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This high-spirited tale, told through an exchange of letters, is unique in Jane Austen's small body of work. It is the story of Lady Susan, a brilliant, beautiful and morally reprehensible coquette who delights in making men fall in love with her, deceiving their wives into friendship and even tormenting her own daughter, cruelly bending her to her will. Austen clearly delighted in her wicked heroine--tracing Lady Susan's maneuverings to remarry yet continue on with her lover, and to marry off her young daughter, with great wit, zest and unfailing panache.

If you leave the city by the Porta Maggiore and take the Via Prænestina, which leads east into the Sabine hills, at some thirty-six kilometers’ distance from Rome you will pass on your left a grey-walled village climbing up the hillside. 

Peace, prosperity, and happiness are the rule in the marvelous Land of Oz, but in a faraway corner of this magical domain dwell two tribes--the Flatheads and the Skeezers--who have declared war on each other. Determined to keep her subjects from fighting, the Ruler of Oz, Princess Ozma, along with her dearest friend, Princess Dorothy Gale (formerly of Kansas), embarks on a quest to restore peace. When the Supreme Dictator of the Flatheads refuses to cooperate with Ozma, she and Dorothy seek out Queen Coo-ee-oh of the Skeezers, hoping she will be more reasonable. But the queen imprisons Ozma and Dorothy in her grand city and then traps them by submerging the whole city under water. Now it is up to Glinda the Good to save the day. She assembles all of Ozma's counsellors--including such beloved Oz friends as the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, Cowardly Lion, Patchwork Girl, Shaggy Man, Tik-Tok, and Wizard of Oz--and they set out to rescue their friends. Will the magic powers of Glinda and the Wizard combined be enough to free Ozma and Dorothy? A rousing tale of suspense, magic, and adventure, Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth and final Oz book by L. Frank Baum. It's a grand conclusion to his chronicles of America's favorite fairyland. This deluxe gift edition features all twelve of Oz artist John R. Neill's beautiful color plates, along with his nearly one hundred black-and-white pictures, making it a perfect gift for all Oz fans, new and old.

从南部非洲返回英国生活的理查德·汉内回到他在伦敦的寓所，感到百无聊赖。然而，那天晚上他的公寓中来了一位不速之客。这名叫斯卡德的美国人发现有个代号为“黑石”的外国间谍组织，正准备刺杀首相从而引起混乱，然后窃取一份重要的国防军事情报。斯卡德因为追踪他们的成员，被对方发现后身处杀人灭口的险境。为阻止国防绝密文件落入德国人之手，与德国间谍展开了一场惊心动魄的搏斗。

弗里西亚群岛位于荷兰和德国所属的北海沿岸。在群岛附近航行有时会有危险，尤其是在恶劣天气下，因为这里有不少沙洲，涨潮时会隐藏在浅水下面。沙洲间的航道很窄，不易察觉，而沙洲本身也会随着海风和潮汐发生改变。年轻的阿瑟·戴维斯是个航海爱好者，他热情勇敢、技术娴熟，喜欢驾着他的“达尔茜贝拉”号游艇穿梭于这片复杂、危险的海域。戴维斯邀请他的朋友卡拉瑟斯从伦敦赶来，二人一起出海度假，可在船上待了几天之后，卡拉瑟斯才弄清此行的真正目的。看来，他们是要去解开一个谜，还要解开一个名叫多尔曼的男人身上的疑团。两个好朋友开始了调查——与此同时，他们也引来了一位德国炮艇艇长的密切关注。故事发生在1902年，因此这段海岸的危险之处不仅仅在于沙洲。第一次世界大战的阴云不断汇聚，年复一年，慢慢地愈来愈暗……

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip, writing about his life (and attempting to become a gentleman along the way). The novel, like much of Dickens' work, draws on his experiences of life and people. The main plot of Great Expectations takes place between Christmas Eve 1812, when the protagonist is about seven years old (and which happens to be the year of Dickens' birth), and the winter of 1840.

这一个不凡世界，人的灵魂是一个以动物形式存在的精灵，且人与精灵密不可分，不然，生命将不复存在。13岁的莱拉，长在这世界的约旦大学，没有家庭之爱，不知富有、强大但已成敌的父母，更不知自己身负震撼世界的诅咒；她终日与玩伴及他们的精灵自由自在地嬉闹，长成了一个诡计多端、恣意妄为且谎话连篇的野女孩。然而，可怕的预言无法抗拒，莱拉注定要承担起救世主之责，扮演人类之母夏娃的角色：人人畏惧的“尘埃”出现了，饕餮游荡在城市各个角，玩伴接连莫名失踪，快乐时光彻底完结于密友罗杰的失去，巨大的阴谋正在酝酿之中。于是，在个惟她可懂、能预知未来的黄金罗盘——真理仪的帮助下，浑然不觉险恶的莱拉决定去寻找被邪恶科学家掠走的孩子们，从此开了拯救世界的艰难之旅；她朝着未知的北极而去；等待她的，有披甲熊、女巫、天使、厉鬼，更有能够终结生命的精灵切割机…而领引她步步踏入死亡之地的，竟是其父，自然科学家阿斯里尔勋爵，与其母，狂热的原教旨主义信徒库尔特夫人。

你见过用袜子解答数学问题吗？你知道惊喜蘑菇这道菜到底有多惊喜吗？你知道怎么倒着讲故事吗？你知道怎么到不存在的扎芙斯老师班上去吗……最神奇的是，在这本书里，歪歪小学竟然在一阵大风里被一群母牛攻占了。这到底是怎么回事呢？歪歪学校里每天都发生着匪夷所思的事，你可能会说：“哇，这也太夸张了吧？！”但是这本书就像哈哈镜，你笑得前仰后合，最后明白过来，原来笑的是最真实的自己！不过你一点都不会觉得不好意思，倒是会赶紧叫身边的人一起来看这本奇怪的书！不信你就试试看喽！

“秋之柱号”巡洋舰在与圣约人的战争中逃出来后，降落到了神秘的巨大环状天体“光晕”上。圣约人的追兵紧跟着奔袭而来，俘获了“秋之柱号”巡洋舰的舰长。“秋之柱号”巡洋舰上惟一的一名超级生化战士约翰在105空降师伞兵们的协助下，左冲右突，四处游击，伺机从圣约人手中救回舰长。双方杀得难解难分，却全然不知可称“生命公敌”的洪魔同样沉睡在这个不祥世界中。洪魔是一种寄生生物，它能通过感染，控制任何满足其寄宿条件的智慧生物。一旦它从禁锢中获得解放，可怕的浩劫将在全宇宙肆虐。这个巨大的光晕就是一个先进外星种族专为禁锢洪魔所建造的。为使宇宙苍生免遭洪魔荼毒，约翰只身杀向光晕的“心脏”……