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The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.

谢丽尔·桑德伯格作为全球最成功的女性之一，她在这本超级畅销书《LEAN IN》中，深刻地剖析了男女不平等这类社会现象的根本原因。她认为，女性之所以没有勇气跻身领导层，不敢放开脚步追求自己的梦想，更多是出于内在的恐惧与不自信。她在书中鼓励所有女性，要大胆地“往桌前坐”，主动参与对话与讨论。同时，她还为女性提出了如下成功密码，激励女性寻求挑战，敢于冒险，满怀热情地去追求自己的人生目标。

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

你听过加勒比海的海盗与宝藏吗？这一回，神奇树屋带杰克和安妮回到三百年前的海盗时代。在荒岛上，兄妹俩被邪恶的独眼船长抓上船，和海盗一起出海寻宝！猜猜看，他们能不能找到传说中的宝藏，并且平安的逃离海盗的魔掌？还有，在这一集里，神秘人M的身分即将揭晓，他究竟是谁？又会带给杰克和安妮什么样惊奇的事件？

“你的爱太浓了！”——一个不可能重复的故事！！！ 　　女黑奴塞丝怀着身孕只身从肯塔基的奴隶庄园逃到俄亥俄的辛辛那提，奴隶主循踪追至；为了使儿女不再重复自己做奴隶的悲惨命运，她毅然杀死了自己刚刚会爬的幼女宠儿……十八年后宠儿还魂重返人间，和塞丝、塞丝的女儿丹芙以及塞丝的情人保罗·D生活在同一幢房子里。她不但加倍地向母亲索取着爱，甚至纠缠和引诱保罗·D，不择手段地扰乱和摧毁母亲刚刚回暖的生活……全书充满苦涩的诗意和紧张的悬念。

When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. In his Introduction, M. Thomas Inge shows how what began as a literary burlesque of British chivalry and culture developed to tragedy and into a novel that remains a major literary and cultural text for generations of new readers. This edition reproduces a number of the original drawings by Dan Beard, of whom Twain said "He not only illustrates the text but he illustrates my thoughts."

“一八九四年的春天，整个伦敦对可敬的罗纳德·艾德尔十分不寻常而神秘的谋杀事件极其关切，上流社会的人们更因此事丧胆。一般大众已由警方的侦查结果得知 罪案的特点，但是在当时仍有许多内容事实隐而不宣，因为这案子的起诉理由十分有力，因此就没有必要把所有的事实分布出来。一直到十年后的今天，我才被允许 将整串事情的一些重要环节说出来。罪案的本身已经够令人感兴趣的了，但对我而言，这与随之发生的不可思议的事情比较起来，实在不算什么。这些随后发生的事 比我一生中任何奇异的经历都要使我震惊。就算是现在，经过了那么久的时间，我一想到这些事，仍使我震颤不已，也使我再一次地由心底涌起欢愉、惊叹与难以置 信之感，而完全掩盖了我的理智。那些偶尔对我提到对于一位十分卓越的人物的思想及行动兴趣的人们，我得说，请不要责怪我不与他们分享我所知道的事情，因为 如果不是这个人亲口绝对禁止我说出来，我会把将这些事公布出来视为我的第一要务。而这项禁令一直到上个月三日才撤销。”

McKinley's deft adaptation trims the story without sacrificing the witty vitality of MacDonald's 19th century original. The story of a bewitched princess (gravity does not affect her) and the prince who will sacrifice his life for her is presented in a lavishly illustrated package. Treherne's intensely decorative drawings add a striking visual dimension: her use of rich colors and elegantly stylized figures creates a romantic, mysterious mood. Each picture is bordered by a motif that emphasizes an element of the story, which effectively enhances both text and pictures. All ages.

福尔摩斯在毫不知情的情况下，仅凭观察和推理就知道华生早晨去过邮局发电报；从华生递给他的一块表的现状，推论出这块表原来属于他哥哥，并把他的性格、生活轨迹和结局丝毫不差地说了出来。故事以摩斯坦小姐来访开始。她的离奇经历和收到的奇怪邀请理所当然地引起福尔摩斯的极大兴趣。随着他们的赴约，故事情节逐步展开，一个个谜团逐一解开，新的谜团又不断出现。这里，福尔摩斯的聪明才智获得充分表现的机会，同时也有挫折和失败相伴。最后，由抓获的凶手讲述案件的背景和来龙去脉。