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This is a collection of 12 totally seperate stories that are independent of each other but have one common thread. Father Brown is an amateur sleuth whose day job involves preaching to his congregation at church. 

小说改编的剧情片《卡萝尔》，获得第68届戛纳国际电影节金棕榈奖提名。内容简介：年轻女子特芮丝在纽约百货公司担任售货员，但心中向往的却是摄影师工作。某日，一位美丽优雅的金发贵妇卡罗尔来到百货公司购买圣诞节礼物，结果和特芮丝一见投缘。两人相识后特芮丝得知原来卡罗尔有一个女儿，而且正和丈夫哈吉办理离婚手续。通过书信来往、约会相处以及公路旅行，特芮丝和卡罗尔发现彼此就是自己的真爱，然而在当时社会这是不被允许的。特芮丝的男友认为她只是一时迷惑，卡罗尔的丈夫则请私家侦探调查取证，希望在离婚诉讼让中她一无所有。考验两位女性的时刻终于到来了：在社会压力下她们能否坚守内心、不计代价的把感情路走到底？

It was a warm, golden-cloudy, lovable afternoon. In the big living-room at Ingleside Susan Baker sat down with a certain grim satisfaction hovering about her like an aura; it was four o'clock and Susan, who had been working incessantly since six that morning, felt that she had fairly earned an hour of repose and gossip. 

Hiram could not believe that Pete's father would now countenance any of his son's meannesses; yet when the young farmer went along the line fence, he saw fresh tracks across the Dickerson fields, and discovered where the person had stood, on the Dickerson side.

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi Humphreys. Gaiman later adapted the series into book form. The series & novel were partially inspired by Gene Wolfe's novel Free Live Free   I have never been to St. John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of firtrees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the bearing of the wings of the Eagle.     --_The Napoleon of Netting Hill, G. K. Chesterton     If ever thou gavest hosen or shoon     Then every night and all     Sit thou down and put them on     And Christ receive thy soul     _This aye night, this aye night     Every night and all     Fire and fleet and candlelight     And Christ receive they soul_     If ever thou gavest meat or drink     Then every night and all     The fire shall never make thee shrink     And Christ receive thy soul     --_The Lyke Wake Dirge_ (traditional)

The faithful Francesco whose English had mostly been acquired from sea-faring men and was not the choicest vocabulary nodded and true Tuscan that he was placed his finger upon his closed lips indicative of silence.

尤斯塔斯和女生波尔被一群坏学生所追赶，逃进了一扇通往荒野的小门，意外地发现自己来到了阿斯兰的国土上。他俩接受阿斯兰交付的任务，寻找凯斯宾国王失踪的独子——瑞廉王子。原来王后被一条青绿色的毒蛇咬死，不久，王子也被一个绿衣美女诱走。其实，这绿衣美女是蛇精，它用魔法控制了瑞廉王子。瑞廉王子每天只有夜间一个小时是清醒的。但这时蛇精把他捆在银椅中，用魔法控制他。尤斯塔斯和吉尔和帮助他俩的沼泽怪一起踏上了艰险的寻找之路，但由于波尔忘了阿斯兰的指示，所以增加了很多危险。他们通过巨人盘踞的北方荒原，误入吃人的哈方宫，来到地下的幽深王国，最后在黑暗城堡中解救了瑞廉王子，劈毁银椅并抵御住蛇精的魔法，最后杀死蛇精，解放了众多的蛇精奴隶——地精，回到纳尼亚。而不幸的是，年老的凯斯宾国王见到王子后立即死去。后来，阿斯兰用自己的一滴鲜血使凯斯宾复活，并恢复了青春与活力。他从此在阿斯兰的王国生活，而尤斯塔斯和波尔则回到自己的学校。

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