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"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……

Siddhartha's life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. Afire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddha's followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but instead slips gradually into hedonism and materialism. Surfeited and disgusted, he flees from his possessions to become a ferryman's apprentice, learning what lessons he can from the river itself. Herman Hesse's 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons of this sort cannot be taught but come from one's own struggle to find truth. Noted actor Derek Jacobi interprets this material wonderfully, and the package, despite abridging a Nobel prize winner's prose, can be highly recommended.AJohn Hiett, Iowa City P.L. 　　古印度贵族青年悉达多英俊聪慧，拥有人们羡慕的一切。为了追求心灵的安宁，他孤身一人展开了求道之旅。他在舍卫城聆听佛陀乔答摩宣讲教义，在繁华的大城中结识了名妓伽摩拉，并成为一名富商。心灵与肉体的享受达到顶峰，却让他对自己厌倦、鄙弃到极点。在与伽摩拉最后一次欢爱之后，他抛弃了自己所有世俗的一切，来到那河边，想结束自己的生命。在那最绝望的一刹那，他突然听到了生命之河永恒的声音……经过几乎一生的追求，悉达多终于体验到万事万物的圆融统一，所有生命的不可摧毁的本性，并最终将自我融入了瞬间的永恒之中。

Wessex Tales is an 1888 collection of tales written by Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840. Through them, Thomas Hardy talks about nineteenth century marriage, grammar, class status, how men and women were viewed, medical diseases and more.

Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.

阿曼达和乔西不喜欢他们的新家，他们觉得那座老房子十分古怪，一到晚上，楼梯上就会出现男孩的身影，黑暗中不时传来窃窃私语声，窗帘莫名其妙地摆动起来……而整个黑瀑布镇也同样透着阴森森的怪异气息。但是爸爸妈妈不相信他们的话。“你们会适应的，”他们说，“出去交几个新朋友吧。”阿曼达和乔西就出去了，没想到这些诡异的新朋友根本不是爸爸妈妈所想的那样，他们给姐弟俩带来了更大的恐惧和迷惑……

Don Quixote , fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.