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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson (1864-1941) was a famous Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include Waltzing Matilda (1895), The Man from Snowy River (1890) and Clancy of the Overflow (1889). In 1885, Paterson began submitting and having his poetry published in the Sydney edition of The Bulletin under the pseudonym of "The Banjo", the name of a favourite horse. Paterson, like The Bulletin, was an ardent nationalist, and in 1889 published a pamphlet, Australia for the Australians. In 1890, he wrote The Man from Snowy River, a poem which caught the heart of the nation, and in 1895 had a collection of his works published under that name. Paterson authored two novels; An Outback Marriage (1906) and The Shearer's Colt (1936), wrote many short stories; Three Elephant Power and Other Stories (1917), and wrote a book based on his experiences as a war reporter; Happy Dispatches (1934).

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London  about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them. Its first printing of forty thousand copies were immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild.Ambrose Bierce  wrote, "The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful."

《灿烂千阳》再次以阿富汗战乱为背景，时空跨越三十年，用细腻感人的笔触描绘了阿富汗旧家族制度下苦苦挣扎的妇女，她们所怀抱的希望、爱情、梦想与所有的失落。《灿烂千阳》一书的主人公玛丽雅姆在阿富汗一个偏远贫穷的地方长大，她想上学，母亲却告诫她：“学校怎么会教你这样的人？一个女人只要学一样本领，那就是忍耐。”“忍耐什么？”“不用操心，”她母亲娜娜说，“需要你忍耐的东西绝不会少。”

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爱尔兰青年巴里·林登因父亲去世，不得不与母亲投靠舅舅。不久英法爆发战争，原来与巴里有染的表妹爱上了招兵的上尉，巴里与上尉决斗，枪击了上尉。他为了躲避追捕，成了步兵团的新兵。在部队里他从一名参与当时决斗的军人那里得知原来上尉并未死，因为舅舅一家为了攀亲，在手枪上做了手脚，如今表妹和上尉早已成亲。军队中死伤甚多，巴里心生厌倦，冒充军官混进普鲁士盟军部队，但被识破，不得不加入普军。因在战斗中救了主帅而受器重，被派调查一个爱尔兰骑士是否是间谍。巴里和骑士一见投缘，借机离开普鲁士到法国经营赌场。巴里决定混迹上流社会，并设法和有财产、身份的林登夫人结婚，改名巴里·林登，用手段得到爵位。但林登夫人与前夫的儿子布林登离家出走，巴里的亲子也因意外夭折。林登夫人也企图服毒自杀。在与布林登的决斗中，巴里失去一条腿。加上债务缠身，巴里不得不以离开林登夫人为条件换取年金维生。他曾试图东山再起，但已失去了往日的好运。

《谁动了我的奶酪？》（Who Moved My Cheese?），生动的阐述了“变是唯一的不变”这一生活真谛，作者斯宾塞·约翰逊博士是美国知名的思想先锋和畅销书作家，此外，他还是一位医生、心理问题专家，也是将深刻问题简单化的高手。在他清晰洞彻当代大众心理后，便在该书中制造了一面社会普遍需要的镜子———怎样处理和面对信息时代的变化和危机。

"Star Hunter" tells the story of a man who thinks with another's brain as he is pursued in a dangerous game of hide and seek. This adventure story captures the reader's attention from the very first sentences. "Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl. Ras Hume paused at the border of scented spike-flowers on the top terrace of the Pleasure House to wonder why he thought of serpents. He understood. Mankind's age-old hatred, brought from his native planet to the distant stars, was evil symbolized by a coil in a twisted, belly-path across the ground. And on Nahuatl, as well as a dozen other worlds, Wass was the serpent."

作品有浓烈的自传色彩，讲述主人公尤金·甘特及其一家基本上以作者及其家人为原型。小说从尤金父母的身世、他的出生一直写到他大学毕业。尤金的家庭生活充满了不幸与混乱。成长于这样的家庭，尤金内心充满了孤独、痛苦和对独立生活的憧憬。最后，尤金选择了离开家庭，继续去哈佛深造，渴望去体验一种新的人生。这部小说是一部琐碎的大部头心灵日记，犹如“一条由音节构成的密西西比河，处处流淌和翻滚着沃尔夫式的短语，美丽动人，清澈见底，并且也像密西西比河一样，常常滞流污浊。内容简介：20世纪初的美国南方一个山区小城，石匠甘德家的小儿子尤金从出生到十九岁的成长经历为主线，展现了甘德一家几代人动荡而矛盾重重的生活，铺陈细腻，笔力澎湃，仿佛波浪层层漫涌般以时序推进，众多复杂而鲜明的人物形象纷然杂呈。年岁与学识渐长的尤金感到小城天地的偏狭与庸俗。与他相契的哥哥阿宾去世后，他离开令他爱憎交织的故乡与亲人，去哈佛求学开始新的生活。