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Verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because he has an enormous nose. Secretly in love with the lovely Roxane, Cyrano agrees to help his inarticulate rival, Christian, win her heart by allowing him to present Cyrano's love poems, speeches, and letters as his own work. Eventually Christian recognizes that Roxane loves him for Cyrano's qualities, not his own, and he asks Cyrano to confess his identity to Roxane; Christian then goes off to a battle that proves fatal. Cyrano remains silent about his own part in Roxane's courtship. As he is dying years later, he visits Roxane and recites one of the love letters. Roxane realizes that it is Cyrano she loves, and he dies content. Cyrano de Bergerac was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose.

屠格涅夫的经典之作，是一部通过猎人的狩猎活动，讲述十九世纪中叶俄罗斯农村生活的随笔集。

黑骏马的一生是维多利亚时期各种马的缩影，当过人们的坐骑，在乡间拉过货车，还在伦敦拉过出租马车。小时候，妈妈就告诉他：马一生命运的好坏全得靠运气，遇上好的主人就是他的福气，遇上虐待自己的主人就只好自认倒霉。长大后，黑骏马遇到过好人，也遇到过虐待他的人。他先是被卖给善待马的戈登老爷当坐骑；后来又被卖给了W伯爵，那可恶的勒马缰绳成为他最讨厌的东西，也是所有马儿的不幸；拉货车不仅消耗大量的体力，还要受赶车人的鞭打；拉出租马车时，因为人们错误的驾车方式，受尽折磨。最后，黑骏马终于找到了一个善待自己的家，可以安度晚年。

1:1 [hgb]  基 督 耶 稣 的 仆 人 保 罗 ， 和 提 摩 太 ， 写 信 给 凡 住 腓 立 比 ， 在 基 督 耶 稣 里 的 众 圣 徒 ， 和 诸 位 监 督 ， 诸 位 执 事 。      [kjv]  Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:     [bbe]  Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church: 1:2 [hgb]  愿 恩 惠 平 安 ， 从 神 我 们 的 父 ， 并 主 耶 稣 基 督 ， 归 与 你 们 。      [kjv]  Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.     [bbe]  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

《远离尘嚣（Far from the madding crowd）》发表于一八七四年，是哈代第一部成功的长篇，也是他此后一系列以威塞克斯乡村为背景的优秀长篇小说的第一部。这些小说包括《还乡记》（1878）、《卡斯特桥市长》（1886）、《德伯家的苔丝》（1891）以及《无名的裘德》（1896）。这一系列作品反映了资本主义发展在英国农村城镇的社会、经济、道德、人伦、风俗等方面所引起的深刻而剧烈的变化，表现了现存道德观念和法律制度与这一变化之间的冲突，以及处于这一变化冲突间的“威塞克斯乡民”的惶惑和抗争。变幻莫测、无从把握的命运和作为人的本能和感情之表现的爱情，是哈代作品中两个最主要的内容。

Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though not wealthy Tuscan family, his father, who was a jurist, dying when Niccolo was sixteen years old. We know nothing of Machiavelli’s youth and little about his studies. He does not seem to have received the usual humanistic education of his time, as he knew no Greek.1 The first notice of Machiavelli is in 1498 when we find him holding the office of Secretary in the second Chancery of the Signoria, which office he retained till the downfall of the Florentine Republic in 1512. His unusual ability was soon recognized, and in 1500 he was sent on a mission to Louis XII. of France, and afterward on an embassy to C?sar Borgia, the lord of Romagna, at Urbino. Machiavelli’s report and description of this and subsequent embassies to this prince, shows his undisguised admiration for the courage and cunning of C?sar, who was a master in the application of the principles afterwards exposed in such a skillful and uncompromising manner by Machiavelli in his Prince.

《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代的代表作，是“威塞克斯系列”中的一部。它描写了一位农村姑娘的悲惨命运。哈代在小说的副标题中称女主人公为“一个纯洁的女人”，公开地向维多利亚时代虚伪的社会道德挑战。 女主人公苔丝生于一个贫苦小贩家庭，父母要她到一个富老太婆家去攀亲戚，结果她被少爷亚历克诱奸，后来她与牧师的儿子克莱尔恋爱并订婚，在新婚之夜她把昔日的不幸向丈夫坦白，却没能得到原谅，两人分居，丈夫去了巴西，几年后，苔丝再次与亚历克相遇，后者纠缠她，这时候她因家境窘迫不得不与仇人同居，不久克莱尔从国外回来，向妻子表示悔恨自己以往的冷酷无情，在这种情况下，苔丝痛苦地觉得是亚历克·德伯使她第二次失去了安吉尔便愤怒地将他杀死。最后她被捕并被处以绞刑。

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