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鲁道夫·拉森狄尔年轻富有，出生于一个历史悠久的英国家庭，可他却长着卢里塔尼亚王室所特有的深红色头发和长而笔挺的鼻子。是多年前一个小小的家庭“意外”造成的结果。鲁道夫决定去参加卢里塔尼亚斯国王的加冕典礼。他到了曾达城，并在森林里漫步。第二天上午他却发现自己身陷意想不到的奇遇之中。他与新朋友萨普特上尉和弗里茨一起制定了营救曾达城堡中的囚徒的计划。很快他就与国王的死对头黑迈克和鲁帕特交上了手，而且爱上了国王的表妹，美丽的弗蕾维亚公主。然后国王……。然而，谁才是真正的卢里塔尼亚的国王呢？

I have mentioned already that he was a widower. He had married in his early youth, and married for money. From his parents in Moscow, who were completely ruined, he received hardly anything. Vassilyevskoe was mortgaged over and over again. It was encumbered with enormous debts. At twenty-two the prince, who was forced at that time to take service in a government department in Moscow, had not a farthing.

In the story, the young Prince Dolor, whose legs are paralysed due to a childhood trauma, is exiled to a tower in a wasteland. As he grows older, a fairy godmother provides a magical travelling cloak so he can see, but not touch, the world.

"Addressing a wide spectrum of Victorian cultural and intellectual contexts, Sinnema's edition presents an especially sophisticated, rich, and current introduction to the allegorical complexities and literary impact of, and critical debates over, Bulwer-Lytton's seminal science-fiction classic. With a well-annotated text and judicious and efficient selection of period documents, ranging from the physics of Faraday and Maxwell and the evolutionary thought of Darwin and Huxley to the sexual politics of Ruskin and Mill, this Broadview edition nicely equips the contemporary student or general reader of The Coming Race for critical comprehension." -- Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University "Peter Sinnema's excellent new edition of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race restores to prominence a lost classic of Victorian science fiction, one whose contemporaries ranked it alongside Thomas More's Utopia and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The edition's masterful introduction and rich set of accompanying appendices set the novel within a remarkably diverse range of Victorian social, scientific, and political contexts, including those of first-wave feminism, Darwinism, electro-magnetic theory, and early science and adventure fiction. Particularly useful is the introduction's discussion of the fascinating genre of hollow earth fiction, one whose scholarly rediscovery this new edition is sure to precipitate. All in all, The Coming Race is a wonderful addition to the Broadview series which will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, students, and general aficionados of Utopian fiction."

I stood on a high hill that overlooked a large city. The proud spires of many churches rose high, here and there; and round about the city were beautiful, sloping hills, stretching away, away into the distance; while a broad river wound here and there, extending a kindly arm toward the city.

《挪威的森林》是日本作家村上春树于1987年所著的一部长篇爱情小说。故事讲述主角纠缠在情绪不稳定且患有精神疾病的直子和开朗活泼的小林绿子之间，展开了自我成长的旅程。自本书在日本问世，截止2012年在日本共销出1500余万册。 渡边的第一个恋人直子原是他高中要好同学木月的女友，但后来木月自杀了，直子一人生活着。一年后，渡边同直子巧遇开始了交往，此时的直子已变得娴静腼腆，眸子里不时掠过一丝阴翳。直子20岁生日的晚上两人发生了性关系，不料第二天直子便不知去向。几个月后直子来信说她住进一家远在深山里的精神疗养院。渡边前去探望时发现直子开始带有成熟女性的丰腴与娇美，还认识了和直子同一宿舍的玲子，在离开前渡边表示永远等待直子。 在一家小餐馆渡边结识了绿子，因为绿子问他借了《戏剧史II》的课堂笔记，以后就渐渐熟络。当绿子的父亲去世后，渡边开始与低年级的绿子交往。绿子同内向的直子截然相反，显得十分清纯活泼。 这期间，渡边内心十分苦闷彷徨。一方面念念不忘直子缠绵的病情与柔情，一方面又难以抗拒绿子大胆的表白和迷人的活力。不久传来直子自杀的噩耗，渡边失魂落魄地四处徒步旅行。最后，在直子同房病友玲子的鼓励下，开始摸索此后的人生。

 （1904） Book Of Indian Tales as a kind of sequel to her masterpiece.

The Flying Inn is the most rambunctious of Chesterton's novels, a rollicking ramble through the heart of merry England.

作为一部乌托邦小说，《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》描绘了一个由自私而精明的商人、科学家、艺术家等社会精英组成的世外桃源，有着田园诗般的诗意和现实社会中的欲望的满足。在这里，维系着一切的不是道德而是金钱，金钱被视作为崇拜的偶像，是自由交换和公平正义的象征，每个人都是独立的创造者和思考者。小说结尾，由于强者罢工、抛弃了弱者，世界陷入了无边的黑暗，而乌托邦里则是一片和谐幸福。