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《在人间》是高尔基自传体小说三部曲中的第二部，也是高尔基《人生三部曲》之一。小说描述的是主人公阿廖沙（高尔基的乳名）1871年到1884年的生活。这段时期他为了生活，就与外祖母摘野果出去卖糊口，当过绘图师的学徒，在一艘船上当过洗碗工，当过圣像作坊徒工。在人生的道路上，他历尽坎坷，与社会底层形形色色的人们打交道，他一有机会就阅读大量书籍。生活阅历和大量的阅读扩展了阿廖沙的视野，他决心“要做一个坚强的人，不要为环境所屈服”。他怀着这样的坚定信念，离开家乡奔赴喀山。 　　在人间，不仅是作者童年时代的自传，不仅是一个少年的生活史，而且也是一个时代艺术性的史册，反映了俄国工业资本主义成长引起的小资产阶段手工业的瓦解过程。阿廖沙的外祖父卡希林一家的破产，就是俄国十九世纪七十至八十年代的真实写照。小说描述了普通俄国人的困苦生活和他们日常的苦闷，显示出这个少年对这种生活的反抗情绪越来越强烈了。从而创造出一个能干、求知欲很强烈的少年的活生生的形象。书中真实地描写了下层人民的严峻的、阴暗的生活，也描述了这个来自下层的少年建立了自己初步的世界观。这部自传体小说获得了进步的社会活动家的好评。亚美尼亚作家希尔万扎杰认为这部小说具有全人类的意义。

“You’ll be entirely out of luck if you don’t lie right down and go to sleep!” Florence Huyler, her pal, exclaimed, making a significant gesture toward a sofa pillow which, as the little French girl had reason to know, was both heavy and hard. And Florence had muscle. Of late she had been developing herself. She had gone back to her old work as physical director in one of the many gymnasiums of this great city.

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy of manners' among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like."In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; and she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives and is often mistaken about the meanings of others' actions.

《象人》的主人公约翰·梅力因为脑袋硕大无比，身体畸形酷似大象而被人称为“象人”，不过这个人物并不是剧作家杜撰出来的，而是真实存在于19世纪的伦敦。1923年，以他为研究对象的医生弗瑞迪·崔佛士出版了《象人和他的回忆》的手记。1973年，另一位作家Ashley Montagu又出版了《象人——人的尊严的研究》一书。被这两本书深深打动的剧作家以此为蓝本写成了剧本《象人》。这部作品在1979年伦敦公演时备受好评，之后在百老汇也是长演不衰的剧目。获得1979年托尼奖最佳戏剧奖。

David Copperfield or The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery (which he never meant to publish on any account)is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850. Like most of his works, it originally appeared in serial form a year earlier. Many elements within the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical of all of his novels. In the preface to the 1867 Charles Dickens edition, he wrote, "… like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield."

安妮·雪利住进卡斯伯特家以后，埃文利村的生活变得不再死气沉沉。他们本想收养一个男孩来帮忙料理格林·盖布尔斯的农活，可他们却得到了安妮，一个长有红发、雀斑且叽叽喳喳有说不完的话的女孩。她是个富于爱心的孩子。但她的麻烦却总是不断！先是林德太太的来访，然后是给教区牧师妻子的蛋糕，还有她的红头发……经过在学校的争吵，她还会理睬吉尔伯特·布莱思吗？

 Old Man Coyote is full of tricks. People with such clever wits as his usually are full of tricks. On the other hand Bowser the Hound isn't tricky at all. He just goes straight ahead with the thing he has to do and does it in the most earnest way. Not being tricky himself, he sometimes forgets to watch out for tricks in others.

50年代，托尔斯泰在高加索入伍期间开始了文学创作。处女作《童年》（1852）通过对小主人公伊尔倩耶夫的单纯而又富有诗意的内心世界的细致入微的描摹，出色地表现了一个出身贵族家庭的、聪颖、敏感、感情热烈，并爱作自我分析的儿童的精神成长过程。它与后来作家写就的《少年》和《青年》构成了自传三部曲。并因此托尔斯泰被图格涅夫发现了他的才华，之后成为响誉世界的大作家。 　　列夫·托尔斯泰著作的《幼年》描述了　一八XX年八月十二日……也就是我过十岁生日，得到那么珍奇的礼品以后的第三天，早晨七点钟，卡尔·伊凡内奇用棍子上绑着糖纸做地蝇拍就在我的头上面打苍蝇，把我惊醒了。他打得那么笨，不但碰着了挂在柞木床架上的我的守护神的圣像，而且让死苍蝇一直落到我的脑袋上。我从被子下面伸出鼻子，用手扶稳还在摇摆的圣像，把那只死苍蝇扔到地板上，用虽然睡意惺论、却含着怒意的眼光看了卡尔·伊凡内奇一眼。他呢，身上穿着花布棉袍，腰里束着同样料子做的腰带，头上戴着红毛线织的带缨小圆帽，脚上穿着山羊皮靴，继续顺着墙边走来走去，瞅准苍蝇，啪啪地打着。

It is quite probable that there are moments in a woman's life when she does become more deadly than the male. The probability is one which no man of age and experience will lack instance for making a fact. Without seeking to become profound in the matter I will say this: it is but lightly as compared with a man that one need scratch a woman to come on the natural creature.