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Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This third novel in Updike's Rabbit series finds Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, has reached a paunchy middle-age without straying from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the downtrodden, fictional city of his birth. Harry and Janice, his wife of twenty-two years, live comfortably, having inherited her late father's Toyota dealership. He is indeed rich, but Harry's persistent problems, including his wife's drinking, his troubled son's schemes, his libido, and spectres from his past, complicate life. Having achieved a lifestyle that would have embarrassed his working-class parents, Harry is not greedy, but neither is he ever quite satisfied. Harry nurses a crush on a country-club friend's young wife, dangerously seeking approval. Nevertheless he is unable to read the warning signs.

七大王国各方势力在首都君临城为掌控权力而进行的政治斗争。故事由伊耿历297年因国王之手琼恩·艾林公爵突然过世，七国之王劳勃·拜拉席恩不远千里亲自北上来到北境首府临冬城邀请挚友艾德·史塔克公爵出山开始。同时一封密信的到来，使得本无心参与南方政治的艾德不得不放弃和妻儿与世无争的生活，南下继任并调查前任首相艾林之死。然而嫌疑指向了出身七国首富豪族的王后瑟曦·兰尼斯特，同时太子乔佛里·拜拉席恩继承权的黑幕也渐渐浮出，最终引发了史塔克家族和兰尼斯特家族两方势力的对抗。为了帮助挚友劳勃国王，艾德被迫赌上身家性命投入这一场宫廷的漩涡中。与此同时，东方厄索斯大陆上的前朝坦格利安家族余脉为了重夺政权，和游牧民族多斯拉克部落联姻。

讲述城市坏男孩兰顿在遇到一名名叫杰米的女孩之后，逐渐被杰米的真诚、善良、纯洁和她对生活的热爱每天所感染，兰顿改变恶习，慢慢地厌倦了自己以前的那种生活，开始追求自己的理想和信仰，并经历一场刻骨的爱情。

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。

《蓝色列车之谜》(The Mystery of the Blue Train)，又译作：蓝色列车，蓝色特快上的秘密。 适时阿加莎·克里斯蒂正遭离异之痛，于悲痛麻木中创作此书，可惜此书口碑不佳。 被称为阿婆的四大名著之一。 当豪华的“蓝色列车”到达尼斯的时候，卧车管理员试图叫醒熟睡的鲁丝·凯特林。但她再也无法醒来了——因为她已经被谋杀，并且遭到了毁容，几乎难以辨认。 更有甚者，她珍贵的火心宝石不见了。主要的嫌疑对象是鲁丝的丈夫德里克。他与鲁丝已经分居多时，行同陌路。 然而波洛却不相信，于是他上演了一场奇怪的再乘蓝色列车之旅，并且还有凶手同行……

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。

“The English Dante of choice.” –Hugh Kenner “Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths.” –Robert Fagles, Princeton University “A marvel of fidelity to the original, of sobriety, and truly, of inspired poetry.” –Henri Peyre, Yale University

Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller, first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France. Its publication in 1961 in the United States by Grove Press led to an obscenity trial that was one of several that tested American laws on pornography in the 1960s. While famous for its frank and often graphic depictions of sex, the book is also widely regarded as an important masterpiece of 20th century literature. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Tropic of Cancer 50th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The novel included a preface credited to Anais Nin (although allegedly penned by Miller himself). The book was distributed by Frances Steloff at her Gotham Book Mart, in defiance of censorship pressures.

By the American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century. He is often identified as the first writer to develop a uniquely American literary style and vision, rather than following in the footsteps of his contemporaries who were strongly influenced by their British cultural heritage. He was considered one of the great orators of the time. His outspoken, uncompromising support for abolitionism later in life caused protest and jeers from crowds when he spoke on the subject. He formulated and first expressed the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his essay Nature (1836) which was the first significant work to establish this new way of looking at the Americas and its raw, natural environment. Emerson's Collected Essays: First (1841) and Second (1844) Series, including his seminal essays on History, Self-Reliance, Compensation, Spiritual Laws, Love, Friendship, Prudence, Heroism, The Over-soul, Circles, Intellect, and Art in the first and The Poet, Experience, Character, Manners, Gifts, Nature, Politics, and Nominalist and Realist in the second, is considered to be one of the 100 greatest books of all time.