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Bret Harte is a fondly remembered western writer who spent only eighteen of his sixty-six years in the American west -- in fact, he went on, in 1878, to get work as an American consul in Germany, and as far as we can tell, never came back to the United States. He died in 1902, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church, in Frimley, Surrey, England. Even so, the American west was in his heart, and that was what he wrote about -- as he does here, in Devil's Ford, a novel set in Harte's California, which it speaks to preposterousness in a very Bret-Hartelike way: Kearney, it's decided, will furnish water brought from the Union Ditch, twenty miles away, at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, to feed a memorial fountain erected by Mattingly, worth a hundred thousand dollars, as a crowning finish to public buildings contributed by Maryland Joe, to the extent of half a million more. The disposition of these vast sums by gentlemen wearing patched breeches awakened no sense of the ludicrous, nor did any doubt, reservation, or contingency enter into the plans of the charming enthusiasts themselves. The foundation of their airy castles lay already before them in the strip of rich alluvium on the riverbank, where the North Fork, sharply curving round the base of Devil's Spur, had for centuries swept the detritus of gulch and canyon. Like all of Bret Harte's work, this novel is fun stuff. Don't miss it.

A short excerpt: None of the family had seen Emilia since her wandering mother had taken her abroad, a fascinating spoiled child of four, and they were all eager to see in how many ways the succeeding twelve years had completed or corrected the spoiling?

主人公罗莎莉是罗密欧遇到朱丽叶前的情人。故事中，罗莎莉坚信自己与罗密欧是天生一对，注定会走到一起，但表妹朱丽叶的出现却令她梦想破灭。带着对罗莎莉的仇恨，朱丽叶用尽一切办法迷倒了罗密欧。然而故事并没有就此结束，关于朱丽叶疯狂行径的流言四起，使得罗莎莉开始为心上人安全而担忧。

傻瓜伊万，人如其名。他傻气十足，面对祖辈的财产无动于衷，心甘情愿让给两位兄长，使全家人一直和睦相处。山中老妖心气眼红，命令手下三只小妖进行破坏。 两位兄长，一个逞强好胜，一个贪心不足，分别中了两只小妖的奸计，傻瓜伊万却因一股傻气征服了第三只小妖，又凭刚强坚毅的性格挫败另两只小妖。最后，他收留下了两位落魄的兄长。 山中老妖见手下办事不利，决定亲自出马。此时的三兄弟各自当上了国王。老妖怪抓住两位兄长国王的弱点，再次将他们击败。然而，当他对伊万的傻子王国进行破坏时，一次又一次失利，最终搬起石头砸了自己的脚。

《简·爱》（Jane Eyre）是十九世纪英国著名的女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作，人们普遍认为《简·爱》是夏洛蒂·勃朗特“诗意的生平写照”，是一部具有自传色彩的作品。讲述一位从小变成孤儿的英国女子在各种磨难中不断追求自由与尊严，坚持自我，最终获得幸福的故事。小说引人入胜地展示了男女主人公曲折起伏的爱情经历，歌颂了摆脱一切旧习俗和偏见，成功塑造了一个敢于反抗，敢于争取自由和平等地位的妇女形象。

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.  

 收录于作者的《见闻札记》，和《睡谷的传说》齐名。

一本美丽得让人心碎的好书，讲述的是记忆的责任与忘却的冲动。一场有关记忆与负疚的深刻审视，探讨了我们该如何回忆过去的创伤。这同样也是一篇让人如临其境、不忍释卷的好故事。内容简介：公元六世纪的英格兰，本土不列颠人与撒克逊入侵者之间的战争似乎已走到了终点，和平降临了这片土地，两个族群比邻而居，相安无事地共同生活了数十年。但与此同时，一片奇怪的“遗忘之雾”充盈着英格兰的山谷，吞噬着村民们的记忆，使他们的生活好似一场毫无意义的白日梦。一对年迈的不列颠夫妇想要赶在记忆完全丧失前找到此刻依稀停留在脑海中的儿子，于是匆匆踏上了一段艰辛的旅程。他们渴望让迷雾散去，渴望重拾两人相伴一生的恩爱回忆。但这片静谧的雾霭掩盖的却是一个黑暗血腥的过去，那是一个在数十年前被不列颠人的亚瑟王用违背理想的手段掩埋的巨人。一个神秘的撒克逊武士肩负使命来到这片看似平和的山谷，他那谦逊的外表背后究竟隐藏着怎样秘而不宣的动机？他的使命带给这个国度将是宽恕的橄榄枝还是复仇的剑与火？而亚瑟王最后的骑士高文则决心用生命守护国王的遗产，因为守护它就就意味着守护最后的和平。记忆与宽恕，复仇与和平，四人的命运不可避免地交织在了一处，而结局只有一个。

The first great fantasy novel ever written. William Morris has been described as "obviously a Nineteenth Century Tolkien..." but he has a quality that is equally obviously and uniquely his own. In Limpid, singing prose, daintily archaic, he tells a fabulous story of the travels of a down-to-earth hero in an enchanted time: of a land beyond reality but of humans governed by very real laws. Every picture is delicately precise; every view dewy fresh. The world of William Morris is truly a jeweled world. Cover art by Gervasio Gallardo.