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《有时冒出了一个伟大的念头》(Sometimes a Great Notion) 于1964 年出版,书名源自民歌“有时冒出了一个伟大的念头/要跳入河中漂流” ,讲的是俄勒冈州某小镇两个独立谋生的伐木工人的故事,他们信奉的人生准则是“永不屈服”(`Never Give An Inch),虽然不如 《飞越布谷鸟巢》那样具有商业意义上的成功,可却被评论家普遍看好, 也是他本人最满意的作品,由名演员亨利?芳达和保尔· 纽曼担任主角。
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赞恩·格雷
1908. With illustrations and photographs by the author. Grey, famous for his western novels, writes his remembrances about Buffalo Jones, who labored, pursued, captured and tamed buffalo, for which the West gave him fame, and the name Preserver of the American Bison. Contents: The Arizona Desert; The Range; The Last Herd; The Trail; Oak Spring; The White Mustang; Snake Gulch; Naza! Naza! Naza!; The Land of the Musk-Ox; Success and Failure; On to the Siwash; Old Tom; Singing Cliffs; All Heroes But One; Jones on Cougars; and Kitty. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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约瑟夫·康拉德
A story of an English girl, Amy Foster, who falls in love with a young Eastern European man who has just survived a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England.
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伊迪丝.华顿
欢乐之家讲述的故事发生在本世纪初的纽约,一个由男人支配一切的时代,软弱的女人要想拥有财富和地位只能依靠她的男人,而个性独立,敢于同社会抗争的女人只会被视为异类。身在上流社会莉莉·巴特小姐清楚的知道这一点,因此她只得将骨子中的叛逆深深的掩藏起来,以痛苦的假面示人。
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杰克·伦敦
The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912.
The story takes place in 2072, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and as he realizes his time grows short, he tries to impart the value of knowledge and wisdom to his grandsons.
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萨克斯·儒默
Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym used by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward. Ward was a British novelist born in 1883. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu. The evil Fu Manchu would disguise himself in order to have his victims destroy each other. Fu Manchu plotted against good and spent his time trying to out wit Scotland Yard. The series was extremely popular in the fist half of the 20th century. Besides the novels, there were comic strips, movies and a TV series. In this novel the Oriental villain Mr. King masterminds a plot to hold London's elite at his mercy. One person has died and other may soon follow. Two of Rohmer's great detectives, Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar are on the case. Can the cream of London's society be saved?
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弗拉基米尔·纳博科夫
小说最初未获准在美国发行,于1955年首次被欧洲巴黎奥林匹亚出版社出版。1958年终于出版了美国版,作品一路蹿升到《纽约时报》畅销书单的第一位。《洛丽塔》已被改编成电影。内容简介:从法国移民美国的中年男子,大学教师亨伯特爱上了自己房东的女儿,14岁的洛丽塔。亨伯特对洛丽塔无法自拔,为了亲近这名早熟、热情的小女孩,亨伯特娶女房东为妻,成为洛丽塔的继父。当夏洛特翻看亨伯特的日记得知他爱上了自己的女儿之后,愤怒的她冲出房门,却不幸在车祸中丧生。于是亨伯特把洛丽塔从夏令营当中接回来,二人开始了一段开车在公路上流浪的乱伦之恋。洛丽塔长大后,开始讨厌继父,她意识到“即使是最可悲的家庭生活也比这种乱伦状况好”。于是她开始跟年纪相当的男孩子交往,并借着一次旅行的机会脱离继父的掌握。当亨伯特再次收到洛丽塔的信时,她已经嫁作人妇,并且有孕在身。面对洛丽塔在金钱方面的请求,他决定满足她。他留给洛丽塔4000块钱,却没有办法把洛丽塔带走。在绝望之中,他枪杀了当初拐带洛丽塔的人奎迪。亨伯特最终病死在了监狱里,同年,洛丽塔死于难产。
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