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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.

世界各国突然出现黄金的大量流失,黄金的黑市交易十分兴盛.虽然各国都对金锭做有记号,可是,经过融化重铸后就毫无迹象可寻.政府部门怀疑巨富金手指参与了黑市黄金交易,因为他作为国际商人可以合法拥有并使用大型铸造设备.他在日内瓦拥有一座大银行,各国都有大量黄金储备在那里.然而,没有任何证据可证明金手指参与黄金外流活动.为了查清其中奥秘.詹姆斯·邦德受命调查金手指. 邦德一路跟踪金手指到了日内瓦,发现了金手指外运黄金的秘密,他通过用黄金造车身的方法重熔得到金块.更意外的是,邦德第一次听到了大满贯行动计划.金手指的手下发现了邦德,将他抓了起来.但却使邦德终于得知大满贯计划是针对金手指那座在日内瓦的大银行中的600亿黄金储备.金手指并不急于杀死他,反而得意地将大满贯行动全部讲给他听.原来金手指策划好用飞机撒播毒气使银行周围六万人包括四万军队与一些居民死亡,然后炸开银行,利用一名中国原子专家将一枚小型核弹在金库引爆,致使世界各国在此的黄金受辐射污染58年,这样,世界各国的黄金不能进入流通,而金手指控制下的黑市黄金交易将获得十倍以上的巨额利润,垄断世界黄金市场. 被软禁的邦德用尽办法使金手指的机师普蒂注意上他,他的个性魅力最终征服了普蒂.爱上邦德的普蒂将大满贯计划通知了政府,并调换了毒气弹,政府早将计就计,粉碎了金手指的罪恶计划.侥幸逃脱的金手指潜入了普蒂的飞机,却终被邦德与普蒂杀死.邦德再度靠美女与爱情赢得了胜利.

 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.

英国女作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙于1927年创作的长篇小说，是倾注心血的准自传体意识流小说。内容简介：小说以到灯塔去为贯穿全书的中心线索，写了拉姆齐一家人和几位客人在第一次世界大战前后的片段生活经历。拉姆齐先生的幼子詹姆斯想去灯塔，但却由于天气不好而未能如愿。后大战爆发，拉姆齐一家历经沧桑。战后，拉姆齐先生携带一双儿女乘舟出海，终于到达灯塔。而坐在岸边画画的莉丽・布里斯科也正好在拉姆齐一家到达灯塔的时候，在瞬间的感悟中，向画幅中央落下一笔，终于画出了多年萦回心头的幻象，从而超越自己，成为一名真正的艺术家。

Tom Swift and His Sky Racer is the ninth book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. 

"Star Hunter" tells the story of a man who thinks with another's brain as he is pursued in a dangerous game of hide and seek. This adventure story captures the reader's attention from the very first sentences. "Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl. Ras Hume paused at the border of scented spike-flowers on the top terrace of the Pleasure House to wonder why he thought of serpents. He understood. Mankind's age-old hatred, brought from his native planet to the distant stars, was evil symbolized by a coil in a twisted, belly-path across the ground. And on Nahuatl, as well as a dozen other worlds, Wass was the serpent."

裘德·弗利是一个不懈努力的年轻人，他如饥似渴地学习以提高自己，并向老师理查德·菲洛森学习古典作品及神学。老师要去基督大教堂这个大学城学习。为了生计他成了石匠并离开韦塞克斯来到基督大教堂，他希望一边干活一边继续学业。他和两个截然不同的女人的关系阻碍了他的发展。裘德在到达基督大教堂之前遇到了阿拉贝娜·唐，一个养猪农民的女儿。她当时正在和其他年轻女人洗杀死的猪身上的器官。她把一个公猪生殖器扔到了裘德的头上以引起他的注意。被她的外貌所吸引，裘德把这串肉还给她，两人就开始了浪漫的调情，而那串肉被随手挂在了附近的桥栏杆上。之后不久在阿拉贝娜的引诱下，他们结为夫妻。在最初的激情过后，他俩并没有共同语言，最终两人分手。尽管他们已有了孩子。重获自由可追求学业的裘德。来到基督大教堂并见到了他的表亲淑·布赖德黑德，一个性格上阴柔与阳刚交集的女人。她的才华和她为妇女权利和性别平等做出的努力使她成为一个“新女性”。尽管两人相爱，淑还是选择嫁给裘德的老师菲洛森。他们的婚姻并不幸福。在淑离开菲洛森之后，她与裘德生活在一起。他们生了两个孩子，但孩子都被裘德和阿拉贝娜的孩子法瑟·蒂姆杀死。法瑟·蒂姆也自杀了。淑离开裘德后，裘德又回到阿拉贝娜身边，但已命不久矣。裘德望着他迫切想要进入的却拒他于门外的大学而死。死时未满三十岁。阿拉贝娜发现他的尸体后，决定等到第二天告诉所有的人，这样她就可以和裘德朋友共享节日之夜了。

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff.This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel. A similar book was published seven years before Jerome's work, entitled Three in Norway (by two of them) by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck. It tells of three men on an expedition into the wild Jotunheimen in Norway.

A league of tangled forest and canyon behind Rough-and-Ready, for which he had paid Don Ramon's heirs an extravagant price in the presumption that it was auriferous, furnished the most accessible timber to build the town, at prices which amply remunerated him.