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美国作家马克·吐温创作的短篇小说，描写的是湖滨镇萨拉丁·福斯特一家意外得知远房族叔留下三万元遗产之后的故事。一场巧妙构思的疯狂梦境展示了人性在金钱面前的脆弱。通过一场一夜暴富的发财梦，展现了美国“镀金时代”经济的缩影，也生动展现了美国民众对于金钱的狂热追求，故事中对人性中虚伪、贪婪的无情揭露更是犀利而富有内涵。内容简介：湖滨镇萨拉丁·福斯特一家意外得到远方族叔的三万元遗产。在这之前，一家人相处和睦，省吃俭用，过着不算富裕但很充实的生活。但到了得到遗产之后，一家人总想着这笔钱。他们想着该怎么花，怎么用这笔钱去赚钱。经过一系列的折腾，最终他们被这笔钱所累，精神都有些失常，家庭关系不再和睦。就像萨利在最后时刻说的那样：“飞来的不义之财是圈套，对我们没有好处啊！”

《无期徒刑》是一部关于英国澳大利亚流放犯的经典长篇小说,作者是澳大利亚殖民时期重要作家马库斯·克拉克,该作品自问世以来在国际上引起了广泛的关注。本文从存在主义理论角度解读本篇小说,探索了作品中英国流放犯在澳大利亚的真实生活境遇。二战以前,澳大利亚人认为有着罪犯祖先是他们的污点,在《无期徒刑》中克拉克无情地抨击了英国流犯制度的罪恶,为殖民时期英国流放犯的清白做了坚定的辩护。作者通过主人翁鲁弗斯的遭遇揭示了流放制度对人们心灵的摧残,再现了澳洲早期英国流放犯生活的真实境遇,具有深刻的社会现实意义。

英国威廉·萨默赛特·毛姆创作的长篇小说，首次出版于1915年。作品文字通俗简洁，含义深刻，可以说是一部呼唤人性全面彻底自由解放的宣言。内容简介：菲利普·凯里自幼父母双亡，不幸又先天残疾，在冷漠而陌生的环境中度过了童年，性格因此孤僻而敏感。在寄宿学校度过的岁月让他饱受了不合理的学校制度的摧残，而当他走入社会后，又在爱情上经历了伤痛。在坎坷的人生道路上，他每跨一步，都要付出艰辛的挣扎，但思想和个性都独立不羁的凯里，一直努力挣脱宗教和小市民意识这两条禁锢自己精神的桎梏，力图在混沌纷扰的生活漩流中，寻求人生的真谛。

“You’ll be entirely out of luck if you don’t lie right down and go to sleep!” Florence Huyler, her pal, exclaimed, making a significant gesture toward a sofa pillow which, as the little French girl had reason to know, was both heavy and hard. And Florence had muscle. Of late she had been developing herself. She had gone back to her old work as physical director in one of the many gymnasiums of this great city.

Short excerpt: Therefore when Mr. Henry Perkins the well-known impresario announced with an air of conscious pride and pardonable enthusiasm that he had secured Diotti for a 縧imited靠 number of concerts Perkins?friends assured that wide-awake gentleman that his foresight amounted to positive genius and they predicted an unparalleled success for his star.

Since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and your faith in circumstantial evidence dies of overcrowding. I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners' dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburgh, on the night of September ninth, last. McKnight could tell the story a great deal better than I, although he cannot spell three consecutive words correctly. But, while he has imagination and humor, he is lazy.

In case it may be supposed that the African episode in this book was suggested by recent events in the Transvaal, I desire to state that it was written four years before the Jameson raid occurred.  

The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.