圖書標籤: 芝加哥 曆史 英文原版 ErikLarson history 鍍金時代 nonfiction 小說
发表于2024-12-23
The Devil in the White City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.
Erik Larson, author of the international bestseller Isaac's Storm, was nominated for a National Book Award for The Devil in the White City, which also won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing. His latest book, In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, has been acquired for publication in 20 countries and optioned by Tom Hanks for a feature film. Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. He lives in Seattle with his wife, who is the director of neonatology at the University of Washington Medical Center and at Children's Hospital of Seattle, and the author of the nonfiction memoir, Almost Home, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations.
這是我看過的第二部non-fiction,導師Steve推薦的,當時差點還給我買瞭一本。這本書讓我徹底的愛上瞭芝加哥的城市,然後我每次去芝加哥的時候,都要按照書中的內容,去探索。這部書簡直就是導遊啊
評分Feels like a middlebrow popular fiction. The double-plot of the architect and the serial killer is both a highlight and a drawback.
評分Feels like a middlebrow popular fiction. The double-plot of the architect and the serial killer is both a highlight and a drawback.
評分one of the most fascinating books i've ever read
評分故事展開實在是慢,大量的篇幅都圍繞the white city在寫,我要看的是the devil好不?!
《黑客帝国》里,墨菲斯展开双手分别放着两颗药丸,红色和蓝色,他对尼奥说,红色知道真相但会很痛苦,蓝色会睡个好觉,第二天上班、下班,生活依旧。无疑,吞下红色会进入真实的世界,那么蓝色则是虚幻的世界,我常常无法理解什么样的生活才是真实的生活,就像《阿凡达》的主...
評分《黑客帝国》里,墨菲斯展开双手分别放着两颗药丸,红色和蓝色,他对尼奥说,红色知道真相但会很痛苦,蓝色会睡个好觉,第二天上班、下班,生活依旧。无疑,吞下红色会进入真实的世界,那么蓝色则是虚幻的世界,我常常无法理解什么样的生活才是真实的生活,就像《阿凡达》的主...
The Devil in the White City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024