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James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. . . At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH, and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . . .

马克·吐温一生写了大量作品，题材涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等各方面。从内容上说，他的作品批判了不合理现象或人性的丑恶之处，表达了这位当过排字工人和水手的作家强烈的正义感和对普通人民的关心；从风格上说，专家们和一般读者都认为，幽默和讽刺是他的写作特点。

In this 1912 novel, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) draws inspiration from her own life to tell the story of a gifted woman caught between her public ambition and her private desire. 

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford evening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his ship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. What could they do if they were there? The surgeon has his round of thirty miles, and sleeps at Cranford; but every man cannot be a surgeon. For keeping the trim gardens full of choice flowers without a weed to speck them; for frightening away little boys who look wistfully at the said flowers through the railings; for rushing out at the geese that occasionally venture in to the gardens if the gates are left open; for deciding all questions of literature and politics without troubling themselves with unnecessary reasons or arguments; for obtaining clear and correct knowledge of everybody's affairs in the parish; for keeping their neat maid-servants in admirable order; for kindness (somewhat dictatorial) to the poor, and real tender good offices to each other whenever they are in distress, the ladies of Cranford are quite sufficient. "A man," as one of them observed to me once, "is SO in the way in the house!" Although the ladies of Cranford know all each other's proceedings, they are exceedingly indifferent to each other's opinions. Indeed, as each has her own individuality, not to say eccentricity, pretty strongly developed, nothing is so easy as verbal retaliation; but, somehow, good-will reigns among them to a considerable degree.

Peter Pan, the book based on J. M. Barrie's famous play, is filled with unforgettable characters: Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up; the fairy, Tinker Bell; the evil pirate, Captain Hook; and the three children-Wendy, John, and Michael-who fly off with Peter Pan to Neverland, where they meet Indians and pirates and a crocodile that ticks. Renowned children's-book artist Michael Hague has brought the amazing adventures of Peter Pan to life. His beautiful illustrations capture the wild, seductive power of this classic book. This newly designed edition will be enjoyed by fans young and old alike.　　小飞侠彼德·潘可以说是迪斯尼的头号偶像，他是迪斯尼最早出现的帅哥型人物，也是家喻户晓的动画人物。更了不起的是，他是所有迪斯尼的动画人物出现在续集里却不会变老的，只因为他永远住在梦幻中“永无乡”。成长的代价是失去了幼年的时期的纯真，然而，彼德·潘就是一位永远捍卫纯真的小飞侠。小飞侠的故事可以说是全世界的儿童都耳熟能详的一个童话，彼德潘更是孩子们心目中英雄的偶像。其中最精彩的部分当属小飞侠与虎克船长势不两立的对抗。这个故事甚至吸引了大导演斯皮尔伯格，小飞侠是大导演斯皮尔伯格惟一选择改编成真人演出电影的童话故事。 　　 小飞侠彼得·潘来自孩子们梦境中的国度“梦幻岛”，他具有所有小男孩共有的特点：害怕上学，热衷冒险，纯洁无邪，勇敢无畏…… 　　 一天夜里，彼得·潘飞进达林先生家，把温迪、约翰和迈克尔带到了“梦幻岛”。那里既有凶猛的动物，又有原始部落的“红人”；既有可怕的强盗，又有温柔的小仙子和美人鱼……孩子们在那里过着无忧无虑而又惊险刺激的生活。一天，几个孩子被凶狠狡诈的海盗头子铁钩船长抓走，他要让他们走跳板淹死。紧急时刻，小飞侠彼得·潘挺身而出，率领孩子们和铁钩船长展开了殊死搏斗…… 　　 后来，回到家中的孩子们渐渐长大，温迪也做了母亲，所有发生过的故事都渐渐被淡忘，他们甚至不相信这些都是真的。不过这一切并没有结束。一个春天的夜晚，那个长着一口乳牙的小飞侠又飞回来了……

《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 SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR was issued in 1875. Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales; but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the tragedy, the mystery, and the suffering possible to the sea.

Pudd'nhead Wilson is an ironic novel by Mark Twain. It was serialized in The Century Magazine (1893-4), before being published as a novel in 1894.

农民出身的杜洛伊胆大妄为，冷酷残忍，凭借漂亮外表独闯巴黎，厮混于巴黎贵夫人的圈内，如鱼得水，演出了一幕幕荒淫的闹剧。而那些戴着绿帽子的丈夫们却争相举荐、提挈他，使他很快步入上流社会，成了一个政治暴发户。小说揭示了上流社会的空虚、荒淫、堕落，展现了资产阶级政客的厚颜无耻，揭露了政治界、新闻界黑暗的内幕，对黑暗的社会现实进行了有力地批判。这部小说在世界上有着十分深广的影响，具有很强的现实意义。