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She had not meant to stay for the service. The door had stood invitingly open and a glimpse of the interior had suggested to her the idea that it would make good copy. ¿Old London Churches: Their Social and Historical Associations.¿ It would be easy to collect anecdotes of the famous people who had attended them. (Excerpt)

"A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" is Jules Verne's classic science fiction adventure about Professor Liedenbrock and his nephew Axel who discover an ancient document written by an Icelandic adventurer who went to the center of the earth many years before. Being the ever-ardent discoverer and scientist, Professor Liedenbrock immediately sets off to Iceland, taking Axel along with him. Together with their guide, Hans, they enter the weird and wonderful world deep beneath the surface of the earth. They have to endure many dangers along the way, frequently threatening to bring their journey to an abrupt end and leave them to die in a place where no one will ever find them. Will the three adventurers be able to survive all the perils of this concealed world and live to tell their tale?　　此篇为凡尔纳的代表作之一，《地心游记》讲述李登布罗克教授在一本古老的书籍里偶然得到了一张羊皮纸，发现前人曾到地心旅行，李登布罗克教授决心也作同样的旅行。他和侄子从汉堡出发，到冰岛请一位向导，他们按照前人的指引，由冰岛的一个火山口下降，途中历尽艰险和种种奇观，经历迷路、缺水、史前生物等种种险情，也得到了地下海、史前人骨骸等惊世的发现，经过三个月的旅行，最后回到了地面。

美国小说家马克·吐温1876年发表的长篇小说。小说的时代在南北战争前，写的虽是圣彼得堡小镇，但该镇某种程度上可以说是当时美国社会的缩影。小说通过主人公的冒险经历，对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗、伪善的宗教仪式和刻板陈腐的学校教育进行了讽刺和批判，以欢快的笔调描写了少年儿童自由活泼的心灵。2020年4月，列入《教育部基础教育课程教材发展中心 中小学生阅读指导目录（2020年版）》。内容简介：19世纪上半世纪美国密西西比河畔的一个普通小镇。汤姆天真活泼、敢于探险、追求自由，不堪忍受束缚个性、枯燥乏味的生活，幻想干一番英雄事业。小说的时代在南北战争前，写的虽是圣彼得堡小镇，但该镇某种程度上可以说是当时美国社会的缩影。小说通过主人公的冒险经历，对美国虚伪庸俗的社会习俗、伪善的宗教仪式和刻板陈腐的学校教育进行了讽刺和批判，以欢快的笔调描写了少年儿童自由活泼的心灵。

With the death of Black Michael of Strelsau and the restoration of King Rudolf to the throne, the troubles of Ruritania may seem to be at an end. But lasting peace cannot be secure when the notorious Rupert of Hentzau is still at large. Until now he has dared not set foot in the kingdom, but the incentives to return are impossible for Hentzau to resist - Ruritania remains under threat from this devious enemy. And trouble of a different kind exists in the hearts of Princess Flavia, now Queen; her husband, the tortured King; and the man she truly loves, Rudolph Rassendyll.

公认通俗小说中的典范。这部小说出版后，很快就赢得了广大读者的青睐，被翻译成几十种文字出版，在法国和美国多次被拍成电影。它仍在世界各国流传不衰，被公认为世界通俗小说中的扛鼎之作。内容简介：19世纪法国皇帝拿破仑“百日王朝”时期，法老号大副爱德蒙·唐泰斯受船长委托，为拿破仑党人送了一封信，遭到两个卑鄙小人和法官的陷害，被打入黑牢。期间狱友法利亚神甫向他传授各种知识，并在临终前把埋于基督山岛上的一批宝藏的秘密告诉了他。被陷害入狱十四年后，唐泰斯越狱后找到了宝藏，成为巨富，从此化名基督山伯爵（水手辛巴德、布索尼神父、威尔莫勋爵），经过精心策划，报答了恩人，惩罚了仇人。该小说以基督山扬善惩恶、报恩复仇为故事发展的中心线索，主要情节跌宕起伏，迂回曲折，从中又演化出若干次要情节，小插曲紧凑精彩，却不喧宾夺主，情节离奇却不违反生活真实。全书出色地运用了“悬念”、“突发”、“发现”、“戏剧”等手法，在叙述上有较大的叙述密度和复杂的人物关系。这一切使这部小说充满了叙述的张力，洋溢着叙述本身所产生的美。因此，《基督山伯爵》被公认为通俗小说的典范。

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to animals. The political and theological implications were intensely debated, but transmutation was not accepted by the scientific mainstream. The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication. As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T.H. Huxley and his fellow members of the X Club to secularise science by promoting scientific naturalism. Within two decades there was widespread scientific agreement that evolution, with a branching pattern of common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the significance that Darwin thought appropriate. During the "eclipse of Darwinism" from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit. With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, now the unifying concept of the life sciences.

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.  He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.

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。

公认的美国名著，100多年以来，一直受到热烈的欢迎。美国图书协会、美国教育协会两会代表选入100种乡村小学的必备书，其中精选25种，《小妇人》列居25种的榜首，世界上已有数十种不同语言的译本，20世纪30年代此书也风靡了中国大陆。内容简介：美国内战期间，马奇先生远赴战场做了随军牧师，四个女儿和母亲在家里过着清苦却坚强乐观的生活。她们虽贫穷却乐意帮助比她们更需要帮助的邻居赫梅尔一家。女人都有着虚荣心，她们希望得到漂亮的衣服，吃到可口的食物，过着如公主一样的生活。尽管充满幻想，但在现实生活中，她们一直在凭借自己的努力来解决生活中的种种艰难困苦。大女儿梅格生性爱美，对恋爱充满憧憬；二女儿乔独立自主，矢志成为作家；三女儿贝丝则是传统乖乖女，柔弱而惹人怜爱；小女儿艾米则钟爱绘画。故事追随这四位女性由女孩成长为小女人的岁月，讲述了她们不羁的爱情经历及她们各自追寻不同理想与归宿的过程。