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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。

美国女作家弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特创作的儿童文学作品。它是近百年来畅销不衰的经典儿童小说，多次被改编成影视作品，并在中国有多个图书版本。内容简介：庄园的主人克莱文先生在爱妻过世之后，变得阴郁古怪、消沉遁世，掩埋了花园的钥匙，十年不曾允许任何人出人花园，想借此阻断对亡妻的思念。他每次见到长着和妈妈一样漂亮面容的儿子柯林，都会引起更大的悲伤，于是他选择逃避，终年在外漂泊。霍乱中父母双亡的玛丽一夜之间变成孤儿，被从印度送往英国约克郡克莱文姑父的庄园生活，她从小性情乖戾，这个陌生的环境更使她倍感孤独落寞，她讨厌所有的人，当然也不知道自己被人不喜欢。她在知更鸟的指引下找到了尘封已久的秘密花园的钥匙。秘密花园里一片萧瑟。

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.

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...

Siddhartha's life takes him on a journey toward enlightenment. Afire with youthful idealism, the Brahmin joins a group of ascetics, fasting and living without possessions. Meeting Gotama the Buddha, he comes to feel this is not the right path, though he also declines joining the Buddha's followers. He reenters the world, hoping to learn of his own nature, but instead slips gradually into hedonism and materialism. Surfeited and disgusted, he flees from his possessions to become a ferryman's apprentice, learning what lessons he can from the river itself. Herman Hesse's 1922 Bildungsroman parallels the life of Buddha and seems to argue that lessons of this sort cannot be taught but come from one's own struggle to find truth. Noted actor Derek Jacobi interprets this material wonderfully, and the package, despite abridging a Nobel prize winner's prose, can be highly recommended.AJohn Hiett, Iowa City P.L. 　　古印度贵族青年悉达多英俊聪慧，拥有人们羡慕的一切。为了追求心灵的安宁，他孤身一人展开了求道之旅。他在舍卫城聆听佛陀乔答摩宣讲教义，在繁华的大城中结识了名妓伽摩拉，并成为一名富商。心灵与肉体的享受达到顶峰，却让他对自己厌倦、鄙弃到极点。在与伽摩拉最后一次欢爱之后，他抛弃了自己所有世俗的一切，来到那河边，想结束自己的生命。在那最绝望的一刹那，他突然听到了生命之河永恒的声音……经过几乎一生的追求，悉达多终于体验到万事万物的圆融统一，所有生命的不可摧毁的本性，并最终将自我融入了瞬间的永恒之中。

作品描写了布恩迪亚家族七代人的传奇故事，以及加勒比海沿岸小镇马孔多的百年兴衰，反映了拉丁美洲一个世纪以来风云变幻的历史。作品融入神话传说、民间故事、宗教典故等神秘因素，巧妙地糅合了现实与虚幻，展现出一个瑰丽的想象世界，成为20世纪最重要的经典文学巨著之一。

The House on Mango Street is a coming-of-age novel by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros, published in 1984. It deals with a young Latina girl, Esperanza Cordero, growing up in a Chicago ghetto full of Chicanos and Puerto Ricans. Esperanza is determined to "say goodbye" to her impoverished Latino neighborhood. Not all readers may be able to identify with Esperanza's world in which everyone in the large family sleeps in one room, men prey on young girls, and husbands and fathers mistreat their children.[1] Major themes include her quest for a better life and the importance of her promise to come back for "the ones I left behind."

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?

博罗米尔被半兽人杀死之后，两个霍比特族人皮聘和梅利也被半兽人绑架，阿拉贡、莱格拉斯、金雳一路追踪半兽人，营救皮聘和梅利，遇到了“复活”的灰袍巫师甘道夫。此时，投降索伦的白袍巫师萨鲁曼控制了人类洛汗王国的王，并派出大量的半兽人军队，准备消灭人类。阿拉贡、莱格拉斯和金雳在甘道夫的带领下，帮助洛汗王国对抗邪恶力量的入侵。 幸运的皮聘和梅利被会说话的树人救了出来，并且遇到“复活”的甘道夫，在甘道夫的授意下，树人保护了两人的安全，并且带他们参加树人大会，大会上，树人们讨论对待中土大战的态度：是继续当中立者，逆来顺受，还是奋起反抗？ 身负重任的弗罗多和山姆继续向末日山前进，一路上被咕噜跟踪，弗罗多依靠至尊魔戒的力量，成为了咕噜的主人，在咕噜的带领下，他们到了末日山的入口黑门。就在他们准备进入之时，博罗米尔的弟弟法拉米尔出现，将他们带回了刚铎。弗罗多又遇上了新的危机：法拉米尔想利用至尊魔戒的力量对抗萨鲁曼的攻击。