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罗伯特·清崎有两个爸爸：“穷爸爸”是他的亲生父亲，一个高学历的教育官员；“富爸爸”是他好朋友的父亲，一个高中没毕业却善于投资理财的企业家。清崎遵从“穷爸爸”为他设计的人生道路：上大学，服兵役，参加越战，走过了平凡的人生初期。直到1977年，清崎亲眼目睹一生 辛劳的“穷爸爸”失了业，“富爸爸”则成了夏威夷最富有的人之一。罗伯特·清崎毅然追寻“富爸爸”的脚步，踏入商界，从此登上了致富快车。

奇迹！一部新人处女作，上市第一周即登上《纽约时报》畅销榜，至今已累计80周，仍高居Top1，全美销量破百万册， 比尔·盖茨年度荐书第一名。内容简介：这是一个与命运作斗争的故事。塔拉出生在美国爱达荷州的山区，家中包括她一共有七个人，她是全家最小的，家中的小孩子都没有去上学。有关部门也不知道他们的存在，甚至没有出生证明，就像是与社会脱轨的原始人一样。每天晚上父亲就会向孩子们朗读《圣经》，父亲固执地认为外面的世界是邪恶的，是险恶的。学校也是一个让世人堕落的地方，要是孩子在学校里接受教育还不知道会变成什么鬼样子呢！随着塔拉慢慢长大，她才意识到，原来父亲也不都是对的，社会没有他说的那么可怕，学校也不是让人堕落的地方。于是产生了一个想法：我也想去上学。后来的塔拉以优异的成绩去了剑桥，在剑桥下定决心的研究历史，懂得了更多，也获得了更多的自信。但是生活没有想象的这么美好，一直在塔拉心中的魔鬼出现了，她根深蒂固的记忆和现实开始冲突。

 我请孩子们原谅我把这本书献给了一个大人。我有一个很重要的理由：这个大人是我在世界上最好的朋友。我还有另一个理由：这个大人他什么都能懂，甚至给孩子 们写的书他也能懂。我的第三个理由是：这个大人住在法国，他在那里挨饿、受冻。他很需要安慰。如果这些理由还不够的话，那么我愿意把这本书献给儿童时代的 这个大人。所有的大人都曾经是孩子。（可惜，只有很少的一些大人记得这一点。）因此，我就把献词改为：献给还是小男孩时的列翁.维尔特

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.

美国浪漫主义作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑创作的长篇小说。发表于1850年。书中讲述了发生在北美殖民时期的恋爱悲剧。小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活动和直觉放在首位。因此，它不仅是美国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美国心理分析小说的开创篇。内容简介：在北美殖民时期，海丝特嫁给了医生奇灵渥斯，他们之间却没有爱情。在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。白兰被当众惩罚，戴上标志“通奸”的红色A字示众。然而白兰坚贞不屈，拒不说出孩子的父亲。小说惯用象征手法，人物、情节和语言都颇具主观想象色彩，在描写中又常把人的心理活动和直觉放在首位。因此，它不仅是美国浪漫主义小说的代表作，同时也被称作是美国心理分析小说的开创篇。

梭罗远离尘嚣，他想在自然的安谧中寻找一种本真的生存状态，寻求一种更诗意的生活。《瓦尔登湖》一书，详细地记录了作家在长达两年的时间里的日常生活状态以及所思所想，他在小木屋旁开荒种地，春种秋收，自给自足。他是一个自然之子，他崇尚自然，与自然交朋友，与湖水、森林和飞鸟对话，在林中观察动物和植物，在船上吹笛，在湖边钓鱼，晚上，在小木屋中记下自己的观察和思考。他追求精神生活，关注灵魂的成长，他骄傲地宣称：“每个人都是自己王国的国王，与这个王国相比，沙皇帝国也不过是一个卑微小国，犹如冰天雪地中的小雪团。”梭罗以他的实际行动告诉我们：人们所追求的大部分奢侈品，大部分的所谓生活的舒适，非但没有必要，而且对人类进步大有妨碍。 《瓦尔登湖》记述了作者在简单生活中深入思考与重塑自我的心路历程，文笔宁静恬淡，引人深思，具有一种使人沉静的力量。

1:1 [hgb]  提 阿 非 罗 阿 ， 我 已 经 作 了 前 书 ， 论 到 耶 稣 开 头 一 切 所 行 所 教 训 的 ，    [kjv]  The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,    [bbe]  I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,1:2 [hgb]  直 到 他 借 着 圣 灵 吩 咐 所 拣 选 的 使 徒 ， 以 后 被 接 上 升 的 日 子 为 止 。    [kjv]  Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:    [bbe]  Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

