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一场反教会的革命席卷了墨西哥，波及到了偏远的南方小州。当地教区的神父们被迫害致死，只剩下了最后一名神父过着逃亡的生活。在逃亡的过程中，他接触到了不同的事物和人，心灵上受到强烈的冲击。最后，他也没有逃脱死亡的厄运，但此时，另一名神父又踏上了这片土地。

News from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant English utopia to be written since Thomas More's. The novel describes the encounter between a visitor from the nineteenth century, William Guest, and a decentralized and humane socialist future. Set over a century after a revolutionary upheaval in 1952, these "Chapters from a Utopian Romance" recount his journey across London and up the Thames to Kelmscott Manor, Morris's own country house in Oxfordshire. Drawing on the work of John Ruskin and Karl Marx, Morris's book is not only an evocative statement of his egalitarian convictions but also a distinctive contribution to the utopian tradition. Morris's rejection of state socialism and his ambition to transform the relationship between humankind and the natural world, give News from Nowhere a particular resonance for modern readers. This text is based on the 1891 version, incorporating the extensive revisions made by Morris to the first edition.

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so many of Jamess young American heroines. She is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name suggests, an American heiress is the perfect solution. The golden bowl, first seen in a London curio shop, is used emblematically throughout the novel. Not solid gold but gilded crystal, the perfect surface conceals a flaw; it is symbolic of the relationship between the main characters and of the world in which they move. Also in Europe is an old friend of Maggies, Charlotte Stant, a girl of great charm and independence, and Maggie is blindly ignorant of the fact that she and the prince are lovers. Maggie and Amerigo are married and have a son, but Maggie remains dependent for real intimacy on her father, and she and Amerigo grow increasingly apart. Feeling that her father has suffered a loss through her marriage, Maggie decides to find him a wife, and her choice falls on Charlotte. Charlottes affair with the prince continues and Adam Verver seems to her to be a suitable and convenient match. When Maggie herself finally comes into possession of the golden bowl, the flaw is revealed to her, and, inadvertently, the truth about Amerigo and Charlotte. Fanny Assingham (an older woman, aware of the truth from the beginning) deliberately breaks the bowl, and this marks the end of Maggies innocence. She is no pathetic heroine-victim, however. Abstaining from outcry and outrage she instead takes the reins and maneuvers people and events. She still wants to be with Amerigo, but he must continue to be worth having and they must all be saved further humiliations and indignities. To be a wife she must cease to be a daughter; Adam Verver and the unhappy Charlotte are banished forever to America, and the new Maggie will establish a real marriage with Amerigo.

Officer, diplomat, spy, journalist, and intermittent genius, Marie Henri Beyle employed more than 200 aliases in the course of his crowded career. His most famous moniker, however, was Stendhal, which he affixed to his greatest work, The Charterhouse of Parma. The author spent a mere seven weeks cranking out this marvel in 1838, setting the fictional equivalent of a land-speed record. To be honest, there are occasional signs of haste, during which he clearly bypassed le mot juste in favor of narrative zing. So what? Stendhal at his sloppiest is still wittier, and wiser about human behavior, than just about any writer you could name. No wonder so meticulous a stylist as Paul Valéry was happy to forgive his sins against French grammar: "We should never be finished with Stendhal. I can think of no greater praise than that." The plot of The Charterhouse of Parma suggests a run-of-the-mill potboiler, complete with court intrigue, military derring-do, and more romance than you can shake a saber at. But Stendhal had an amazing, pre-Freudian grasp of psychology (at least the Gallic variant). More than most of his contemporaries, he understood the incessant jostling of love, sex, fear, and ambition, not to mention our endless capacity for self-deception. No wonder his hero, Fabrizio de Dongo, seems to know everything and nothing about himself. Even under fire at the Battle of Waterloo, the young Fabrizio has a tendency to lose himself in Napoleonic reverie: Suddenly everyone galloped off. A few moments later Fabrizio saw, twenty paces ahead, a ploughed field that seemed to be strangely in motion; the furrows were filled with water, and the wet ground that formed their crests was exploding into tiny black fragments flung three or four feet into the air. Fabrizio noticed this odd effect as he passed; then his mind returned to daydreams of the Marshal's glory. He heard a sharp cry beside him: two hussars had fallen, riddled by bullets; and when he turned to look at them, they were already twenty paces behind the escort. The quote above, a famous one, captures something of Stendhal's headlong style. Until now, most English-speaking readers have experienced it via C.K. Scott-Moncrieff's superb 1925 translation. But now Richard Howard has modernized his predecessor's period touches, streamlined some of the fussier locutions, and generally given Stendhal his high-velocity due. The result is a timely version of a timeless masterpiece, which shouldn't need to be updated again until, oh, 2050. Crammed with life, lust, and verbal fireworks, The Charterhouse of Parma demonstrates the real truth of its creator's self-composed epitaph: "He lived. He wrote. He loved."

