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人类对环境的破坏，臭氧层上有了小洞，有人说那些小洞会变得越来越大，直到有一天再没有任何东西挡在我们和太阳的火焰之间。事情发生在2222年。地球人制造了AOL——人工臭氧层。美丽的地球又有了1000年的生命。树又发芽了，下雨了，河里有了水……但是2522年，人工臭氧层已经破裂。幼嫩的树林开始枯萎，河流也逐渐干涸。凯和瑞拉从他们的宇宙飞船里看到了这危险的情景，可他们又能做些什么呢？月亮下面的部族里住着他们的朋友，可是路途遥远，而地球首领高格又不肯听从他们的指挥。

Dame History is so austere a lady that if one, has been so ill-advised as to take a liberty with her, one should hasten to make amends by repentance and confession. 

 Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th–17th September—a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o’clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. 

呼啸山庄的主人，乡绅欧肖先生带回来了一个身份不明的孩子，取名希斯克利夫，肖先生对西斯克里夫的宠爱引起了儿子亨德雷的强烈嫉妒。主人死后，亨德雷为报复把希斯克利夫贬为奴仆，并百般迫害，可是凯瑟琳跟他亲密无间，青梅竹马，他们相恋了。后来，凯瑟琳不得已嫁给了画眉田庄的文静青年埃德加。希斯克利夫悲痛欲绝之下选择出走，三年后致富回乡，凯瑟琳已嫁埃德加，却并不幸福。希斯克利夫为此进行疯狂的报复，通过设计赌博夺走了亨德雷的家财。亨德雷本人酒醉而死，儿子哈里顿成了奴仆。他还故意娶了埃德加的妹妹伊莎贝拉，进行迫害。内心痛苦不堪的凯瑟琳在生产中死去，临终前却紧紧抓住希斯克利夫不放。十年后，希斯克利夫又施计使埃德加的女儿小凯瑟琳，嫁给了自己即将死去的儿子小林顿。埃德加和小林顿都死了，希斯克利夫最终把埃德加家的财产也据为己有。复仇得逞了，但是他无法从对死去的凯瑟琳的恋情中解脱出来，最终不吃不喝苦恋而死。小凯瑟琳和哈里顿继承了山庄和田庄的产业，两人终于相爱，去画眉田庄安了家。

Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black), 1830, by Stendhal, is a historical psychological novel in two volumes,chronicling a provincial young man’s attempts to socially rise beyond his plebeian upbringing with a combination of talent and hard work, deception and hypocrisy — yet who ultimately allows his passions to betray him. The novel’s composite full title, Le Rouge et le Noir, Chronique du XIXe siécle (The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of the 19th Century),indicates its two-fold literary purpose, a psychological portrait of the romantic protagonist, Julien Sorel, and an analytic, sociological satire of the French social order under the Bourbon Restoration (1814–30). In English, Le Rouge et le Noir is variously translated as Red and Black, Scarlet and Black, and The Red and the Black, without the sub-title.

"A tiny sound--perhaps the scrape of a boot on a ladder. Travis edged back into a compartment. A flash of light momentarily lighted the corridor; the approaching figure was using an electric torch. Travis drew his knife with one hand, reversed it so he could use the heavy hilt as a silencer. The other was hurrying now, on his way to investigate the burned-out engine cabin. Travis could hear the rasp of his fast breathing. Now!" ... Alien technology scavenged by U.S. and Russian scientists has started a race to colonize planets outside our solar system, but the U.S. scientists are losing the race. In a desperate move the U.S. government decides to use a group of Apache volunteers in an experimental attempt to colonize a primitive planet, but before they can even begin their spaceship crashes on the planet Topaz...

Written towards the end of the second century AD, "The Golden Ass" tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.

Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876, entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". In the second half, Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, and the new, large cities, and adds his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain, the book is said to have been the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript.

本书出版之后，引起美国各州统治集团的恐慌。许多州禁止小说发行；有的议员出来指责；俄克拉何马州阻止电影公司去拍电影。是左翼文学一部重要的作品。左翼文学是美国世纪三十年代的文学主流。一般说，凡是反映了当时群众斗争的作品，都属于左翼文学之列，包括党员作家和像斯坦贝克那样的非党作家的作品。斯坦贝克以其切身的生活经历描写了经济危机期间广大农民的苦难和斗争，代表了左翼文学一个重要的方面。 内容简介：经济危机时期中部各州农民破产、逃荒和斗争为背景。俄克拉何马和邻近的得克萨斯、堪萨斯、阿肯色各州的农民负债累累，土地被大公司没收，无家可归，只得向西迁移，想在加利福尼亚州寻找出路。小说以约德一家为代表，记叙了他们一家十二口从俄克拉荷马州向加利福尼亚州逃荒的艰难经历。他们将家中的一切变卖后，换来一辆破旧的汽车，一家坐车向西逃荒。途中年轻的诺亚和康尼则在半路上开了小差。到了加州，一切并不像他们想像的那样美好，等待他们的仍然是失业、饥饿和困苦。那里的农场主利用剩余的劳动力压低佃农助工资，各地势力敲诈勒索和迫害流浪的农民。于是农民愤怒了，他们团结起来，奋起抗争。“愤怒”便是对导致人们贫困的不公的社会制度的强烈抗议。