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R.L.斯坦
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……
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塞万提斯
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.
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弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(virginia woolf, 1882-1941)是英国现代派小说的代表作家, 也是英国现代文学史上最重要的女作家之一。伍尔夫生活在一个动荡、变革的时代, 传统的宗教伦理、哲学、美学信念受到怀疑,现存的政治、社会制度失去稳定的根基,艺术家们尤其是作家们努力去寻求新的艺术表现手法,以期更真实地反映二十世纪的现实、更深刻地探索二十世纪的人性。作为一名敏感的作家,伍尔夫认为文学应有变革才能反映当时的社会和人生,因此作为意识流小说的主要代表和西方女性主义先驱,伍尔夫一生致力于小说的改革与艺术的创新,她的小说创作在由传统小说向现代小说的过渡过程中起了举足轻重的作用,她本人也被广泛地赞誉为现代主义艺术的开创者、被认为是英国现代主义文学运动的一个主要人物。
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It was a perfect June morning, not a breath stirring, and the sun fairly baking down till the whole air was full of the hot resinous scent of pine-needles; but, warm as it was, I was shivering as I lay out on the tip of a larch-bough and looked down.
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拉伯雷
The dazzling and exuberant moral stories of Rabelais (c. 1471-1553) expose human follies with their mischievous and often obscene humour, while intertwining the realistic with carnivalesque fantasy to make us look afresh at the world. "Gargantua" depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and turned into a cultured Christian knight. And in "Pantagruel" and its three sequels, Rabelais parodied tall tales of chivalry and satirized the law, theology and academia to portray the bookish son of Gargantua who becomes a Renaissance Socrates, divinely guided in his wisdom, and his idiotic, self-loving companion Panurge.
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埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯
Fourth Book of the John Carter of Mars Series
John Carter of Helium has rescued Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, from the Therns and now Carthoris, John Carter's son, has fallen in love with her. But Thuvia is stolen away by Astok, Prince of Dusar, Ptarth's rival.
Carthoris tracks Thuvia across Barsoom and rescues her only to find she is already betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, an ally of Helium.
"Thuvia, Maid of Mars" was first published as "Carthoris" in All-Story Weekly (April 8, 15, 22, 1916). The first hardcover edition was published by A.C. McClurg & Co., October 30, 1920. The original edition was bound in an olive green cloth with black lettering on the spine and front. The dust jacket, in color was by J. Allen St. John. Ten illustrations were done by J. Allen St. John. The text of this edition is from the 1920 A.C. McClurg edition. The front cover picture of this edition is a restored copy of the front of the original dust jacket. All the original interior illustrations are reproduced in this edition.
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马克·吐温
A sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad, this is Mark Twain's satirical take on the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Once a staple of juvenile fiction, then banned as politically incorrect, Twain's well-told story brings to life its time and place.
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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。
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罗伊·罗克伍德
Throughout a big shed filled for the most part with huge pieces of machinery echoed the voice of Professor Amos Henderson. He did not look up from a small engine over which he was bending.
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