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是不是所有的自行车轮胎都一样？有多少种不同的自行车轮胎？当有人骑过松软潮湿的地面，轮胎会在地面上留下车辙，但是有一只轮胎会留下更深的车辙。这是前轮的轮胎还是后轮的轮胎？当公爵的儿子被从赫克斯特伯博士的学校绑架的时候，了解这些问题的答案意义重大。歇洛克·福尔摩斯和他的老朋友华生大夫花了数小时查看低峡谷沼泽里的泥土。他们发现了自行车轮胎的车辙、羊和牛的蹄印。他们还发现了一具尸体。现在有了更多的问题，而且华生大夫认为不可能找到答案。“得啦，得啦，华生，”福尔摩斯说，“每个秘密都有它的答案。”但是甚至连歇洛克·福尔摩斯对这起神秘事件的答案也大感意外。

When freshman Trixie Stone accuses her ex-boyfriend Jason Underhill of raping her, everyone is quick to take his side when he claims their intercourse was consensual. Trixie's parents, Daniel, a mild mannered comic book artist from a harsh background, and Laura, a college professor sleeping with one of her students, become involved, and Jason, whose life is supposedly ruined, leaps from a bridge. Although first presumed to be suicide, Trixie is suspected of pushing him, and so she flees to the Yup'ik region of Alaska where her father grew up, and Daniel and Laura follow. At the end of the book, Laura confesses to Daniel that she was there when Jason died. Jason (who was drunk) came lunging at her because he thought she was Trixie. Laura pushed him off the bridge but he held on. Laura reached to his hand but then let go, thus revealing that Trixie is innocent but shows Laura is not. The book concludes with the final chapter of Daniel's comic showing a father reunited with his daughter after saving her from hell. The main plot and subplots are juxtaposed throughout the book with Daniel's latest comic, The Tenth Circle, which parallels Daniel's life.

From No.1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes a love story that explores the deepest mysteries of all - those of the heart. True Believer As a science journalist with a regular column in Scientific American, Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural and has a real nose for the strange and unusual. A born skeptic, he travels to the small town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, determined to find the real cause behind the ghostly apparitions that appear in the town cemetery. What he doesn't plan on, however, is meeting and falling hopelessly in love with Lexie Darnell, granddaughter of the town psychic. Now, if the young lovers are to have any kind of future at all, Jeremy must make a difficult choice: return to the life he knows, or do something he could never do before - take a giant leap of faith.

性格鲁莽倔强的亨查德年轻时曾经在酒后犯了大错，将妻女卖给了一个水手。若干年后他当了卡斯特桥市长，他的妻女突然出现，一家人团圆，此后他还找到了一个能干的苏格兰人做助手。然而他性格上的弱点再一次击垮了他。他一步步落魄，直至众叛亲离，凄凉死去。 作者借故事的各种阴差阳错和戏剧性冲突，抒发了“性格即命运”和“幸福不过是一段偶然的插曲”的感叹！ 这是写社会转型时期男人奋斗、立业、成家的书。古老市镇中心传统的集会场所，变成了熙攘喧闹的粮畜交易市场，卖出买进的价格、盈亏利益的计算是人们关注的焦点；男女主要人物之间虽然也有复杂的感情包括恋情、友情、亲情婚姻纠葛，但是几乎没有哈代小说中常见的男欢女爱、温情脉脉的浪漫情调；而哈代在描绘剖析纠葛于这些复杂关系中的其他人物时所达到的裸露、尖刻，则充分显示了这位写实大家讥刺、讽喻的才能。亨察德的失败与陨落和法夫瑞的成功与升腾，不仅仅是人物一性格较量的结果，而且是审时度势，讲究理性、科学和实际的商品经济时代精神对墨守成规，感情用事以及带有骑士精神色彩的古老传统精神和家长制生活生产方式的取代。哈代看透这一不以人的好恶和意志为转移的客观演变，为以亨察德所代表的人及时代奏出了一曲挽歌。有所谓这是一部具有《俄狄普斯王》或《李尔王》式的悲剧性的作品，这似乎应该是指它所达到的艺术效果而言。正像古希腊哲人亚里士多德对悲剧效果的界定那样，它引发人的怜悯与忧惧之情——引人怜悯，是由于一个并非“性恶”的人遭受了本不应遭受的厄运；引人忧惧，是由于这个遭受厄运的人和我们相似。细读亨察德的故事，我们也会发现，哈代的这位主人公的艺术形象具有多么深厚的来自古希腊的文化渊源。 在哈代的十四部长篇小说中，《卡斯特桥市长》既体现了哈代创作一贯的风格，又独创了别具一格的艺术特色，由此也显现了一位大艺术家与平庸的多产作家本质的不同。至于这部小说的内容，不论是在历史的和现实的社会认知方面，它至今都有鲜活的意义。

