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女主人公游苔莎高傲、耽于空想，她嫁给在巴黎当过钻石商店经理的青年克林·姚伯，希望他带着自己离开荒原，但未能如愿。在发生了一连串误会和不幸事件后，她在黑夜出走，失足溺水身亡。而姚伯回乡想为乡里谋福利，却得不到人们谅解与支持，最后做了传教士。《还乡》以男主人公回归故乡为契机展开，但女主人公游苔莎却是作家着墨更多的人物。由于她对繁华世界梦寐以求、对爱情婚姻朝秦暮楚，因此被视为轻浮虚荣女子的典型。她美丽聪颖，富有艺术气质，特立独行，勇于冒险和追求，同时又深怀运蹇命乖、遇人不淑的忧思和哀怨，荒原人视她为女巫，姚伯太太称她为坏女人，连克林·姚伯也以局限的眼光褒贬她；她明艳夺目，像女神般尊贵超凡，与利他、克己、圣者型的姚伯相比，游苔莎是利己、享乐的，是一尊具有凡人七情六欲的异教女神。她有“现代人”的烦恼、叛逆与追求，有对未来向往、追求、困惑和希望的幻灭。《还乡》反映了工业资本侵入农村宗法制社会后产生的种种矛盾。

TRANSLATED BY C. W. BELL M. A. We are at the beginning of a new era which will, it is to be hoped, be marked by a general rapprochement between the nations. The need to know and understand one another is being felt more and more. It follows that the study of foreign languages will assume an ever- increasing importance; indeed, so far as language, literature, and music are concerned, one may safely assert that fas est et ab hoste doceri. All those who wish to make acquaintance with the speech of their neighbours, or who have allowed their former knowledge to grow rusty, will welcome this edition, which will enable them, independently of bulky dictionaries, to devote to language study the moments of leisure which offer themselves in the course of the day. The texts have been selected from the double point of view of their literary worth and of the usefulness of their vocabulary; in the translations, also, the endeavour has been to unite qualities of style with strict fidelity to the original.

Verse drama in five acts by Edmond Rostand, performed in 1897 and published the following year. Set in 17th-century Paris, the action revolves around the emotional problems of the noble, swashbuckling Cyrano, who, despite his many gifts, feels that no woman can ever love him because he has an enormous nose. Secretly in love with the lovely Roxane, Cyrano agrees to help his inarticulate rival, Christian, win her heart by allowing him to present Cyrano's love poems, speeches, and letters as his own work. Eventually Christian recognizes that Roxane loves him for Cyrano's qualities, not his own, and he asks Cyrano to confess his identity to Roxane; Christian then goes off to a battle that proves fatal. Cyrano remains silent about his own part in Roxane's courtship. As he is dying years later, he visits Roxane and recites one of the love letters. Roxane realizes that it is Cyrano she loves, and he dies content. Cyrano de Bergerac was based only nominally on the 17th-century nobleman of the same name, known for his bold adventures and large nose.

Anatole France (16 April 1844?2 October 1924), born Fran鏾is-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Acad閙ie fran鏰ise, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Glass Castle' is a 2005 memoir by Jeannette Walls. The book recounts her and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents. The memoir stayed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks and is now under development as a film by Paramount.By late 2007, The Glass Castle had sold over 1.5 million copies, had been translated into 16 languages, and received the Christopher Award, the American Library Association's Alex Award (2006) and the Books for Better Living Award.       

Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster, first published in 1910, which tells a story of class struggle in turn-of-the-century England. The main theme is the difficulties, troubles, and also the benefits of relationships between members of different social classes. Many critics, including Lionel Trilling, consider Howards End "undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece". In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Howards End 38th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

在霍格沃茨魔法学校学习一年之后，暑假开始了。哈利·波特在姨父姨妈家熬过痛苦的假期。正当他准备打点行装去学校时，家养小精灵多比前来发出警告：如果哈利返回霍格沃茨，灾难将会临头。多比为哈利重返霍格沃茨设置了很多障碍，但哈利和罗恩还是开着韦斯莱先生会飞的福特老爷车，义无反顾地回到了霍格沃茨。

Our old friend, John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and his beautiful wife, Dejah Thoris, appear again, but the story mainly concerns the adventures of Tara, Princess of Helium, daughter of the Warlord, among strange races in remote regions of the Red Planet. Among other astounding things we are shown the land of headless men, creatures with the power of detaching their heads from their bodies and replacing them at will. The title of the story comes from a grim and deadly war game, similar to chess, played on Mars with men and naked swords.

《我的生活》是海伦·凯勒的处女作。作品一发表；立即在美国引起了轰动，被称为“世界文学史上无与伦比的杰作”，出版的版本超过百余种，在世界上产生了巨大的影响。本书由海伦·凯勒的《我的生活》《走出黑暗》《老师》三本书以及发表在美国《大西洋月刊》上的著名散文《假如给我三天光明》编译而成，完整系统地介绍了海伦·凯勒丰富、生动、真实而伟大的一生，许多文字还是第一次与中国读者见面。