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Here ends this history so far as it concerns science and the outside world. What its end will be as regards Leo and myself is more than I can guess. But we feel that it is not reached. . . , Often I sit alone at night, staring with the eyes of my mind into the blackness of unborn time, and wondering in what shape and form the great drama will be finally developed, and where the scene of its next act will be laid. And when, ultimately, that final development occurs, as I have no doubt it must and will occur, in obedience to a fate that never swerves and a purpose which cannot be altered, what will be the part played therein by that beautiful Egyptian Amenartas, the Princess of the royal house of the Pharaohs, for the love of whom the priest Kallikrates broke his vows to Isis, and, pursued by the vengeance of the outraged goddess, fled down the coast of Lybia to meet his doom at Kor?"-She, Silver Library Edition, p. 277.

纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖作品、美国国家图书奖获奖。赴美读中学的国际生必读书目，美国教育协会推荐童书。内容简介：在民主国家里，你认为以下所叙述的事情能够忍受吗?在公立小学上课，读的是别人十年前不用的破课本；到商店里买东西，老板不理会按规矩排队的你，的反而去招呼插队的客人；在人来人往的大街上，公然被人无理地打耳光。生活在一九二三年的美国黑人，就必须忍受这些不平等的待遇。凯西・罗根，是出生美国内战――也就是奴隶解放战争后约七十年的自由黑人。这个约莫十岁的女孩，是家中的掌明珠，也是一个勇敢女孩。她对于黑人所受到的压榨和不公平，感到十分愤怒和不解。她和她的兄弟们，曾为了报复向他们溅泥水的白人小学校车，在路上挖大洞，使得车子陷入其中不能动弹；她也曾为了一泄被白人女孩打耳光的怨气，声下气地讨白人女孩欢心，然后一举打垮白人女孩……在那个艰苦的年代中，白人的妄自尊大和黑人的不平之鸣，造成社会上的大冲突。白人们无法坐视当年是他们牛马的奴隶，靠着努力拥有合法的土地财产，便 想尽种种卑鄙的手段欺骗、剥削黑人们的血汗成果。有的黑人为了结交白人，不惜成为黑人社会中的叛徒。但是黑人和白人之间的友谊并不牢固一旦遇到利益冲突或惹上麻烦，黑人立刻成了牺牲品。白人将非洲黑人带进美国领土的那一刻起，便为日后的种族问题埋下了恶果。凯西一家的遭遇，只是大时代中的一个小小故事，种族间的冲突，到现在仍然继续在全世界发生。

世界上，有这样一种最幸福的约定，它浸润心灵的天簌，唤醒生命的禅音。它带给我们温暖和力量，给予我们指引和希望，让我们在多年后的某一天，收获一个完美而成功的人生。被自己所爱的人深爱着是什么样的感觉呢？会是什么样子呢？想要立刻回答的人，你要知道自己是多么幸福。厚厚的几叠书信，因存放年代久远，信笺大多已泛黄。但每次看到它,总想随意地打开几封，仿佛仍能闻到撕开封口时从里面飘逸而出的那一纸墨水的馨香，任时光倒流，任思绪飞驰，重温那温暖的记忆，重拾那一串串远逝的足迹。

说话不饶人的语言学家贺勤（Henry Higgins）与友人打赌，要在六个月之内，将满口乡音、在伦敦街头卖花的少女伊丽莎（Eliza Doolittle）改造成大家闺秀，出席上流社会的舞会而不被揭发。伊丽莎得知受改造之后有望斩断穷根，便欣然接受贺勤一连串的发音及仪态训练。六个月后，伊丽莎成为舞会上的全场焦点，富家子弟纷纷拜倒石榴裙下，可是她发现自己办是贺勤眼中的赌具而已，遂毅然离开。贺勤发现伊丽莎不知所踪，既愤怒又不安，因为……若你已明白Pygmalion 的意思，相信也知道接下来的故事会如何发展。

Comedy of manners in five acts by William Congreve, performed and published in 1700. The play, which is considered Congreve's masterpiece, ridicules the assumptions that governed the society of his time, especially those concerning love and marriage. The plot concerns the efforts of the lovers Millamant and Mirabell to obtain the permission of Millamant's aunt for their marriage. Despite a scheme that goes awry and after several misunderstandings are cleared up, the two finally obtain her consent.

Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriau's characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book.

外科医生格列佛先后四次出海分别到小人国、大人国、飞岛国、慧骃国等虚构国度的离奇旅行和种种遭遇,集中反映了18世纪前半期英国社会的各种矛盾,揭露了英国社会的黑暗现实，讽刺批判了英国的内政、外交政策。主人公格列佛每到一个幻想国度，都受到不同待遇，耳闻目睹，无奇不有。对每一种情景，作者都描写得栩栩栩如生，使读者如闻其声，身临其境。这部作品想象丰富、构思奇特、语言精彩，尽管隔着一层翻译，仍有许多值得我国青少年朋友学习和借鉴之处。

The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on the paths

英国作家约翰·罗纳德·瑞尔·托尔金创作的长篇小说，1937年首次出版。该书不仅惊险有加，充满童真童趣，而且投射了新的时代精神和作者独到的思考。2012年，该书被改编成同名电影系列。内容简介：一个热爱安逸生活的霍比特人比尔博·巴金斯，他毫无野心。清晨和煦，睿智巫师甘道夫的到来打破了宁静。“越过冰冷而又雾蒙蒙的大山，在那深深地下洞穴已有千年”吟着古老的歌谣，十三个矮人将比尔博硬拽进冒险远行的队伍。他们密谋突袭邪恶巨龙斯毛格的洞窟，夺回属于自己的千年宝藏。在这趟“意外之旅”之中，比尔博这个与世无争的霍比特人，却孤身一人在暗如永夜的山底洞穴中发现了足以改变整个世界的小小戒指。