The Silmarillion, now published four years after the death of its author, is an account of the Elder Days, or the First Age of the World. In The Lord of the Rings were narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age; but the tales of The Silmarillion are legends deriving from a much deeper past, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils. Not only, however, does The Silmarillion relate the events of a far earlier time than those of The Lord of the Rings; it is also, in all the essentials of its conception, far the earlier work. Indeed, although it was not then called The Silmarillion, it was already in being half a century ago; and in battered notebooks extending back to 1917 can still be read the earliest versions, often hastily pencilled, of the central stories of the mythology. But it was never published (though some indication of its content could be gleaned from The Lord of the Rings), and throughout my father's long life he never abandoned it, nor ceased even in his last years to work on it. In all that time The Silmarillion, considered simply as a large narrative structure, underwent relatively little radical change; it became long ago a fixed tradition, and background to later writings. But it was far indeed from being a fixed text, and did not remain unchanged even in certain fundamental ideas concerning the nature of the world it portrays; while the same legends came to be retold in longer and shorter forms, and in different styles. As the years passed the changes and variants, both in detail and in larger perspectives, became so complex, so pervasive, and so many-layered that a final and definitive version seemed unattainable. Moreover the old legends ('old' now not only in their derivation from the remote First Age, but also in terms of my father's life) became the vehicle and depository of his profoundest reflections. In his later writing mythology and poetry sank down behind his theological and philosophical preoccupations: from which arose incompatibilities of tone. On my father's death it fell to me to try to bring the work into publishable form. It became clear to me that to attempt to present, within the covers of a single book the diversity of the materials - to show The Silmarillion as in truth a continuing and evolving creation extending over more than half a century - would in fact lead only to confusion and the submerging of what is essential I set myself therefore to work out a single text selecting and arranging in such a way as seemed to me to produce the most coherent and internally self-consistent narrative. In this work the concluding chapters (from the death of Tъrin Turambar) introduced peculiar difficulties, in that they had remained unchanged for many years, and were in some respects in serious disharmony with more developed conceptions in other parts of the book. A complete consistency (either within the compass of The Silmarillion itself or between The Silmarillion and other published writings of my father's) is not to be looked for, and could only be achieved, if at all at heavy and needless cost. Moreover, my father came to conceive The Silmarillion as a compilation, a compendious narrative, made long afterwards from sources of great diversity (poems, and annals, and oral tales) that had survived in agelong tradition; and this conception has indeed its parallel in the actual history of the book, for a great deal of earlier prose and poetry does underlie it, and it is to some extent a compendium in fact and not only in theory. To this may be ascribed the varying speed of the narrative and fullness of detail in different parts, the contrast (for example) of the precise recollections of place and motive in the legend of Tъrin Turambar beside the high and remote account of the end of the First Age, when Thangorodrim was broken and Morgoth overthrown; and also some differences of tone and portrayal, some obscurities, and, here and there, some lack of cohesion. In the case of the Valaquenta, for instance, we have to assume that while it contains much that must go back to the earliest days of the Eldar in Valinor, it was remodelled in later times; and thus explain its continual shifting of tense and viewpoint, so that the divine powers seem now present and active in the world, now remote, a vanished order known only to memory. The book, though entitled as it must be The Silmarillion, contains not only the Quenta Silmarillion, or Silmarillion proper, but also four other short works. The Ainulindalл and Valaquenta, which are given at the beginning, are indeed closely related with The Silmarillion; but the Akallabкth and Of the Rings of Power, which appear at the end, are (it must to emphasised) wholly separate and independent. They are included according to my father's explicit intention; and by their inclusion is set forth the entire history is set forth from the Music of the Ainur in which the world began to the passing of the Ringbearers from the havens of Mithlond at the end of the Third Age. The number of names that occur in the book is very large, and I have provided a full index; but the number of persons (Elves and Men) who play an important part in the narrative of the First Age is very much smaller, and all of these will be found in the genealogical tables. In addition I have provided a table setting out the rather complex naming of the different Elvish peoples; a note on the pronunciation of Elvish names, and a list of some of the chief elements found in these names; and a map. It may be noted that the great mountain range in the east, Ered Luin or Ered Lindon, the Blue Mountains, appears in the extreme west of the map in The Lord of the Rings. In the body of the book there is a smaller map: the intention of this is to make clear at a glance where lay the kingdoms of the Elves after the return of the Noldor to Middle-earth. I have not burdened the book further with any sort of commentary or annotation. There is indeed a wealth of unpublished writing by my father concerning the Three Ages, narrative, linguistic, historical, and philosophical, and I hope that it will prove possible to publish some of this at a later date. In the difficult and doubtful task of preparing the text of the book I was very greatly assisted by Guy Kay, who worked with me in 1974-1975. Christopher Tolkien

《尤利西斯》是爱尔兰意识流文学作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯于1922年出版的长篇小说。小说以时间为顺序，描述了主人公，苦闷彷徨的都柏林小市民，广告推销员利奥波德·布卢姆（Leopold Bloom）于1904年6月16日一昼夜之内在都柏林的种种日常经历。小说大量运用细节描写和意识流手法构建了一个交错凌乱的时空，语言上形成了一种独特的风格。《尤利西斯》是意识流小说的代表作，并被誉为20世纪一百部最佳英文小说之首，每年的6月16日已经被纪念为“布卢姆日”。《尤利西斯》是英国现代小说中最有实验性、最有争议的作品。