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Sax Rohmer was the pseudonym used by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward. Ward was a British novelist born in 1883. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr Fu Manchu. The evil Fu Manchu would disguise himself in order to have his victims destroy each other. Fu Manchu plotted against good and spent his time trying to out wit Scotland Yard. The series was extremely popular in the fist half of the 20th century. Besides the novels, there were comic strips, movies and a TV series. In this novel the Oriental villain Mr. King masterminds a plot to hold London's elite at his mercy. One person has died and other may soon follow. Two of Rohmer's great detectives, Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar are on the case. Can the cream of London's society be saved?

1578年艾汶河畔的斯特拉福镇。有位男孩坐在书桌旁专心地学习，他认真听课、拼命看书。可他在想些什么呢？1587年伦敦。一位年轻人首次到伦敦谋生。他听着闹、市的喧嚣声，看看伦敦塔雄伟的大墙，望着泰晤士河的淙淙流水。“静谧的泰晤士河，潺潺地流淌，直到我唱完心中的歌。”1601年伦敦。泰晤士河上的船夫对人群大声喊着：“快来，快来，快来呀！‘环球剧院’快挤满人啦！”2000多观众渡过河，前来观看莎士比亚的最新一部戏剧——《哈姆雷特》。

Cap'n Bill and Trot rode very comfortably in the sunbonnet. The motion was quite steady, for they weighed so little that the Ork flew without effort. Yet they were both somewhat nervous about their future fate and could not help wishing they were safe on land and their natural size again.

"Brokeback Mountain" is a short story by American author Annie Proulx. It was originally published in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997, and was subsequently published in a slightly expanded version in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The story won an O. Henry Award prize (third place) in 1998. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of Brokeback Mountain in 1998. The collection was named a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana adapted the story for the film of the same name, released in 2005. At that time, the short story and the screenplay were published together, along with essays by Proulx and the screenwriters, in Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay.  The story was also published separately in book form.

斯摩莱特的小说处女作《蓝登传》（1748）就是一部典型的流浪汉小说，它将一系列有趣的事件串联在一起，表现主人公寻找爱情与财富的经历。小说有很强的自传性，主人公蓝登出生于苏格兰的绅士家庭。因不堪其祖父的暴虐，蓝登的父亲在他很小便离家出走。在没有父爱的环境成人后，蓝登带上一名侍从到伦敦谋生。经过努力，他获得医师资格，当上助理海军医生，在海上经历过种种磨难，一度沦为奴仆并爱上主人的侄女。由于爱情无望，他返回伦敦，因债务缠身被关进监狱。后来，叔父将他救出，两人一起四处流浪，在西班牙遇见早年离家出走现已身为富豪的父亲。蓝登从此过上衣食无忧的绅士生活。 Roderick is the boisterous and unprincipled hero who answers life's many misfortunes with a sledgehammer. Left penniless, he leaves his native Scotland for London and on the way meets Strap, an old schoolfellow. Together they undergo many adventures at the hands of scoundrels and rogues. Roderick qualifies as a surgeon's mate and is pressed as a common soldier on board the man-of-war Thunder. In a tale of romance as well as adventure, Roderick also finds time to fall in love.

英国作家C·S·刘易斯创作的一套儿童游历冒险系列小说，作品于1950-1956年间出版。其最大的特点是将神话奇幻巧妙地融入其中；同时它还是一部将种种神话元素、基督教思想和现代精神融为一体的魔幻小说。赢得了英国儿童文学的最高荣誉“卡内基文学奖”。该系列作品自20世纪50年代问世以来，销售近一亿册，已成为现代文学的经典。内容简介：佩文西家四个兄弟姐妹彼得、苏珊、爱德蒙和露茜在一位老教授家做客，无意中发现衣橱后隐藏着一个神奇的魔法王国。这里的居民有羊怪、海狸、矮人、树精，但在阿斯兰离开纳尼亚期间，这个国家被一个邪恶的白女巫占领。她压迫纳尼亚的居民，将其置于永恒的冬季之中。羊怪曾冒着生命危险救过露茜，海狸一家也帮助他们兄妹逃脱白女巫的追杀。爱德蒙曾受白女巫土耳其软糖的诱惑，一度背叛过自己的兄妹。 后来，阿斯兰伴随着圣诞老人来到纳尼亚，带领大家战胜了女巫。四个孩子成为纳尼亚的国王与女王。多年后，他们在打猎时无意中穿过衣橱，重新以孩子的身份回到自己的世界。

《在路上》主人公萨尔为了追求个性，与迪安、玛丽卢等几个年轻男女沿途搭车或开车，几次横越美国大陆，最终到了墨西哥，一路上他们狂喝滥饮，高谈东方禅宗，走累了就挡道拦车，夜宿村落，从纽约游荡到旧金山，最后作鸟兽散。同时，书中体现了作者主张的即兴式自发性写作技巧--思绪的自然流动，反情节，大量使用俚语、俗语、不合语法规范的长句，并广泛涉及美国社会及文化习俗；另一方面，书中又展现了美国辽阔大地上的山川、平原、沙漠、城镇……

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on October 26th 1922. The novel centers, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective]. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed as a void in place of the central character, if indeed the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms. Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel. Jacob is described to us, but in such indirect terms that it would seem better to view him as an amalgamation of the different perceptions of the characters and narrator. He does not exist as a concrete reality, but rather as a collection of memories and sensations.

Contents PART ONE. THE WARRIOR I. THE LOVE OF ANTELOPE II. THE MADNESS OF BALD EAGLE III. THE SINGING SPIRIT IV. THE FAMINE V. THE CHIEF SOLDIER VI. THE WHITE MAN'S ERRAND VII. THE GRAVE OF THE DOG PART TWO. THE WOMAN I. WINONA, THE WOMAN-CHILD II. WINONA, THE CHILD-WOMAN III. SNANA'S FAWNIV. SHE-WHO-HAS-A-SOUL V. THE PEACE-MAKER VI. BLUE SKY VII. THE FAITHFULNESS OF LONG EARS VIII. THE WAR MAIDEN GLOSSARY