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Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation. Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to animals. The political and theological implications were intensely debated, but transmutation was not accepted by the scientific mainstream. The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication. As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T.H. Huxley and his fellow members of the X Club to secularise science by promoting scientific naturalism. Within two decades there was widespread scientific agreement that evolution, with a branching pattern of common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the significance that Darwin thought appropriate. During the "eclipse of Darwinism" from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit. With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, now the unifying concept of the life sciences.

YOU SHOULD KNOW by this time, my dear Myra," Professor Blinkwell said easily, "that I have made it a rule of life that I take risks."

First editionMain article: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, completed by the end of March 1949 and published by Geoffrey Bles in London on 16 October 1950, tells the story of four ordinary children: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie. They discover a wardrobe in Professor Digory Kirke's house that leads to the magical land of Narnia. The Pevensie children help Aslan, a talking lion, save Narnia from the evil White Witch, who has reigned over the kingdom of Narnia for a century of perpetual winter. The children become kings and queens of this new-found land and establish the Golden Age of Narnia, leaving a legacy to be rediscovered in later books.

弗里西亚群岛位于荷兰和德国所属的北海沿岸。在群岛附近航行有时会有危险，尤其是在恶劣天气下，因为这里有不少沙洲，涨潮时会隐藏在浅水下面。沙洲间的航道很窄，不易察觉，而沙洲本身也会随着海风和潮汐发生改变。年轻的阿瑟·戴维斯是个航海爱好者，他热情勇敢、技术娴熟，喜欢驾着他的“达尔茜贝拉”号游艇穿梭于这片复杂、危险的海域。戴维斯邀请他的朋友卡拉瑟斯从伦敦赶来，二人一起出海度假，可在船上待了几天之后，卡拉瑟斯才弄清此行的真正目的。看来，他们是要去解开一个谜，还要解开一个名叫多尔曼的男人身上的疑团。两个好朋友开始了调查——与此同时，他们也引来了一位德国炮艇艇长的密切关注。故事发生在1902年，因此这段海岸的危险之处不仅仅在于沙洲。第一次世界大战的阴云不断汇聚，年复一年，慢慢地愈来愈暗……

讲述了主人公大卫从幼年至中年的生活历程，以“我”的出生为源，将朋友的真诚与阴暗、爱情的幼稚与冲动、婚姻的甜美与琐碎、家人的矛盾与和谐汇聚成一条溪流，在命运的河床上缓缓流淌，最终融入宽容壮美的大海。其间夹杂各色人物与机缘。语言诙谐风趣，展示了19世纪中叶英国的广阔画面，反映了狄更斯希望人间充满善良正义的理想。

Whilom, as tells the tale, was a walled cheaping-town hight Utterhay, which was builded in a bight of the land a little off the great highway which went from over the mountains to the sea. The said town was hard on the borders of a wood, which men held to be mighty great, or maybe measureless; though few indeed had entered it, and they that had, brought back tales wild and confused thereof.

希腊神话即口头或文字上一切有关古希腊人的神、英雄、自然和宇宙历史的神话。原始氏族社会的精神产物，欧洲最早的文学形式。大约产生于公元前8世纪以前，它在希腊原始初民长期口头相传的基础上形成基本规模，后来在《荷马史诗》和赫西俄德的《神谱》及古希腊的诗歌、戏剧、历史、哲学等著作中记录下来，后人将它们整理成现在的古希腊神话故事，分为神的故事和英雄传说两部分。

千禧三部曲创造了一个前所未有的女孩形象，在三部作品里扮演了一个非常重要的这个角色。全欧洲人都在看的完美小说，三年内全欧狂销800万本！小说改编的电影与电视影集皆已开拍。内容简介：八十二岁的瑞典产业巨子范耶尔在生日当天，照例收到了一幅匿名寄来的裱框压花，却令他情绪溃堤地哭了起来。四十三岁的《千禧年》杂志发行人布隆维斯特，一向以揭发企业丑闻为职志，这次却栽在一个穿Armani西装的卑鄙股市投机客手上，面临牢狱之灾与信用破产危机。二十四岁的保全公司调查员莎兰德，身材瘦削、刺青处处、性情乖僻，却拥有高超诡谲的电脑技能与调查能力。但若有人想欺负看似完美受害者的她，未来恐怕会十分堪虑。一桩疑似小岛密室的谋杀案，一个权贵家族的黑暗历史，一场小记者对抗资本家的正义之战，一段受害女子的复仇之路，交织成这部精彩绝伦的小说。全书处处惊奇，令人拍案叫绝。