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For Dorothy and Thomas, wish you were here "We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory." "NOSTOS" BY LOUISE GLUCK" 献给多萝西和托马斯，希望你们能在这里。 童年，我们曾向世界投以一瞥。 余下的尽是回忆。 ——路易丝?格鲁克《返乡》 失窃的孩子 柏栎 一百多年前，诗人叶芝，写过一首小诗《失窃的孩子》。诗中，仙灵将孩子从温暖的壁炉边诱走，带到史留斯森林高地，那里有花有水，远离尘嚣，孩子和仙灵们吃着浆果和樱桃，寻找熟睡的鳟鱼，在沙砾上跳起古老的舞蹈，彻底忘记了那个充满烦恼的人类世界……一百多年后，这片高地变成美国东部的某个乡村，仙灵们依然躲藏在深山高林中，不为人所知，仙灵世界和人类社会不时地发生交集，但只有仙灵和被交换的孩子知道全部的秘密，这就是唐纳胡的《失窃的孩子》。 换生灵的传说在欧洲流传广泛，这通常是指一种专门偷窃人类小孩，并把自己变成小孩模样，在人类家中生活下去的恶灵。在文学作品中也并不罕见，莎士比亚在《仲夏夜之梦》中就写到过换生灵，另外还有托马斯?米德顿的剧本《换生灵》，以及约翰?盖尔特的小说《偷走的孩子》等等。传说中，这种由仙灵变身而成的孩子外形丑陋，往往是畸形或有先天疾病，会被父母轻易抛弃。据考证，神话的社会学起源是家庭无力抚养多个孩子，忍痛弃婴后的一种心理自我安慰。但在唐纳胡笔下，仙灵是真实存在的，他们按照序列，逐一和人类的孩子交换生活，仙灵生活在人类之中，人类则被交换到了仙灵的部落中去，成为他们的一员。 或许是不想写成一个十足的奇幻故事，虽然欧洲神话中不乏神乎其神的精灵秘法，唐纳胡却从一开始就没有赋予换生灵那些本领。他们会的魔法不多，除了能变脸，就只会一些“低级”的超能力，诸如顺风耳和千里眼。他们拥有不老的生命，永远保持小孩子的外貌，心却在时光中老去。对他们来说，生命只有等待的意义，等待轮到自己去换生的那刻。 在此预设下，亨利和安尼戴展开了他们交错的一生。安尼戴原是人类孩子亨利，被交换后成为仙灵，忘记了自己本来的名字，但记忆的碎片却时时侵入他的梦境。亨利原是仙灵的头领，已在森林中生活了百年有余，他变身成为人类孩子，得到了亨利的父母和几乎全部的生活，得不到的却是亨利七岁之前的记忆。在漫长的岁月中，他们彼此追逐着过去的影子。安尼戴总想回到父母和妹妹身边，而亨利也渐渐发现自己其实也曾是一个被交换的德国男孩，一个钢琴神童，他的天赋在森林中埋藏百年之后，又在作为人类的身上再次显现。 仙灵的世界并不是人们想象的人间天堂，他们需要在严苛的环境中为生存奋斗，还要设法打发无聊的光阴。安尼戴学会了阅读，常常和好朋友斯帕克溜进人类的图书馆中饱飨智能的盛宴。年深月久的相知，使得安尼戴爱上了斯帕克，可是斯帕克却在他告白之际，决然离开，开始了自己漫长的旅行。安尼戴终于在伙伴的帮助下，找到了家人，但却悲哀地发现，自己和他们已经隔得太远，无法回去。取代他地位的亨利，同样需要在人类社会中求生存，想方设法和父母斗智，不被揭破自己的真实身份。相较于停滞在时光中的仙灵，亨利是在不断长大，但成长的烦恼，同样使他困惑不堪。他终于发现，人类的世界也并不如他想象得那幺美好，仙灵和人类都有各自的现实要面对。 拯救他们生活的，是爱和希望。亨利恋爱、结婚、生子，在温暖的家庭中，终于鼓起勇气直面过去，为自己的百年岁月谱出了一曲交响乐。安尼戴在写完自己的人生故事后，告别相依为命的伙伴，追随斯帕克的足迹而去，跨越千山万水，去到这个国家的另一头寻找他的爱情。 这是一个写来简淡，读来却时常倍感温暖的故事。叶芝的诗中给人印象最深的一段便是：走吧，人间的孩子/与一个精灵手拉手/走向荒野和河流/这个世界哭声太多了，你不懂。唐纳胡小说中的孩子和仙灵，长大后都懂得了这些“哭声”，他们理解、宽宥彼此，立足自己的生活，为身边的人们付出热忱。这原本就是生命中最大的勇气。

