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Tarzan Triumphant is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifteenth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Blue Book from October, 1931 through March, 1932. It should not be confused with the 1943 film "Tarzan Triumphs." The plots are not related.

Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire, contracts a secret marriage. While the village celebrates Christmas and New Year, two apparently inexplicable events occur. Silas loses his gold and finds a child on his hearth. The imaginative control George Eliot displays as her narrative gradually reveals causes and connections has rarely been surpassed. This new edition, which is based on the carefully corrected text George Eliot prepared a few months after the first edition, is accompanied by an introduction which illuminates the intellectual context of what has often been presented as a nostalgic, sentimental tale.

When John Hunter West, an Edinburgh solicitor, falls on hard times, a relation offers him and his two children a home on his Branksome Estate, set on the bleak and remote western coast of Scotland. But the family's new life is disturbed by the arrival of the enigmatic Major-General Heatherstone who takes up the tenancy of the nearby Cloomber Hall. It is the beginning of a remarkable and disturbing mystery, which leads to an unexplained tragedy out on the desolate moors.

Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997. It centers on the collaboration of the historical Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the American Revolutionary War. Intermingled with Mason and Dixon's biographies, history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication, the novel is based on the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke, a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy, who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening — partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house.

 The novel tells a story of a girl, pushed into marriage to a wealthy man much older than herself by her money-grasping father. 

杰克·格拉迪尼的大家庭过着平凡典型的现代生活，固定的超市购物之旅和周五的电视晚餐是他们“幸福”的基石。然而，一场化学品泄漏事故将致命毒雾送上天空，向他宣告“死亡已经到来，它就在你的体内”。恐惧已入侵心灵每个角落，它就像白噪音，始终如一，无处不在。

首次发表便震惊了法国文坛，它奠定了莫泊桑在法国文学史上的地位。严师福楼拜也称之为杰作。从此，莫泊桑“像流星一样进入文坛”。内容简介：普法战争时，法国的一群贵族、政客、商人、修女等高贵者，和一个叫作羊脂球的妓女，同乘一辆马车逃离普军占区，在一关卡受阻。普鲁士军官要求同羊脂球过夜，遭到羊脂球拒绝，高贵者们也深表气愤。但马车被扣留后，高贵者们竟施展各种伎俩迫使羊脂球就范，而羊脂球最终得到的却是高贵者们的轻蔑。小说反衬鲜明，悬念迭生，引人入胜，写出了法国各阶层在占领者面前的不同态度，揭露了贵族资产阶级的自私、虚伪和无耻，赞扬了羊脂球的牺牲精神。

贝洛福在瑞士山区建立一个疗养院，但实际上却阴谋进行一项控制全球的野心计划，就是将病毒注射到女患者身上，然后分派到世界各地，企图掌握世界主权。007奉命调查此案，乔装家谱学家蒙混而入，及时炸毁实验室，挽救了世界。

The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize.The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s. In 1920, The Age of Innocence was published twice; first in four parts, July – October, in the Pictorial Review magazine, and then by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. The book was warmly received; the Times Book Review considered it "a brilliant panorama of New York's 45 years ago. The novel is in demand mostly at public libraries and a best seller in the bookstores." In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Age of Innocence 58th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2011, New York Magazine critic Sam Anderson named it "the single greatest New York novel."