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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.

I will frame a work of fiction upon notorious fact, so that anybody shall think he can do the same; shall labor and toil attempting the same, and fail—such is the power of sequence and connection in writing.

你可以把生活变成故事，但你想不到故事的结局。露·克拉克知道很多事情。她知道从公共汽车站走回家有多少步。她知道她喜欢在“黄油面包”茶馆工作，喜欢这有点迷糊又有点窘迫的生活。她其实清楚地知道自己或许不喜欢男朋友帕特里克。露不知道的是她马上要失去她的工作，即将发生的事情会让她猝不及防。威尔·特雷纳知道摩托车事故带走了本可以波澜壮阔的人生。他现在觉得每件事情都毫无意义，了无生趣。他确切地知道该怎样结束这一切。威尔不知道的是露将穿着她五颜六色的衣服，闯进他的世界，而彼此的生活将彻底改变……

主要写了海伦变成盲聋人后的生活。刚开始的海伦对于生活是失望的，用消极的思想去面对生活，情绪非常的暴躁，常常发脾气，扔东西。她感觉现实生活中没有爱等等，她是多么希望能重新得到光明。在她父母的寻求下，帮海伦找到了一位老师——莎莉文老师，这位老师成为了海伦新生活的引导者，使海伦对生活重新充满了希望，充满了激情。在莎莉文老师耐心的指导下，海伦学会了阅读，认识了许多的字，也让她知道了爱，感受到了身边无处不在的爱。随着时间的推移，海伦在老师和亲人的陪同下，体会到了许多不同的事物，比如：过圣诞节、拥抱海洋、体会秋季和冬天等等。后半部分则介绍了海伦的求学生涯。在海伦的求学生涯中，海伦遇到了许多的困难，但同时她也结识了许多的朋友等等。海伦在学习中，由于她的不屈不挠的精神，她学会了说话，写作。虽然在这过程中海伦遇到了一些不开心的事情，但她并没有放弃。她的努力得到了回报，成功实现了她的大学梦想，进入了哈佛大学。在她的大学生活中由于生理上的缺陷，在繁重的功课中她非常的吃力，在老师的帮助以及她自己的努力下，最终她以优异的成绩大学毕业，还掌握了英语、法语、德语、拉丁语和希腊语五种语言。但大学毕业后她却遇到了悲伤的事，比如：慈母的去世。海伦后来还介绍了在生活中遇到的一些伟人，比如：爱迪生、马克·吐温等等。同时也介绍她体会不同的丰富多彩的生活以及她的慈善活动等等。

作品描述一位经受失亲之痛的男子在孤苦无奈，心灰意冷的深夜与一只乌鸦邂逅并叙述的故事。

Charlotte's Web is an award-winning children's novel by acclaimed American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte. The book was first published in 1952, with illustrations by Garth Williams. The novel tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such as "Some Pig") in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live. Written in White's dry, low-key manner, Charlotte's Web is considered a classic of children's literature, enjoyable to adults as well as children. The description of the experience of swinging on a rope swing at the farm is an often cited example of rhythm in writing, as the pace of the sentences reflects the motion of the swing. Publishers Weekly listed the book as the best-selling children's paperback of all time as of 2000. Charlotte's Web was made into an animated feature by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Paramount Pictures in 1973. Paramount released a direct-to-video sequel, Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure, in the US in 2003 (Universal released the film internationally). A live-action film version of E. B. White's original story was released on December 15, 2006. A video game based on this adaption was also released on December 12.

"Star Hunter" tells the story of a man who thinks with another's brain as he is pursued in a dangerous game of hide and seek. This adventure story captures the reader's attention from the very first sentences. "Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl. Ras Hume paused at the border of scented spike-flowers on the top terrace of the Pleasure House to wonder why he thought of serpents. He understood. Mankind's age-old hatred, brought from his native planet to the distant stars, was evil symbolized by a coil in a twisted, belly-path across the ground. And on Nahuatl, as well as a dozen other worlds, Wass was the serpent."

Riders of the Purple Sage is Zane Grey's best-known novel. Originally published in 1912, it was one of the earliest works of Western fiction and played a significant role in popularizing that genre.

一部令几代读者心醉神迷的经典作品。《伤心咖啡馆之歌——麦卡勒斯短篇小说集》收入了美国著名作家卡森·麦卡勒斯的七篇最佳中短篇小说，其中包括最著名的《伤心咖啡馆之歌》，以及麦卡勒斯十七岁时发表的处女作——《神童》。美国南方一个蛮荒小镇上的一场怪诞的三角恋爱……一个小男孩上了一堂困难的成年课……与故土和过去的情人的一次致命邂逅……这一切属于麦卡勒斯的世界，一个失落者、受伤者和人生盛宴上永远的局外者的世界。这些小说出色地展示了爱情、欲望、苦涩的心碎和短暂的快乐，探究了我们生活的真正核心。