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This collection includes: THE WITCH, PEASANT WIVES, THE POST, THE NEW VILLA, DREAMS, THE PIPE, AGAFYA, AT CHRISTMAS TIME, GUSEV, THE STUDENT, IN THE RAVINE, THE HUNTSMAN, HAPPINESS, A MALEFACTOR, and PEASANTS. According to Wikipedia: "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860 – 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife," he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov’s last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text." Chekhov had at first written stories only for the money, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story. His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, later adopted by James Joyce and other modernists, combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure He made no apologies for the difficulties this posed to readers, insisting that the role of an artist was to ask questions, not to answer them."

讲述的是第7部《哈利波特与死亡圣器》19年后的故事。身为“大难不死的男孩”哈利·波特一直生活的很艰难。如今他是三个孩子的父亲、一个超负荷的魔法部职员、一个已婚男人，日子过得并不轻松，与小儿子阿不思的紧张的父子关系尤其令他头痛。最近，魔法部收缴了一个新的时间转换器，怪事自此接连不断。先是阿不思和好友一起失踪，接着哈利的伤疤又痛了起来……哈利和他们的朋友再一次陷入危机，他们勇敢的面对挑战，找寻那个隐藏于黑暗之中的真相。

读者能看到一个表面漠然中立的叙事者背后的模糊性和矛盾性：作为帝国叙事的一分子，作者的面纱之下隐藏着东方主义的政治文化观；作为一个关注人性的个体作家，他的面纱之下隐藏着他对爱的怀疑和渴求、对人性的嘲讽和宽容。2005年，该小说被改编成同名电影。内容简介：故事发生在英国的殖民地香港和中国内陆一个叫“湄潭府”的地方。女主人公凯蒂·费恩因为和香港助理布政司查理通奸，被丈夫瓦尔特（香港政府的细菌学家）发现后胁迫她去了霍乱横行的湄潭府，最终瓦尔特不幸染病死去，凯蒂回到香港，重投查理怀抱后羞愧不已，最终回到英国和父亲和解，并和父亲同往巴哈马群岛生活。从《面纱》一书中，读者能看到一个表面漠然中立的叙事者背后的模糊性和矛盾性：作为帝国叙事的一分子，作者的面纱之下隐藏着东方主义的政治文化观；作为一个关注人性的个体作家，他的面纱之下隐藏着他对爱的怀疑和渴求、对人性的嘲讽和宽容。

Chapter 1 – The Majestic Hotel No seaside town in the south of England is, I think, as attractive as St Loo. It is well named the Queen of Watering Places and reminds one forcibly of the Riviera. The Cornish coast is to my mind every bit as fascinating as that of the south of France. 第一章　美琪旅馆 我觉得，英国南部没有哪个滨海小镇有圣卢那么令人流连忘返，因此，人们称它为“水城皇后”真是再恰当也没有了。到了这里，游客便会自然而然地想起维埃拉。在我的印象里，康沃尔郡的海岸正像法国南方的海滨一样迷人。

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media. This 32,000 word story is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. Wells also introduced the idea of time being the "fourth dimension", as well as an early example of the Dying Earth subgenre.

Don/Donald Robert Perry Marquis (1878-1937) was an American humourist, journalist, and author. He was variously a novelist, poet, cartoonist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is best remembered for creating the characters "Archy" and "Mehitabel", supposed authors of humourous verse. Marquis joined The Evening Sun in 1912 and edited for the next eleven years a daily column "The Sun Dial". In 1922 he left The Evening Sun (shortened to The Sun in 1920) for the New York Tribune (renamed the New York Herald Tribune in 1924), where his daily column, "The Tower" (later "The Lantern") was a great success. He drew cartoons for The New Yorker, and contributed regular columns to the New York Sun and the Saturday Evening Post. Marquis was the author of about 35 books. His works include: Danny's Own Story (1912), Dreams and Dust (1915), The Cruise of the Jasper B (1916), Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers (1916), Prefaces (1919), Carter and Other People (1921), The Old Soak, and Hail & Farewell (1921), Noah An' Jonah An' Cap'n John Smith (1921) and Poems and Portraits (1922).

Aboard a plane, a woman dies in her seat, apparently the victim of a wasp sting. Then, a venom-tipped dart from a South American blowgun is found in the aisle. Everyone is suspect, including Hercule Poirot, who was sitting a mere fifteen feet from the victim. Poirot finds closer ties between some of the passengers on the plane than they would admit, but who could have wanted the woman dead? He must find the real murderer and the truth of the case, if only to clear his own name. Read by Hugh Fraser.

本书是美国儿童文学协会（CLA）评选的“十部美国最伟大的儿童文学作品”之一，也是美国全国教育协会（NEA）推荐的“最佳童书”之一。是美国儿童文学史上20世纪的第一部受到赞赏的童话，从出版一直行销至今。内容简介：多萝西·盖尔对她在埃姆姨妈和亨利叔叔的堪萨斯农场的生活感到不满，打算出走。这时，却被一场龙卷风刮到了一个陌生而神奇的国度——奥兹国，并迷失了回家的路。在那里，她陆续结识了没脑子的稻草人、没爱心的铁皮人和胆小的狮子，他们为了实现各自的心愿，互相帮助，携手协作，历尽艰险，遇到许多稀奇古怪的事情。最终，他们凭借自己非凡的智能和顽强的毅力，都如愿以偿地完成自己的心愿。