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Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the author of the Oz books. 

马克·吐温一生写了大量作品，题材涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等各方面。从内容上说，他的作品批判了不合理现象或人性的丑恶之处，表达了这位当过排字工人和水手的作家强烈的正义感和对普通人民的关心；从风格上说，专家们和一般读者都认为，幽默和讽刺是他的写作特点。

因为一次探险游戏，英国男孩迪戈里和邻家女孩波利，误入安德鲁舅舅的秘密阁楼，得知他居然是位心术不正的魔法师，并被其强迫带上魔戒，来到神秘的“界中林”。“界中林”是通往所有世界的中继站，由不同水池连接不同世界。在好奇心驱使下，他们来到一快毁灭的世界——恰恩，意外唤醒了邪恶女巫杰迪斯，更糟的是，女巫随他们穿越界中林回到伦敦。女巫驱使安德鲁舅舅，准备征服世界，并在伦敦引起骚动。情急之下，迪戈里利用魔戒把波利、女巫、魔法师、马车夫法兰克及马儿草莓一并带到另个世界纳尼亚。随着雄狮阿斯兰的歌声，迪戈里一行人见证了纳尼亚王国奇妙的诞生。为了弥补将女巫带来纳尼亚的过失，阿斯兰命令迪戈里前往西方去一颗神秘苹果来栽种。历经艰辛之后，迪戈里终于完成任务，并将苹果带回伦敦，治好了妈妈的病。

《少年》是陀思妥耶夫斯基后期一部重要作品，创作于1874年。那时候，离1861年农奴解放已经十三年，随着原先的道德体系分崩离析，俄国社会一片混乱。精神空虚者、贪得无厌的敛财者、犬儒主义者四处横行，社会上到处充斥着机关陷阱，自杀流行，革命的情绪正在慢慢蔓延开来，可以说，社会处于危机之中。 《少年》的主人公阿尔卡季.多尔戈鲁基也落入了这个精神土崩瓦解的漩涡之中，不过，和《白痴》中的梅思金公爵不同的是，梅思金落入这个漩涡的时候，已经 完全形成了自己的人生观和世界观，而多尔戈鲁基却还是一个懵懂的少年，随时都可能在社会的漩涡中迷失方向。《少年》所讲述的，大约就是少年多尔戈鲁基如何 在这个漩涡中挣扎，经过探索和寻求，终于走上正确人生道路的经过。

大海有很多面。有时它平静温和，如同游泳池般安宁。有时它狂野、暴躁而危险。我们筑堤抵挡大海，大海却把它们冲走。我们造船在海上航行，大海却把它们劈成两截，如同孩子折断玩具。当大海露出其狰狞的一面时，它就像一头野兽，一心只想着杀戮。当然，你并不害怕大海。你在陆地上很安全，温暖而干燥。但若你是在怒海中的一条小船上，脸上是飞溅而来的海水，耳畔是咆哮不停的海风，那情况就不一样了。对我们来说，要做到不害怕很容易；这只是一本书而已。但对于格雷丝·达林，这不是故事。这是非常真实、寒冷而狂野的夜晚，那一夜她和大海抗争，毫无畏惧。

作为笔调轻松、文笔优美、诙谐有趣的自然历史书籍之一，《贝格尔号航行日记》记述了查尔斯· 达尔文于1831年至1836年间经南美洲、加拉帕戈斯群岛、澳洲重返英格兰的旅程，此次旅行加深了他对生物学的理解，丰富和发展了他的进化论观点。在达尔文的笔下，他的那些冒险经历，诸如火地岛遭遇“野人”、在巴塔哥尼亚偶食生禽，以及试图骑上晃晃悠悠的巴塔哥尼亚乌龟的努力都一一生动地跃然纸上，描绘得栩栩如生。

The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha.

Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again. 　　Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions: 　　The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man. 　　Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite.

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(virginia woolf, 1882-1941)是英国现代派小说的代表作家， 也是英国现代文学史上最重要的女作家之一。伍尔夫生活在一个动荡、变革的时代， 传统的宗教伦理、哲学、美学信念受到怀疑，现存的政治、社会制度失去稳定的根基，艺术家们尤其是作家们努力去寻求新的艺术表现手法，以期更真实地反映二十世纪的现实、更深刻地探索二十世纪的人性。作为一名敏感的作家，伍尔夫认为文学应有变革才能反映当时的社会和人生，因此作为意识流小说的主要代表和西方女性主义先驱，伍尔夫一生致力于小说的改革与艺术的创新，她的小说创作在由传统小说向现代小说的过渡过程中起了举足轻重的作用，她本人也被广泛地赞誉为现代主义艺术的开创者、被认为是英国现代主义文学运动的一个主要人物。