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The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heartstopping close, marking the third volume as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and lorek Byrnison the armored bear, The Amber Spyglass introduces a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spy-master to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel. And this final volume brings startling revelations, too: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone's amber spyglass, and the names of who will live-and who will die-for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that-in its shocking outcome- will reveal the secret of Dust. In The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman deftly weaves the cliffhangers and mysteries of The Golden Compass and The Subtle. Knife into an earth-shattering conclusion- and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and enduring classic.

Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was built sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff. There was no road in it, there was no wheeled vehicle in it, there was not a level yard in it. From the sea-beach to the cliff-top two irregular rows of white houses, placed opposite to one another, and twisting here and there, and there and here, rose, like the sides of a long succession of stages of crooked ladders, and you climbed up the village or climbed down the village by the staves between, some six feet wide or so, and made of sharp irregular stones.

Davis (1864-1916) was a writer, war correspondent and journalist, and son of Rebecca Harding Davis (also a prominent writer).

以动物为主角的童话，文笔典雅，描写细致，富含哲理。书中塑造了几个可爱的动物形象：胆小怕事但又生性喜欢冒险的鼹鼠，热情好客、充满浪漫情趣的水鼠，侠义十足、具有领袖风范的老獾，喜欢吹牛、炫耀、追求时髦的蛤蟆，敦厚老实的水獭——他们生活在河岸或大森林里，有乐同享。有难同当。

英国女作家简·奥斯汀创作的长篇小说。该作讲述埃莉诺和玛丽安两姐妹生在一个英国乡绅家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹的情感却毫无节制，因此面对爱情时，她们作出了不同的反应。内容简介：一家之主死后把遗产留给了前妻所生的儿子约翰， 而他现在的妻子与三个女儿被迫搬走，没得到一分钱， 约翰却爱上了三哥女儿中的一个，但约翰家里势力眼，看不起穷人家的女儿， 三个女儿的的另一个在一次偶然中认识了一个男人并疯狂的爱上了他，因而也就看不到她身边一直有个默默爱着她的男人。最小的女儿聪明纯真但却很理智，明辨是非，对他们的情感看的清清楚楚， 故事就是围绕三姐妹的情感展开叙述。

苏格兰孤儿戴维为了家族的遗产去找叔父，却被叔父诱拐到船上运往美洲当奴隶。接着发生了一宗谋杀案，戴维被官兵当作凶犯而遭到追捕。在逃亡路上，他巧遇同船的流亡者艾伦，两人结伴而行，在苏格兰高地的荒山野地里度过了一段惊险的逃亡生活，最后回到他当初被诱拐的地方，在朋友帮助下用智谋从叔叔手中夺回应得的财产。

The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.

The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.