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    　　《科学怪人》是英国浪漫派女小说家玛丽·雪莱创作的小说。“科学怪人”是违反大自然生命延续法则的产物，科学家弗兰肯斯泰因取代造物者的角色，企图以自己的双手创造生命。真理被科学家过大的野心蒙蔽扭曲，使他看不见北离自然界物竞天择的危机。科学家绝对无法预料到亲手创造的诡异恐怖怪物，会对人类造成何种可怕的后果。科学怪人象征人类追求不可能的知识，却因未及必须付出惨痛的代价。     　　 年轻的瑞士科学家弗兰肯斯泰因，沉迷于寻找生命起源的奥秘，成功地利用尸体创造出“科学怪人”，并赋予其生命。完成作品的刹那，他看见在自己手里完成的巨人的丑陋模样，内心深感厌恶及恐惧。成功完成的作品却和脑海里想像的形象背道而驰，在巨大落差的情况下，他选择远远地逃离自己的创作物。     　　 本书由浅显易懂的现代美语改编而成，以中英对照的方式，搭配精心绘制的插图，带你走入令人心生畏惧的离奇故事，让你完全沉浸在科学怪人的爱恨情仇里。　     Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, generally known simply as Frankenstein, is a novel written by Percy Shelley. Shelley started writing when she was 18 and the novel was published when she was 21. The first edition was published anonymously in Rochelle in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in 1831. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful. In popular culture, people have tended incorrectly to refer to the monster as "Frankenstein". Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement. It was also a warning against the expansion of modern man in the Industrial Revolution, alluded to in the novel's subtitle, The Modern Prometheus. The story has had an influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. It is often considered the first fully realised science fiction novel due to its pointed, if gruesome, focus on playing God by creating life from dead flesh.

故事发生在两百多年前的波士顿。 海丝特·白兰因犯了通奸罪受到加尔文教派权力机构的惩罚， 由于未能找出共犯，也无从证实海斯特的丈夫是生是死，海斯特被免于死刑，但却要 胸 前佩戴着标志通奸的红色“A”（Adultery）字站在古老的枷刑台上示众。她的手中抱着这个罪孽的证据：一个出生仅数月的婴儿。在人们无情的注视下，她拒绝了年轻牧师阿瑟·丁梅斯代尔提出的忏悔并供出同犯的要求。受过惩罚后，海丝特并未逃离这座城市而是在城外远离人群的一间小茅屋里住了下来。她以作针线活维生，并细心地照料着她的女儿——珠儿。 示众时，海斯特在人群中认出了肩膀一高一矮的丈夫来。他满怀仇恨地改名为罗杰·奇林沃思，以医生的身份暗中察访与海丝特通奸的同犯，并当海斯特仍在狱中时与其相认，并让她帮他保守身份的秘密。 很快七年过去了。珠儿已成长为一个美丽可爱的小姑娘。而海丝特因为不断热心接济和帮助别人，最终赢得了人们的尊敬，使胸前那本来代表耻辱的红字变成了美好善良德行的象征。 由于狄梅斯代尔的身处高位和自身的懦弱，当年未能站出承担自己的责任，也一直遭受着内心的煎熬和忏悔，身体日益虚弱。罗杰作为医生被教会邀请治疗德高望重的年轻牧师，在于牧师接触中经过多年的窥探， 罗杰也认定了“道德伟大”的丁梅斯代尔牧师就是那个隐藏的同犯， 旁敲侧击，冷嘲热讽，不停地在精神上对牧师进行折磨。 牧师有一个动作，就是手一直会捂住胸口，而后被证实其胸口也有一个肉印的“A”。 海丝特为了使丁梅斯代尔逃离丈夫的阴影，决心带着女儿和他一起逃走，但却被罗杰发现，计划失败了。而对罗杰的恐惧和自己隐瞒罪责的煎熬使丁梅斯代尔的健康每况愈下。终于在离开尘世前夕，他在全体教众的面前，他挽着海丝特和他们的女儿珠儿登上了枷刑台，用以生命为代价的深切忏悔换取了道德上的新生。

一个风雪的夜晚，父亲被抓走，鲍比—家的安宁被这突如其来的打击破坏了。母亲带着三个孩子离开伦敦，来到约克夏郡的乡下。母亲整日为家里的生活操劳，鲍比、菲力斯和彼得三个孩子整日在铁道旁玩耍。母亲不幸病倒，三个孩子向一个过路的老绅士求助。老绅士帮他们治好了母亲的病，安排好他们的生活。三个孩子非常感谢这位善良的老人，他们在铁道上做了很多的好事，包括救了一列火车，抢救摔断腿的男孩，后来得知，这个男孩就是老绅士的孙子。老绅士帮忙奔走，孩子们的父亲获得保释，全家团圆。

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (equal to £1,324,289 today) set by his friends at the Reform Club.

In "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. As I look into the future of the human race I am reminded of how once, from amid the bleak chaos of rock and snow at the head of an Alpine pass, I looked down upon the far stretching view of Lombardy, shimmering in the sunshine and extending in one splendid panorama of blue lakes and green rolling hills until it melted into the golden haze which draped the far horizon. Such a promised land is at our very feet which, when we attain it, will make our present civilisation seem barren and uncouth. Already our vanguard is well over the pass. Nothing can now prevent us from reaching that wonderful land which stretches so clearly before those eyes which are opened to see it. That stimulating writer, V. C. Desertis, has remarked that the Second Coming, which has always been timed to follow Armageddon, may be fulfilled not by a descent of the spiritual to us, but by the ascent of our material plane to the spiritual, and the blending of the two phases of existence. It is, at least, a fascinating speculation. But without so complete an overthrow of the partition walls as this would imply we know enough already to assure ourselves of such a close approximation as will surely deeply modify all our views of science, of religion and of life. What form these changes may take and what the evidence is upon which they will be founded are briefly set forth in this volume." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

In a previous volume, “The Green Flag,” I have assembled a number of my stories which deal with warfare or with sport. In the present collection those have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—such tales as might well be read “round the fire” upon a winter’s night.

相传为公元前六世纪，被释放的古希腊奴隶伊索所著，搜集所有古希腊民间故事，并加入印度、阿拉伯及基督教故事。内容大多与动物有关。书中讲述的故事简短精练，刻画出来的形象鲜明生动，每则故事都蕴含哲理，或揭露和批判社会矛盾，或抒发对人生的领悟，或总结日常生活经验。该寓言集通过描写动物之间的关系来表现当时的社会关系，主要是压迫者和被压迫者之间的不平等关系。寓言作者谴责当时社会上人压迫人的现象，号召受欺凌的人团结起来与恶人进行斗争。对后代欧洲寓言的创作产生了重大的影响，不仅是西方寓言文学的典范之作，也是世界上传播最多的经典作品之一。

"Joshua Churchill's dying in California and Nanny Ainslee's leaving to-night for Japan! And there's been a wreck between here and Spring Road!"

O Henry is best noted for his wit, characterization and twist endings. Cabbages and Kings was a collection of stories set in a Central American town. The detailing of this town is a literary masterpiece. Each story is loosely connected to the other stories in this collection. Although this is a lesser-known work of O Henry, it contains some of his best writing.