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《安娜·卡列尼娜》是俄国著名作家列夫·托尔斯泰的代表作品。本书通过女主人公安娜的追求爱情悲剧，和列文在农村面临危机而进行的改革与探索这两条线索，描绘了俄国从莫斯科到外省乡村广阔而丰富多彩的图景，先后描写了150多个人物，是一部社会百科全书式的作品。 贵族妇女安娜追求爱情幸福，却在卡列宁的虚伪、渥伦斯基的冷漠和自私面前碰得头破血流，最终落得卧轨自杀、陈尸车站的下场。庄园主莱温反对土地私有制，抵制资本主义制度，同情贫苦农民，却又无法摆脱贵族习气而陷入无法解脱的矛盾之中。矛盾的时期、矛盾的制度、矛盾的人物、矛盾的心理，使全书在矛盾的漩涡中颠簸。这部小说是新旧交替时期紧张惶恐的俄国社会的写照。

This book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope ofinteresting all classes of readers. 　　His life has often been written, and it has sometimes been well written. 　　The great book of our countryman, Washington Irving, is a noble model ofdiligent work given to a very difficult subject. And I think every personwho has dealt with the life of Columbus since Irving's time, has expressedhis gratitude and respect for the author.

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed in Florence, Italy; it could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. (A private edition was issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929).[1] The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an aristocratic woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of (at the time) unprintable words. The story is said to have originated from events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Eastwood in Nottinghamshire where he grew up. According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tiger", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story.[2] Lawrence at one time considered calling the novel Tenderness and made significant alterations to the text and story in the process of its composition. It has been published in three different versions.

首次发表便震惊了法国文坛，它奠定了莫泊桑在法国文学史上的地位。严师福楼拜也称之为杰作。从此，莫泊桑“像流星一样进入文坛”。内容简介：普法战争时，法国的一群贵族、政客、商人、修女等高贵者，和一个叫作羊脂球的妓女，同乘一辆马车逃离普军占区，在一关卡受阻。普鲁士军官要求同羊脂球过夜，遭到羊脂球拒绝，高贵者们也深表气愤。但马车被扣留后，高贵者们竟施展各种伎俩迫使羊脂球就范，而羊脂球最终得到的却是高贵者们的轻蔑。小说反衬鲜明，悬念迭生，引人入胜，写出了法国各阶层在占领者面前的不同态度，揭露了贵族资产阶级的自私、虚伪和无耻，赞扬了羊脂球的牺牲精神。

《沉默的证人》1937年于英国首次发行，以著名比利时侦探赫尔克里·波洛和他的朋友阿瑟·黑斯廷斯上尉为主人公。在这部小说中，阿加莎·克里斯蒂没有用笔墨去描写凶杀的场面，也没有编造离奇的故事情节。故事开门见山地告诉读者小绿房子的女主人阿伦德尔小姐去世了，她竟然立遗嘱把全部财产留给了她的随身侍女劳森小姐，惹得小镇上的人们议论纷纷。阿伦德尔小姐死前曾秘密给波洛写了一封奇怪的信，波洛和他的助手黑斯廷斯上尉来到了这个小镇，进行了一系列紧张而细致的调查工作，终于侦破了这起十分复杂的谋杀案。

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The Door in the Wall, written by legendary author H.G. Wells is widely considered to be one of the greatest books of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Door in the Wall is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by H.G. Wells is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, The Door in the Wall would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a novel by G. K. Chesterton, first published in 1908. The book is sometimes referred to as a metaphysical thriller. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the thirty-second volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1971. Although it deals with anarchists, the novel is not an exploration or rebuttal of anarchist thought; Chesterton's ad hoc construction of "Philosophical Anarchism" is distinguished from ordinary anarchism and is referred to several times not so much as a rebellion against government but as a rebellion against God. The novel has been described as "one of the hidden hinges of twentieth-century writing, the place where, before our eyes, the nonsense-fantastical tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear pivots and becomes the nightmare-fantastical tradition of Kafka and Borges."

The Turn of the Screw, first published in serial format in 1898, is the chilling tale of a young woman who accepts a job as governess—that is, as teacher—of two lovely young children who seem to be haunted by the spirits of a former governess and her lover, both now dead. David Gorman’s introduction is designed to help first-time readers of the tale by providing a brief historical backdrop to this tale of a haunted house and by laying out the central critical controversy that surrounds it: whether this ghost story is not about ghosts at all, or rather a probing of the psyche of a narrator who madly imagines that two ghosts threaten her young charges.　　《螺丝在拧紧》是一部描写心理的恐怖小说，它的作者是美国十九世纪的作家亨利·詹姆斯。 　　一些批评家把它归入幻想文学、恐怖文学或哥特式小说。实际上它还是一部心理剧，讲述女主人公意识经受考验的过程。女主人公作为家庭女教师受雇去一个庄园照顾小孩子迈尔斯和弗罗拉。这位女教师在她任职期间，感到她的前任和庄园男仆的鬼魂时常在庄园显现，同时她又想从迈尔斯、弗罗拉和女管家格罗斯太太那里证实自己看到的并非幻像。这些鬼魂有意伤害庄园里的孩子们，使他们变得狡黠，女主人公的营救过程变得更加复杂。