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69岁的高老头，1813年前结束了他的买卖后，住到了伏盖公寓。当时，分住在二楼一间最好的房间，每年交1200法郎的膳宿费，他衣着讲究，每天还请理发师来给他梳头发，连鼻烟匣都是金的，他算得上这所公寓里最体面的房客，人们都叫他高里奥先生。寡妇老板娘还向他搔首弄姿，想改嫁于他，当一名本地区的阔太太。

A Crystal Age is a utopian novel written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone" and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later. The book was first issued anonymously in 1887. The second edition of 1906 identified the author by name, and included a preface by Hudson. The third edition of 1916 added a foreword by Clifford Smith.

勃朗特一家住在英国的霍沃斯，一个偏僻的小乡村。父亲是个牧师。在夏洛蒂五岁半的时候，她们的母亲玛丽亚因病去世。小玛丽亚承担起了母亲的责任，帮助弟弟妹妹洗澡、穿衣、跟他们玩耍、画画、读书。小玛丽亚自己的书也是读得很好。小玛丽亚在学校得了肺病，在家躺了3个月后，不幸去世。临终前，小玛丽亚对父亲说：“爸爸别哭,我马上就要和母亲见面了,我马上要和上帝在一起了。”1个月后，二女儿伊丽莎白也得同样的病去世。两周后，父亲把夏洛蒂和艾米丽接回了家。从此以后，他们再没有去过学校。天资被赋予了一个家庭。因为天资，这个家庭的成员远离尘世；离开了家他们就得不到快乐。而在家中，作为一个家庭，他们的天资却得以成长。是谁教会他们写作的？是他们自己！而且几乎没有人比他们写得更出色。

“Every one asks me what I ‘think’ of everything,” said Spencer Brydon; “and I make answer as I can—begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense.  

The Adventures of a Brownie is sort of a proto-Nesbit; a book like this eventually evolved into Nesbit's Five Children and It which evolved into The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobewhich eventually becomes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Brownie isn't as clever or funny as Nesbit, but there is some pointed humor.

The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.

Leaving behind both home and beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once there, however, he falls in love with his friend's new sweetheart and resolves to seduce her. Love-crazed and desperate, he is soon moved to commit cynical acts of betrayal. And comic scenes involving a servant and his dog enhance the play's exploration how passion can prove more powerful than even the strongest loyalty owed to a friend.

《众生之路》，一部半自传体小说，作者塞缪尔.巴特勒写了十余年，死后一年才得到出版，颇受冷遇。 巴特勒，十九世纪的英国作家。 Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of 19th-century England's major institutions.