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Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, is the first novel written by author Stephen Crane, and was considered to be too risqué by publishers in 1893, and Crane was forced to self-publish this title. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, is considered to be one of the most important novels featuring Naturalism, which believes that an individuals behavior is shaped largely by forces which are beyond their control.

在霍格沃茨魔法学校学习一年之后，暑假开始了。哈利·波特在姨父姨妈家熬过痛苦的假期。正当他准备打点行装去学校时，家养小精灵多比前来发出警告：如果哈利返回霍格沃茨，灾难将会临头。多比为哈利重返霍格沃茨设置了很多障碍，但哈利和罗恩还是开着韦斯莱先生会飞的福特老爷车，义无反顾地回到了霍格沃茨。

The Adventures of a Brownie is sort of a proto-Nesbit; a book like this eventually evolved into Nesbit's Five Children and It which evolved into The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobewhich eventually becomes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Brownie isn't as clever or funny as Nesbit, but there is some pointed humor.

The Golden Slipper is a collection of nine mysteries solved by Violet Strange, a young sleuth. 

美国思想家、文学家，诗人。爱默生是确立美国文化精神的代表人物。美国前总统林肯称他为“美国的孔子”、“美国文明之父”。爱默生出身牧师家庭，他的父亲威廉·爱默生是一位知名的一位论派牧师。爱默生在即将过8岁的生日两周前父亲过世（1811年），由母亲和姑母抚养他成人。隔年他被送到了波士顿拉丁学校就读。1817年10月，爱默生14岁时，他入读哈佛大学并且被任命为新生代表，这个身份让他获得免费住宿的机会。为了增添微薄的薪水，寒假期间他会到Ripley 伯父在马萨诸塞州瓦胜市的学校进行辅导及教学事务。在校期间，他阅读了大量英国浪漫主义作家的作品，丰富了思想，开阔了视野。1821年爱默生从哈佛大学毕业后，他协助自己的兄弟在母亲的家中设立一所给年轻女性就读的学校，这是在他于切尔姆斯福德设立自己的学校以后的事；当爱默生的兄弟前往格丁根读神学时，爱默生负责主持这所学校。之后数年，爱默生都过着担任校长的日子，然后进了哈佛大学神学院，并于1829年以一位论派牧师的形象崭露头角。

英国作家戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯创作的一部长篇小说，是作者的半自传体作品。劳伦斯的成名作，是他早期创作中最成熟、最有影响力的作品。最初，该书因为被斥为“有伤风化”的色情文学而先后在英美等国被禁止发行。20世纪60年代，经过轰动性的法庭审判方才解禁。随着人们对其作品认识的深入，它已被誉为世界文学名著长廊中独具特色的佳作，1999年，小说被评为“20世纪英国百部最佳小说”。小说中，劳伦斯通过现实主义和心理分析的写作方法，描写了十九世纪末叶英国工业社会中下层人民的生活和特定环境下母子间和两性间的复杂、变态的心理。他强调人的原始本能，把理智作为压抑天性的因素加以摒弃，主张充分发挥人的本能。劳伦斯还对英国生活中工业化物质文明和商业精神进行了批判。没有人会否认母爱的伟大，但母爱是单方面的。如果母爱可以得到回报，那也只能是来自儿女的爱。但劳伦斯在“儿子与情人”中，对这一观念进行了强有力的挑战。没有人会否认劳伦斯是二十世纪最重要的文学家，也没有人会否认弗洛伊德是二十世纪最伟大的心理学家。但能够对这部作品所讲述的故事公开表示认同的，恐怕远远不如对这部作品进行研究的人多。

《群鸦的盛宴》的故事时间紧接在《冰雨的风暴》之后，且与下一卷《魔龙的狂舞》平行。五王之战渐渐平息。罗柏·史塔克、乔佛里·拜拉席恩、蓝礼·拜拉席恩和巴隆·葛雷乔伊均已死亡。国王史坦尼斯·拜拉席恩逃亡长城，琼恩·雪诺已成为这里的总司令。国王托曼·拜拉席恩，乔佛里八岁大的弟弟，在母亲摄政女王瑟曦·兰尼斯特的监控下统治君临。泰温·兰尼斯特大人被次子提利昂在逃离君临途中谋杀。珊莎·史塔克躲藏在艾林谷，被培提尔·贝里席保护，贝里席谋杀了妻子莱莎·艾林，自命为谷地守护者与八岁大的少主劳勃·艾林的监护人。 小说跨越了伊耿登陆纪300年的头半年，或许更长。

Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriau's characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book.

Whiteout (2004) is a thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett about the theft of a deadly virus from a lab in snow-covered Scotland. When a rabbit being tested on to find a cure against a deadly virus, a more dangerous form of Ebola, is stolen from a lab in Scotland, Toni Gallo, head of security, knows that she has failed. But soon things turn out to be a lot worse when the virus itself is also stolen, with inside assistance, to be used in a terrorist attack. Through a Christmas Eve blizzard, and without much help from the local police, Toni has to chase the thieves to recover the virus and save the future of the lab as well as prevent a dangerous outbreak. Meanwhile, she's falling in love with her boss, who is having the family over for Christmas at his nearby mansion.