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The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published in 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City from spring to autumn of 1922. The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.

The Rainbow, published first in 1915, is the complete and exquisitely organized form of D.H. Lawrence's views about familial relationships. The novel relates the story of three generations of an English family- the Brangwens. As the main characters move in and out of the story’s framework, readers are brought face to face before an intriguing theory of passion and power among the familiar social roles of husbands, wives, children, and parents. Read more about the novel.　　《彩虹》成书于1914年，写作时间晚于《儿子与情人》，此时劳伦斯的写作艺术与思维都已得到了提高。 　　《彩虹》仍然以受到大工业生产严重侵蚀的英国中部乡村——劳伦斯的故乡为背景。对于资本主义工业化所造成的灾难，书中有一些生动的描写，但是劳伦斯的笔触在于探讨人与人，尤其是两性之间的关系上。在一篇他死后才能发表的文章中，他写道：“我只能写我强烈感觉到的，在目前这就是男女之间的关系。毕竟这是今日的问题——建立男女间的新关系，或者调整旧的关系。” 　　汤姆·布兰温和莉迪亚·布兰温是这个家族的第一代。汤姆是典型的十九世纪中期的农民，与土地、山川血肉相连；他的妻子莉迪亚是波兰人，带着与前夫生的女儿来到英国，孤独无助。汤姆和莉迪亚之间始终有一点生疏，他们停留在一种婚姻的初级阶段，彼此要求不多，安静地生活着。劳伦斯认为这点生疏是好的，他的主张是夫妻之间不但应当合成一体，还应该保持各自的特异性，这样的婚姻才是美满的。 　　但是这样的两性关系并不理想，第二代的安娜（莉迪亚前夫的女儿）和威尔有所提高，他们在探求人生真谛的路上前进了一步，他们的婚后生活最初是美满的，他们缠绵缱绻，浑然忘我；然而他们终于感受到不满足，想知道在性爱之外还有什么——威尔在教堂建筑上找到他的答案，教堂的拱顶有如彩虹，似乎是一切向上腾跃的势头的聚焦点，在那里：“没有时间，没有生命，没有死亡，在那里一切向上伸延的东西相会在一起，被锁在狂喜的拱顶石之中。”人生、宇宙的奥秘似乎在教堂的拱顶里能够得到解决，也就是说教堂的建筑包含了人生的奥秘，能给他宗教的启发。 　　但是安娜对此表示怀疑。她想：“教堂屋顶上还有青天呢，它不是真正的彩虹，解决不了什么问题。”她要求的是向上的自由权利，高出屋顶。 　　矛盾使二人陷入痛苦之中，终于威尔专心致志于木刻，而安娜则沉迷于不断地生孩子。 　　对人类关系的探讨落在女儿厄秀拉的身上。她做了许多尝试去寻找彩虹，都没有成功。 　　厄秀拉一度沉浸于肉欲，可是她发现这远远不够，精神生活是很必要的。她先是寄希望于科学，一度与女教师产生了同性恋，后来发现女教师的庸俗，她失望了。最使她失望的是情人斯克里班斯基。他们的矛盾越出了个人私生活的范畴，涉及到许多重大的社会问题。斯克里班斯基想成为一个为国家而战的军人。厄秀拉对他说：“尽管如此，你不是国家。你将为你自己做些什么呢？”他回答道：“我属于国家，必须对它尽义务。”厄秀拉认为他受传统观念的束缚，没有自己的看法和个性。她说：“你好像什么都不是，在你那里好像没有人。你是人吗？对我来说，你好像子虚乌有。” 　　斯克里班斯基是一个具有所有传统观念的人，他只会随波逐流，不可能真正有所作为。与他相比，厄秀拉则真实地寻找那高踞在天上的彩虹。 　　这里的三代人，第一代的汤姆和莉迪亚没有奢望，满足于低水平的美满生活并生活得很好；第二代的安娜和威尔不安于现状，曾努力追求理想生活，却半途而废；第三代的厄秀拉则前进了一步，她越出了个人的狭隘生活，看到了世界。她模糊的认识到，一方面个人必须找到充分发挥其潜力的办法，她最初想追求两性生活的完美，可是这不够，作为社会的一分子，她有责任去了解和改造社会。 　　她抛弃了许多假的彩虹，终于在书的末尾，她看到了憧憬未来的真的彩虹： 　　“彩虹拱架在大地上。她知道，红硬壳包着的，在世界的腐朽表层四处爬行的贱民们都仍然活着；她知道，彩虹已弯弯地扎根在他们的血液里，并将在他们的精神中抖动着恢复生命；　她知道，他们会抛掉覆盖在身上的硬壳，这样，崭新、干净的赤裸裸体便会脱颖而出，经历新的萌生、新的成长，起来迎接天上降临的阳光、风和纯净的雨水。她在这道彩虹中看到了大地上的新建筑，看到旧的、腐朽不堪的房子和工厂被一扫而光，看见世界将建筑在生气勃勃的真理结构之上，与笼罩大地的苍穹正好协调。”

Our old friend, John Carter, Warlord of Mars, and his beautiful wife, Dejah Thoris, appear again, but the story mainly concerns the adventures of Tara, Princess of Helium, daughter of the Warlord, among strange races in remote regions of the Red Planet. Among other astounding things we are shown the land of headless men, creatures with the power of detaching their heads from their bodies and replacing them at will. The title of the story comes from a grim and deadly war game, similar to chess, played on Mars with men and naked swords.

