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Dr. Fitzhugh looked out over the faces of the crewmen. "The whole thing can be summed up very quickly," he said. "Point one: Snookums' brain contains the information that eight years of hard work have laboriously put into it. It's worth billions, so the robot can't be disassembled, or the information would be lost. "Point two: Snookums' mind is a strictly logical one, but it is operating in a more than logical universe. Consequently, it is unstable. "Point three: Snookums was built to conduct his own experiments. To forbid him to do that would be similar to beating a child for acting like a child. "Point four: Emotion is not logical. Snookums can't handle it, except in a very limited way. "It all adds up to this: Snookums must be allowed the freedom of the ship." Every one of the men was thinking dark gray thoughts. It was bad enough that they had to take out a ship like the Branchell, untested as she was. Was it necessary to have an eight-hundred-pound, moron-genius child-machine running loose, too? When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. And so Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums' nursemaid, agree to set up Operation Brainchild, a plan to transport the robot to a far distant planet. Mike the Angel -- M.R. Gabriel, Power Design -- has devised the power plant that is to propel the space ship Branchell to its secret destination, complete with its unusual cargo. And, as a reserve officer in the Space Patrol, Mike is a logical replacement for the craft's unavoidably detained engineering officer. But once into space, the Branchell becomes the scene of some frightening events -- the medical officer is murdered, and Snookums appears to be the culprit. Mike the Angel indulges himself in a bit of sleuthing, and the facts he turns up lead to a most unusual climax.

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小姑娘爱丽丝追赶一只揣着怀表、会说话的白兔，掉进了一个兔子洞，由此坠入了神奇的地下世界。在这个世界里,喝一口水就能缩得如同老鼠大小，吃一块蛋糕又会变成巨人，在这个世界里，似乎所有吃的东西都有古怪。她还遇到了一大堆人和动物：渡渡鸟、蜥蜴比尔、柴郡猫、疯帽匠、三月野兔、睡鼠、素甲鱼、鹰头狮、丑陋的公爵夫人。兔子洞里还另有乾坤，她在一扇小门后的大花园里遇到了一整副的扑克牌，牌里粗暴的红桃王后、老好人红桃国王和神气活现的红桃杰克等等。在这个奇幻疯狂的世界里，似乎只有爱丽丝是唯一清醒的人，她不断探险，同时又不断追问“我是谁”，在探险的同时不断认识自我，不断成长，终于成长为一个“大”姑娘的时候，猛然惊醒，才发现原来这一切都是自己的一个梦境。

Captain Jorgan had to look high to look at it, for the village was built sheer up the face of a steep and lofty cliff. There was no road in it, there was no wheeled vehicle in it, there was not a level yard in it. From the sea-beach to the cliff-top two irregular rows of white houses, placed opposite to one another, and twisting here and there, and there and here, rose, like the sides of a long succession of stages of crooked ladders, and you climbed up the village or climbed down the village by the staves between, some six feet wide or so, and made of sharp irregular stones.

丑聋人卡西莫多被巴黎圣母院的神父克洛德收养，做撞钟人，外貌正经的克洛德神父自从遇见美丽的吉普赛少女爱斯美拉达后，被其美色所诱而神魂颠倒，指使卡西莫多强行掳走爱斯美拉达，途中被福比斯骑兵上尉队长所救，艾斯美拉达因而爱上了福比斯。但福比斯生性风流，被怀恨在心的克洛德刺杀，但没有死。并嫁祸于艾斯美拉达，令她被判死刑，行刑时，卡西莫多将爱斯美拉达救走并藏身于圣母院中，乞丐群众为救爱斯美拉达而冲入教堂，误与卡西莫多大战，艾斯美拉达被由克洛德带领的军队绞杀在广场上，卡西莫多愤然将克洛德从教堂顶楼摔落地下，最后卡西莫多抚着艾斯美拉达的尸体殉情。（故事中还有落魄诗人甘果瓦 和丢失了孩子的可怜母亲“香花歌乐女”的衬托剧情。）

1875年春，乔纳森·哈克因公出差去特兰西瓦尼亚，拜访德拉库拉伯爵。乔纳森其实并不想去，因为再有几个月他就要和他美丽的明娜结婚了，他现在不想离开她。在德拉库拉城堡逗留期间，他坚持写日记，每天他都有越来越多可怕的事要写。为什么他只有在夜晚才能见到德拉库拉伯爵？为什么他在镜子里看不到伯爵？那三个有着血红的嘴唇和锋利的长牙，夜晚来到他屋里的美丽女人又是谁？在英国的家里，明娜和她的朋友露西待在一个海边的小镇上。她期盼着乔纳森的来信，而他却音信全无，明娜有些害怕了。也许乔纳森病了，或是身处险境，当然明娜并不担心自己或者她的朋友露西。住在一个安静的英国海边小镇上，什么样的危险能发生在这两个年轻姑娘的身上呢？

从小生活在温室环境中的巴克被偷着拐卖到原始荒野当雪橇狗。残酷的现实触动了巴克由于人类文明的长久熏陶而向大自然回归的本能和意识。恶劣的生存环境锻炼了巴克，他在历练中不断成长．最终通过战胜狗王斯匹茨而赢得了拉雪橇狗群中的头把交椅。当残暴的哈尔将巴克打得遗体鳞伤、奄奄一息时，约翰·桑顿的解救让巴克感受到温暖并决定誓死效忠恩主，但恩主的遇害彻底打碎了巴克对于人类社会的留恋，从而促使巴克坚定决心，毅然走向荒野，回归自然。

The complete tales of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Robin Hood and his band -- Little John, Will Scarlett, Allan a Dale, Friar Tuck, Will Stutely, and Midge the Miller -- live outlawed in Sherwood Forest, where, pursued by the Sheriff of Nottingham, they rob from the rich and give to the poor.

《波莉安娜》的续集，继续讲述小女孩波莉安娜长大后的故事。