The Golden Mean

分類: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),
品牌: Lyon
基本信息·出版社:ALFRED A KNOPF
·页码:304 页
·出版日期:2010年09月
·ISBN:0307593991
·International Standard Book Number:0307593991
·条形码:9780307593993
·EAN:9780307593993
·装帧:精装
·正文语种:英语
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媒体推荐Astartlingly original first novel by "this generation's answer to Alice Munro" ("The Vancouver Sun")--a bold reimagining of one of history's most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the Great.
342 B.C.: Aristotle is reluctant to set aside his own ambitions in order to tutor Alexander, the rebellious son of his boyhood friend Philip of Macedon. But the philosopher soon comes to realize that teaching this charming, surprising, sometimes horrifying teenager--heir to the Macedonian throne, forced onto the battlefield before his time--is a desperate necessity amid the ever more sinister intrigues of Philip's court.
Told in the brilliantly rendered voice of Aristotle--keenly intelligent, often darkly funny--"The Golden Mean "brings ancient Greece to vivid life via the story of this remarkable friendship between two towering figures, innovator and conqueror, whose views of the world still resonate today.