JOHN WOOLMAN was born at Northampton, N. J., in 1720, and died at York,England, in 1772. He Was the child of Quaker parents, and from his youth was azealous member of the Society of Friends. His "Journal," published posthumouslyin 1774, sufficiently describes his way of life and the spirit in which he didhis work; but his extreme humility prevents him from making clear theimportance of the part he played in the movement against slaveholding among theQuakers. 　　During the earlier years of their settlement in America, the Friends tookpart in the traffic in slaves with apparently as little hesitation as their fellow colonists; but in 1671 George Fox, visiting the Barbados, was struck bythe inconsistency of slave-holding with the religious principles of hisSociety. His protests, along with those of others, led to the growth of anagitation which spread from section to section. In 1742, Woolman, then a youngclerk in the employment of a storekeeper in New Jersey, was asked to make out abill of sale for a negro woman; and the scruples which then occurred to himwere the beginning of a life-long activity against the traffic. Shortlyafterward he began his laborious foot-journeys, pleading everywhere with hisco-religionists, and inspiring others to take up the crusade. The result of theagitation was that the various Yearly Meetings one by one decided thatemancipation was a religious duty; and within twenty years after Woolman'sdeath the practise of slavery had ceased in the Society of Friends. But hisinfluence did not stop there, for no small part of the enthusiasm of thegeneral emancipation movement is traceable to his labors. 　　His own words in this "Journal" of an extraordinary simplicity and charm,are the best expression of a personality which in its ardor, purity of motive,breadth of sympathy, and clear spiritual insight, gives Woolman a place amongthe uncanonized saints of America.

 《蝇王》描述在一场未来的核战争中，一架飞机带着一群孩子从本土飞到南方疏散。飞机被击落，孩子们乘坐的机舱落到一座美丽但无人烟的珊瑚岛上。起初孩子们齐心协力，后来由于害怕所谓的“野兽”分裂成两派，互相残杀，发生悲剧性的结果，以崇尚本能的专制派压倒了讲究理智的民主派而告终。 《蝇王》是哲理小说，借小孩的天真来探讨人性的恶这一严肃主题。作者将抽象的哲理命题具体化，让读者通过阅读引人入胜的故事和激动人心的争斗场面来加以体悟。小说中几个主要人物都具有象征意义，而那颗布满苍蝇的猪头则象征人性恶，象征了人心中的黑暗世界。 《蝇王》取材于19世纪苏格兰作家巴伦坦的《珊瑚岛》， 但不同于《珊瑚岛》的是：戈尔丁从人性的缺陷来探索社会。

Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who has returned to Earth in early adulthood after being raised by Martians on the planet Mars. The novel explores his interaction with—and the eventual transformation of—Earth culture. The title seems to be an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22 (in the Biblical Book of Exodus).[1] According to Heinlein, the novel's working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as "The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written." When Heinlein first wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, his editors at Putnam required him to drastically cut its original 220,000-word length down to 160,067 words. Scenes that might have been considered too shocking at the time were removed.In 1962, this version received the Hugo Award for Best Novel.After Heinlein's death in 1988, his wife Virginia arranged to have the original uncut version of the manuscript published in 1991 by Ace/Putnam. Critics disagree over whether Heinlein's preferred original manuscript is in fact better than the heavily-edited version originally published. There is similar contention over the two versions of Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars. While initially a success among science fiction readers, over the following six years word-of-mouth caused sales to build, requiring numerous subsequent printings of the first Putnam edition. The novel has never been out of print. Eventually Stranger in a Strange Land became a cult classic, attracting many readers who would not ordinarily read a work of science fiction. The late-1960s counterculture, popularized by the hippie movement, was influenced by its themes of individual liberty, self-responsibility, sexual freedom, and the influence of organized religion on human culture and government, and adopted the book as something of a manifesto.[citation needed] In 1968, Tim Zell (now Oberon Zell-Ravenheart) and others formed a neo-pagan religious organization called the Church of All Worlds, modeled after the religion founded by the primary characters in the novel.Except for correspondence with Zell (a lengthy letter to Zell appears as a letter to "a Fan" toward the end of the book in Grumbles from the Grave) and a paid subscription to the Church's Green Egg magazine during the 1970s (as Heinlein refused to accept a complimentary subscription), Heinlein had no other connection to the project.

