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经典科幻小说， 讲述七个来自不同星球、拥有不同背景、为了不同目的的朝圣者，踏上前往光阴冢的朝圣之旅，寻求与各自生命有关的答案。被改编成电影。

1:1 [hgb]  保 罗 ， 西 拉 ， 提 摩 太 ， 写 信 给 帖 撒 罗 尼 迦 在 父 神 和 主 耶 稣 基 督 里 的 教 会 。 愿 恩 惠 平 安 归 与 你 们 。      [kjv]  Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.     [bbe]  Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. 1:2 [hgb]  我 们 为 你 们 众 人 常 常 感 谢 神 ， 祷 告 的 时 候 提 到 你 们 。      [kjv]  We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;     [bbe]  We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;

一个农庄的动物不堪人类主人的压迫，在猪的带领下起来反抗，赶走了农庄主，牲畜们实现了“当家作主”的愿望，农场更名为“动物庄园”，奉行“所有动物一律平等”。之后，两只处于领导地位的猪为了权力而互相倾轧，胜利者一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸。此后，获取了领导权的猪拥有了越来越大的权力，成为新的特权阶级；动物们稍有不满，便会招致血腥的清洗：农庄的理想被修正为“有的动物较之其他动物更为平等”，动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。

A short excerpt: None of the family had seen Emilia since her wandering mother had taken her abroad, a fascinating spoiled child of four, and they were all eager to see in how many ways the succeeding twelve years had completed or corrected the spoiling?

Is all our Life, then but a dream.Seen faintly in the goldern gleam.Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?

"Brokeback Mountain" is a short story by American author Annie Proulx. It was originally published in The New Yorker on October 13, 1997, and was subsequently published in a slightly expanded version in Proulx's 1999 collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. The story won an O. Henry Award prize (third place) in 1998. The New Yorker won the National Magazine Award for Fiction for its publication of Brokeback Mountain in 1998. The collection was named a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana adapted the story for the film of the same name, released in 2005. At that time, the short story and the screenplay were published together, along with essays by Proulx and the screenwriters, in Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay.  The story was also published separately in book form.

17世纪的时候，英格兰有许多人相信巫术。巫师可能是一个老太婆，或是一个年轻女子，有时甚至会是一个成年男子或小男孩。不过，巫师通常都是女人。人们都害怕巫师，因为巫师仅凭一句诅咒就能使人丧命。1612年，在兰开夏郡的潘德尔山附近住着一个名叫詹妮特·迪瓦斯的小女孩。那时她刚9岁，因家里穷时常饿肚子，长得很瘦弱。她缺衣少鞋，有时一连几天吃不上饭。生活着对地她来说十分艰难。詹妮特的外祖母老德姆代克是一个巫师。她的母亲伊丽莎白和她的姐姐艾丽森也都是巫师。就连她可怜兮兮、傻头傻脑的哥哥詹姆斯也是巫师……不管怎样，村民们是这样认为的。

Tom Swift and His Sky Racer is the ninth book in the original Tom Swift series. "Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. 

On a brisk autumn day, a thirteen-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change. For he has been chosen to make a journey back across America–and into another realm. One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery. Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more. Let the quest begin...