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《有时冒出了一个伟大的念头》（Sometimes a Great Notion） 于1964 年出版，书名源自民歌“有时冒出了一个伟大的念头/要跳入河中漂流” ，讲的是俄勒冈州某小镇两个独立谋生的伐木工人的故事，他们信奉的人生准则是“永不屈服”（`Never Give An Inch），虽然不如 《飞越布谷鸟巢》那样具有商业意义上的成功，可却被评论家普遍看好, 也是他本人最满意的作品，由名演员亨利?芳达和保尔· 纽曼担任主角。

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《七个尖角阁的老宅》又名《七个尖角阁的房子》，借用家族诅咒这一古老的哥特传统，描写了品钦家族因祖上谋财害命而使后代遭到报应的故事。 小说对七角阁老宅的描绘，处处充满着象征意义。老宅里与街道的对比是黑暗与光明的对比，老宅里表示过去、死亡、束缚和与世隔绝；街道上则象征着现在、生命、自由和现实。七角阁老宅处在形形色色的阴影之中，这些阴影象征着各种罪恶。从那张模糊不清、沾满灰尘的地图可以看到品钦法官的贪婪，从那张褪色了的画像中可以看到上校的冷酷和邪恶，从那架黑色的、样子像具棺材的大键琴上可以看到家族的傲慢。

the new-comers.breaking the ice.dwellers in the wilderness.a sister's secret.a naval conquest.an old story...

       故事以主人公查尔斯的视角展开，描写了伦敦近郊布赖兹赫德庄园一个天主教家庭的生活和命运。这个家族老一代的马奇梅因侯爵在第一次世界大战期间去国外参加战争，战后没有回国，长期和他的意大利情妇在威尼斯同居。他的妻子马奇梅因夫人住在伦敦，夫妻不睦，按照天主教规定，夫妻不能离婚，事实上他们长期分居。 　　他们的长子布赖兹赫德是未来爵位和庄园的继承人（与庄园同名），却生性怪僻。而次子塞巴斯蒂安和故事叙述人查尔斯是牛津大学的同窗好友，一生经历坎坷，流落异国。大女儿朱莉娅和小女儿科迪莉娅的一生也跌宕起伏(电影未过多的讲述小女儿的经历)。影片通过这一家人的故事，反映了战后的英国状况，也可以说是西方一般知识分子的思想与遭遇。 　　庄园故事以第三者的角度开始讲述,以查尔斯与庄园主小儿子和大女儿的感情经过为主线,贯以宗教启示（特别是结尾处，老庄园主去世时的划十字手式）。

Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London’s The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and the growth of centralized government surveillance and authority. What begins as a war of words ends in scenes of harrowing violence as the state oligarchy, known as "the Iron Heel," moves to crush all opposition to its power.

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly, but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. 　　At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills, all of them seeking to bequeath money and land surrounding the Manor of Marr in South Yorkshire. The litigation, which already has consumed years and sixty to seventy thousand pounds sterling in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce his copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticized Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in enactment of the legal reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as Chancery was reforming itself, with the Six Clerks and Masters mentioned in Chapter One abolished in 1842 and 1852 respectively: the need for further reform was being widely debated. These facts raise an issue as to when Bleak House is actually set. Technically it must be before 1842, and at least some of his readers at the time would have been aware of this. However, there is some question as to whether this timeframe is consistent with some of the themes of the novel. The great English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth (see below), set the action in 1827.

拉什迪的《午夜的孩子》是一部以魔幻现实主义手法写成的现代文学经典之作。首先，这部作品的总构想就是一个出人意料的奇思怪想：在印度同一时刻降生的1001个孩子，能够在一个人的心灵中每夜聚会，这个会议于是成了现代印度的一面镜子。这个基本构想足以造就一部杰作，因为它不仅给了读者一个新奇的意象，而且赋予《午夜的孩子》以史诗般广阔的画面，使读者得以从多个视角认识印度社会。作者以自由飞腾的想象力，通过一个人的命运来审视一个民族的历史，使作品具有丰富的社会内容和深刻的思想内容。

自上市以来连续霸占《纽约时报》畅销榜50周至2018年，仅10个月内全球销量已突破150万册。2016年掀起全球阅读狂潮的温情小说，畅销40国，遍布欧美几乎每家书店。内容简介：七岁的爱莎有个古怪又疯狂的外婆，会埋伏在雪堆里吓唬邻居，把重要的事情记在墙上因为墙不会丢，半夜从医院溜出来带着爱莎翻进动物园，在阳台上用彩弹枪射击推销员，基本上想干什么就干什么。这个四处惹麻烦的外婆却是爱莎唯一的朋友，也是她心中的超级英雄。不管什么情况下，外婆都会站在爱莎这一边，为了她去跟全世界拼命。就算是超级英雄，也有失去超能力的一天。外婆不幸得了癌症去世，留给爱莎一项艰巨的任务，将外婆的道歉信送给她得罪过的九个邻居。收信人包括一只爱吃糖果的大狗，一个总在不停洗手的怪物，一个管东管西的烦人精和一个酗酒的心理医生。这一趟送信之旅让爱莎渐渐发现：外婆和邻居们的故事，比她听过的所有童话都更加精彩。这是一个关于爱、原谅和守护的故事，在合上书之后很久都难以忘记。