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小绅士是讲述奈克和戴恩是一对可怜的街头流浪儿，无依无靠的他们为了生存忍受着来自各方面的压力。在一个偶然的机会下，奈克被一个善良的乔治先生收养，并送他去妹妹开办的学校念书。在普拉姆学校，奈克过上了自己从未敢想过的生活。

Tragic novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1911. Wharton's original style and her use of hard-edged irony and the flashback technique set Ethan Frome apart from the work of her contemporaries. The main characters are Ethan Frome, his wife Zenobia, called Zeena, and her young cousin Mattie Silver. Frome and Zeena marry after she nurses his mother in her last illness. Although Frome seems ambitious and intelligent, Zeena holds him back. When her young cousin Mattie comes to stay on their New England farm, Frome falls in love with her. But the social conventions of the day doom their love and their hopes. The story forcefully conveys Wharton's abhorrence of society's unbending standards of loyalty. Written while Wharton lived in France but before her divorce (1913), Ethan Frome became one of the best known and most popular of her works.

内容抒情，却充满讽刺意味，是关于爱情和欲望的迷人故事，哈代最不寻常的小说之一。

米奇·阿尔博姆是美国的一位体育专栏的主持人，莫里·施瓦茨是他在大学里曾给予过他许多思想的教授，在米奇毕业十五年后的一天，他偶然得知莫里·施瓦茨身患了绝症,而且来日无多，那是一种类似于我们所相当熟悉《时间简史》的作者斯蒂芬·霍金所患疾病，这时老教授所感受的不是对生命即将离去的恐惧，而是希望把自己许多年来思考的一些东西传播给更多的人，于是老人唯一的学生米奇·阿尔博姆，相约每个星期二上课，在以后的十四个星期里，米奇每星期二飞越七百英里到老人那儿去上课，在这十四个星期里，他们聊到了人生的许多组成部分，如何面对他人，如何面对爱，如何面对恐惧，如何面对家庭，以及感情及婚姻，金钱与文化，衰老与死亡，最后一堂课便是莫里老人的葬礼，整个事情的过程，以及这十四堂课的笔记便构成了这本《相约星期二》。

 The people of Inverness were deeply annoyed. A number of them stood in the square and scowled with great hostility at the three tattered wanderers in their midst—but their anger held a wary quality. “Tinklers! Gypsies!” they cried accusingly, and the soft, sibilant sound of the Gaelic was less soft but more sibilant than usual. “Briosag!” (“Witch!”) muttered some with conviction but caution. “Thieves!” they added, getting to the real heart of the annoyance. And with this fresh reminder of their grievances they began picking up stones as they advanced toward the man, woman, and girl.

丹麦作家安徒生创作的童话集，2020年4月，列入《教育部基础教育课程教材发展中心 中小学生阅读指导目录（2020年版）》。在安徒生所处的时代，丹麦仍是一个君主专制主义社会，自中古以降，社会生活一直极少受到触动。进入十九世纪以后，则出现一系列重大历史变动，拿破仑战争造成的国力虚耗，在挪威问题上的失败，20年代的经济轰退，国王由保皇立场转向独裁，中产阶级谨小慎微、委曲求全，这些都使社会基本处于政治压迫和文化愚昧状态。在安徒生的作品中，我们也处处感到这个时代的灰色和压抑。安徒生将童话作为一种现代表达方式来进行创作，他借用童话的“儿童”视角透视现代人的复杂生活。安徒生让童话超越了民间文学范畴的传奇想象，成为一种鲜明的个体写作和现代技巧探索。该作爱憎分明，热情歌颂劳动人民、赞美他们的善良和纯洁的优秀品德；无情地揭露和批判王公贵族们的愚蠢、无能、贪婪和残暴。其中较为闻名的故事有：《小人鱼》、《丑小鸭》、《卖火柴的小女孩》、《拇指姑娘》等。

阿曼达和乔西不喜欢他们的新家，他们觉得那座老房子十分古怪，一到晚上，楼梯上就会出现男孩的身影，黑暗中不时传来窃窃私语声，窗帘莫名其妙地摆动起来……而整个黑瀑布镇也同样透着阴森森的怪异气息。但是爸爸妈妈不相信他们的话。“你们会适应的，”他们说，“出去交几个新朋友吧。”阿曼达和乔西就出去了，没想到这些诡异的新朋友根本不是爸爸妈妈所想的那样，他们给姐弟俩带来了更大的恐惧和迷惑……

After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few notes of a voyage which your skill and kindness rendered doubly pleasant; and of which I don’t think there is any recollection more agreeable than that it was the occasion of making your friendship.