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Since first appearing in All-Story Weekly magazine in 1914, Burroughs's tale of a secret prehistoric world still in existence has remained popular both in print and as fodder for numerous films. This commemorative edition offers the full text along with a map of the fictional land of Pellucidar, illustrations, a glossary, and both a new introduction and an afterword on the science used in the story. This may be a little corny by today's standards, but it's still fun.

《心血运动论》这本书是由英国伟大的生理学家和胚胎学家威廉· 哈维(William Harvey)于1628年公开发表的。这本书的出版震惊了当时的医学界和生理学界，它的观点从根本上推翻了统治人们头脑上千年的关于心脏运动和血液运行的经典观点，提出血液是循环运行的，心脏有节律的持续搏动是促使血液在全身循环流动的动力源泉。

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. 

世界上会发生一些奇怪的事。你能听到各种耸人听闻的故事，但它们是真人真事吗？你能相信谁呢？一些故事永远不会刊登在报纸上，因为政府不想让人们知道它们。但这样的故事会出现在奥米茄文件里。 有多少人知道奥米茄文件呢？不多——在布鲁塞尔恐怕只有30个人知道它。霍克和祖德就知道，因为文件里的许多故事都是他们收集来的。他们过着有趣的生活。一天，他们来到伦敦和一个青年交谈，他告诉他们一个关于某药品公司的离奇故事，但这是不是真的呢？又有一天，他们去苏格兰找一个生活在尼斯湖中的怪兽。当然，世上没有怪兽——对吗？还有一次，他们在太平洋的一个小岛上，那里的人都在谈论一只宇宙飞船。可是这只宇宙飞船在哪里呢？谁又真正见过它呢？它们都在那儿——在奥米茄文件里。

Jude the Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895. The book was burned publicly by William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, in that same year. Its hero, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The themes in the novel revolve around issues of class, education, religion, and marriage. Hardy began making notes for the story in 1887.

Much like the classic Sherlock Holmes stories, forensic practioner Dr. Thorndyke's exploits are told by his companion Christopher Jervis. This mystery involves two cases that Thorndyke And Jervis get involved with - one a man who is apparently being poisoned, and another who is already dead, but one of his heirs wants to contest the Will. Both cases seem impossible to Jervis, but not to his mentor, Dr. Thorndyke, who sees clues where none seem to exist. While reading this book you may think you know how it ends, but you will be wrong, because the Way that Thorndyke wraps things up will come to you as an unexpected surprise.

'Mr Sherlock Holmes, the well-known private detective, was the victim of a murderous assault this morning which has left him in a precarious position'. Dr Watson stops dead in his tracks when he reads of the attempt on his friend's life. The forces of nature turn against man, love breeds hatred and cowardice, mothers appear to attack their own children, and Sherlock Holmes, the one man who can redress the balance, seemingly lies at death's door ...When an assassination attempt is made on the great detective's life it seems that no one can escape the death and dread which blights Britain...

Satirical novel published in 1759 that is the best-known work by Voltaire. It is a savage denunciation of metaphysical optimism--as espoused by the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz--that reveals a world of horrors and folly. In this philosophical fantasy, naive Candide sees and suffers such misfortune that he ultimately rejects the philosophy of his tutor Doctor Pangloss, who claims that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Candide and his companions--Pangloss, his beloved Cunegonde, and his servant Cacambo--display an instinct for survival that provides them hope in an otherwise somber setting. When they all retire together to a simple life on a small farm, they discover that the secret of happiness is "to cultivate one's garden," a practical philosophy that excludes excessive idealism and nebulous metaphysics.　《老实人》是伏尔泰的代表作。主人公老实人纯朴善良，头脑简单，寄居在森特一登·脱龙克男爵府上，信奉导师邦葛罗斯关于“世界尽善尽美”的哲学。老实人因和男爵的小姐居内贡自由恋爱，被男爵逐出家门，从此开始流浪生涯。最初，老实人被抓丁，在保加利亚军队里服役，由于自由行动而遭毒打。不久，保加利亚王和那伐马王交战，老实人目睹了两军厮杀，奸淫掳掠，无恶不作的景象。战乱中侥幸逃生后，老实人到了荷兰境内，遇见导师邦葛罗斯。邦葛罗斯已染上性病，变得面目全非，但仍然坚持“一切皆美”的说教。师徒二人一起流落到西班牙，遇上大地震。两人都被里斯本的宗教裁判所无辜捉拿判处火刑，以阻止地震。他们奇迹般脱险后，老实人巧遇恋人居内贡，邦葛罗斯则不知去向。原来男爵一家在战乱中惨遭不幸，小姐被人贩卖到里斯本。老实人杀死了玩弄居内贡的犹太银行家和大法官，携居内贡逃往他处。不料案发，老实人不得已暂别居内贡，只带仆人加刚菩到巴拉圭避风。尔后又历尽风险到达黄金国。休养生息了一个多月之后，老实人和加刚菩满载金银财宝分头寻找居内贡。途中，老实人辗转巴黎，几乎被骗子神甫等盘剥一空，还亲眼看见人们互相残杀的场面和尔虞我诈的勾当，开始对“天下十全十美”的哲学产生怀疑。后来在悲观哲学家马丁的帮助下，老实人得知爱人居内贡在君士坦丁堡当奴隶，他历尽艰辛，终于和大难不死的邦葛罗斯及被生活折磨得奇丑无比的居内贡等人在君士坦丁堡重逢。老实人信守诺言，娶居内贡为妻，并购买了地产和同伴们一起生活。但是，日子过得百无聊赖，幸亏从一个土耳其庄稼汉那里受到启发：“工作可以免除三大不幸——烦恼、纵欲和饥寒。”这样，老实人省悟了，告诫同伴“种我们的田地要紧”。小说就此结束。

This is the only critical edition of this perennially popular story. Sally Shuttleworth's introduction finds, beneath the idyllic evocation of rural bliss and a tale of love and high adventure, a startling sub-text which rigidly defends Victorian values, and portrays a `manly' hero constantly having to prove his masculinity to himself.