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Marion is proverbially the great master of strategy-the wily fox of the swamps-never to be caught, never to be followed,-yet always at hand, with unconjectured promptness, at the moment when he is least feared and is least to be expected. South Carolina's "Swamp Fox," Francis Marion, is one of the most celebrated figures of the American Revolution. Marion's cunning exploits in the Southern theater of the Revolution earned him national renown and a place in history as an American hero and master of modern guerilla warfare. Although dozens of works have been written about Marion s life over the years, this biography -- written by William Gilmore Simms, South Carolina s greatest author -- remains the best. First published in 1844, The Life of Francis Marion was Simms's most commercially successful work of nonfiction. It offers a treatment of Marion's life that is unparalleled in its scope and accuracy, all in Simms's inimitable style.

美丽的白雪公主、放鹅姑娘；可爱的小红帽、小精灵；充满危险的黑森林，风光绮丽的城堡……这些奇妙美丽的意境、曲折迷离的故事情节，一定会让你沉浸在故事里，久久难以忘怀。除此之外，这本小书中还有一些睿智隽永的民间故事，那些聪明机智、勇敢善良的劳动人民让人感觉那么的亲切。他们好像正透过书页告诉我们，如何分清善良和邪恶，如何与坏人斗智斗勇，如何保持一颗快乐的童心。

《雾都孤儿》是英国作家狄更斯于1838年出版的写实小说。以雾都伦敦为背景，讲述了一个孤儿悲惨的身世及遭遇，主人公奥立弗在孤儿院长大，经历学徒生涯，艰苦逃难，误入贼窝，又被迫与狠毒的凶徒为伍，历尽无数辛酸，最后在善良人的帮助下，查明身世并获得了幸福。如同狄更斯的其他小说，本书揭露许多当时的社会问题，如救济院、童工、以及帮派吸收青少年参与犯罪等。本书曾多次改编为电影、电视及舞台剧。

The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. A monumental work unsurpassed for its brilliant description, accuracy, and penetrating insights, Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War is a spectacular eyewitness report of the war between Greece’s two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, as it unfolded during the fifth century B.C. The first recorded political and moral analysis of a nation’s war policies, the History is a tragic story of virtue, ambition, and failed deterrence. All aspects of the conflict—from the battlefield strategies and the political landscape to the peoples’ thoughts and feelings as the long war dragged on—are presented in startlingly vivid detail. From the treachery of Alcibiades and the disastrous invasion of Sicily to the plague that devastated Athens and Pericles’ famous funeral oration, Thucydides has written more than a mere account of war. His History is nothing less than a classic Greek drama about the rise and fall of Athens. More than two thousand years have passed since the History was written, but its impact on modern politics, military strategy, and foreign relations has been timeless. Donald Lateiner teaches Greek, Latin, Ancient History and Comparative Folklore in the Humanities-Classics department at ohio Wesleyan University. His scholarship focuses on Homer and Herodotus, and he has published a book on each. He also researches nonverbal behaviors in ancient literature.

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader understand Joyce's use of textures, dialect, and symbols. Each of the beautifully written short stories in this collection precisely details a brief scene in the life of a resident of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century. Although the characters do not know each other, their experiences unfold along the same streets and often overlap thematically. Their tragedies mirror that of Ireland, a country struggling for political identity and held back, in Joyce's view, by rigid religious ideas and adherence to tradition. Joyce's great skill at dialect offers a sense of the city's complex social structure, while themes of isolation, emotional paralysis, violence, regret, and death run throughout the collection and link all of the stories. Chronologically, too, the stories appear to progress; portrayals of youthful confusion and disillusionment in the opening story, "The Sisters," become the haunting midlife meditations of "The Dead." Like his masterpieces Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake, James Joyce's Dubliners displays consummate control of nuances, emotions, and images.　该书完成于1905年，先后遭20多家出版商退稿。后在美国意象派诗人庞德的帮助与推荐下，作品于1914年正式出版发表。《都柏林人》由15个短篇小说结集而成，以现实主义的手法描绘了形形色色的都柏林下层市层平庸琐屑的生活图景。 　　瘫痪和死亡是贯穿小说集的主题。全书是依据“童年、青少年、成年和社会生活”四个阶段来安排故事顺序的。作品具有现实主义和自然主义的特点，同时也表现出象征主义的倾向。在最后的《死者》一篇中，面对死亡，人们获得了“精神感悟”，生与死的交融象征了都柏林社会与人类的虽死犹生。作品的主旨由此获得了升华。

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

First editionMain article: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Begun in January, completed in February 1950 and published on 15 September 1952, The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader’ returns Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their priggish cousin, Eustace Scrubb, to Narnia. Once there, they join Caspian's voyage on the ship Dawn Treader to find the seven lords who were banished when Miraz took over the throne. This perilous journey brings them face to face with many wonders and dangers as they sail toward Aslan's country at the end of the world.

 《冰雨的风暴》的故事时间紧接在《列王的纷争》之后。五王之战——罗柏·史塔克，巴隆·葛雷乔伊，蓝礼、乔佛里和史坦尼斯·拜拉席恩之间的战争——让七大王国陷入混乱。蓝礼·拜拉席恩已死，史坦尼斯·拜拉席恩在夺取君临时被兰尼斯特家族和提利尔家族的新联盟击败。马泰尔家族依然支持兰尼斯特家族。同时，大群野人在曼斯·雷德的指挥下向长城进军，只有微弱力量的守夜人防守。在远东，丹妮莉丝·坦格利安打算返回潘托斯组建一支能够夺回铁王座的军队。 小说于伊耿登陆纪299年开始，300年结束。