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故事讲述在非洲原始森林成了孤儿的婴孩在猿猴家族的照料下长大成人，人类探险和出现打破了他宁静和平的世界，也使他认识到他是人类的一员，他在决定归属哪一类家族问题上的思考因为他对美丽的珍妮姑娘的感情进而变得更加复杂，而人类将对猿猴家族的伤害更使他进入了进退两难的境地。

"A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" is Jules Verne's classic science fiction adventure about Professor Liedenbrock and his nephew Axel who discover an ancient document written by an Icelandic adventurer who went to the center of the earth many years before. Being the ever-ardent discoverer and scientist, Professor Liedenbrock immediately sets off to Iceland, taking Axel along with him. Together with their guide, Hans, they enter the weird and wonderful world deep beneath the surface of the earth. They have to endure many dangers along the way, frequently threatening to bring their journey to an abrupt end and leave them to die in a place where no one will ever find them. Will the three adventurers be able to survive all the perils of this concealed world and live to tell their tale?　　此篇为凡尔纳的代表作之一，《地心游记》讲述李登布罗克教授在一本古老的书籍里偶然得到了一张羊皮纸，发现前人曾到地心旅行，李登布罗克教授决心也作同样的旅行。他和侄子从汉堡出发，到冰岛请一位向导，他们按照前人的指引，由冰岛的一个火山口下降，途中历尽艰险和种种奇观，经历迷路、缺水、史前生物等种种险情，也得到了地下海、史前人骨骸等惊世的发现，经过三个月的旅行，最后回到了地面。

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of autobiography ever written.

In the train, even before St. John's was passed, a touch of inevitable reaction had set in, and Rogers asked himself why he was going. For a sentimental journey was hardly in his line, it seemed. But no satisfactory answer was forthcoming -- none, at least, that a Board or a Shareholders' Meeting would have considered satisfactory. The old vicar spoke to him strangely. "We've not forgotten you as you've forgotten us," he said. "And the place, though empty now for years, has not forgotten you either, I'll be bound." Rogers brushed it off. Just silliness -- that was all it was. But after St. John's the conductor shouted, "Take your seats! Take your seats! The Starlight Express is off to Fairyland! Show your tickets! Show your tickets!" And then the forgotten mystery of his childhood came back to him. . .

The meticulous detective Hercule Poirot suspects the worst of the death of a dentist in this classic mystery by Queen of Whodunits, Agatha Christie. Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harbored a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery. Turning to the other patients for answers, Poirot finds other, darker, questions.…

See now, how dear he bought man, that he made after his own image, and how dear he again-bought us, for the great love that he had to us, and we never deserved it to him. For more precious chattel ne greater ransom ne might he put for us, than his blessed body, his precious blood, and his holy life, that he thralled for us; and all he offered for us that never did sin.

Two full-length novels in one book.

英国作家萨拉·沃特斯透过描写维多利亚时代的窃贼文化，编织出结构严谨的历史悬疑小说。作品后被翻拍成 BBC热门影集《指匠情挑》。内容简介：在伦敦郊区的一个大庄园内，居住着李里先生和他的外甥女莫德，李里先生性格乖戾，驱使莫德终日在图书室里整理和朗读藏书。可怜的姑娘从小到大都未踏出过庄园一步，过着暗无天日的生活。某日，一位陌生人的闯入给莫德干涸已久的心灵带来生机，他就是来教莫德画画的瑞斯佛，可天知道，瑞斯佛的真实身份竟然是一个贼，他听说莫德有4万英镑的嫁妆，便想出骗婚这条生财之道。为了确保成功，瑞弗士又找来盗窃团伙里的苏打下手，经过安排，苏成为莫德的贴身女仆。在一步步精心策划下，事情如瑞佛士所期望的方向发展，他不知道的是，莫德和苏之间竟产生了真挚的爱情。苏越来越内疚自责，看到莫德即将被送入疯人院，苏心碎欲绝。可事情很快急转直下，原来一切都非苏想像的那般简单，十几年前就开始精心酿造的大阴谋在等待所有的人，一个晴天霹雳般的真相已呼之欲出

The Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Dostoevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline so he could pay off gambling debts.