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本书是1910-1920出版的一套儿童系列丛书中的一本，讲述了两个男孩离家加入马戏团的故事。达灵顿先生用大师之笔，向我们描绘了马戏团生活的真实画面。

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Lunechien residents, including the simply named Elephant, Tweaty (a bird), Nibbles (a mouse) and two owls, seek the aid of the newly ascendant Ozma to defeat the monster. In the quest to overcome the spider, we meet an interesting array of Ozites: the Saber-Toothed Light Bulbs (just picture that), the marshmallow inhabitants of a marsh kingdom, and the warring Schnozzles and Stinkfeet (a very funny war between those that stink and those that have sensitive noses). The book is also laced with puns and wry humor as is traditional with the Oz books. For example, a tiger speculates that the spider's monstrous size may be attributable to "the humans' constant littering, or maybe a military experiment gone haywire". After a careful build-up, however, the primary conflict with the monster is resolved. In the process, Ozma is confronted with an interesting moral dilemma, on the caliber of her ethical decision not to battle her enemies in The Emerald City of Oz. Throughout this book we are taught through the m

《众生之路》，一部半自传体小说，作者塞缪尔.巴特勒写了十余年，死后一年才得到出版，颇受冷遇。 巴特勒，十九世纪的英国作家。 Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement," Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood satirizes Victorian hypocrisy in its chronicle of the life and loves of Ernest Pontifex. Along the way, it offers a powerful indictment of 19th-century England's major institutions.

The Idiot is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in Russkiy Vestnik between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of Russian literature. It was not published in English until the 20th century.

This volume contains several of Stevenson's early short fiction works from the period when he moved from writing essays to stories.

《安娜·卡列尼娜》是俄国著名作家列夫·托尔斯泰的代表作品。本书通过女主人公安娜的追求爱情悲剧，和列文在农村面临危机而进行的改革与探索这两条线索，描绘了俄国从莫斯科到外省乡村广阔而丰富多彩的图景，先后描写了150多个人物，是一部社会百科全书式的作品。 贵族妇女安娜追求爱情幸福，却在卡列宁的虚伪、渥伦斯基的冷漠和自私面前碰得头破血流，最终落得卧轨自杀、陈尸车站的下场。庄园主莱温反对土地私有制，抵制资本主义制度，同情贫苦农民，却又无法摆脱贵族习气而陷入无法解脱的矛盾之中。矛盾的时期、矛盾的制度、矛盾的人物、矛盾的心理，使全书在矛盾的漩涡中颠簸。这部小说是新旧交替时期紧张惶恐的俄国社会的写照。

海莲爱书，弗兰克是个严肃古板但很专业的书商，她要的各类离奇古怪的绝版旧书他都能找到，而且细心地为她留意不同版本。信任和欣赏很快建立。于是，海莲开始给书店的人邮寄整箱的鸡蛋和大块大块的火腿。那时候，英国处于重建时期，物资匮乏。海莲的善举获得了书店人和书店经理一家人的尊重。他们给她送了漂亮的手工桌布，那是弗兰克的邻居的作品。而书信往来也开始从海莲和弗兰克之间扩大到海莲和书店员工以及弗兰克一家人之间。通信频率不一致，有时候一个月好几封，有时候一年几封。对话内容从最初的找书扩展到相互发牢骚扯家常。书店后来甚至为海莲预先邮寄她想要但是暂时无力支付的书本。

特普洛擅长描写观察人生百态，这本小说描写了人性中的荣誉、腐败、正直、与贪婪，点出了十九世纪末期社会剧烈的变动中，人心道德也随之摇摆的局面。英国首席编剧Andrew Davis亲自操刀(他的作品包括了傲慢与偏见、爱玛、锦绣佳人)，将这部讽刺小说做了最佳的詮释。 故事由暴发户Melmotte带著家人从欧陆回到伦敦开始说起，这个在欧陆大发横财的家庭在伦敦的社交圈中引起了议论纷纷，贵族们对这样一个粗俗但又富可敌国的人不知道该奉承还是鄙视。年轻又风流的菲力一开始就打定主意追求Melmotte的千金玛丽，他需要玛丽雄厚的嫁妆支付赌债，菲力的妹妹爱上了美国回来的工程师保罗，但是一名由美国追来伦敦的神秘女子，似乎透露了保罗有一段不为人知的过去，这一些形形色色的人物构成的一幅社会的缩影。