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Classic study by the Scottish essayist, satirist, and historian, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era.

The Pupil is the touching story of a tutor's struggle to help his pupil in spite of a difficult family. The Moreens are an American family wandering around Europe. With pretensions above their ability to fund, their lifestyle is supported by lying, cheating, and bill-jumping. When securing a tutor for their young son, it is no different - they hire him under false pretenses and avoid paying him. The tutor, Pemberton, finds himself drawn to the intelligent and world-weary boy, and wants to help him rise above his family's dissolute life. But Pemberton, himself penniless, cannot afford to work without pay. Will he have to abandon his pupil to save himself? Nuanced, poignant, and darkly humorous, The Pupil is an example of why Henry James is one of the nineteenth-century's most satisfying writers.

Bid me and I shall gather my fruits to bring them in full baskets into your courtyard, though some are lost and some not ripe.

'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...

YOU SHOULD KNOW by this time, my dear Myra," Professor Blinkwell said easily, "that I have made it a rule of life that I take risks."

 走入孤独，远离书斋，如同远离社会一样重要。纵然无人在我身旁，当我读书或写作时，并非独处一隅。如果一个人渴望独处，就请他注目于星辰吧。那从天界下行的光芒，使人们得以出离可触摸的现世。可以这样说，我们假想，大气之所以透明，就是为了让人们看到天国的灿烂光芒。从普通城市的街道向上看，它们是如此深邃伟岸。假如星辰千年一现，人类关于上帝之城的记忆，必将世代相传，为人们长久地信仰着，珍存着，崇拜着。然而，每一晚，这些美的使者都会降临，以它们无可置疑的微笑，照亮宇宙。

《羊脂球》是有“短篇小说大师”之称的法国作家莫泊桑先生创作的小说。《羊脂球》是他的成名作，也是他的代表作之一。故事以羊脂球的悲惨遭遇反衬了资本主义下的丑恶肮脏的灵魂。他们虚伪的面具下藏的都是腐朽的内脏和污秽的思想。

 美国经典文学作品，同时期代表作，小说内容道理深刻。

伊芙和薇拉内尔的故事，她们相互有着残暴过往，曾经深陷对方不可自拔，如今却竭力维持没有对方的生活。维伦内尔，无人问津的职业杀手，对她而言伊芙已死；伊芙，大隐隐于市的军情六处前特工，维伦内尔将永远不会找到她。一切看起来风平浪静，直到一起涉及个人的震惊死亡让两人轨迹再次相汇，而这又势必教她们付出亲朋好友乃至各自灵魂的代价。