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Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a future dark age of the great "We"—a world that deprives individuals of name, independence, and values—anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma.

John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind cheek-bones wide apart chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round and the nose broad and pudgy equidistant from the circumference flattened against the very centre of the face like a dough-ball upon the ceiling.

THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

Millions of years in the future, the last remnant of humanity crowds together within city-pyramids under a dead star, the last redoubts against an increasingly hostile world. Through those treacherous wastes of The Night Land, only the bravest dare travel. But at the end of the world and of the human race, can love still prevail?

辛克莱·刘易斯著长篇小说，1930年作品《巴比特》获诺贝尔文学奖,讲述商人“巴比特”的故事。

When Tarzan ventured northward into the remote and trackless backlands of ancient Abyssinia, it may have been only the lure of mystery that drew him---or the secrets those unmapped valleys have guarded from time immemorial. It was in one such unknown valley that a strange white warrior in ivory armor led Tarzan to the luxurious court of the most beautiful woman in the world (!), to the arena and the lion pit, and to the intrigues and perils of a forgotten barbarian kingdom.

'Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position'. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door ...When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective's life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain...

为了掌握自己的命运，出身贫寒的贝姬不择手段，谄媚奉承，走小道钻后门，飞上高枝。而富商的女儿阿梅莉亚温柔善良，驯顺地随命运拨弄，面对纯洁的爱情，却视而不见。两人的命运，几经坎坷，几经风雨。小说结尾写道：“啊，人类欲望如此虚荣与荒唐！尘世之中，我们谁是真正快乐的？我们谁能称心如意？又或，在遂了心愿后，真正感到心满意足？”