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'Carmen won't last more than a couple of days.' Mason spat out a chunk of ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put her foot in his mouth and proceeded to bite out the ice which clustered cruelly between the toes. 'I never saw a dog with a highfalutin' name that ever was worth a rap,' he said, as he concluded his task and shoved her aside. 'They just fade away and die under the responsibility. Did ye ever see one go wrong with a sensible name like Cassiar, Siwash, or Husky? No, sir! Take a look at Shookum here, he's-' Snap! The lean brute flashed up, the white teeth just missing Mason's throat. 'Ye will, will ye?' A shrewd clout behind the ear with the butt of the dog whip stretched the animal in the snow, quivering softly, a yellow slaver dripping from its fangs.

小说以第一人称写作，身为记者的作者随着调查和采访的深入，讲述了宏伟壮丽的巴黎歌剧院里闹鬼的事。歌剧院经理德比埃纳先生和波里尼先生辞去经理之职后，如释重负；他们的继任者蒙沙尔曼先生和里夏尔先生上任伊始，有个亲眼见过歌剧院幽灵的置景工猝然吊死在舞台下面的台仓里，把德比埃纳先生和波里尼先生的告别辞行晚会给搅了；新任经理又受到歌剧院幽灵先后两次敲诈，四万法郎神秘地不翼而飞；著名女歌星卡洛塔竟然在演唱拿手曲目时走调，癞蛤蟆般的鼓噪甚至惊得剧场大厅里的枝形吊灯都掉下来，当场砸死已被里夏尔先生指定去接替幽灵的领座员吉里太太职务的看门妇，卡洛塔含羞结束了自己的艺术生涯；取而代之的歌坛新星克里斯蒂娜，师从所谓的“音乐天使”，亦即歌剧院幽灵，在《浮士德》中，她用自己的全部心灵去演唱玛格丽特一角，演至最后一幕，她用超凡脱俗的歌声呼唤天使，她的身体仿佛腾空而起，拉着全场为之震颤的观众一起展翅高飞，每个观众都以为自己插上了翅膀，这时舞台上突然陷入一片黑暗，观众几乎来不及发出惊叫，灯光又重新照亮舞台，但克里斯蒂娜却在众目睽睽之下消失了，被劫持了；克里斯蒂娜失踪后，她的心上人夏尼子爵也不知去向，子爵的兄长菲利普伯爵又意外身亡；围绕着夏尼子爵和温柔迷人的红歌星之间的爱情故事，骇人听闻的罪恶勾当接踵而至……这一切的一切，随着作者的调查和讲述，谜底终于揭开，原来均系“歌剧院幽灵”，一个有血有肉的丑八怪埃利克所为。埃利克天生一张连亲生母亲见了都害怕的脸，从未得到过女性的爱，历经生活的种种磨难后，因羞于见人，藏身于巴黎歌剧院的地下室里，他使出一切鬼魅伎俩想要获得漂亮动人的克里斯蒂娜的爱，仅仅是为了能过上像常人一样的生活。至此，作者对埃利克的不幸寄予的无限同情已跃然纸上，使这出爱情悲剧具有强烈的艺术感染力，至今仍脍炙人口。

The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.

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作为笔调轻松、文笔优美、诙谐有趣的自然历史书籍之一，《贝格尔号航行日记》记述了查尔斯· 达尔文于1831年至1836年间经南美洲、加拉帕戈斯群岛、澳洲重返英格兰的旅程，此次旅行加深了他对生物学的理解，丰富和发展了他的进化论观点。在达尔文的笔下，他的那些冒险经历，诸如火地岛遭遇“野人”、在巴塔哥尼亚偶食生禽，以及试图骑上晃晃悠悠的巴塔哥尼亚乌龟的努力都一一生动地跃然纸上，描绘得栩栩如生。

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.