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1:1 [hgb]  在 耶 路 撒 冷 作 王 ， 大 卫 的 儿 子 ， 传 道 者 的 言 语 。      [kjv]  The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.     [bbe]  The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. 1:2 [hgb]  传 道 者 说 ， 虚 空 的 虚 空 ， 虚 空 的 虚 空 。 凡 事 都 是 虚 空 。      [kjv]  Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.     [bbe]  All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

 The novel tells a story of a girl, pushed into marriage to a wealthy man much older than herself by her money-grasping father. 

本书写于1897年，为诺奖得主吉普林32岁时的作品。讲述了一个名为哈维·切尼的15岁男孩的冒险故事。哈维从小家庭富裕，父母对他百般宠爱。一次跨大西洋的航行中，他不幸落水，后被一个葡萄牙渔民救起。这次意外改变了他的一生。渔民不为他许诺的财富所动，没有立马把他送回家，而是给了他一份工作。他无法再衣食无忧，整个夏天都必须在船上劳动。于是哈维在这个完全陌生的世界里开始了自己的新生活……

Through the Magic Door is a book written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published serialized in Cassell's Magazine between december 1906 and november 1907. 

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail.

 《绿林荫下》(Under the Greenwood Tree)是托马斯·哈代于1872年匿名发表的一部小说，这是他的第二部小说，也是他威塞克斯系列小说的第一部。 这本小说的情节围绕着教堂圣乐团展开。梅尔斯托克教区圣乐团于圣诞前夜挨家挨户巡回演出，乐团成员包括年轻人迪克·杜威、他的父亲鲁本·杜威、他的爷爷威廉·杜威。迪克·杜威在巡演途中对新来的教区女老师芬西·戴一见钟情。同时年轻漂亮的芬西还引来其他的追求者：富农瑞克·夏纳和牧师梅伯。 新来的牧师梅伯宣布让芬西演奏管风琴替代传统周日礼拜的伴奏方式。圣乐团成员到牧师家与其协商，最后他们勉强妥协，同意让更现代的管风琴伴奏。迪克开始似乎赢得了芬西的芳心，但是杰弗里·戴却竭力反对女儿和搬运工儿子结婚。迪克救出陷入捕兽陷阱的杰弗里·戴，并交由夏纳照顾，为了让女儿嫁给富有的夏纳，杰弗里戴把救人的事迹全部归功于夏纳，得知真相后芬西更倾心于迪克。芬西拒绝夏纳的求婚后，失落的夏纳以为她喜欢牧师梅伯，并把这个错误的信息传达给梅伯。自负的梅伯向芬西求婚，却遭到她的拒绝。最后芬西和迪克终成眷属。

Tarzan the Invincible is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fourteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Blue Book from October, 1930 through April, 1931 as "Tarzan, Guard of the Jungle." Tarzan, his monkey friend Nkima, and Chief Muviro and his faithful Waziri warriors prevent Russian communists from looting the lost city of Opar. The story also prominently features Tarzan's lion ally Jad-bal-ja. This book marks the last appearance of Opar and La in the Tarzan series, aside from the juvenile piece Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins with Jad-Bal-Ja the Golden Lion (1936), which was published later but is chronologically earlier.

Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception is a teen fantasy novel published in 2005, the 4th book in the Artemis Fowl series by the Irish author Eoin Colfer. Preceded by Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code and followed by Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, it is centered on the brilliant pixie Opal Koboi's second try at rebellion (after her first attempt was a failure) and Artemis Fowl II and his fairy comrades' efforts to stop her. Critical reception was mixed, with some reviews praising the book but others pointing out confusion and poor writing.

The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up to the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the conventional Hell described by Dante in The Inferno, but rather the Hades described in Greek myth (both of which had Styxes): a universal collecting pot for dead souls, regardless of their deeds in life. The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx (in The Inferno, he was the ferryman of the river Acheron) being startled—and annoyed—by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed the boat's janitor. What follows are eleven more stories (for a total of twelve) which are set on the house boat. There is no central theme, and the purpose of the book appears to be as a literary thought experiment to see what would happen if various famous dead people were put in the same room with each other. Each chapter is a short story featuring various souls from history and mythology. In the twelfth chapter the house boat disappears, seguing into the sequel, Pursuit of the House-Boat.