In this riveting new novel, bestselling author John Darnton transports us to Victorian England and around the world to reveal the secrets of a legendary nineteenth-century figure. Darnton elegantly blends the power of fact and the insights of fiction to explore the many mysteries attached to the life and work of Charles Darwin.
What led Darwin to the theory of evolution? Why did he wait twenty-two years to write On the Origin of Species? Why was he incapacitated by mysterious illnesses and frightened of travel? Who was his secret rival? These are some of the questions driving Darnton’s richly dramatic narrative, which unfolds through three vivid points of view: Darwin’s own as he sails around the world aboard the Beagle; his daughter Lizzie’s as she strives to understand the guilt and fear that struck her father at the height of his fame; and that of present-day anthropologist Hugh Kellem and Darwin scholar Beth Dulcimer, whose obsession with Darwin (and with each other) drives them beyond the accepted boundaries of scholarly research. What Hugh and Beth discover - Lizzie’s diaries and letters lead them to a hidden chapter of Darwin’s autobiography - is a maze of bitter rivalries, petty deceptions, and jealously guarded secrets, at the heart of which lies the birth of the theory of evolution.
約翰•丹頓(John Darnton)
他曾經是《紐約時報》著名記者。
他兩度奪得喬治•波爾剋奬。更憑藉一則在冷戰時期偷渡齣波蘭的故事,榮膺普利策奬。
他的第一部暢銷之作《尼安德特人》被譽為“具有廣博知識的一種娛樂性閱讀”。導演斯皮爾伯格購買瞭這本書的電影改編權。
他所有的作品,包括《尼安德特人》、《生命》、《靈魂捕手》和《實驗》等都是美國當年最紅小說,均被翻譯成多種語種。
我對小說很挑剔,主題要新鮮或者高尚或者與曆史有關,開頭要吸引人,一般2分鍾內還沒有感覺的書會直接放棄。買這本書的時候好像是追風,丹布朗風,而且對達爾文的生平很感興趣。但買迴來一直沒看,直到考完試纔看瞭一遍。本書有兩條很清晰的綫索交叉進行,雖然我一直不太喜歡這...
評分我很鬱悶的是我竟然花瞭好幾天的時間看完這本又長又臭故弄玄虛的書,途中無數次箱放棄閱讀,但還是心存僥幸的希望這故事能好物沉歸底戲肉在後頭,結果最終證明我實在是浪費時間。隻能說這本書純粹是想藉《達芬奇的密碼》的東風來掙錢。
評分這本被媒體炒作為“生物學與科學史版的《達芬奇密碼》”的《達爾文的陰謀》沒有前者那麼富有知識性和娛樂性,但它卻引齣瞭一個質樸的中心話題:科學與生活的聯係。 正如花朵需要溫暖的陽光,科學需要生活的體驗和積纍。 作者用看不見血的刀深深刺進我們自以為是的現代人身體...
評分或許我老瞭, 已無法閱讀拖遝的情節, 無法閱讀一開頭就毫無矛盾和衝突的情節, 無法閱讀沒有張力的設定, 如果,小說作為一個娛樂項目, 比我們的生活還平淡, 小說傢還要寫小說做什麼? 我讀不下去瞭,讀到第六章,決定果斷停掉. 還是把凱魯亞剋的<荒涼天使>讀完再說吧.
評分其實這幾天都在看這本書。課業緊張的緣故始終沒有時間解決完。 作為一個新人,其實我幾乎沒有寫過什麼書評。 而且,我也不認為我寫得能叫做書評,最多就是讀後感瞭。見笑! 對於達爾文,在我這個學醫的看來,最直觀的瞭解,也可以說是唯一的瞭解,就是他的進化論。至於彆的,...
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