导语

  

    "Warner brilliantly communicates the kaleidoscope of cultures, tribes  and nationalities encountered by Leto on her epic journey. Driven  by a mystery that keeps the reader guessing to the final pages, The Leto Bundle has the verve and immediacy of an e-mail...Beautifully written, the language rich and sensuous, with a seductive range of references... Tremendous fun"
           --Literary Review

内容提要

  

    When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman, Leto.
    On the run, in a far-offera of civil strife, Leto gives birth to twins, shelters with wolves, survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander.stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquities and then works as a maid in a war-torn city. She loses her son but saves her daughter during a long siege. As the novel sweeps from mythological times and the Middle Ages to the treasure-hunting of Victorian Europe and into the present day Leto reappears in different guises. Eventually she becomes a servant to a rock singgers,and begins to search fo her son.

PROLOGUE
PART ONE: Lycania('The Letoniast Version')
1.A Grainy Blue Egg
2.Protest in the Museum
3.In the She-WoWs Den
4.'A Vanished Mystery Religion'
5.'The Angel of the Present'
6.A Tirzahner Baby
7.The Rushcutters' Assault
8.'People Like You': The Rise of Gramercy Poule
9.Kim to Hortense; Hortense to Kim
PART TWO: In the Convent(A Petition and Two Chronicles)
1.'Item, One Frog'
2.The Deposition of Karim the Equerry
3.Homepage: http://www.hswu.org
4.Kim to Hortense
5.The Plane Tree and the Lotus
6.Hortense to Kim; Kim to Hortense
7.'A Witch's Duel in the Hellenistic World'
8.Kim to Hortense; Hortense to Kim
9.A Desert Outpost (from the Chronicle of Barnabas)
10.Kim to Hortense, twice
11.An Anniversary (from Annals of the Convent)
12.Kim to Hortense; Hortense to Kirn
PART THREE: The Keep, Cadenas-la-ffolie(The 'Cunmar Romance')
1.A Hostage in the Outpost
2.Kim to Hortense, twice
3.'Of the Great Subterfuge of Cunmar the Terrible'
4.Hortense to Kim
5.In the Necropolis
6.Kiln to Hortense
7.An Earring Recovered
8.Kim to Hortense, again and again
PART FOUR: On Board HMS Shearwater
1.Stowaways
2.A Cheval Glass
3.Some Oranges
4.The Bronze Fly
5.In the Caravanserai
6.A Lump of Haschisch
PART FIVE: Tirzah and After
1.The Road to Tirzah
2.In the Basement of the Hospital
3.An Encounter in Pontona
4.An Animal Refuge
5.A Scrap of Scarf
6.Hortense to Kim; Kim to Hortense,again and again