,在儿女情长和公众利益、家族恩怨和民族大义的取舍上,黑白分明,凛然正直。他的大智大勇降服了土匪,揪出了家族的内奸,甚至发动盐城百姓抵抗了北洋军阀的暴政,同时他也付出了惨痛的代价:一起出生入死的兄弟填身沟壑,对他情深意重的女人抱憾而亡;他瞎了一只眼,虽然最后有小馄饨陪伴,他终将悲怆地远走他乡。全文明线暗线相交,气势恢宏,情节曲折跌宕,充满了粗犷的乡野风情和浓郁的中国色彩。
伟大的博弈
The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power Douban Goodreads
★ 8.0 35 ratings
[美] 约翰·S·戈登 translator: 祁斌 publishing house: 中信出版社 2005 - 1
《伟大的博弈》是一部讲述以华尔街为代表的美国资本市场发展历史的著作。这本书以华尔街为主线展示了美国资本市场发展的全过程。它生动地讲述了华尔街从一条普普通通的小街发展成为世界金融中心的传奇般的历史,展现了以华尔街为代表的美国资本市场在美国经济发展和腾飞过程中的巨大作用。书中大量的历史事实和经济数据,让读者可以更全面和准确地认识美国资本市场的发展过程。
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Aug. 7, 2012
Aug. 7, 2012 Review 外行看热闹 - a review of 伟大的博弈
城邦暴力團 (上)
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张大春 publishing house: 時報文化 2009
《城邦暴力團》是武俠小說,一部傳奇又真實、一部奇門盾甲又兼說1949以來台灣近代一塊小歷史的、一部解個人身世之謎也解時代亂局之謎的好看小說。 表面看,這故事從頭到尾就是一個「逃亡」的故事。主角孫小六,一個有功夫的人,不斷逃亡的故事。在他逃亡期間,他一連遇到了七個老人。這七個老人就慢慢揭露了孫小六的身世。 孫小六這個人,是一個片斷歷史裡的時代人縮影。他雖然不斷透過特殊才能的學習和擁有來獲得生命力,可是這些都沒有用。時空的錯置與時代的乖離,讓他只有不斷地逃亡。 《城邦暴力團》也可以看成一部中國近代史。它包括了三組歷史:一是從漕幫老大萬硯方死後,他和他的朋友留下七部著作,拼湊起清代民間傳說中的江湖會黨的內部爭鬥史;二是從1937年二老(“老頭子”和“老爺子”)會面,漕幫八千子弟參加抗戰開始,一直到萬硯方流落臺灣,因暗中阻止“反攻大陸”計劃而被狙殺的風雨民國史;三是?事人張大春?追尋歷史線索而搜集材料並逃亡的冒險史。 【獲獎記錄】 .中國時報開卷一周好書榜(2000年) .聯合報讀書人每周新書金榜(2000年) .中央日報年度十大中文創作書獎 (2000 年) 本書特色 除了聖經和中國經典,一部讓倪匡一看再看的傳奇小說。 張大春寫作履歷中,折返中國敘事傳統的關鍵性作品。 讓中國評論家及作家們對張大春剮目相看的標竿作品。 從1949年走到今天,五十年來,這些隱匿在社會角落裡的人們,他們的身世就濃縮成了這一部一定要讓你咋舌的小說!!! 《城邦暴力團》就字數篇幅來說是作家張大春最具代表性的長篇,就題材來說也是作者最具野心的敘事嘗試,有人說這是金庸之後,最令人期待的新世代武俠作品(倪匡語),也有論者指出作者用這樣一部“江湖即現實”的小說,想重新書寫本世紀以來的中華民族風雨史,讓歷史在廟堂、民間與知識份子三維視角下呈現出複雜的敘事效果。(陳思和語) 作者選擇逃離現實的武俠敘事加上傳記寫作的手法,將兩種不可能的文體混在一起,這是非常大膽的寫作手法。
窃明第二部·虎狼
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灰熊猫 publishing house: 辽宁教育出版社 2010 - 6
镇东侯黄石诱杀叛乱的义兄孔有德,孔有德部下季退思等大将叛乱。刚加入新军的许平等人以志愿军的身份参加了德州保卫战,紧急中,他假冒阵亡将军义子,指挥东森营将士进军德州。苦战之后,许平得以授勋,并与及时赶来援助的金神通结成好友。金神通是世家之子,他与黄石两个儿子之间的微妙关系,出身低微的许平略知一二,却不懂其中关窍。当许平得知茶亭邂逅的心上人竟是黄石之女黄子君时,心中更是辗转。 讨伐山东叛军一战,许平决心以战功求世职,以博取向佳人求亲的资格。在军中,许平力排众议修改战局推演,并夺得先锋之印。对黄石来说,新军重用功勋子弟为官的现状不容乐观,有才干又充满野心的许平,正是他改变新军现状的一剂良药。 但是这次,文官集团再次与新军将领达成了微妙的制衡,许平被迫杀平民以获功。由于指挥失当,新军陷入苦战,许平被朝廷误认牺牲后更替活着的人背上了多重罪名。而此时,许平获悉了黄子君出嫁的消息…… 许平带领的长青营为何会惨败于叛军,许平为何蒙上层层不白之冤,他的人生,今后将走向何方?而此时,乱世中另一位英雄,李自成,早已向许平发出了攻心一击!
