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《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.

1662年，法国国王路易十三驾崩后，继位的路易十四傲慢、残酷、荒淫无道。为了占有柯瑞斯蒂，路易将前国王侍卫队员阿萨斯的儿子莱奥派往前线致死。儿子的死激起了阿萨斯的悲愤，与此同时，埃拉密斯神父有一个秘密的计划，就是从监狱里救出戴着铁面具的神秘囚犯、路易的孪生弟弟菲利普，并设法让他取代路易而救法国人民与水火之中。经过一系列艰苦的营救与厮杀，终于菲利普成为了国王，带领国家走向希望与安定。

This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would be a very different story. 

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787. Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic literary movement. The book made Goethe one of the first international literary celebrities. Toward the end of his life, a personal visit to Weimar became crucial to any young man's tour of Europe.

WE know more of the early days of the Pyramids or of ancientBabylon than we do of our own. The Stone age, the dragons ofthe prime, are not more remote from us than is our earliestchildhood. It is not so long ago for any of us; and yet, ourmemories of it are but veiled spectres wandering in the mazesof some foregone existence.

"The Faith of Men" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth.

13岁的布里奥妮·塔利斯拥有十分丰富的想象力，颇有作家天分；管家的锤子罗比在塔利斯先生的奖助下已经与布里奥妮的姐姐塞西莉娅一道从剑桥大学毕业，而且他俩情/投意合。一个炎热夏日，塞西莉娅当着罗比的面，脱去衣服，跳进池塘戏水。这一切都被布里奥妮尽收眼底，恰逢当晚，来塔利斯家小住的布里奥妮的表姐遭人强暴；布里奥妮武断地认定罗比即是罪犯，并出庭做证指控罗比，罗比因此被捕入狱。但坚信他无罪的塞西莉娅不惜与家人断绝关系，执着地与他相爱。五年后，罗比出狱，当时正是二次世界大战期间，他参加到保卫祖国的战斗中，塞西莉娅随后应征入伍，布里奥妮也成为一名军队医务人员。经历世事之后的布里奥妮终于愧疚，主动走向罗比与塞西莉娅，为自己当年的所作所为道歉，但是无情的战争先后夺去了罗比和塞西娅的生命，留下布里奥妮活在深深的自责中而无法赎罪。 麦克恩是英国文坛当前最具影响力的作家之一。自他的第一本短篇小说集《最初的爱情和最后的仪式》获得1975年的毛姆奖以来，他四次获得布克奖提名，并终于在1998年以《阿姆斯行丹》折桂。其新作《赎罪》同样获得 2002年布克奖提我虽然最终未能如愿获奖，但评论界却给予了较之《阿姆斯特丹》更多更动听的溢美之词，认为比《阿》更丰满，更好读，既有讨好读者的动人情节、喜剧因素，又不乏色调，实在是让人爱不释手。

《艾德温·德鲁德之谜》(The Mystery of Edwin Drood )(1870)是英国文学家狄更斯未完成的小说,小说才完成一些,狄更斯就患病去世,享年58岁。

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……