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R.M.S. Mongolia, 12th May, 1904 Mayhap, Ella, here too distance lends its enchantment, and these gallant brethren would have quarrelled over Rosamund, or even had their long swords at each other’s throat. Mayhap that Princess and heroine might have failed in the hour of her trial and never earned her saintly crown. Mayhap the good horse “Smoke” would have fallen on the Narrow Way, leaving false Lozelle a victor, and Masouda, the royal-hearted, would have offered up a strangely different sacrifice upon the altars of her passionate desire.

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness that were of highest value to the ancients and that remain ideals in out time. In this new verse translation, Allen Mandelbaum--celebrated poet and translator of Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy--realizes the power and beauty of the original Greek verse and demonstrates why the epic tale of The Odyssey has captured the human imagination for nearly three thousand years.

该书描写了一个立陶宛移民家庭—尤吉斯一家的悲惨遭遇。他们满怀憧憬从家乡来到美国寻梦，在芝加哥屠场区找到工作，以为美好生活将从此开始。不料灾难接踵而至，先是尤吉斯工伤失业，接着妻子奥娜被工头奸污，尤吉斯怒打工头而入狱，随后妻子难产死亡，幼小的儿子淹死。亲朋好友中男的流落街头，女的被逼为娼，美国梦演变为可怕的梦魇。更悲哀的是，这个万恶的资本主义机器不仅害得他家破人亡。作者辛克莱 ，更毒害了他的心灵。他自暴自弃，干起合伙抢劫的勾当，甚至还在屠场罢工时当上了工贼。所幸的是，在风起云涌的社会主义运动中，尤吉斯终于找到了人生的奋斗目标，他的阶级觉悟被唤醒。小说结尾时，他深信社会主义是唯一的出路，而这也正是辛克莱的信仰。

This is a novel by the English author Daniel Defoe, published in 1719. It is one of the most popular adventure novels in all literature. It is the story of Bobinson Crusoe, an Englishman who is shipwrecked in a lonely tropical island. He builds himself a hut, grows his own food, and becomes self-sufficient. After 23 years he meets with a group of cannibals and rescues one of their prisoners, a young native whome he calls Friday.Crusoe and his“man”Friday become close friends, and when they are finally rescued four years later, both return to England. Robinson Crusoe was partly based on the actual deeds of Alexander Selkirk, an 18th-century Scottish sailor who spent almost five years alone on a desert island. This novel is famous for its lovely details and its expression of belief in man's ability when left alone in nature.

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.

无心快语可能引发争执，无情之词可能折损生命，适时温语可能消弭压力，而关爱之声可能治愈心灵。当你的心在痛，眼里噙满泪水时，那就抬头看看，天空依旧是那么广阔，云朵依旧是那么潇洒。而后悬于时光深处，静静聆听，直到听见那心灵深处的音乐。用心聆听这世界的美好，倾听我们身边的每一个人，感受每一种声音，感悟生命的启示。给自己一点点时间，静静的思考。相信每一天都是上帝的恩赐，人生本是一场体验，跟随内心活出个性，做自己喜欢的那个人。本书可以提高文学素养，陶冶情操。如果你是一位英语爱好者，阅读本书可以一睹这些杰作的原文风采。

美国女作家伊迪丝·华顿创作的长篇小说，也是其代表作。该作获得1921年美国普利策文学奖。内容简介：年轻律师纽兰在礼教传统的熏陶下长大，满心欢喜地盼望早日与同阶层的美丽女子梅缔结婚姻，并在欢迎梅的表姐埃伦的宴会上宣布订婚。埃伦嫁给一个一事无成的贵族后裔后，不甘做为装点丈夫客厅的花瓶和无爱婚姻的活祭，毅然决定离婚，回到自己的故乡。由于她的行为不符合当时上流社会的习俗规定，被看作是离经叛道的荡妇，受到亲友的侧目与不齿，而纽兰却被无拘无束、见解独特的埃伦深深吸引，埃伦也因他的真诚相助而对他倾心。相比之下被旧贵族礼教培养出来的梅显得循规蹈矩，索然无味。但是慑于社会传统习俗的巨大威力，纽兰还是与梅提前举行了婚礼。婚后纽兰益发感到自己陷入传统婚姻的陷阱，频繁地约会埃伦，打算孤注一掷与她私奔，但梅怀孕的消息使埃伦毅然断绝了与纽兰的感情纠葛，出走巴黎，纽兰从此忠实地履行着他对社会和家庭的职责。直到多年以后；梅因病离开了人世，长子婚前与纽兰同游巴黎，要父亲去看望埃伦。到了埃伦家门口，纽兰却失去了进去的勇气，在楼下公园的长凳上独坐良久后，一个人回到旅馆。

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1887. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!