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农村姑娘嘉莉来到大城市芝加哥寻找幸福，为摆脱贫困，出卖自己的贞操，先后与推销员和酒店经理同居，后又凭美貌与歌喉成为演员的故事。作家以嘉莉为代表深刻揭露了美国资本主义制度对贫苦人民压榨的残酷性和资产阶级生活方式对小资产阶级分子的腐蚀性。

In the night of the 15th of January 1343, while the inhabitants of Naples lay wrapped in peaceful slumber, they were suddenly awakened by the bells of the three hundred churches that this thrice blessed capital contains. In the midst of the disturbance caused by so rude a call the first brought in the mind of all was that the town was on fire, or that the army of some enemy had mysteriously landed under cover of night and could put the citizens to the edge of the sword. But the doleful, intermittent sounds of all these fills, which disturbed the silence at regular and distant intervals, were an invitation to the faithful pray for a passing soul, and it was soon evident that no disaster threatened the town, but that the king alone was in danger.

爱尔兰青年巴里·林登因父亲去世，不得不与母亲投靠舅舅。不久英法爆发战争，原来与巴里有染的表妹爱上了招兵的上尉，巴里与上尉决斗，枪击了上尉。他为了躲避追捕，成了步兵团的新兵。在部队里他从一名参与当时决斗的军人那里得知原来上尉并未死，因为舅舅一家为了攀亲，在手枪上做了手脚，如今表妹和上尉早已成亲。军队中死伤甚多，巴里心生厌倦，冒充军官混进普鲁士盟军部队，但被识破，不得不加入普军。因在战斗中救了主帅而受器重，被派调查一个爱尔兰骑士是否是间谍。巴里和骑士一见投缘，借机离开普鲁士到法国经营赌场。巴里决定混迹上流社会，并设法和有财产、身份的林登夫人结婚，改名巴里·林登，用手段得到爵位。但林登夫人与前夫的儿子布林登离家出走，巴里的亲子也因意外夭折。林登夫人也企图服毒自杀。在与布林登的决斗中，巴里失去一条腿。加上债务缠身，巴里不得不以离开林登夫人为条件换取年金维生。他曾试图东山再起，但已失去了往日的好运。

The Kai Lung books have a nice dry humour, a beautifully way of turning a phrase and a concoluted way of using the english language. It is a China that never was but really ought to have been.

英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙于1927年创作的长篇小说，是倾注心血的准自传体意识流小说。内容简介：小说以到灯塔去为贯穿全书的中心线索，写了拉姆齐一家人和几位客人在第一次世界大战前后的片段生活经历。拉姆齐先生的幼子詹姆斯想去灯塔，但却由于天气不好而未能如愿。后大战爆发，拉姆齐一家历经沧桑。战后，拉姆齐先生携带一双儿女乘舟出海，终于到达灯塔。而坐在岸边画画的莉丽・布里斯科也正好在拉姆齐一家到达灯塔的时候，在瞬间的感悟中，向画幅中央落下一笔，终于画出了多年萦回心头的幻象，从而超越自己，成为一名真正的艺术家。

三位年轻女医生的命运，她们的事业、爱情、梦想和不寻常的遭遇。她们来自不同的家庭背景，她们的少女时代或是动荡的或是优裕的或是羞辱难言的。她们一起从医学院来到旧金山这所大医院，决心做个好医生。但命运在捉弄她们，尽管她们正直善良。医疗事故和安乐死、巨额遗赠和预谋杀人，“白马王子”和黑帮头目，一桩桩始料不及的事件落在她们头上。她们以女性的柔弱力量抗争着，经过种种曲折，最后虽是正直和善良得胜，但付出的代价却是惨重的。

From the book, "There was nothing in that clear, calm day, with its blue sky and its flooding sunshine, to suggest in the slightest degree the awful tragedy so close at hand--that tragedy which so puzzled the authorities and which came so close to wrecking the happiness of several innocent people." Harry and Gerry are friends and also rivals. The object of their affection is one Viola Carwell. Viola巗 father is cool towards Harry, since his family got the best of him in a business deal. The story takes a sinister turn when Viola巗 father dies on the golf course and the cause was poison. Was it suicide due to financial reverses? Or was it murder? The detective Colonel Ashley is called in to assist with the investigation.

The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography. The novel inspired a film of the same name directed in 1926 by Rex Ingram.