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During the dire reign of the terrific Robespierre, and in the dead of night, braving the cold, the darkness and the damps of December, some English passengers, in a small vessel, were preparing to glide silently from the coast of France, when a voice of keen distress resounded from the shore, imploring, in the French language, pity and admission.

The Deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. “Live by your own council. Be brave in the face of the unknown. Be always fair.” -Natty Bumppo, The Deerslayer One of the greatest heroes in American literature, Natty Bumppo is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo’s life, depicting the character as a young man testing himself in the wilderness, and against enemies, for the first time. Set in the 1740’s just as the French and Indian wars have begun, the novel opens as Natty Bumppo—known as Deerslayer—and his friend Hurry Harry travel to Tom Hutter’s house in upstate New York. Hurry plans to marry Tom’s beautiful daughter Judith, while Deerslayer has come to help his close friend Chingachgook save his bride-to-be, Wah-ta-Wah, from the Huron Indians. When war breaks out, and Hurry and Tom are captured by Indians, Deerslayer must go on his first warpath to rescue them. One of the earliest novels to be considered truly “American," The Deerslayer is a masterpiece of suspense, adventure, and romance.   Bruce L. R. Smith is a fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and he continues to lecture widely in the United States and abroad.

主人公“我”是一位画家，一日有一对体面的夫妇上门造访——由于生计所迫，Mr. & Mrs. Monarch希望能做我的模特，他们自恃是“the real thing”，能比那些出身贫寒的模特们扮得好。“我”一时心软，竟答应了下来，可是后来的创作成果证明，这两位“绅士夫人”表情僵硬，模仿力差，永远只有一种僵硬的姿态，根本无法像那些普通模特一样生动活泼，画家其实早已意识到他们的缺点了—— the defect of the real one was so apt to be a lack of representation. “真东西”缺的正是表现力。虽然最后那两位不得不离开了，但对“我”在艺术上造成的伤害——据我的朋友Hawley称——是永久的。

Pozdnyshev and his wife have a turbulent relationship. When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children, men begin to flock around her, and he becomes increasingly jealous. Convinced his wife is betraying him with a young musician, his overpowering suspicion drives him to ever more dangerous lengths. United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...

       故事以主人公查尔斯的视角展开，描写了伦敦近郊布赖兹赫德庄园一个天主教家庭的生活和命运。这个家族老一代的马奇梅因侯爵在第一次世界大战期间去国外参加战争，战后没有回国，长期和他的意大利情妇在威尼斯同居。他的妻子马奇梅因夫人住在伦敦，夫妻不睦，按照天主教规定，夫妻不能离婚，事实上他们长期分居。 　　他们的长子布赖兹赫德是未来爵位和庄园的继承人（与庄园同名），却生性怪僻。而次子塞巴斯蒂安和故事叙述人查尔斯是牛津大学的同窗好友，一生经历坎坷，流落异国。大女儿朱莉娅和小女儿科迪莉娅的一生也跌宕起伏(电影未过多的讲述小女儿的经历)。影片通过这一家人的故事，反映了战后的英国状况，也可以说是西方一般知识分子的思想与遭遇。 　　庄园故事以第三者的角度开始讲述,以查尔斯与庄园主小儿子和大女儿的感情经过为主线,贯以宗教启示（特别是结尾处，老庄园主去世时的划十字手式）。

A British Mystery Classic! The Fu-Manchu books have enthralled audiences for nearly one hundred years. Sax Rohmer, creator of the legendary super-villain Dr. Fu Manchu, takes the reader on nine treks into the seedy underbelly of Chinatown with this fascinating collection of stories: "The Daughter of Huang Chow," "Kerry's Kid," "The Pigtail of Hi Wing Ho," "The House of Golden Joss," "The White Hat," "Tcheriapin," "The Dance of the Veils," "The Hand of the Mandarin Quong," "The Key of the Temple of Heaven." Go on an exciting journey to a place of mystery and intrigue, where Tong wars rage and insidious criminals plot world domination. A simply wonder book! Select it for your library today!

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable health resort with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805.

1926年纽约的魔法世界，危机四伏。某个神秘的力量在街头制造了一连串的破坏，并扬言要向反魔法师狂热组织第二塞勒姆揭露魔法社会的存在，并借他们的手斩草除根。而强大的黑魔法师盖勒特·格林德沃，在欧洲制造了浩劫后消声匿迹，没人能寻得其踪。魔法动物学家纽特·斯卡曼德抵达纽约时，对这日益严重的紧张气氛毫不知情。他即将结束对神奇魔法动物的研究和营救工作开展的环球之旅。在他看似其貌不扬的魔法皮箱里，其实保护着不少神奇魔法动物。但意外还是猝不及防地发生了，一个叫雅各布·科瓦尔斯基的麻鸡无意间放跑了几个纽特的神奇魔法动物，而此时的纽约魔法界正处于最为动荡不安的时刻，因严重违反保密法令被停职的前傲罗蒂娜·戈德斯坦恩一把抓住这个机会，想重回自己以前调查员的职位。但是，神秘莫测的美国魔法国会魔法安全部长帕西瓦尔·格雷夫斯却同时怀疑上纽特和蒂娜，事态突然变得凶险异常。自此，不得不合作的纽特和蒂娜，以及蒂娜的妹妹奎妮和他们的新麻瓜朋友雅各布，凑成了一支冒险小队，他们必须尽快找到走丢的神奇动物，以免它们遭受不测。然而，真正的危险，远比这四个上了通缉名单的局外人兼逃犯想象的要严重得多。他们与黑暗势力产生了正面冲突，魔法和麻鸡两界的战争可能因此一触即发。

It is no exaggeration to say that what Longfellow did for Acadia, Miss Montgomery has done for Prince Edward Island. More than a million readers, young people as well as their parents and uncles and aunts,