At the turn of the 20th century, Richard Austin Freeman (1862-1943) emerged as an author to be reckoned with in the world of detective fiction, introducing the highly memorable scientific detective Dr. Thorndyke, an early forensic sleuth. Armed with his little green case full of scientific detection aids, Thorndyke unravelled murders and mysteries using logic and material evidence. This volume collects seven of Thorndyke's most puzzling stories, including "The Man with the Nailed Shoes," "The Moabite Cipher," "A Message from the Deep Sea," and many more.

第五卷《魔龙的狂舞》（A Dance with Dragons）于2011年出版，故事与卷四《群鸦的盛宴》同步进行，主要讲述在火龙重新现世的同时众人的经历。史坦尼斯·拜拉席恩开始在北境和波顿家族进行对抗，假意臣服铁王座的北境封臣则开始了暗下运作，而受尽折辱的席恩·葛雷乔伊则在自我内心苦苦挣扎。新官上任的琼恩·雪诺为了大局，不得不做出一系列颇有争议的决定，导致部下不满，也置自己于险境。逃亡到厄索斯的提利昂·兰尼斯特流离失所，意图投奔征服了奴隶湾的丹妮莉丝·坦格利安却落了个被劫持奴役的下场。而丹妮莉丝面临瘟疫、战争和内乱多重压力，她的女王宝座也暗箭难防，如履薄冰。一位号称是伊耿·坦格利安六世的年轻男子，在重出江湖的琼恩·克林顿和一万黄金勇士的拥立下从东方杀入维斯特洛攻城略地，与此同时的君临城政局却发生了剧变……

无心快语可能引发争执，无情之词可能折损生命，适时温语可能消弭压力，而关爱之声可能治愈心灵。当你的心在痛，眼里噙满泪水时，那就抬头看看，天空依旧是那么广阔，云朵依旧是那么潇洒。而后悬于时光深处，静静聆听，直到听见那心灵深处的音乐。用心聆听这世界的美好，倾听我们身边的每一个人，感受每一种声音，感悟生命的启示。给自己一点点时间，静静的思考。相信每一天都是上帝的恩赐，人生本是一场体验，跟随内心活出个性，做自己喜欢的那个人。本书可以提高文学素养，陶冶情操。如果你是一位英语爱好者，阅读本书可以一睹这些杰作的原文风采。

I was in Italy when this book was first published.A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a—a name which I hardly recognised and thoroughly disapproved. I had always thought of the lady as Zu-leek-a. Surely it was thus that Joseph thought of his Wife, and Selim of his Bride?

这部小说是昆德拉1975年流亡法国后用捷克语创作的，1984年以法文版首发。改编电影《布拉格之恋》，获得了美国奥斯卡金像奖、美国金球奖提名，1988年美国国家影评人协会奖最佳影片奖和最佳导演奖、英国学院奖最佳改编剧本奖等奖项。内容简介：一九六八年苏联入侵捷克时期，民主改革的气息演变成专横压榨之风潮。托马斯是一个外科医生，因为婚姻失败，既渴望女人又畏惧女人，因此发展出一套外遇守则来应付他众多的情妇。有一天他爱上一个餐厅的女侍——特丽莎，他对她的爱违反了他制定的原则，甚至娶她为妻，但是托马斯灵肉分离的想法丝毫没有改变，依然游移在情妇之间，对全心爱他的特丽莎是一种伤害。特丽莎经常在极度不安的梦魇中醒来，经常猜忌与怀有恐怖想象。 此时捷克政治动乱不安，在苏黎世一位权威医生希望托马斯去那里发展的呼唤下，两人于是决定去那里生活。但是面对陌生环境的不安与丈夫仍然与情妇私通，特丽莎决定离开，回到祖国。但是命运与抉择让托马斯回去找她，此后两人没有再分离。他们意识到在一起是快乐的，是折磨与悲凉里的快乐，彼此是生命中甜美的负担。后来他们死于一场车祸。萨宾娜是一个画家，曾经是托马斯的情妇之一，也是特丽莎妒忌的对象。萨宾娜一生不断选择背叛，选择让自己的人生没有责任而轻盈的生活。她讨厌忠诚与任何讨好大众的媚俗行为，但是这样的背叛让她感到自己人生存在于虚无当中。弗兰兹是被萨宾娜背叛的情夫之一，他因为她而放弃自己坚持的婚姻与忠诚，但是由于萨宾娜的背弃，让弗兰兹发现自己过去对于婚姻的执着是可笑的，纯属多余的假想，他的妻子只是自己对于母亲理想的投射。离婚后，自由自立的单身生活为他生命带来新的契机，并且了解萨宾娜只是他对革命与冒险生活的追随。后来他与他的学生相恋，在实际参与一场虚伪游行活动后，意识到自己真正的幸福是留在他的学生旁边。一场突然抢劫中，弗兰兹因为想展现自己的勇气而蛮力抵抗，却遭到重击，在妻子的陪伴下，无言的死于病榻上。本意：生命中有太多事，看似轻如鸿毛，却让人难以承受。