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Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and M'liss, helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. Contents: Maruja; the stories from Drift From Two Shores and By Shore and Sedge; and Thankful Blossom. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

An anchor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an instrument wrought into perfection by ages of experience, a flawless thing for its purpose. An anchor of yesterday (because nowadays there are contrivances like mushrooms and things like claws, of no particular expression or shape - just hooks) - an anchor of yesterday is in its way a most efficient instrument.

忘记白天的浮躁和喧嚣，静心阅读，感受世间苦乐悲喜，提升人生高度。以浅显的语言表达着人间真情；以至深的情感述说着五彩人生；在每一个角落把真情的火炬点燃；让每一缕清香在尘世间流传；让真情在心灵的碰撞中凝固成永恒。

1913年10月，哈代的最后一部短篇小说集《浪子回头与其它故事》出版。

一个风雪的夜晚，父亲被抓走，鲍比—家的安宁被这突如其来的打击破坏了。母亲带着三个孩子离开伦敦，来到约克夏郡的乡下。母亲整日为家里的生活操劳，鲍比、菲力斯和彼得三个孩子整日在铁道旁玩耍。母亲不幸病倒，三个孩子向一个过路的老绅士求助。老绅士帮他们治好了母亲的病，安排好他们的生活。三个孩子非常感谢这位善良的老人，他们在铁道上做了很多的好事，包括救了一列火车，抢救摔断腿的男孩，后来得知，这个男孩就是老绅士的孙子。老绅士帮忙奔走，孩子们的父亲获得保释，全家团圆。

一场反教会的革命席卷了墨西哥，波及到了偏远的南方小州。当地教区的神父们被迫害致死，只剩下了最后一名神父过着逃亡的生活。在逃亡的过程中，他接触到了不同的事物和人，心灵上受到强烈的冲击。最后，他也没有逃脱死亡的厄运，但此时，另一名神父又踏上了这片土地。

One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest. From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'" In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic.

《太阳照常升起》是美国作家海明威于1926年出版的长篇小说。作者藉此成为“迷惘的一代”的代言人，并以此书开创了海明威式的独特文风。 小说以1924年至1925年这一历史时段和名城巴黎为背景，围绕一群在感情或爱情上遭受过严重创伤或者在战争中落下了严重心理或生理机能障碍的英美男女青年放浪形骸的生活以及发生在他们之间的情感纠葛而展开，反映了这代人意识觉醒后却又感到无路可走的痛苦、悲哀的心境。

这是一部从个人经验角度观照宗教作用的著作。作者对皈依、悔改、神秘主义等宗教经验进行探讨，并以伏尔泰、惠特曼、爱默生、路德等思想家的宗教经验为例。虽然讨论的是严肃的宗教哲学命题，但书中和和分析了大量的个体传记资料，叙述生动，情节跌宕，充满了小说的趣味。