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An anchor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an instrument wrought into perfection by ages of experience, a flawless thing for its purpose. An anchor of yesterday (because nowadays there are contrivances like mushrooms and things like claws, of no particular expression or shape - just hooks) - an anchor of yesterday is in its way a most efficient instrument.

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Join Allan as he searches for rare orchids in Africa and finds something more!

Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

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。

小说讲述了上个世纪60年代美国南部三个普通女人试图改变她们的生活与世界。1962年的密西西比，距离奥巴马当选总统还有47个年头，那时候白人男子至高无上，女性最体面的工作是当家庭主妇，黑人女性一律是佣人。大部分人从一出生开始，人生轨迹就已经注定。作品刻画了艾碧莲、明尼、雯三个人物形象：两个黑人女佣，一个大学刚毕业、涉世未深的白人小姐，在温暖人性的聚拢和激励下，以匿名写作的方式讨论身份和差异的问题，表达人类最基本的对梦想与平等的渴求，激起了巨大的社会反响。毫无疑问，在冲突不断、社会动荡的危险年代，这是一条披荆斩棘的救赎之路，更是一场恐惧与勇气之战。谁也不曾想到，这微不足道的轻轻一振，竟如一只热带蝴蝶般在社会上掀起了一场强猛的“黑色变革旋风”。 《相助》是凯瑟琳·斯多克特的第一本小说。作者在书的后记中透露，她仅仅是因为对自己小时候的黑人女佣德米特的怀念才想到写这本小说，“我敢肯定的是，我家从未有人问过德米特里，作为密西西比的一个黑人，为白人家干活是什么感受。我们从没想过要问，这只是我们寻常生活的一部分，没人认为有必要去研究。多年来我都希望自己当时已经心智成熟，能问问德米特里一些问题。可她去世时，我只十六岁。我常揣想她会如何回答，这就是我写这本书的由来。”

《心血运动论》这本书是由英国伟大的生理学家和胚胎学家威廉· 哈维(William Harvey)于1628年公开发表的。这本书的出版震惊了当时的医学界和生理学界，它的观点从根本上推翻了统治人们头脑上千年的关于心脏运动和血液运行的经典观点，提出血液是循环运行的，心脏有节律的持续搏动是促使血液在全身循环流动的动力源泉。

The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. “Live by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.” -Natty Bumppo, The Deerslayer One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo’s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time. Set in the 1740’s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppo—known as Deerslayer—and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutter’s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tom’s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them. One of the earliest novels to be considered truly “American," The Deerslayer is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance.   Bruce L. R. Smith is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.