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讲述了007与绰号金枪人的职业杀手之间的对抗。

故事的主人公是陶瓷区亚麻布商的两个女儿康斯坦丝·贝恩斯和索菲亚·贝恩斯。她们出场的时候是19世纪60年代，当时一个十六岁，一个十五岁。康斯坦丝温顺保守，索菲亚奔放迷人。她们的命运也大为不同。康斯坦丝留在家中经营店铺，嫁给了她父亲的助手山姆·波维，生子西里尔，现在寡居。索菲亚随人私奔到巴黎，被抛弃后开始经营一家小小的私人旅店，生意日益兴旺。虽然姐妹俩有着不同的人生际遇，她们的性格还是很相似--节俭、焦虑、坚定。

Shakespeare's vivid dramatic projection of moral and ethical issues in Measure for Measure has given the play great appeal to both readers and theatergoers. Exploring the play's qualities as a complex work of art written specifically for the theater, the introduction to this new edition sets the play in its historical context, discussing the originality of Shakespeare's treatment of a well-known story. Bawcutt explains the obsolete marriage customs, and also offers a comprehensive account of the text's theatrical afterlife from Restoration adaptations to recent productions.

The Plumed Serpent is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, begun when writer was living at the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924. It was first published by Martin Secker in 1926. The original working title of an early draft was "Quetzalcoatl", a reference to the cult of the plumed serpent in Mexico. The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. It opens with a group of tourists visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, an intellectual landowner Don Ramon, and travels to Sayula, a small town set on a lake. Ramon and Cipriano are leading a revival of a pre-Christian religion and Kate becomes drawn into their cult.

Politics has always been a dirty game. Now justice is, too. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice. The Appeal is a powerful, timely, and shocking story of political and legal intrigue, a story that will leave readers unable to think about our electoral process or judicial system in quite the same way ever again.

Oblomov, the main character of Ivan Goncharov's novel, is widely regarded as one of the finest literary examples of the backward-looking landed gentry of mid-nineteenth century Russia. His name has even entered the Russian language in the term "oblomovshchina", meaning backwardness, inertia. The unheroic hero Oblomov is also a very fine literary creation of a fully-fledged human being. He is a melancholy idealist, a dreamer whose temperament is such that he never begins to put his dreams into action. His tragedy is that he weighs the possible obstacles to his endeavors for such a long time that, finally, he never even starts to act. Ivan Goncharov is at his best when he describes the mental processes of Oblomov that lead to his bumbling life. There is no better description of how the mind of a pessimistic person manipulates the perception of reality than in this book. "The Saint of Sloth" is the title of a review written by the critic V.S. Pritchett for the New York Review of Books. It captures nicely the two main aspects of Oblomov's character. On the one hand, Oblomov is lazy, irresponsible, pessimistic, paralyzed, complacent, slothful; but on the other hand he is idealistic, true to himself, honest, child-like, innocent, saintly. He is ultimately a lovable human being. He does not lack wisdom, he lacks resolve. As can be expected, Goncharov's book is not an action-packed thriller. On the first 50 or so pages, Oblomov barely manages to get out of his bed. A patient reader who keeps reading, however, is rewarded with a wonderfully realistic love story (including all the ups and downs), and many wise comments by the bachelor Goncharov on life, love, passion, duty and marriage.　　长篇小说《奥勃洛莫夫》是俄国杰出的现实主义作家冈察洛夫的代表作，在俄国文学史上占有重要地位。 　　小说塑造了一个正直、善良、温柔，却慵懒懈怠、耽于幻想、无所作为、因循守旧的人物形象。地主知识分子奥勃洛莫夫养尊处优，视劳动与公职为不堪忍受的重负。尽管他设想了庞大的行动计划，却无力完成任何事情，最后只能躺在沙发上混日子，成为一个彻头彻尾的懒汉和废物。小说细腻地描写了他精神上的死亡过程，表达了农奴制改革前夕社会强烈的反农奴制情绪和要求变革的愿望。奥勃洛莫夫是农奴制崩溃的产物，他的性格是死气沉沉的庄园生活对其生活精神影响的必然结果。他的形象标志着俄国19世纪“多余人”蜕化的极限，是一个没落地主的典型，这也是小说的最成功之处。

主要讲述了 茱迪从小在孤儿院里长大，年轻的她不得不负担起众多沉重的工作，而不能享受普通女孩子拥有的家庭乐趣。有一天，她的命运被传奇般地改变了，一位自称约翰-史密斯的理事因为她出色的作文而将她送进了大学，她开始了完全不同的生活，她亲昵地叫这位理事“长腿叔叔”。在大学里，她欣喜地吸取着一切她从未有过的体验和知识，对她来说，一切都是那么新奇。她害怕自己并不出色，对不起“长腿叔叔”的培养。她不停地给“长腿叔叔”写信......