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美国作家亨利·詹姆斯创作的中篇小说，首次发表于1898年。该书在118年间，被翻译成15种语言，畅销30多个国家。内容简介：一个年轻纯朴的姑娘应聘到一个大户人家担任家庭教师。开始时，一切都令她满意。她的学生，两个小姐弟天真烂漫，活泼可爱；乡下环境优美，空气清新。后来这种平静的生活突然被打破了，这种变化犹如一头猛兽一跃而起。不久之后就发生了一系列难解的事情：古堡寂静的走廊里传来神秘的脚步声；暮色中的塔楼顶上突然出现一个陌生男子；午夜时烛光摇曳，窗外鬼影幢幢；两个学生的行为变得越来越怪异，犹如幽灵附体。悬疑和紧张步步堆迭，如同螺丝拧得越来越紧。几周之后，在一个孤寂的傍晚，家庭女教师的幻象中出现了一个披肩长发的男人，头发酒红色，风度翩翩。格罗斯太太猜测女家教看到的鬼魂正是主人的前贴身男仆——彼德·昆特。他生前放荡不羁，形象极其丑陋，后来他的罪恶终于到了尽头，晚上喝醉酒从结冰的山坡上摔了下去，受了致命伤。紧接着，女教师的幻觉中又出现了一个身穿黑色丧服，神态沮丧，面色苍白的女鬼魂，格罗斯太太推断女鬼就是之前那位专门做家教的年轻女士，杰赛尔小姐。前女家庭教师深受彼德·昆特的引诱，与他坠入爱河，最终在离开庄园之后不久就去世了。家庭女教师觉得彼德·昆特和杰赛尔两个鬼魂出现在庄园的目的是侵蚀迈尔斯与弗洛拉的纯真心灵，占有他们的灵魂。所以女家教奋力与两个鬼魂做斗争，然而一次都没有成功。故事结尾，两个小姐弟一个发了疯，一个死在了女家教的怀中。

美丽的白雪公主、放鹅姑娘；可爱的小红帽、小精灵；充满危险的黑森林，风光绮丽的城堡……这些奇妙美丽的意境、曲折迷离的故事情节，一定会让你沉浸在故事里，久久难以忘怀。除此之外，这本小书中还有一些睿智隽永的民间故事，那些聪明机智、勇敢善良的劳动人民让人感觉那么的亲切。他们好像正透过书页告诉我们，如何分清善良和邪恶，如何与坏人斗智斗勇，如何保持一颗快乐的童心。

FIRST BRANCH—MYSELF，SECOND BRANCH—THE BOOTS，THIRD BRANCH—THE BILL

The Companions of Jehu were formed in the Lyon region of France in April 1795 to hunt down Jacobins implicated in the Reign of Terror. It is possible that they were founded by The Marquis de Besignan, who also founded royalist underground groups in Forez and Dauphiné with the Prince of Condé in 1796.

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911. Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature.

New Grub Street (1891), George Gissing's most highly regarded novel, is the story of men and women forced to make their living by writing. Their daily lives and broken dreams, made and marred by the rigors of urban life and the demands of the fledgling mass communications industry, are presented with vivid realism and unsentimental sympathy. Its telling juxtaposition of the writing careers of the clever and malicious Jaspar Milvain and the honest and struggling Edward Reardon quickly made New Grub Street into a classic work of late Victorian fiction.

In the old days, the happy days, when Wyoming was a Territory with a future instead of a State with a past, and the unfenced cattle grazed upon her ranges by prosperous thousands, young Lin McLean awaked early one morning in cow camp, and lay staring out of his blankets upon the world. He would be twenty-two this week. He was the youngest cow-puncher in camp. But because he could break wild horses, he was earning more dollars a month than any man there, except one. The cook was a more indispensable person. None save the cook was up, so far, this morning. Lin's brother punchers slept about him on the ground, some motionless, some shifting their prone heads to burrow deeper from the increasing day. The busy work of spring was over, that of the fall, or beef round-up, not yet come. It was mid-July, a lull for these hard-riding bachelors of the saddle, and many unspent dollars stood to Mr. McLean's credit on the ranch books.

Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding his gold. Meanwhile, Godfrey Cass, son of the squire, contracts a secret marriage. While the village celebrates Christmas and New Year, two apparently inexplicable events occur. Silas loses his gold and finds a child on his hearth. The imaginative control George Eliot displays as her narrative gradually reveals causes and connections has rarely been surpassed. This new edition, which is based on the carefully corrected text George Eliot prepared a few months after the first edition, is accompanied by an introduction which illuminates the intellectual context of what has often been presented as a nostalgic, sentimental tale.

你正置身于湖畔的一座古旧宅邸之中。时间是夜里，外面暴雨肆虐，狂风绕着灰色的石墙嘶吼。房子下面的一间阴森的地窖里放着一口棺材，里面躺着玛德琳小姐的尸体。同你一起待在房间里的是她的哥哥，正在用疯狂的目光望着你。想象一下吧！你这是在鄂榭府上。翻到另一页，可以见到一只黑猫被人勒住脖子吊在树上。再翻一页，你就会听到一次美妙绝伦的假面舞会上响起的音乐声，看见一千个人在唱歌、跳舞。你现在是在普洛斯佩罗亲王的城堡中。城堡里面灯火通明、生气勃勃，人人纵情狂欢；但是在城墙外面，逡巡着那可怕的载面具的红死魔！这些故事将会带你进入一个阴暗的幻想世界，一个充满了恐怖、梦幻与疯狂的世界。