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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。

TO MY YOUNGEST SON GRENVILLE ARTHUR AND TO ALL OTHER GOOD LITTLE BOYS.Come read me my riddle, each good little man; If you cannot read it, no grown up folk can.  

The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, published in 1897 (United States, June; Great Britain, September of the same year), set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.

法国巴黎的奥古斯特·杜邦先生，他并非警官，也不是一个真正的侦探。他是一个性格温和酷爱书籍和阅读的年轻人。但是他聪明至极，理解能力高人一等。他对莫尔格街发生的可怕的凶杀案产生了浓厚的兴趣，因为它是一个未解之谜。是谁杀害了老太太和她的女儿？这场凶杀案为何如此粗暴凶残？凶手又是如何逃出房子的？有众多谜团，却没有谜底。“诀窍，”奥古斯特·杜邦说，“在于问恰当的问题。然后就可以找到谜底……”

The story contained herein was written by Charles Dickens in 1867. 

These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.