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The first time I ever went to Tarzana, California, I walked down Ventura Boulevard, noticing that all of the buildings were really ugly. Then I arrive at my destination: a small house, set back from the street, with a beautiful tree shading the entire front yard. Inside, the air was cool and everything was polished wood, especially the incredible, gigantic desk. That's where he worked. It was awesome. Edgar Rice Burroughs had a huge California ranch, and the land eventually became a town, named for Burroughs's most famous character. Burroughs created one of the few heroes everyone knows, and at that desk, he took Tarzan to exotic lands, had him face bizarre creatures and endless, exotic challenges. Those adventures spirit the reader away to a timeless time of action and heroism. And sitting in that office, I was a permanent convert. For me, and for countless others, the legend will never cease. And that's as it should be.

I sat fishing. I had not caught anything of course-I rarely do nor am I fond of fishing in the very smallest degree but I fished assiduously all the same because circumstances demanded it

 It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being lined up awaiting their turn. Some still clung desperately to husbands and fathers; others clutched their children closely to their breasts. One girl stood alone, slightly apart from the rest. She was quite young, not more than eighteen. She did not seem afraid, and her grave, steadfast eyes looked straight ahead.

"Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea. Beyond them to the east there lies a desert, for ever untroubled by man: all yellow it is, and spotted with shadows of stones, and Death is in it, like a leopard lying in the sun . . ." So begins "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean," Lord Dunsany's celebrated story about the enchantment of the sea over young men. This collection of sixteen stories, including "Idle Days on the Yann," "Bethmoora," and "In Zaccarath," contains Dunsany's finest writing. Dunsany is considered the precursor of modern fantasy. His style influenced, among others, H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

本书出版之后，引起美国各州统治集团的恐慌。许多州禁止小说发行；有的议员出来指责；俄克拉何马州阻止电影公司去拍电影。是左翼文学一部重要的作品。左翼文学是美国世纪三十年代的文学主流。一般说，凡是反映了当时群众斗争的作品，都属于左翼文学之列，包括党员作家和像斯坦贝克那样的非党作家的作品。斯坦贝克以其切身的生活经历描写了经济危机期间广大农民的苦难和斗争，代表了左翼文学一个重要的方面。 内容简介：经济危机时期中部各州农民破产、逃荒和斗争为背景。俄克拉何马和邻近的得克萨斯、堪萨斯、阿肯色各州的农民负债累累，土地被大公司没收，无家可归，只得向西迁移，想在加利福尼亚州寻找出路。小说以约德一家为代表，记叙了他们一家十二口从俄克拉荷马州向加利福尼亚州逃荒的艰难经历。他们将家中的一切变卖后，换来一辆破旧的汽车，一家坐车向西逃荒。途中年轻的诺亚和康尼则在半路上开了小差。到了加州，一切并不像他们想像的那样美好，等待他们的仍然是失业、饥饿和困苦。那里的农场主利用剩余的劳动力压低佃农助工资，各地势力敲诈勒索和迫害流浪的农民。于是农民愤怒了，他们团结起来，奋起抗争。“愤怒”便是对导致人们贫困的不公的社会制度的强烈抗议。

14岁的少女苏菲某天放学回家，收到了神秘的一封信——“你是谁？世界从哪里来？”与此同时，她收到一封古怪的明信片，上面的收件人是“请苏菲转交给席德”，邮戳来自黎巴嫩。从这一天开始，苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信，世界像谜团一般在她眼底展开。她运用少女天生的悟性与后天知识，企图解开这些谜团。然而，魔镜、少校的小屋、黎巴嫩寄来给席德明信片、会说话的汉密士、叫她席德的艾勃特、写着生日祝福的香蕉皮、现实出现的梦中的金十字架、捡到的10元硬币……接踵而至的奇闻怪事让苏菲一步步走下去。事实真相远比她所想的更怪异、 更离奇……

贝拉与爱德华历经磨难终于踏进了婚姻殿堂。婚后爱德华和贝拉去艾思蜜岛上渡蜜月，度过了一段快乐的时光。不久贝拉发现怀孕，蜜月提前结束。狼族担心胎儿会对族人构成威胁决定除掉它。雅各布为保护贝拉离开狼族，连夜警告库伦家。胎儿生长迅速令贝拉吃尽苦头。爱德华不忍看她受苦希望她放弃孩子，但贝拉却坚持要生下。分娩当晚，贝拉大量失血，在她命悬一线之际，爱德华将装有自己吸血毒液的针管插进贝拉心脏。另一边王族也注意到了这个新生儿，一场撼动吸血鬼、狼人和人类世界的对决正悄悄来袭。

THIS book might be called also The Triumph of Love. Bertha was looking out of window, at the bleakness of the day.

 The Notebook is a 1996 American romantic novel by American novelist Nicholas Sparks. The novel was later adapted into a popular romance film by the same name in 2004. However, the movie and the book have very different endings. The novel was Nicholas Sparks' first published novel, and the third written after The Passing and The Royal Murders, which were never published. It was written over a period of six months in 1994. Literary agent Theresa Park discovered Sparks after picking the book out of her agency's slush pile. Park liked it and offered to represent him. In October 1995, Park secured a $1 million advance for it from Time Warner Book Group, and the novel was published in October 1996. It was on the New York Times best-seller list in its first week of release. The Notebook spent over a year as a hardcover best seller. The Notebook was inspired by the story of the grandparents of Sparks' wife, who had been married over sixty years when Sparks met them. Sparks marveled at how much the couple cared for each other, and wrote his novel as an attempt to describe such a love.