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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.

1:1 [hgb]  哈 迦 利 亚 的 儿 子 尼 希 米 的 言 语 如 下 。 亚 达 薛 西 王 二 十 年 基 斯 流 月 ， 我 在 书 珊 城 的 宫 中 。    [kjv]  The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,    [bbe]  The history of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. Now it came about, in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was in Shushan, the king's town,1:2 [hgb]  那 时 ， 有 我 一 个 弟 兄 哈 拿 尼 ， 同 着 几 个 人 从 犹 大 来 。 我 问 他 们 那 些 被 掳 归 回 ， 剩 下 逃 脱 的 犹 大 人 和 耶 路 撒 冷 的 光 景 。    [kjv]  That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.    [bbe]  That Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah; and in answer to my request for news of the Jews who had been prisoners and had got away, and of Jerusalem,

英国作家狄更斯于1838年出版的长篇写实小说。该书揭露许多当时的社会问题，如救济院、童工、以及帮派吸收青少年参与犯罪等。该书曾多次改编为电影、电视及舞台剧。内容简介：奥利弗9岁时，孤儿院管事把他送进工厂。奥利弗抽签成了大家的代表，提出因吃不饱而增加口粮的要求，工厂便不愿继续收留他。奥利弗被卖到棺材店老板家。他参加出殡行列，行为举止使老板很满意。但年长学徒故意侮辱他过世母亲的人格，他忍无可忍，拔拳搏斗。老板家将他锁了起来。他星夜出逃，一连步行了7天，到达伦敦。少年杰克·道金斯把他带到破烂的窝藏匪盗的窟。贼首弗根见奥利弗聪明伶俐，便要他和杰克们一起上街偷窃。杰克失手被发现，奥利弗被人误抓进警局。弗根听说他被抓，便和另一贼比尔商议，决定由比尔情人南茜出面领回他。奥利弗得到书店老板的证明并无罪释放。被窃人是伦敦富翁布朗洛，因冤枉奥利弗很感歉疚，见他可爱可怜，便将他领回家。奥利弗得到老人宠爱。比尔和情人南茜将去送书的奥利弗绑回贼窟。布朗洛从孤儿院管事班布尔那儿拿到侄女留下的项坠，确定奥利弗是他外孙。比尔逼迫奥利弗出去偷窃，南茜很同情他，为了救他出险，趁比尔出门，便暗中把消息告诉布朗洛，约好时间带着奥利弗再见。事情被偷窃未遂的比尔发现，将南茜打死。布朗洛发现南茜惨死，便报告警局，随同警察直捣贼窟。捉贼声势浩大，比尔被击毙，奥利弗死里逃生，被布朗洛领回，祖孙团聚。

John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended with The Sonnets, put into practice the techniques and theories that had evolved under the 'New Bibliography'. Remarkably by today's standards, although it took the best part of half a century to produce, the New Shakespeare involved only a small band of editors besides Dover Wilson himself. As the volumes took shape, many of Dover Wilson's textual methods acquired general acceptance and became an established part of later editorial practice, for example in the Arden and New Cambridge Shakespeares.

To Messrs. Harper & Bothers and Henry Mills Alden whose friendliness and fair dealing I am glad of this chance to record

《伊索寓言》原书名为《埃索波斯故事集成》，是古希腊民间流传的讽喻故事，经后人加工，成为现在流传的《伊索寓言》。《伊索寓言》是一部世界上最早的寓言故事集。同时，《伊索寓言》是世界文学史上流传最广的寓言故事之一。

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.  

奇迹！一部新人处女作，上市第一周即登上《纽约时报》畅销榜，至今已累计80周，仍高居Top1，全美销量破百万册， 比尔·盖茨年度荐书第一名。内容简介：这是一个与命运作斗争的故事。塔拉出生在美国爱达荷州的山区，家中包括她一共有七个人，她是全家最小的，家中的小孩子都没有去上学。有关部门也不知道他们的存在，甚至没有出生证明，就像是与社会脱轨的原始人一样。每天晚上父亲就会向孩子们朗读《圣经》，父亲固执地认为外面的世界是邪恶的，是险恶的。学校也是一个让世人堕落的地方，要是孩子在学校里接受教育还不知道会变成什么鬼样子呢！随着塔拉慢慢长大，她才意识到，原来父亲也不都是对的，社会没有他说的那么可怕，学校也不是让人堕落的地方。于是产生了一个想法：我也想去上学。后来的塔拉以优异的成绩去了剑桥，在剑桥下定决心的研究历史，懂得了更多，也获得了更多的自信。但是生活没有想象的这么美好，一直在塔拉心中的魔鬼出现了，她根深蒂固的记忆和现实开始冲突。

Poses the author: Will the world ever wake to the true character of these four-legged impostors and realize that instead of being disinterested and sincere most family pets are consummate hypocrites?