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英国小说家威廉· 萨默赛特·毛姆的创作的长篇小说，成书于1919年。作品以法国印象派画家保罗·高更的生平为素材，描述了一个原本平凡的伦敦证券经纪人思特里克兰德，突然着了艺术的魔，抛妻弃子，绝弃了旁人看来优裕美满的生活，奔赴南太平洋的塔希提岛，用画笔谱写出自己光辉灿烂的生命，把生命的价值全部注入绚烂的画布的故事。内容简介：每个人都只看到脚下的六便士，只有他抬头看到天上的月亮。作品以法国印象派画家保罗·高更的生平为素材，描述了一个原本平凡的伦敦证券经纪人思特里克兰德，突然着了艺术的魔，抛妻弃子，绝弃了旁人看来优裕美满的生活，奔赴南太平洋的塔希提岛，用圆笔谱写出自己光辉灿烂的生命，把生命的价值全部注入绚烂的画布的故事。贫穷的纠缠，病魔的折磨他毫不在意，只是后悔从来没有光顾过他的意识。作品表现了天才、个性与物质文明以及现代婚姻、家庭生活之间的矛盾，有着广阔的生命视角，用散发着消毒水味道的手术刀对皮囊包裹下的人性进行了犀利地解剖，混合着看客讪笑的幽默和残忍的目光。

《爱丽丝梦游仙境》（Alice's Adventures in Wonderland）是英国作家查尔斯·路德维希·道奇森以笔名路易斯·卡罗尔于1865年出版的儿童文学作品。故事叙述一个名叫爱丽丝的女孩从兔子洞进入一处神奇国度，遇到许多会讲话的生物以及像人一般活动的纸牌，最后发现原来是一场梦。这童话自1865年出版以来，一直深受不同年纪的读者爱戴，相信是由于作者巧妙地运用不合逻辑的跳跃方式去铺排故事。《爱丽丝梦游仙境》是一个典型“不合理文学”的例子，亦是其中一个最具影响力的童话故事。

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist. He attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He worked at Doubleday as a publicist and publisher's assistant. Morley was one of the first judges for The Book of The Month Club. This is a book that can be enjoyed by children and adults. As a child it is entertaining. As an adult more meanings are found. Morley's basic message is do not be afraid to look for your dreams. At the same time do not be surprised if what you seek can be found right at home.

The Plumed Serpent is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, begun when writer was living at the D. H. Lawrence Ranch near Taos in U.S. state of New Mexico in 1924. It was first published by Martin Secker in 1926. The original working title of an early draft was "Quetzalcoatl", a reference to the cult of the plumed serpent in Mexico. The novel has a contemporary setting during the period of the Mexican Revolution. It opens with a group of tourists visiting a bullfight in Mexico City. One of them, Kate Leslie, departs in disgust and encounters Don Cipriano, a Mexican general. Later she meets his friend, an intellectual landowner Don Ramon, and travels to Sayula, a small town set on a lake. Ramon and Cipriano are leading a revival of a pre-Christian religion and Kate becomes drawn into their cult.

An excerpt from the book - Alone in the night On a dark hill With pines around me Spicy and still, And a heaven full of stars Over my head, White and topaz And misty red; Myriads with beating Hearts of fire That aeons Cannot vex or tire; Up the dome of heaven Like a great hill, I watch them marching Stately and still, And I know that I Am honored to be Witness Of so much majesty. "What Do I Care?" What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, That my songs do not show me at all? For they are a fragrance, and I am a flint and a fire, I am an answer, they are only a call. But what do I care, for love will be over so soon, Let my heart have its say and my mind stand idly by, For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, It is my heart that makes my songs, not I. Meadowlarks In the silver light after a storm, Under dripping boughs of bright new green, I take the low path to hear the meadowlarks Alone and high-hearted as if I were a queen. What have I to fear in life or death Who have known three things: the kiss in the night, The white flying joy when a song is born, And meadowlarks whistling in silver light.

又名《水妖记》，痴恋于骑士的涡堤孩为爱情宁愿舍弃容颜与生命，与骑士结成婚姻，却遭遇骑士爱情的背叛，最后化为泉水环绕爱人坟边。

The adventures of a dashing young prince who dispensed with protocol in selecting his wife. He hit upon the unique scheme of impersonating a barber in order to be perfectly free to choose the lady of his heart. The prince is actually Louis Phillipe de Valois, cousin of Louis XV of France, and certainly no gallant ever encountered more adventure in the pursuit of a bride.

In presenting a new edition of Billy Baxter s Letters we need only refer the reader to the original preface, which sets forth the circumstances surrounding the initial publication. Billy Baxter claimed, for his slang, that it was up to date, but time has proven that it was far in advance of date, only used in because many of the expressions Billy Baxter s Letters did not come into common use until upwards of ten years after the publication of the famous stories. We offer this re-issue of Billy Baxter s Letters to our American friends in the that it will come with as much sun hope shine to the present generation as the original edition did to the past. Original In presenting this work, we believe that an explanation is due the reader as to why the letters are given in their present form at this time. The first book published, One Night, was issued by The Duquesne Distributing Company now known as The Red Raven Corporation to show its great love for the American peo ple, and to incidentally advertise the quot Its success was im R R S . mediate. quot quotIn Society appeared February I, 1899, and scored as promptly as One Night. The demand for the book lets was phenomenal, and Mr. Kountz received thousands of friendly letters applauding him for his humor. He also received flattering offers from the leading comic weeklies, the metropoli tan dailies, and great advertisers throughout the Union. He declined them all, being primarily a business man, and carrying literature only as a side line. On May ist quotIn Lovequot was given to the public, with the promise that quotIn New Yorkquot would follow on October ist. On the evening of August pth, William J. Kountz, Jr., turned to the writer of this preface, and referring to quotIn New York,quot said I quotWell, m over it.quot He through, all but going never returned to his office, and on August 18th he died in the room where he was born not quite thirty-two years before. We then conceived the idea of put ting the letters out in their present form, as a last tribute to the author, who in less than a year s work lifted himself into a placeamong the nation s humorists.

基地纪元498年，两名基地公民登上最先进的太空艇，准备进行一次极不寻常的银河之旅。表面上，他们将寻找传说中的人类原乡，实际的任务，则是要证明第二基地依旧存在。 与此同时，银河中又出现神秘的第三方势力。他们神出鬼没，似乎能控制一切，甚至连谢顿计划，好像也在他们掌控之中。第一基地、第二基地与神秘的第三方势力，最后竟在一颗称为盖娅的行星交会！这到底是巧合，还是经过精心的安排？ 银河未来终极的命运，即将在他们眼前揭示……