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1857，盖斯凯尔编著的一步传记作品。

Perhaps Rachael Innes would not have taken a summer rental on a sprawling mansion by the sea if she had known it was haunted. By the time she had spent the second–mostly sleepless–night in “Sunnyside”, the house proved not only haunted but the site of a murder. To make matters worse, that very night she received news of a spectacular bank failure whose engineer might be under her roof.

法国作家安托万·德·圣·埃克苏佩里于1942年写成的著名儿童文学小说。第77届世界科幻大会开幕仪式暨1944追授雨果奖颁奖典礼上，《小王子》斩获“追授雨果奖”最佳中篇奖。2020年4月，列入《教育部基础教育课程教材发展中心 中小学生阅读指导目录（2020年版）》。内容简介：飞行员讲述了六年前他因飞机故障迫降在撒哈拉沙漠遇见小王子的故事。神秘的小王子来自另一个星球。飞行员讲了小王子和他的玫瑰的故事。小王子为什么离开自己的星球；在抵达地球之前，他又访问过哪些星球。他转述了小王子对六个星球的历险，他遇见了国王、爱虚荣的人、酒鬼、商人、点灯人、地理学家、蛇、三枚花瓣的沙漠花、玫瑰园、扳道工、商贩、狐狸以及我们的叙述者飞行员本人。

天赋异禀的小子预言目前的兔子领地上将有一场来自人类的毁灭性灾难，于是他和一只名为榛子的勇敢机智的兔子前去晋见兔子首领，劝其带领兔群离开领地，但遭到了拒绝。于是在灾难来临之前，小多子和榛子以及其他几只公兔子匆匆离开了领地，踏上了艰辛的冒险之旅。在经历了和人类以及其他天敌几番生死攸关的周旋后，他们来到沃特希普荒原，开始创建新的领地…… 由于缺少母兔子，兔群依然面临着灭绝的危险。他们只得再度冒险，赶往一座农场劝说笼养兔子加入他们的领地，同时派出外交使团前去一个叫艾弗拉法的领地求婚。但求婚计划失败，与那里专制蛮横的首领进行生死较量，最后艰难却成功地带领大批母兔子回到了沃特希普荒原。然而，一切远远没有结束，一场更加危险的战斗正在等待着他们……

17世纪的时候，英格兰有许多人相信巫术。巫师可能是一个老太婆，或是一个年轻女子，有时甚至会是一个成年男子或小男孩。不过，巫师通常都是女人。人们都害怕巫师，因为巫师仅凭一句诅咒就能使人丧命。1612年，在兰开夏郡的潘德尔山附近住着一个名叫詹妮特·迪瓦斯的小女孩。那时她刚9岁，因家里穷时常饿肚子，长得很瘦弱。她缺衣少鞋，有时一连几天吃不上饭。生活着对地她来说十分艰难。詹妮特的外祖母老德姆代克是一个巫师。她的母亲伊丽莎白和她的姐姐艾丽森也都是巫师。就连她可怜兮兮、傻头傻脑的哥哥詹姆斯也是巫师……不管怎样，村民们是这样认为的。

《书剑恩仇录》是金庸的首部长篇武侠小说，又名《书剑江山》，著于1955年。小说描写清朝乾隆年间，江南武林帮会红花会为反清复明，与清廷斗智斗勇的故事，也是这本小说把研究乾隆是否汉人一事，推到了高峰。作为金庸的开山之作，作者一出手就不同凡响，显示出大家风度。在香港《大公报》上连载之时，引起了极大的轰动。小说将历史与传奇融为一体、虚实相间，史笔与诗情相结合，绘出了一幅波澜壮阔的历史画卷。

Oedipa Maas, the protagonist of this Thomas Pynchon novel, lives in a world full of haphazard clues, dead ends, and meaningless signifiers. She stumbles through a bizarre string of coincidences to try to unravel what may or may not be a mystery. She cannot quite realize her condition."...they'll call it paranoia.... Or you are hallucinating it. Or a plot has been mounted against you.... Or you are fantasying some such plot, in which case you are a nut, Oedipa, out of your skull."1Oedipa struggles to draw meaning out of chaotic masses of information, and to construct a narrative out of randomness. In doing so, she begins to lose sense of her world. She considers two possibilities: "Another mode of meaning behind the obvious or none."2She suspects there may be more to life, that there may be something signified after all, but, if there is, it is continually deferred. We leave Oedipa waiting.Oedipa,pite her lack of success, is driven towards discovery. She chases a transcendental meaning the existence of which she cannot be certain, but she pursues. Without pursuit, there is waiting. Hers is an America of drifters and squatters, ones and zeroes, speeding electricity and dead railroad cars, and the search for "the trigger for the unnamable act, the recognition, the Word."3 Waiting, moving...

Even the coming of an autumn dusk could not subdue the color of this land. Shadows here were not gray or black; they were violet and purple. The crumbling adobe walls were laced by strings of crimson peppers, vivid in the torch and lantern light. It had been this way for days, red and yellow, violet-colors he had hardly been aware existed back in the cool green, silver, gray-brown of Kentucky. So this was Tubacca! The rider shifted his weight in the saddle and gazed about him with watchful interest. Back in '59 this had been a flourishing town, well on its way to prominence in the Southwest. The mines in the hills behind producing wealth, the fact that it was a watering place on two cross-country routes-the one from Tucson down into Sonora of Old Mexico, the other into California-had all fed its growth.

The Garden Party is the last volume of short stories published before this New Zealand author's untimely death from tuberculosis at age 35. These 15 stories are typical Mansfield slice-of-life glimpses into human relationships: parent-child, wife-husband, friend-friend, all recognizable, all vivid in their gentleness and sensitivity. Marguerite Gavin reads in a light, American-accented, rather uninspired way, but her voices are marvelous; presenting British accents of every description from cockney to Queen, with clear delineation between characters male and female, is a skill especially important in these character-driven tales. Her sound effects (birdcalls, running water, etc.) are perfect, and she sings in such a lovely clear soprano that the listener wishes there were more songs in the stories. The short story format is often a favorite with listeners who hesitate to commit to hours and hours of the same work. Mansfield belongs in all fiction collections; highly recommended.AHarriet Edwards, East Meadow P.L., NY