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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. 　　老卡拉马佐夫贪婪好色，独占妻子留给儿子们的遗产，并与长子德米特里为一个风流女子争风吃醋。一天黑夜，德米特里疑心自己的情人去跟老头儿幽会，便闯入家园，一怒之下，差点把老头儿砸死。他仓皇逃离后，躲在暗中装病的老卡拉马佐夫的私生子斯乜尔加科夫悄然杀死老爷，造成了一桩震惊全俄的扑朔迷离的血案，从而引发一连串惊心动魄的事件。作品展示了错综复杂的社会、家庭矛盾和人性悲剧，体现了作家一生的最高艺术成就。

克拉克第一部堪称经典的科幻小说。小说开始的场面，即外星人的太空飞船突然降临人类各大主要城市，曾先后被多部影视剧所借鉴，位列“永恒经典”（All-time Best）排行榜第三位，其深远影响可见一斑。内容简介：外星人来到地球，给人类带来了高度发达的文明。最初的全球恐慌之后，人类欣喜地接受了来自外星文明的厚赠。战争消失了、瘟疫消失了，人类历史上的一切灾难都不复存在。但是，人类的社会、国家、民族等诸般价值观念也被彻底颠覆。几个世纪之后，人类已经和过去截然不同。他们已经不再是过去意义上的“人类”。是福是祸？外星人的目的何在？人类这一物种是否已经走到尽头？人类也许仍将延续。但是，它的童年时代一去不复返了！

《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。

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859–1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'. The story is considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. The use of multiple narratives draws on Collins's legal training and as he points out in his Preamble: 'the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness'.