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该书描写了一个立陶宛移民家庭—尤吉斯一家的悲惨遭遇。他们满怀憧憬从家乡来到美国寻梦，在芝加哥屠场区找到工作，以为美好生活将从此开始。不料灾难接踵而至，先是尤吉斯工伤失业，接着妻子奥娜被工头奸污，尤吉斯怒打工头而入狱，随后妻子难产死亡，幼小的儿子淹死。亲朋好友中男的流落街头，女的被逼为娼，美国梦演变为可怕的梦魇。更悲哀的是，这个万恶的资本主义机器不仅害得他家破人亡。作者辛克莱 ，更毒害了他的心灵。他自暴自弃，干起合伙抢劫的勾当，甚至还在屠场罢工时当上了工贼。所幸的是，在风起云涌的社会主义运动中，尤吉斯终于找到了人生的奋斗目标，他的阶级觉悟被唤醒。小说结尾时，他深信社会主义是唯一的出路，而这也正是辛克莱的信仰。

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.

Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu—the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist—is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu’s own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant. In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China.

Jules Verne’s career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction—stories that combined popular science and exploration. In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot- blooded French manservant, Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard to win the extraordinary wager. Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, Around the World in Eighty Days gripped audiences upon its publication and remains hugely popular to this day.

Widely known as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs was also one of America's most imaginative writers of science fiction. This tale of the amazing world of Pellucidar is a fine example of that genre. Discovered by two men who travel to the center of the earth in a bizarre mechanical device, Pellucidar is a land of perpetual noon--where time does not exist. It is also home to gallant heroes, lovely maidens, horrifying villains; and savage, prehistoric beasts. How the inhabitants of this strange land survive in a Stone Age level of development is revealed in a gripping adventure that will thrill countless readers partial to exotic locales and heart-pounding excitement. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1923.

“努力学习，得到好成绩，你就能找到高薪并且伴有很多其他好处的职位。”我父母过去常这么对我说。他们的生活目标就是供我和姐姐上大学，觉得这样我们就有 了在生活中获得成功的最好机会。1976年，当我从佛罗里达州立大学会计专业以全班第～的成绩光荣地获得学位证书时，我的父母实现了他们的目标，并把这作 为他们一生中最引以为自豪的成就。根据“大师计划”，我很快便被“八大”会计公司中的一家雇佣，于是我在很早就觉察到了我今后漫长的职业生涯直至退休将是 一条不会有太多变化的平稳道路。 "Study hard and get good grades and you will find a high-paying job with great benefits," my parents used to say. Their goal in life was to provide a college education for my older sister and me, so that we would have the greatest chance for success in life. When T finally earned my diploma in 1976-graduating with honors, and near the top of my class, in accounting from Florida State University-my parents had realized their goal. It was the crowning achievement of their lives. In accordance with the "Master Plan," I was hired by a "Big 8" accounting firm, and I looked forward to a long career and retirement at an early age.

鲁滨逊出生于一个中产阶级家庭，一生志在遨游四海。一次在去非洲航海的途中遇到风暴，只身漂流到一个无人的荒岛上，开始了段与世隔绝的生活。他凭着强韧的意志与不懈的努力，在荒岛上顽强地生存下来，经过28年2个月零19天后得以返回故乡。

The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. In 1920, The Age of Innocence was published twice; first in four parts, July – October, in the Pictorial Review magazine, and then by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. The book was warmly received; the Times Book Review considered it "a brilliant panorama of New York's 45 years ago. The novel is in demand mostly at public libraries and a best seller in the bookstores." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Age of Innocence 58th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2011, New York Magazine critic Sam Anderson named it "the single greatest New York novel."