《我是传奇》（I Am Legend）是一部于2007年上映的末世科幻电影，由法兰西斯·罗伦斯（Francis Lawrence）执导，威尔·史密斯主演。电影根据李察·麦森（Richard Matheson）的同名小说改编，也是该书第三度被改编成的电影作品。本片的故事剧情与第二部改编自该小说的电影《最后一个人》（The Omega Man）较为接近。

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian short story writer and a playwright. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife, " he once said, "and literature is my mistress". Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov's last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text". His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure.

曼佐尼的长篇历史小说《约婚夫妇》,是意大利古典文学的瑰宝。在意大利,这部文学名著如同但丁《神曲》一样,家喻户晓,妇孺皆知,人民大众极为珍视和喜爱它。每一个受过初等教育的人,都曾在学校里琅琅吟诵过它的精彩篇章。

An idea that can transform a man, both within and without. The author's got an amazing way of saying things. A must read for anyone not in complete control of their self .

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.Wilde later revised this edition, making several alterations, and adding new chapters; the amended version was published by Ward, Lock, and Company in April 1891.The title is sometimes rendered incorrectly as The Portrait of Dorian Gray. The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian (whimsically) expresses a desire to sell his soul to ensure the portrait Basil has painted would age rather than himself. Dorian's wish is fulfilled, plunging him into debauched acts. The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with each sin displayed as a disfigurement of his form, or through a sign of aging. The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered a work of classic gothic horror fiction with a strong Faustian theme.

Howl's Moving Castle is a young adult fantasy novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, first published in 1986. It won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was named an ALA Notable book for both children and young adults. In 2004 it was adapted as an Academy Award-nominated animated film by Hayao Miyazaki. A sequel, Castle in the Air, was published in 1990. A second sequel, House of Many Ways was released in June 2008. The author was given the idea for this book when a young boy asked her to make a story called "The Moving Castle".

A Bend in the Road tells the story of Miles Ryan and Sarah Andrews. It is written in both first and third-person, the primary third-person narrative emphasis is equally split between Miles's and Sarah's stories. The first person narrator remains unknown through the majority of the novel; however, the first person narrator is somehow stated in the story to be the one who was the driver who killed Miles' wife, Missy Ryan. The majority of the story takes place in 1988. Miles Ryan, a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, loses his wife Missy in a hit-and-run accident. He wants to bring the driver that killed his wife to justice. Miles meets his son's teacher Sarah Andrews, who moved to his town from Baltimore after a difficult divorce. Drawn together by Jonah's school troubles, the two start to date and eventually fall in love. The most significant date is when they go on the town's Ghost Walk and listen to a ghost story about a couple who lived in war times. The couple were forbidden to see each other, however, they communicated through the use of candles, which signified that they missed and loved each other. The man is killed by an order of the girl's father, sending the girl into depression. The night before, he had sent her a letter, asking her to marry him. Her response would be two candles for yes or one candle for no. She lights two candles and commits suicide over grief of her lost love. Everything is going perfect between the two. Miles and Jonah meets Sarah's entire family and is somewhat sure of his future with her.

 　　年轻干练的伊丽莎白·吉尔伯特（朱莉娅·罗伯茨 Julia Roberts 饰）是《纽约时报》的一名人气作家，她经常周游世界，撰写相关的旅游文章。她的生活同样令人欣羡，身为律师的丈夫史蒂芬（比利·克鲁德普 Billy Crudup 饰）帅气潇洒、气质不凡；饮食无忧、优哉安乐。然而伊丽莎白却渐渐感到空虚和恐慌，似乎着周遭的一切都不是她真正追求的。伊丽莎白决定走出变质的婚姻，寻找自我。在漫长的离婚拉锯战后，她踏上了周游世界的旅途，在美食、祈祷和恋爱中，认真地思考人生的种种……