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The book begins at night, with a man calling himself Sam Harrison, wearing a disguise and stalking United States Senator Daniel Fitzpatrick. Sam plans on killing the senator, and has been planning this for quite some time. The Senator has just gone into a bar with a young woman. D. Sam is very sharply dressed, to blend in the bar. After a few minutes he strolls into the bar and waits. Soon he goes upstairs to the Senator's flat. The young woman answers the door. "Jack" she says. "Jill" he replies. In another part of Washington DC, another killer was hiding in a "tent" among an area of thick pines. He is also putting on a disguise, but his is like a homeless person. He walks toward a poor neighborhood and blows up a balloon and waits for a kid to show up. A little six year old black girl approaches him. As he goes to give her the balloon he takes out a baseball bat that he was hiding behind his back and starts swinging at her.

“Metropolis” is the prophetic science-fiction novel that inspired Fritz Lang’s iconic silent-movie masterpiece. A magical, visionary page-turner so rich and inventive as to defy description, Thea von Harbou’s “Metropolis” is one science-fiction classic everyone should experience. “Metropolis” paints a stunning picture of the city of the future. At the top of the social pyramid, those who own the city’s buildings and businesses live idyllic lives devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; while at its bottom are the workers who live a hellish existence, laboring like robots in its factories, dwelling with their gaunt, stunted children in the everlasting gloom of underground barracks. Fighting to right these inequities are two lovers: Freder, son of the master and builder of Metropolis, who is shocked to social conscience when he glimpses the squalor and hopelessness amid which his father’s workers live; and Maria, who encourages the workers to stand united for their rights while following a path of non-violent resistance. Filled with unforgettable images from Joh Fredersen’s headquarters, the New Tower of Babel, rearing high above the gleaming spires of Metropolis to the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, whose name flares across the skies to the factories where workers slave before machines that resemble a pantheon of the world's gods to the evil robotrix, Parody, with the eyes of a Madonna and lips of deadly sin, whose carnal dance inspires the workers to revolt. “Metropolis” — an unforgettable, must-read book.

这是一本既写给孩子又写给大人的书。本书通过对查理和约瑟夫爷爷和其他四个幸运儿一起参观旺卡先生的巧克力工厂时，所发生的一些离奇的故事的叙述，用生动的语言告诉了家长该如何教育孩子。本书故事情节离奇、引人入胜，是一本老少皆宜的童话读物。内容简介：小查理生长的一个小镇里有一个全世界最大的巧克力工厂，工厂由一个伟大的巧克力发明家、制造商威利・旺卡所拥有。工厂非常神秘，大门紧锁，全镇子的人从来没有看见有人从大门进去或出来过。有一天，威利・旺卡先生发出告示，将有五位幸运的孩子获得参观巧克力工厂的特权，同时还能得到足够吃一辈子的巧克力糖和其他糖果。全世界购买旺卡巧克力的孩子都有机会。前提是藏在包装纸里的五张金券，谁获得金券谁就是幸运儿。偶然的机会，查理得到了一张金券。参观工厂的过程是一次奇特的经历。每个参观者都感到了无限着迷、狂喜、好奇、惊讶和迷惑不解。即使做最荒诞的梦也想象不出这样的事情。飞瀑而下的巧克力瀑布，流漫着棕色糖浆的河，大片大片的口香糖草地，还有牛奶糖堆成的山。工厂里的工人全是来自蛮荒丛林的酷爱巧克力的矮人。查理和四位幸运儿在旺卡先生的巧克力工厂里参观的过程中，出现了许多有趣的事情：一个孩子掉进了巧克力河，一个孩子变成了蓝莓，一个孩子掉进了垃圾槽，一个孩子被电视传送成了一个手掌大小。而在最后，小查理还得到了一个最大的惊喜：他将拥有威利・旺卡先生赠送他的整个巧克力工厂。

列夫·托尔斯泰（1828-1910），十九世纪俄国对世界文学最有影响的作家。《复活》是他的代表作之一。本书取材于一件真实事件，主要描写男主人公涅赫柳多夫引诱姑妈家女仆马洛斯娃，使她怀孕并被赶出家门。后来，她沦为妓女，因被指控谋财害命而受审判。男主人公以陪审员的身份出庭，见到从前被他引诱的女人，深受良心谴责。他为她奔走伸冤，并请求同她结婚，以赎回自己的罪过。上诉失败后，他陪她流放西伯利亚。他的行为感动了她，使她重新爱他。但为了不损害他的名誉和地位，她最终没有和他结婚而同一个革命者结为伉俪。

讲述城市坏男孩兰顿在遇到一名名叫杰米的女孩之后，逐渐被杰米的真诚、善良、纯洁和她对生活的热爱每天所感染，兰顿改变恶习，慢慢地厌倦了自己以前的那种生活，开始追求自己的理想和信仰，并经历一场刻骨的爱情。

In search of himself in the Arizona wilds, shellshocked war veteran Glenn Kilbourne realizes that he can never return to his former shallow life, but to give it up means giving up the love of his life.

Where Angels Fear to Tread focuses on a group of English men and women living and traveling in Italy. 

"Underneath and beyond the method, you have caught the intention and the spirit...Your study could not be more conscientious or true to the original." - Henri Bergson The famous French philosopher Henri Bergson had but the highest praise for Edouard le Roy's presentation of Bergson's philosophy for the general public in a couple of articles that would form the core of this book, A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson: Henri Bergson. Le Roy hoped that this volume would serve as an introduction, which would make it easier to read and understand Bergson's works, and serve as a primer to his "new philosophy." Bergson's new philosophy essentially argued that the intuition is deeper than the intellect. His work was considered the main challenge to the mechanistic view of nature. A great opponent of Cartesian dualism, he resisted the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states. Bergson, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, is sometimes said to have anticipated features of relativity theory and the modern scientific theories of the mind.