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1913. From the play of Bayard Veiller. The book begins: The lids of the girl's eyes lifted slowly, and she stared at the panel of light in the wall. Just at the outset, the act of seeing made not the least impression on her numbed brain. For a long time she continued to regard the dim illumination in the wall with the same passive fixity of gaze. Apathy still lay upon her crushed spirit. In a vague way, she realized her own inertness, and rested in it gratefully, subtly fearful lest she again arouse to the the full horror of her plight. In a curious subconscious fashion, she was striving to hold on to this deadness of sensation, thus to win a little respite from the torture that had exhausted her soul.

Dame History is so austere a lady that if one, has been so ill-advised as to take a liberty with her, one should hasten to make amends by repentance and confession. 

博罗米尔被半兽人杀死之后，两个霍比特族人皮聘和梅利也被半兽人绑架，阿拉贡、莱格拉斯、金雳一路追踪半兽人，营救皮聘和梅利，遇到了“复活”的灰袍巫师甘道夫。此时，投降索伦的白袍巫师萨鲁曼控制了人类洛汗王国的王，并派出大量的半兽人军队，准备消灭人类。阿拉贡、莱格拉斯和金雳在甘道夫的带领下，帮助洛汗王国对抗邪恶力量的入侵。 幸运的皮聘和梅利被会说话的树人救了出来，并且遇到“复活”的甘道夫，在甘道夫的授意下，树人保护了两人的安全，并且带他们参加树人大会，大会上，树人们讨论对待中土大战的态度：是继续当中立者，逆来顺受，还是奋起反抗？ 身负重任的弗罗多和山姆继续向末日山前进，一路上被咕噜跟踪，弗罗多依靠至尊魔戒的力量，成为了咕噜的主人，在咕噜的带领下，他们到了末日山的入口黑门。就在他们准备进入之时，博罗米尔的弟弟法拉米尔出现，将他们带回了刚铎。弗罗多又遇上了新的危机：法拉米尔想利用至尊魔戒的力量对抗萨鲁曼的攻击。

 Mrs. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th–17th September—a Thursday. I was sent for at eight o’clock on the morning of Friday the 17th. 

故事发生在第一部结束后一年，总失忆的蓝唐王鱼多莉（Dory）跟小丑鱼父子成了邻居，生活上互相关照，相处融洽。有一天她随尼莫（Nemo）去上学，路上遇到了举家迁徙的蝠魟，勾起了她对家的向往。患上思乡病却不知道自己身世的多莉决定去寻找自己的父母。在小丑鱼尼莫和他的父亲马林（Marlin）的帮助下，她从澳大利亚大堡礁来到了美国加州海岸，却意外被海洋生物研究所捉走了。在那里，她遇到了很多新朋友，有章鱼、海狮、白鲸 。

"A tiny sound--perhaps the scrape of a boot on a ladder. Travis edged back into a compartment. A flash of light momentarily lighted the corridor; the approaching figure was using an electric torch. Travis drew his knife with one hand, reversed it so he could use the heavy hilt as a silencer. The other was hurrying now, on his way to investigate the burned-out engine cabin. Travis could hear the rasp of his fast breathing. Now!" ... Alien technology scavenged by U.S. and Russian scientists has started a race to colonize planets outside our solar system, but the U.S. scientists are losing the race. In a desperate move the U.S. government decides to use a group of Apache volunteers in an experimental attempt to colonize a primitive planet, but before they can even begin their spaceship crashes on the planet Topaz...

Written towards the end of the second century AD, "The Golden Ass" tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and Lucius is initiated into her cult. Apuleius' enchanting story has inspired generations of writers such as Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness and sheer exuberance, and remains the most continuously and accessibly amusing book to have survived from Classical antiquity.

Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans, beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot, as the 'cub' of an experienced pilot. He describes, with great affection, the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876, entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". In the second half, Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads, and the new, large cities, and adds his observations on greed, gullibility, tragedy, and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain, the book is said to have been the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript.

欧·亨利创作的短篇小说，讲述了一对穷困的年轻夫妇忍痛割爱互赠圣诞礼物的故事，反映了美国下层人民生活的艰难，赞美了主人公善良的心地和纯真爱情。内容简介：圣诞节的前一天,住在公寓里的贫穷的黛拉想给丈夫吉姆一个惊喜,可是她只有一元八角七,她知道这点钱根本不够买一件像样的的礼物,于是她把引以自豪的褐色瀑布似的秀发剪下来,卖了,换来了20美元。找遍了大大小小的商店,她花去21美元,终于买到一条朴素的白金表链,这可以配上吉姆的那块金表。而吉姆也想给老婆一个惊喜,他同样卖掉了祖传的一块金表，吉姆卖掉了他的金表为德拉买了一套“纯玳瑁做的，边上镶着珠宝”的梳子；黛拉卖掉了自己的长发为吉姆买了一条白金表链。他们都为对方舍弃了自己最宝贵的东西，而换来的礼物却因此变得毫无作用了。