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Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997. The novel, told in first person perspective, tells the fictional story of a geisha working in Kyoto, Japan, before and after World War II.

美籍墨西哥裔女诗人桑德拉·希斯内罗丝创作的短篇集。该书曾获1985年美洲图书奖，作为美国大中小学生修习阅读和写作的必读书，是美国当代最著名的成长经典之一。内容简介：芝加哥芒果小街上，居住在拉美贫民社区芒果街上的女孩埃斯佩朗莎，生就对他人痛苦的具有同情心和对美的感受力，她用清澈的明眸打量周围的世界，用美丽稚嫩的语言讲述成长、讲述沧桑、讲述生命的美好、讲述年轻的热望和梦想。埃斯佩朗莎梦想着有一所属于她自己的房子，梦想着在写作中追寻自我，获得自由和帮助别人的能力，早日远离贫困，飞出芒果街。

克莱·卡特在公共辩护律师事务处呆了很长时间，他梦想着在一个真正的律师事务所得到一份更好的工作。一次他极不情愿地接手了一桩案子，随着对事件背景的深入挖掘，克莱揭开了一个令人难以置信的阴谋。他突然发现自己正处于一起复杂案件的中心，这起案子直指一家世界级的著名制药公司，结算案子的巨额律师费将彻底改变他的生活。几乎在一夜之间，克莱成了侵权案的诉讼之王……

又名《国王叙事诗》，包含14章节，是丁尼生根据亚瑟王故事写的叙事。讲述亚瑟王传说，从亚瑟王生世到其继位，再到各个圆桌骑士的故事和圣杯传说等。

FLAMBEAU, once the most famous criminal in France and later a very private detective in England, had long retired from both professions. 

An hour ago, under the marvelous canopy of the blue northern sky, David Carrigan, Sergeant in His Most Excellent Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, had hummed softly to himself, and had thanked God that he was alive.

Tommy Wilhelm in Seize the Day is both inspired and burdened by the American myth of success. At the age of twenty, he changes his name from Wilky Adler to Tommy Wilhelm, a name signifying the person he dreams of becoming. He thereby recalls James Gatz, who by calling himself Jay Gatsby thinks he can conjure up the man Daisy Buchanan will find irresistible. Unlike Gatsby, however, Wilhelm has not fled his past; he confronts it daily through his father, who still calls him Wilky. Wilhelm has "never . . . succeeded in feeling like Tommy, and in his soul had always remained Wilky" (p. 25). But he remains optimistic, though the distance between the man he is and the man he aspires to be is an endless source of despair

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a book by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly recognized as one of the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written in the vernacular, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Satirizing a Southern antebellum society that was already out of date by the time the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The work has been popular with readers since its publication and is taken as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has also been the continued object of study by serious literary critics. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger".