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Edna Ferber was an early 20th century American author and playwright. Ferber worked for several newspapers. She covered the 1920 Republican and Democratic national conventions for the United Press Association. Her novels often featured a strong female protagonist and often had a secondary character who faced some form of discrimination. In 1925 her novel So Big won a Pulitzer Prize. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber's first novel. Dawn was a newspaperwoman working in New York. When she gets ill she must return to Michigan. Dawn had spent years caring for her mentally ill husband. She had lived in boarding houses and all of this had exhausted her. She was only 28, but often felt like an old woman. The care of her sister Norah and her family along with the attentions of the handsome German doctor, Ernst Von Gerhard, slowly bring Dawn back to life.

《蓝色列车之谜》(The Mystery of the Blue Train)，又译作：蓝色列车，蓝色特快上的秘密。 适时阿加莎·克里斯蒂正遭离异之痛，于悲痛麻木中创作此书，可惜此书口碑不佳。 被称为阿婆的四大名著之一。 当豪华的“蓝色列车”到达尼斯的时候，卧车管理员试图叫醒熟睡的鲁丝·凯特林。但她再也无法醒来了——因为她已经被谋杀，并且遭到了毁容，几乎难以辨认。 更有甚者，她珍贵的火心宝石不见了。主要的嫌疑对象是鲁丝的丈夫德里克。他与鲁丝已经分居多时，行同陌路。 然而波洛却不相信，于是他上演了一场奇怪的再乘蓝色列车之旅，并且还有凶手同行……

人生的风景，说到最后，是心灵的风景。时间走远。消逝在月色的尽头。不因时间而遗憾。不因月圆而伤感。不因花开而孤单。不因花败而悲怨。人生哪能尽如人意。只求无愧于心。使人成熟的不是岁月，而是你的经历。当百味尝遍，自然看透；看透世态，看淡世事。生活是一本精深的书，别人的注释代替不了自己的理解。趁年轻，要走得更远，看到别处的新天新地，感受别处的精彩纷呈，然后有所发现，有所创造。有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是：真、善、美。

They called him Number Thirteen, the latest and best of Dr. von Horn's attempts to create life from chemicals. He found himself an almost-human on von Horn's hideaway jungle island off the coast of Borneo. He saw the monsters that had preceded him and grew used to those dreadful travesties of humanity. Not until Number thirteen met the American girl who was von Horn's prisoner did he realize how different he was from the others. Then, monster or not, he turned against his master and his "brothers" and threw in hhis lot with the girl in a desperate attempt to escape the island of terror.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

A league of tangled forest and canyon behind Rough-and-Ready, for which he had paid Don Ramon's heirs an extravagant price in the presumption that it was auriferous, furnished the most accessible timber to build the town, at prices which amply remunerated him.

本书故事发生1867年的英国。富家子弟、化石学业余爱好者查尔斯·斯密森增小镇莱姆会见已经与他订婚的欧内斯蒂娜·弗里曼小姐，在海边，他遇见被人们称为“法国中尉的女人”的萨拉·伍德拉夫。据说这个女子“很堕落”，然而她身上那种极富女性魅力的特殊气质使查尔斯倾倒；他热烈追求萨拉，导致他与欧内斯蒂娜·弗里曼的婚约被解除，不过萨拉虽然好不容易找到她时，她却已经在一位名人的保护之下，成了一个强调自由和男女平等的“新女性”。约翰·福尔斯在小说中批评了英国维多利亚时代社会的发展不平衡、科技进步没有造福于大多数人民等种种弊端，尤其猛烈抨击了当时社会道德意识上的守旧和虚伪，人们没有自由，相互之间缺乏理解，因此本书具有深刻的社会意义。这部作品创作手法上的两大特点引人注目：一是在叙述过程中作者插入各种议论；二是作者为故事设计了三个不同的结尾，他认为这样更接近生活的真实。

故事与卷四《群鸦的盛宴》同步进行，主要讲述在火龙重新现世的同时众人的经历。史坦尼斯·拜拉席恩开始在北境和波顿家族进行对抗，假意臣服铁王座的北境封臣则开始了暗下运作，而受尽折辱的席恩·葛雷乔伊则在自我内心苦苦挣扎。新官上任的琼恩·雪诺为了大局，不得不做出一系列颇有争议的决定，导致部下不满，也置自己于险境。逃亡到厄索斯的提利昂·兰尼斯特流离失所，意图投奔征服了奴隶湾的丹妮莉丝·坦格利安却落了个被劫持奴役的下场。而丹妮莉丝面临瘟疫、战争和内乱多重压力，她的女王宝座也暗箭难防，如履薄冰。一位号称是伊耿·坦格利安六世的年轻男子，在重出江湖的琼恩·克林顿和一万黄金勇士的拥立下从东方杀入维斯特洛攻城略地，与此同时的君临城政局却发生了剧变……