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在金融危机中失去了所有财富的艾瑞克，四处流浪的他经历一群暴徒的抢劫，他们抢走了他最后的金钱，同时也带走了他身上所有人性美好的部分。艾瑞克决定反抗，他冒死追踪这帮暴徒，并得到了其中一位受伤的暴徒雷伊的帮助。

斯克罗吉积攒了很多钱，然而他却不舍得为职员的炉火加一块儿煤，他的侄子好意的邀请他参加圣诞夜的晚会，他却认为侄子是为了占他的便宜而推辞，社会活动者请他为穷人施舍一点圣诞的饭菜，也被他无情地断然拒绝。他晚上回到了家，夜幕里他看见了三个幽灵，这真的是幽灵？还是他的幻像？然而，幽灵的出现却使他发生了天翻地覆的变化。

"Star Hunter" tells the story of a man who thinks with another's brain as he is pursued in a dangerous game of hide and seek. This adventure story captures the reader's attention from the very first sentences. "Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl. Ras Hume paused at the border of scented spike-flowers on the top terrace of the Pleasure House to wonder why he thought of serpents. He understood. Mankind's age-old hatred, brought from his native planet to the distant stars, was evil symbolized by a coil in a twisted, belly-path across the ground. And on Nahuatl, as well as a dozen other worlds, Wass was the serpent."

特普洛擅长描写观察人生百态，这本小说描写了人性中的荣誉、腐败、正直、与贪婪，点出了十九世纪末期社会剧烈的变动中，人心道德也随之摇摆的局面。英国首席编剧Andrew Davis亲自操刀(他的作品包括了傲慢与偏见、爱玛、锦绣佳人)，将这部讽刺小说做了最佳的詮释。 故事由暴发户Melmotte带著家人从欧陆回到伦敦开始说起，这个在欧陆大发横财的家庭在伦敦的社交圈中引起了议论纷纷，贵族们对这样一个粗俗但又富可敌国的人不知道该奉承还是鄙视。年轻又风流的菲力一开始就打定主意追求Melmotte的千金玛丽，他需要玛丽雄厚的嫁妆支付赌债，菲力的妹妹爱上了美国回来的工程师保罗，但是一名由美国追来伦敦的神秘女子，似乎透露了保罗有一段不为人知的过去，这一些形形色色的人物构成的一幅社会的缩影。

The yachtsmen found the manuscript afloat at sea in a corroded copper cylinder. The manuscript itself told an incredible tale -- a tale of strange adventures in a place beyond contemporary imagination. . . .

黑骏马的一生是维多利亚时期各种马的缩影，当过人们的坐骑，在乡间拉过货车，还在伦敦拉过出租马车。小时候，妈妈就告诉他：马一生命运的好坏全得靠运气，遇上好的主人就是他的福气，遇上虐待自己的主人就只好自认倒霉。长大后，黑骏马遇到过好人，也遇到过虐待他的人。他先是被卖给善待马的戈登老爷当坐骑；后来又被卖给了W伯爵，那可恶的勒马缰绳成为他最讨厌的东西，也是所有马儿的不幸；拉货车不仅消耗大量的体力，还要受赶车人的鞭打；拉出租马车时，因为人们错误的驾车方式，受尽折磨。最后，黑骏马终于找到了一个善待自己的家，可以安度晚年。

Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author Edith Nesbit, first published in 1902; it was expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts. It is the first of a trilogy.

Fourth Book of the John Carter of Mars Series John Carter of Helium has rescued Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, from the Therns and now Carthoris, John Carter's son, has fallen in love with her. But Thuvia is stolen away by Astok, Prince of Dusar, Ptarth's rival. Carthoris tracks Thuvia across Barsoom and rescues her only to find she is already betrothed to Kulan Tith, Jeddak of Kaol, an ally of Helium. "Thuvia, Maid of Mars" was first published as "Carthoris" in All-Story Weekly (April 8, 15, 22, 1916). The first hardcover edition was published by A.C. McClurg & Co., October 30, 1920. The original edition was bound in an olive green cloth with black lettering on the spine and front. The dust jacket, in color was by J. Allen St. John. Ten illustrations were done by J. Allen St. John. The text of this edition is from the 1920 A.C. McClurg edition. The front cover picture of this edition is a restored copy of the front of the original dust jacket. All the original interior illustrations are reproduced in this edition.

美国作家斯蒂芬妮·梅尔写的系列小说。作品获得纽约时报主编精选、出版者周刊 “年度最佳好书”、亚马逊网站 “最近十年来最佳好书”、美国图书馆协会“十大青少年优良读物”及“十大最佳丛书”等荣誉。内容简介：贝拉是一个与众不同的女孩，她不爱慕虚荣，不会像其他女孩一样追求时髦，也不愿伪装自己刻意去和合不来的同学搞好关系。因为母亲再婚的缘故，贝拉搬去和父亲同住。在新学校里，贝拉遇到了一个名叫爱德华的男孩，他跟贝拉遇见过的所有人都不一样，不仅英俊、聪明、幽默，而且跟贝拉非常有共同点--同样孤独。两人很快就陷入了爱河。然而爱德华的真实身份其实是一个吸血鬼，爱德华和贝拉能有情人终成眷属吗？