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The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in autumn 1910; the book was first published in its entirety in 1911. Its working title was Mistress Mary, in reference to the English nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of children's literature.

"And so," the story writers used to say, "they lived happily ever after." Um-m-m -- maybe. After the glamour had worn off, and the glass slippers were worn out, did the Prince never find Cinderella's manner redolent of the kitchen hearth; and was it never necessary that he remind her to be more careful of her fingernails and grammar? After Puss in Boots had won wealth and a wife for his young master did not that gentleman often fume with chagrin because the neighbors, perhaps, refused to call on the lady of the former poor miller's son? It is a great risk to take with one's book-children. These stories make no such promises. They stop just short of the phrase of the old story writers, and end truthfully, thus: And so they lived. * This volume includes "The Frog and the Puddle," "The Man Who Came Back," "What She Wore," "A Bush League Hero," "The Kitchen Side of the Door," "One of the Old Girls," "Maymeys from Cuba," "The Leading Lady," "That Home-Town Feeling," "The Homely Heroine," "Sun Dried," and "Where the Car Turns at 18th."

由于还没有亲眼目睹多瓦悠人最重要的习俗「割礼」，作者再次走进多瓦悠人部落。当作者奈吉尔·巴利进入北喀麦隆丛林，读者便跟着这位欧汉南（Redmond O'Hanlon，《泰晤士报》自然史编辑，知名探险文学作家）誉为「最具可读性的人类学家」深入一趟最有趣、最具启发性的旅程。

What can Uncle Quentin be up to - all alone - on Kirrin Island. He won't let anyone visit - not even George and the rest of the Famous Five. But Quentin isn't really all alone on the island - somebody is watching his every move!

Axel Heyst, a disenchanted Swede, becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay archipelago. When that fails, he turns his back on humanity until, once again, he is drawn into contact with the world by a girl whom he rescues and bears off to his island retreat.

故事从一座孤零零的村舍的敲门声说起。屋内灯光明亮、气氛欢快，人们伴随着音乐翩翩起舞，玩得很开心。屋外大雨滂沱，顺着山间小路走来的陌生人凝视着灯火通明的窗户。他是该继续赶路，还是停下来歇歇、坐在温暖的炉火边吃点东西呢？一个又一个陌生人的来到，会给牧羊人的生活带来什么改变呢？

Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. All in all, it gives the reader an interesting insight into the everyday lives of working class Londoners at the turn of the century.

又译《指环王》，是英国作家、牛津大学教授约翰·罗纳德·瑞尔·托尔金创作的长篇奇幻小说。该书是《霍比特人》的续作，被公认为近代奇幻文学的鼻祖。经过十二年的创作和四年的修改，《魔戒》于1954年至1955年出版。已被翻译成六十多种语言，并衍生出插画、音乐、电影、电视剧、广播剧和电脑游戏等产品。内容简介：比尔博·巴金斯是100多岁的霍比特人，住在故乡夏尔，生性喜欢冒险，在年轻时的一次探险经历中，他从怪物咕噜手中得到了至尊魔戒，这枚戒指是黑暗魔君索伦打造的至尊魔戒，拥有奴役世界的邪恶力量，能够统领其他几枚力量之戒，在3000年前的人类联盟和半兽人大军的战役中，联盟取得了胜利，并得到了至尊魔戒，数千年的辗转后，魔戒落到咕噜手中，被比尔博碰巧得到。因为和魔戒的朝夕相处，比尔博的心性也受到了影响，在他111岁的生日宴会上，他决定把一切都留给侄子佛罗多，继续冒险。

一个刚刚离婚、整天酗酒的伦敦女人蕾切尔（Rachel），她每天早上坐火车都会经过一对夫妻的房子，那对夫妻看上去十分完美，直到有一天蕾切尔发现妻子不见了，蕾切尔怀疑她被人害了，于是开始沉迷于对此事的调查。