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本书是1910-1920出版的一套儿童系列丛书中的一本，讲述了两个男孩离家加入马戏团的故事。达灵顿先生用大师之笔，向我们描绘了马戏团生活的真实画面。

This novel was loosely inspired by the loss of Sir John Franklin's Arctic expedition of 1845, in which Charles Dickens had taken a great interest. Specifically, in the fall of 1854, when the Hudson's Bay Company surveyor Dr. John Rae brought back Inuit reports of cannibalism among Franklin's men, Dickens was so perturbed that he launched a debate with Rae in the pages of his own periodical, Household Words. By 1856, however, it became increasingly clear that there were no survivors. It was in this context that, in the spring of 1856, Dickens and Collins conceived of a play set in the Arctic. The task of writing the play itself fell to Collins, since Dickens was still busily engaged with Little Dorritt, but nevertheless he found time to make numerous revisions to the eventual script. That play was rewritten by Wilkie Collins as this novel.

七大王国各方势力在首都君临城为掌控权力而进行的政治斗争。故事由伊耿历297年因国王之手琼恩·艾林公爵突然过世，七国之王劳勃·拜拉席恩不远千里亲自北上来到北境首府临冬城邀请挚友艾德·史塔克公爵出山开始。同时一封密信的到来，使得本无心参与南方政治的艾德不得不放弃和妻儿与世无争的生活，南下继任并调查前任首相艾林之死。然而嫌疑指向了出身七国首富豪族的王后瑟曦·兰尼斯特，同时太子乔佛里·拜拉席恩继承权的黑幕也渐渐浮出，最终引发了史塔克家族和兰尼斯特家族两方势力的对抗。为了帮助挚友劳勃国王，艾德被迫赌上身家性命投入这一场宫廷的漩涡中。与此同时，东方厄索斯大陆上的前朝坦格利安家族余脉为了重夺政权，和游牧民族多斯拉克部落联姻。

Magic turns up in the most unexpected places in E. Nesbit's madcap fairy tales--and so do dragons: One flies out of the pages of an enchanted book and eats an entire soccer team.... Two children try to wake St. George when a plague of dragons descends on modern England.... Wicked Prince Tiresome sets forth to hunt a fiery dragon with a pack of trained hippopotamuses.... One hundred years after its first publication, this collection of 8 of Nesbit's most delightful fantasy stories returns and is still every bit as fun as when it was first published. Its original 16 black-and-white illustrations are also included in this must-have for all Nesbit fans.

宫崎骏杰作《哈尔的移动城堡》小说原著，英国幻想文学大师戴安娜·韦恩·琼斯杰作。内容简介：苏菲是三姐妹中的老大，命运待她并不好。除非她离家寻找自己的命运，否则注定悲剧性地失败。可当苏菲无意间惹怒了荒地女巫后，她发现自己被施了一个可怕的咒语，变成了一个老太婆。破除咒语唯一的希望就在山上永动的移动城堡：哈尔巫师的城堡。为了限免妖术，苏菲必须应付没心没肺的哈尔，和火魔达成契约，直面荒地女巫。一路走来，她重新认识了哈尔和她自己。

"O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910). Porter's 400 short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. Porter was born on September 11, 1862, in Greensboro, North Carolina. His middle name at birth was Sidney; he changed the spelling in 1898. His parents were Dr. Algernon Sidney Porter (1825-1888) and Mary Jane Virginia Swain Porter (1833-1865); they were married April 20, 1858. When William was three, his mother died from tuberculosis, and he and his father moved into the home of his paternal grandmother." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

每天清晨，羚羊都知道，它必须跑得比最快的狮子快；狮子知道，它必须跑得比最慢的羚羊快。不管是狮子还是羚羊，太阳升起时，都要开始奔跑。地球上的其他哺乳动物都在自由奔跑，难道只有人类是例外？ 墨西哥的铜峡谷，隐居着史上最强的长跑族群塔拉乌马拉人。他们能活下来，是因为父辈跑得比鹿快，而父辈能活下来，是因为祖父跑得比阿帕奇人的战马快。他们永远不知道追赶猎物时要跑多快多久。只有随时调整姿势、方向和速度，敏捷地在石块和沟壑间蹦跳，才能跑过错综的山路，爬上陡峭的岩壁，回家。 塔拉乌马拉人跑，与其说是为了更快，不如说是为了彼此更接近，与自然无限地接近。 原来，人天生就会跑！

The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age novel by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros, published in 1984. It deals with a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in a Chicago ghetto full of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans. Esperanza is determined to "say goodbye" to her impoverished Latino neighborhood. Not all readers may be able to identify with Esperanza's world in which everyone in the large family sleeps in one room, men prey on young girls, and husbands and fathers mistreat their children.[1] Major themes include her quest for a better life and the importance of her promise to come back for "the ones I left behind."