暑假里，爱德蒙和露西住在哈罗德舅舅家，和表弟尤斯塔斯住在一起。尤斯塔斯是个令人讨厌的家伙。有一天，墙上的一幅画有帆船的油画忽然将他们拉进了画中，他们在船上遇到了凯斯宾国王，他正出航寻找被叔叔驱逐的骑士们。航行的另一个目的是希望找到雄狮阿斯兰的王国。一路上他们经过了各种神奇的岛屿，如孤独岛、声音岛、黑暗岛等等，历尽种种艰险。在这历险过程中，尤斯塔斯因为一次意外变成了龙，后来改过自新，从一个贪婪自私、惹人厌的坏孩子转变成一个诚实勇敢的孩子。他们最后航行到世界尽头的外边，找到阿斯兰的国土，但除了老鼠雷佩契普留在阿斯兰王国外，其他人都只能回到拉曼杜岛。他们解除了魔法，唤醒了三位沉睡着的爵爷，最后又都回到纳尼亚。爱德蒙、露西也回到剑桥舅妈家。

约翰·高尔斯华绥1867年8月14日生于英格兰的萨里。高尔斯华绥家境殷实，出生后不久便举家迁入库姆伯的一个大庄园。《福尔塞世家》中的罗宾山别墅便是以它为蓝本。. 14岁时，高尔斯华绥进了一所著名的男生学校——哈罗公学。5年后他上了牛津大学的新学院学习法律。可他不是个特别聪明的学生——他更喜欢赛马。 高尔斯华绥毕业后并没从事多少法律事务。1895年高尔斯华绥遇见了声乐老师西比尔·卡尔并爱上了她。他的家庭并不接受这位年轻女人，为此他们把他送到国外，去加拿大、加勒比海和俄罗斯旅行。 1905年高尔斯华绥与埃达结婚。他们是10年前在庆祝埃达嫁给高尔斯华绥的表兄阿瑟的一个家庭晚会上见的面。埃达和阿瑟婚后很不幸福。高尔斯华绥听说了埃达的不幸，俩人开始私下幽会。人们知道真相后大为震惊，上流社会容不下这对情人。 他的小叔，画家乔治·索特和埃达都鼓励高尔斯华绥创作。11个年头过去了，他靠创作没赚到什么钱。1906年高尔斯华绥发表了小说《有产业的人》，大获成功。人们认为书里写的是埃达与阿瑟不幸婚姻的故事。 高尔斯华绥创作小说、剧本，写文章和书信。他对许多政治和社会问题表现出极大的兴趣和关注。 1910年高尔斯华绥遇上一位年轻的舞蹈演员，玛格丽特·莫里斯。当时，玛格丽特19岁，约翰43岁。她在他的剧本《小小的梦想》中扮演一个角色。埃达知道自己丈夫爱上这位年轻女人时什么也没说。高尔斯华绥最终决定努力忘掉玛格丽特。他和埃达去了国外。.. 一战期间(1914—1918)，高尔斯华绥由于年纪太大不能上前线，他到法国一家医院工作。他把他在英国的房子让出来做医院收治伤员。 高尔斯华绥曾被授予普林斯顿大学、柏林大学荣誉学位。1926年高尔斯华绥在苏塞克斯郡买下了一幢大宅。那时他已是位名作家，一位富有的“有产业的人”。 1932年高尔斯华绥被授予诺贝尔文学奖。1933年1月13日在生病6个月后去世，时年65岁。 在19世纪的英国，知道什么是言语举止得体的上层人就属于上流社会。上流社会的人对穿什么、去什么地方，喜欢什么音乐、绘画等等都有定见。 上流社会的人大多富有，但富有还不够。上流社会的富人还得拥有土地、马、名画等东西。 19世纪的女人结婚时不能拥有任何东西。她的一切财产归丈夫所有。有的丈夫只把他的妻子当做一件家产。 《有产业的人》中描写的福尔塞家庭属于当时的所谓“上流社会”，是上层家庭的一个典型。他们富有，拥有华丽的住宅，收藏有价值的瓷器及绘画作品。他们知道如何彬彬有礼地与他人相处，他们是“符合体面人身份的”——这个字眼是上流社会用来描绘他们认为得体的一切。...

1916. Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) was a prolific English mystery writer, best known for the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu and his opponents Denis Nayland Smith, Dr. Petrie, named after the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, and the beautiful Karamaneh, the source of Petrie's daydreams. He also wrote under the name Michael Furey. This is the second volume of the 14 Fu Manchu books written by Rohmer. In this action-packed installment the reader will encounter a number of insidious doings including kidnappings, poisonous cats, snake murders, albino peacocks, killer apes, quicksand, a haunted house, rat torture, mummy attacks and more. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.