英国现代作家、诺贝尔文学奖获得者威廉·戈尔丁创作的长篇小说，也是其代表作。作者将抽象的哲理命题具体化，让读者通过阅读引人入胜的故事和激动人心的争斗场面来加以体悟，人物、场景、故事、意象等都深具象征意义。《蝇王》是一本重要的哲理小说，借小孩的天真来探讨人性的恶这一严肃主题。内容简介：故事发生于未来第三次世界大战中的一场核战争中，一群六岁至十二岁的儿童在撤退途中因飞机失事被困在一座荒岛上，起先尚能和睦相处，后来由于恶的本性的膨胀起来，便互相残杀。孩子们分为两帮，分别以拉尔夫和杰克为首。为了争夺对小社会的统治支配权，建立可以发号施令的权威，两派开始明争暗斗。在随之而来的斗争较量中，拉尔夫和猪崽子一方被杰克和罗杰一方打得大败。失去了文明世界的理性和秩序，没有了纲纪规则，没有了互助合作，这群孩子完全堕落成一群嗜血的“野兽”。

“Metropolis” is the prophetic science-fiction novel that inspired Fritz Lang’s iconic silent-movie masterpiece. A magical, visionary page-turner so rich and inventive as to defy description, Thea von Harbou’s “Metropolis” is one science-fiction classic everyone should experience. “Metropolis” paints a stunning picture of the city of the future. At the top of the social pyramid, those who own the city’s buildings and businesses live idyllic lives devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; while at its bottom are the workers who live a hellish existence, laboring like robots in its factories, dwelling with their gaunt, stunted children in the everlasting gloom of underground barracks. Fighting to right these inequities are two lovers: Freder, son of the master and builder of Metropolis, who is shocked to social conscience when he glimpses the squalor and hopelessness amid which his father’s workers live; and Maria, who encourages the workers to stand united for their rights while following a path of non-violent resistance. Filled with unforgettable images from Joh Fredersen’s headquarters, the New Tower of Babel, rearing high above the gleaming spires of Metropolis to the pleasure city, Yoshiwara, whose name flares across the skies to the factories where workers slave before machines that resemble a pantheon of the world's gods to the evil robotrix, Parody, with the eyes of a Madonna and lips of deadly sin, whose carnal dance inspires the workers to revolt. “Metropolis” — an unforgettable, must-read book.

Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, domineering father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared to Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships. James was hardly a great admirer of Jane Austen, so he might not have regarded the comparison as flattering. In fact, James was not a great fan of Washington Square itself. He tried to read it over for inclusion in the New York Edition of his fiction (1907–1909) but found that he couldn't, and the novel was not included. Other readers, though, have sufficiently enjoyed the book to make it one of the more popular works of the Jamesian canon.

A Historical Fiction Classic! In this thrilling sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Robespierre's revolutionaries find their evil plots repeatedly thwarted by the cunning and heroic Pimpernel. It's the early days of the French Republic, and the dastardly terrorist, Monsieur Chauvelin, has devised a wicked plot to eliminate the Pimpernel and his beautiful wife, Marguerite, once and for all. Lured to France, where an entire town is being held hostage, they walk into a trap! Expect more swashbuckling adventures in this exciting sequel! Select it for your library today!