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又名: The Garden of Evil 恶魔花园 "The Lair of the White Worm" is a fantastic, dream-like narrative whose only saving grace is that there's nothing else like it out there. The plot is a maze of myth and pseudo-gothic imagery that, while never the least bit convincing, is somehow irresistible.

巴西作家保罗·科埃略创作的长篇小说，自1988年出版后，便风靡全球，畅销160多个国家，登上20多个国家畅销榜第1名，荣获33项国际大奖，已经被翻译成68种语言，是当今在世作家作品中被翻译最多的小说。全球销量超过6500万册，是历史上最畅销的葡萄牙语小说。这部小说被誉为20世纪最重要的文学现象之一。内容简介：西班牙少年圣地亚哥十分喜欢旅行，于是去做了牧羊人。牧羊时，他遇见了撒冷王麦基洗德，他又放弃了羊群，去追寻他所梦见过两次的金字塔附近的宝藏。其间，他从西班牙最南端的台里发渡海，去了非洲。在北非摩洛哥的丹吉尔，他被小偷掠走钱财。后来他学会了阿拉伯文，他为一位永远把朝圣麦加放在心底而不去实现的水晶商人创造性地工作了十一个月又九天。之后他加入横越撒哈拉沙漠的商队，碰到了一位一心求教炼金术士的英国人。在住着炼金术士的费奥姆绿洲，圣地亚哥遇见少女法谛玛，与她一见钟情。商队因部落战争而停滞在绿洲。圣地亚哥预言军队会对绿洲实施突袭，预言应验了，他被聘为绿洲的参事，而炼金术士却催促圣地亚哥重新踏上寻宝之途。途中，圣地亚哥被军队所掳，炼金术士以圣地亚哥的钱财为自己赢得三天的时间，圣地亚哥若能将自己变成风就放了他们，圣地亚哥在沙漠、风与太阳的对话中，接触了天地之心，也如愿脱身。圣地亚哥到了吉萨，见识了金字塔的壮美，部族战争的难民又一次夺去他的金子。难民临走时，难民首领说了自己重复做过的一个梦：宝藏就在圣地亚哥曾经梦到金字塔的那座废弃教堂里。圣地亚哥回到来时路，在原来熟悉的牧羊处挖出宝藏，实现犒赏吉普赛人的诺言，最终与少女法谛玛终成眷属。

曼佐尼的长篇历史小说《约婚夫妇》,是意大利古典文学的瑰宝。在意大利,这部文学名著如同但丁《神曲》一样,家喻户晓,妇孺皆知,人民大众极为珍视和喜爱它。每一个受过初等教育的人,都曾在学校里琅琅吟诵过它的精彩篇章。

JANET [She comes forward. She holds forth her hands with a half- appealing, half-commanding gesture. She almost seems inspired.] Would it not be so much better if, in this first political contest between man and woman, the opponents were two people honouring one another, loving one another? Would it not show to all the world that man and woman may meet--contend in public life without anger, without scorn?

Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. All in all, it gives the reader an interesting insight into the everyday lives of working class Londoners at the turn of the century.

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony is the fifth book in the Artemis Fowl Series by Irish writer Eoin Colfer. The book, originally expected to be published in the UK and Ireland on September 7 2006, was shipped to stores early. On September 12 of the same year, The Lost Colony became available in the US, and was released soon to other countries. It is followed by Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox.

War and Peace , a Russian novel by Leo Tolstoy, is considered one of the most celebrated works of fiction.It is regarded, along with Anna Karenina (1873–1877), as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement. Epic in scale, War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events leading up to Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society, as seen through the eyes of five Russian aristocratic families.

《太阳照常升起》是美国作家海明威于1926年出版的长篇小说。作者藉此成为“迷惘的一代”的代言人，并以此书开创了海明威式的独特文风。 小说以1924年至1925年这一历史时段和名城巴黎为背景，围绕一群在感情或爱情上遭受过严重创伤或者在战争中落下了严重心理或生理机能障碍的英美男女青年放浪形骸的生活以及发生在他们之间的情感纠葛而展开，反映了这代人意识觉醒后却又感到无路可走的痛苦、悲哀的心境。