TIDES OF WAR
Book ID/图书代码： 11701211B45685
English Summary/英文概要： At the heart of this sweeping, panoramic novel, set in Regency London and Spain during the Peninsular War, stands the lively, outspoken Harriet, poised on the threshold of the adult world. Her new husband, James, is setting off to join the Duke of Wellington’s troops in Spain. Left in London, she is taken under the wing of Kitty, Lady Wellington. While the women plunge into new worlds of politics, finance and science, the men face the bloody reality of the battlefield, testing their endurance to the hilt. There are betrayals on both sides, and at times it seems their love cannot endure. Their dramatic stories whirl us through the tumult of the Regency at home and abroad.
Tides of War is drenched in an unforgettable atmosphere, from the mantillas and palms of Seville to gas lamps in foggy London. It carries us deep into the anguish of men at war, the taste of freedom offered to the women left behind, the passions of scientists, doctors and inventors and the burning drive of émigrés in a society on the cusp of change. As Harriet and James pursue their destinies, facing hope and heartache in equal measure, this stunning novel returns us all to the vivid, lost world of the past.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一部講述恢宏歷史的成功巨作，《TIDES OF WAR》是一篇以英國與西班牙之間的半島戰爭為歷史背景的宏偉的，浪漫的全景小說。其中的故事不但彰顯了貴族神韻，還顯示了Tillyard對於那個時期人物特性描述的天賦。故事中的主要人物Harriet，一位年輕的，直言不諱的女主角。她的未婚夫戰士James，打算陪同他的朋友，一位同樣愛戀上Harriet魅力的軍醫，加入在西班牙參戰的惠靈頓公爵的軍隊。她離開倫敦，受到惠靈頓女士，Kitty的一路護翼。當女人們陷入新世界政治，金融和科學的洪流中，男人面對血腥現實的戰場，考驗著他們所有的耐力。James愛上了一位迷人的西班牙間諜，但Harriet這裡也同時出現了不忠，看上去有時他們的愛情無法天長地久。他們之間戲劇般的故事帶領我們穿越了英國國內外，那段動盪的攝政時期，重塑了從作為故事中心人物的惠靈頓公爵和具有才幹的Nathan Rothschild，到把煤氣照明帶入倫敦的年輕企業家，和實在的警長和他熱情洋溢的妻子。
《TIDES OF WAR》充滿了讓人難以忘懷的氛圍，從當時（西班牙的）塞維利亞女士手中的小披肩到霧都倫敦的煤氣燈。當Harriet和James糾纏於自己的命運，在相同的情況下，面臨著希望和心碎，這部精彩的小說向我們重現了那段的生動的，失落的世界。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况："In short, war is as transformative for those who remain at home as for those who fight it, and historian Tillyard, making her fiction debut, does a superb job of portraying those transformations with deft, economical prose and metaphors that are as instructive as they are descriptive. This sophisticated, unusual portrait of Regency society will appeal to all readers of historical fiction, especially admirers of Bernard Cornwell."—Library Journal, Starred Review"Tillyard is at her best with historical figures and when depicting the era; readers share Harriet’s discovery of the waltz, Jane Austen, and ice cream, and witness cutting-edge battlefield surgeries under real-life Surgeon Gen. James McGrigor."—Publishers Weekly
"Dazzling—I love this book. It’s beautifully written, the characters are deeply involving and the historical settings so right—in short, Tides of War is a triumph."—Simon Schama
"Stella Tillyard is famous for the bravura of her writing, so it should come as no surprise that her fifth book is not a biography but a historical novel… The result suggests that history’s loss will be fiction’s gain; Tides of War is one of the most assured literary debuts in years… Stella Tillyard has written a modern novel that is the perfect answer to anyone who believes that the past is out of date."—Amanda Foreman, Financial Times
"A remarkably instructive novel. Tillyard embellishes a plot too intricate for summary with a plethora of detail. Readers…will find much to fascinate them... Tillyard is a fluent and attractive chronicler of historical detail and some of her imaginative liberties are ingenious… An entertaining fictional debut."—The Telegraph (UK)
"Hugely enjoyable… In its intelligent, classy, entertaining way, the book is reminiscent of that other fine novelist of the Napoleonic wars, Patrick O’Brian."—Angus Clarke, The Times (UK)
"Love, betrayal, war and peace charge this powerful debut."—Fanny Blake, Woman and Home (UK)
"This novel is packed with marvelous period detail… Tillyard writes in fluid, largely understated prose, and her descriptions are wonderful."—Lucy Atkins, The Sunday Times (UK)
"Seldom, since reading Jane Austen, have I wanted to slip between the pages of a book and become one of its characters. But in Tides of War, Stella Tillyard’s first novel, the clever, messy heroine who prefers chemistry to needlework filled me with roughly the same longing I felt when reading Emma as a teenager…. With Tides of War, she makes fiction as real as history and considerably more compelling."—Lucy Kellaway, Financial Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Stella Tillyard生於英國，在牛津大學學習英國文學。她的哲學博士論文《論二十世紀的藝術》，完成於1985年，1987年以《現代主義影響》命名發表。在1981年，她成為哈佛諾克斯學會成員，隨後在美國加州大學洛杉磯分校教授英語文學和歷史。1993年，她移居義大利的佛羅倫斯。《Aristocrats》，她的一部關於十八世紀四個姐妹的自傳故事於1994年出版，獲得了今日歷史獎。福西特獎和最具價值獎，並在2000年，被英國國家廣播公司/美國波士頓公共電視臺製作成戲劇傑作系列。她隨後的作品包括《Citizen Lord，the life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald》（1998年，入圍英國惠特筆獎）以及《A Royal Affair, about Goerge 3rd and his siblings》（2006年）。2005年，她成為英國倫敦大學瑪麗女王生活信件編輯中心的訪問學者，在那裡她教授歷史和傳記練習。她曾為許多報紙和雜誌列席評委。大多是為2010年非小說的的英國廣播公司的詹森獎。Stella Tillyard目前在倫敦和弗洛倫薩兩地居住，他有兩個15歲和23歲大的孩子。《Tides of War》是她的第一部小說。
PhD on twentieth century art criticism, completed in 1985, was published as The Impact of Modernism in 1987. In 1981 she became Knox Fellow at Harvard and subsequently taught English literature and art history there and at UCLA. She moved to Florence, Italy, in 1993. Aristocrats, her biography of four eighteenth century sisters was published in 1994, won the History Today Award, the Fawcett Prize and the Meilleur Livre Etranger and was made into a BBC/WGBH Masterpiece Theatre series in 2000. Her subsequent books include Citizen Lord, the life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald (1998, shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) and A Royal Affair, about Goerge 3rd and his siblings (2006). In 2005 she became visiting scholar at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, where she taught the history and practice of biography. She has written for many newspapers and magazines and sat on several prize juries, mostly recently the 2010 BBC Johnson prize for non-fiction.
Stella Tillyard lives in London and Florence and has two children, aged 15 and 23. Tides of War is her first novel.
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