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"Never was a time when so many brains rustled with hates and panaceas that would sail wide into the air at the lightest jar."

The Innocence of Father Brown is the first book of G.K. Chesterton's ingenious, thoughtful, and lyrically written mystery stories featuring the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of criminals, thus understanding their motives. The stories are full of paradox, spiritual insight, and "Chestertonian fantasy," or seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. In this sterling collection, widely considered the author’s best, the beloved detective solves twelve of his most puzzling cases, including The Blue Cross, The Hammer of God, The Eye of Apollo, and nine more. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the Scottish writer David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it combines fantasy, philosophy and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by the critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the "greatest novel of the twentieth century" and was a central influence on C. S. Lewis's The Space Trilogy. It was made widely available in paperback form when published as one of the precursor volumes to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in 1968, featuring a cover by illustrator Bob Pepper.

Robert Falconer, school-boy, aged fourteen, thought he had never seen his father; that is, thought he had no recollection of having ever seen him. 

Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

Anatole France (16 April 1844?2 October 1924), born Fran鏾is-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Acad閙ie fran鏰ise, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

达林先生家里的三个小孩，经受不住由空中飞来的神秘野孩子彼得·潘的诱惑，很快也学会了飞行，趁父母不在，连夜飞出窗去，飞向奇异的“梦幻岛”。这岛上既有凶猛的野兽，又有原始部落中的“红人”，还有可怕的海盗，当然还有仙女和美人鱼，总之，经常出现在儿童梦中和幻想中的一切，这里都有；因此也就有与猛兽搏斗的打猎，有红人与海盗之间或孩子们与海盗之间的真正的战争。孩子们脱离了成人，无拘无束，自由自在，在彼得·潘的率领下，自己处理一切事务，尽情玩耍，也历经了各种危险。正如作者在书中所说：“在他们看来，没有妈妈照样可以过得很愉快。只有当妈妈的才认为，孩子离开了妈妈便不能生活。”可是后来，这些离家出走的孩子，尤其是其中的大姐姐温迪，开始想妈妈了，在她的动员下，孩子们告别了给他们带来过无限欢乐的“梦幻岛”，飞回了家中。后来他们都长成了大人。只有彼得·潘永不长大，也永不回家，他老在外面飞来飞去，把一代又一代的孩子带离家庭，让他们到“梦幻岛”上去享受自由自在的童年欢乐。作品的最后一句是这样写的：“只要孩子们是欢乐的、天真的、无忧无虑的，他们就可以飞向梦幻岛去。”

弗兰肯斯坦是个热衷于生命起源的生物学家，他怀着犯罪心理频繁出没于藏尸间，尝试用不同尸体的各个部分拼凑成一个巨大人体。当这个怪物终于获得生命睁开眼睛时，弗兰肯斯坦被他的狰狞面目吓得弃他而逃，他却紧追不舍地向弗兰肯斯坦索要女伴、温暖和友情；接踵而至的更是一系列诡异的悬疑和命案。

14岁的少女苏菲某天放学回家，收到了神秘的一封信——“你是谁？世界从哪里来？”与此同时，她收到一封古怪的明信片，上面的收件人是“请苏菲转交给席德”，邮戳来自黎巴嫩。从这一天开始，苏菲不断接到一些极不寻常的来信，世界像谜团一般在她眼底展开。她运用少女天生的悟性与后天知识，企图解开这些谜团。然而，魔镜、少校的小屋、黎巴嫩寄来给席德明信片、会说话的汉密士、叫她席德的艾勃特、写着生日祝福的香蕉皮、现实出现的梦中的金十字架、捡到的10元硬币……接踵而至的奇闻怪事让苏菲一步步走下去。事实真相远比她所想的更怪异、 更离奇……