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人生的风景，说到最后，是心灵的风景。时间走远。消逝在月色的尽头。不因时间而遗憾。不因月圆而伤感。不因花开而孤单。不因花败而悲怨。人生哪能尽如人意。只求无愧于心。使人成熟的不是岁月，而是你的经历。当百味尝遍，自然看透；看透世态，看淡世事。生活是一本精深的书，别人的注释代替不了自己的理解。趁年轻，要走得更远，看到别处的新天新地，感受别处的精彩纷呈，然后有所发现，有所创造。有些理想曾为我们引过道路，并不断给我新的勇气以欣然面对人生，那些理想就是：真、善、美。

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。

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff.This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel. A similar book was published seven years before Jerome's work, entitled Three in Norway (by two of them) by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck. It tells of three men on an expedition into the wild Jotunheimen in Norway.

别名《钟楼怪人》，以离奇和对比手法写了一个发生在15世纪法国的故事。小说揭露了宗教的虚伪，宣告禁欲主义的破产，歌颂了下层劳动人民的善良、友爱、舍己为人，反映了雨果的人道主义思想。这部书遭禁是在沙皇尼古拉一世统治时期的俄国，因为雨果思想活跃，既有资产阶级自由主义倾向，又同情刚刚兴起的无产阶级的革命，因此保守顽固的沙皇下令在俄国禁止出版雨果的所有的作品。小说曾多次被改编成电影、电视剧及音乐剧。内容简介：在法国，被资产阶级革命政权推翻的波旁王朝，在国外封建势力的支持下，于1815年复辟。直到1830年，法国爆发了“七月革命”，结束了波旁复辟王朝的封建统治。在复辟王朝统治下，法国宫廷和教会狼狈为奸，欺压人民。当时的巴黎，宗教势力邪恶黑暗，封建等制度十分残酷，封建主义压抑下的人性扭曲堕落。社会各阶层，特别是下层人民，处于令人深切同情的境地。饱受压迫的人民群众奋起反抗，与两股势力展开英勇的斗争，最终取得胜利。雨果感受到了封建统治的黑暗与残忍，创作出《巴黎圣母院》，借15世纪的巴黎社会反映现实生活。

 Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th–17th September—a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o’clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. 

英国小说家威廉· 萨默赛特·毛姆的创作的长篇小说，成书于1919年。作品以法国印象派画家保罗·高更的生平为素材，描述了一个原本平凡的伦敦证券经纪人思特里克兰德，突然着了艺术的魔，抛妻弃子，绝弃了旁人看来优裕美满的生活，奔赴南太平洋的塔希提岛，用画笔谱写出自己光辉灿烂的生命，把生命的价值全部注入绚烂的画布的故事。内容简介：每个人都只看到脚下的六便士，只有他抬头看到天上的月亮。作品以法国印象派画家保罗·高更的生平为素材，描述了一个原本平凡的伦敦证券经纪人思特里克兰德，突然着了艺术的魔，抛妻弃子，绝弃了旁人看来优裕美满的生活，奔赴南太平洋的塔希提岛，用圆笔谱写出自己光辉灿烂的生命，把生命的价值全部注入绚烂的画布的故事。贫穷的纠缠，病魔的折磨他毫不在意，只是后悔从来没有光顾过他的意识。作品表现了天才、个性与物质文明以及现代婚姻、家庭生活之间的矛盾，有着广阔的生命视角，用散发着消毒水味道的手术刀对皮囊包裹下的人性进行了犀利地解剖，混合着看客讪笑的幽默和残忍的目光。

乔纳森是一只独立特行的海鸥，对于他，飞翔远比吃重要。他热爱飞翔胜过一切。他看到了与身俱来的优势、才能和技能，在学习飞翔中追求卓越，追求完美的状态。为此乔纳森瘦的皮包骨头，他的父母担心不已。鸥群也不接受他的这种太出格的行为，逼他许下誓言，如果他不能当一只正常的海鸥，他将被驱逐出鸥群。梦想多么妖冶，乔纳森很快就将誓言抛到脑后，“一只在学习中追求卓越的海鸥，是不需要那种誓言的。”一次又一次忘我的飞翔，一次又一次的超越极限，最后，乔纳森这只海鸥，他成功地掌握了比雄鹰还要高超的飞行技巧，他回到鸥群，去引导更多怀揣梦想的海鸥，摒弃无聊、害怕和愤怒，去自由，去飞翔。“海鸥天生就是要飞翔的，自由是生命的本质，任何妨碍自由的东西都应该摒弃，不管什么形式的限制、宗教或是迷信都应该抛开。”

The second of James's three late masterpieces, was, in its author's opinion, "the best, all round, of my productions". Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs. Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman; and as the Parisian spring advances, he himself succumbs to the allure of the 'vast bright Babylon' and to the mysterious charm of Madame de Vionnet.