三體
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★ 8.7 12 ratings
刘慈欣 publishing house: 貓頭鷹出版社 2011 - 3
◆ 二○○六年中國科幻銀河獎特別獎 ◆ 二十一世紀中國文壇最值得注意的作家——劉慈欣,最暢銷系列作在台上市! 【名家推薦】 《三體》想像奇詭,氣勢磅礴,寄托深遠,堪稱百年中文科幻小説的首選。—―王德威 【本書特色】 二○○六年,《三體》開始在《科幻世界》雜誌連載,引起熱烈迴響;二○一○年,《三體Ⅲ:死神永生》上市,首刷十萬本甫上市立即銷售一空,緊急再刷。「三體」不但是華文科幻的最熱話題,劉慈欣更成為第一個被好萊塢買下電影改編權的華文科幻作家! 劉慈欣在中國擁有數量龐大的擁護者,王德威譽為「二十一世紀中國文壇最值得注意的作家」。《三體》系列所展現的開闊格局,將華文科幻帶向前所未有的高度。劉慈欣之於科幻,如同金庸之於武俠,都將類型小說寫出了迥異於以往的恢弘格局。他筆下的許多人物角色,也深植書迷心中,令人神往。 人類不斷向宇宙發出訊號,但我們不知道,宇宙鄰居會如何回應…… 天才科學家接二連三自殺,線索指向一個名叫「三體」的連線遊戲。「三體」是天體物理學的一個永恆問題,三顆質量、初始位置和速度都是任意的天體,在相互之間萬有引力的作用下,是否存在運轉的定律?如果這三個天體是三顆太陽,地球夾在中間,又會是什麼樣的世界?這個遊戲集合了全世界的科學與文化精英,共同密謀地球與人類的未來…… 「零道德的文明宇宙完全可能存在,有道德的人類文明如何在這樣一個宇宙中生存?」劉慈欣將宇宙倫理的各種可能,鋪陳出長達八十八萬字的浩瀚長卷「三體」系列,《三體》為本系列的首部曲。 三體系列:《三體》、《三體II:黑暗森林》、《三體III:死神永生》 【專業推薦】 ◎ 哈佛大學東亞語言及文明系Edward C. Henderson講座教授 王德威 ◎ 倪匡科幻獎歷屆首獎得主 龍俊榮、魏嘉華、王經意、丁丁虫、魏嘉華 ◎ 中國著名科幻作家 王晉康、韓松 ◎ 香港科幻會會長 李偉才
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
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[美] 比尔·布莱森 / Bill Bryson publishing house: Broadway / Broadway Books 2000 - 6 other title: I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were greeted by a new and improved America that boasts microwave pancakes, twenty-four-hour dental-floss hotlines, and the staunch conviction that ice is not a luxury item. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are a Bryson hallmark, I'm a Stranger Here Myself recounts his sometimes disconcerting reunion with the land of his birth. The result is a book filled with hysterical scenes of one man's attempt to reacquaint himself with his own country, but it is also an extended if at times bemused love letter to the homeland he has returned to after twenty years away.
武道狂之詩 卷五:高手盟約
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喬靖夫 publishing house: 蓋亞 2010 - 9
群龍聚首。 決勝天下。 「如遇阻道或求戰者,須懷無怖無情之心,即其為神佛魔魅,必盡死力斬殺之!」 武當派精銳直闖「盈花館」營救掌門姚蓮舟,威懾各派群豪; 三路神祕人馬趕赴激戰現場,身分揭盅 「水中斬月」尹英川窄巷單挑桂丹雷「太極拳」, 八卦刀名宿硬碰最強接刀手,勝負只在分毫之間! 荊裂、虎玲蘭、錫曉巖高空決戰,三柄最霸道的刀,刃光星火裡見真章! 燕橫等與武當仇敵生死對陣,情勢最凶險之際,扭轉局面的一人竟然是童靜 夕陽即將落盡,西安之戰隨之告終
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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Jane Austen / 塞思·格雷厄姆-史密斯 publishing house: Quirk Books,US 2009 - 4
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies , an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield. Can Elizabeth vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses,