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母亲的早逝令灰姑娘辛德瑞拉再也感受不到母爱的温暖，失去了公主般的童年。后母和她的两个女儿，无时无刻不在想方设法折磨辛德瑞拉，给她糟糕的住处、做不完的家务。幸好得道多助、失道寡助，心地善良的辛德瑞拉结识了一大班朋友，老鼠、鸟儿、小狗都是守护在她周围的老友记。王子要在全城寻找王妃，辛德瑞拉用破旧零碎的布料赶做了一件礼服，当然这远远比不上心花怒放的姐姐们穿得艳丽。然而，灰姑娘得到了魔法相助，在神奇的法术中她美得倾城，坐着南瓜车来到王子的宫殿，与王子翩翩起舞。她知道，法术会在12点之前统统消失，大钟敲响的那一刻，她慌忙逃离王子，情陷已深的王子拿着灰姑娘不小心遗下的玻璃鞋，誓要从百万女子中找到一生中的最爱辛德瑞拉。

尤斯塔斯和女生波尔被一群坏学生所追赶，逃进了一扇通往荒野的小门，意外地发现自己来到了阿斯兰的国土上。他俩接受阿斯兰交付的任务，寻找凯斯宾国王失踪的独子——瑞廉王子。原来王后被一条青绿色的毒蛇咬死，不久，王子也被一个绿衣美女诱走。其实，这绿衣美女是蛇精，它用魔法控制了瑞廉王子。瑞廉王子每天只有夜间一个小时是清醒的。但这时蛇精把他捆在银椅中，用魔法控制他。尤斯塔斯和吉尔和帮助他俩的沼泽怪一起踏上了艰险的寻找之路，但由于波尔忘了阿斯兰的指示，所以增加了很多危险。他们通过巨人盘踞的北方荒原，误入吃人的哈方宫，来到地下的幽深王国，最后在黑暗城堡中解救了瑞廉王子，劈毁银椅并抵御住蛇精的魔法，最后杀死蛇精，解放了众多的蛇精奴隶——地精，回到纳尼亚。而不幸的是，年老的凯斯宾国王见到王子后立即死去。后来，阿斯兰用自己的一滴鲜血使凯斯宾复活，并恢复了青春与活力。他从此在阿斯兰的王国生活，而尤斯塔斯和波尔则回到自己的学校。

故事编排精妙细致，文笔沉稳内敛，一经出版便广受好评，成为2014年度最具实力且众望所归的黑马。内容简介：我们终此一生，就是要摆脱他人的期待，找到真正的自己。莉迪亚死了，可他们还不知道。莉迪亚是家中老二，李先生和李太太的掌上明珠，她遗传了母亲的蓝眼睛和父亲的黑头发。父母深信，莉迪亚一定能实现他们无法实现的梦想。莉迪亚的尸体被发现后，她的父亲内疚不已，母亲则一心报复。莉迪亚的哥哥觉得，隔壁的坏小子铁定脱不了关系，只有莉迪亚的妹妹看得一清二楚，而且，她很可能是唯一知道真相的人……

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In the beginning of the year 1920 I happened to be living in theSiberian town of Krasnoyarsk, situated on the shores of the RiverYenisei, that noble stream which is cradled in the sun-bathedmountains of Mongolia to pour its warming life into the ArcticOcean and to whose mouth Nansen has twice come to open the shortestroad for commerce from Europe to the heart of Asia.

Mother Angelique’s anxious call rang out over the water, once, twice, many times.

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, focused the novel on the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century,and the second best-selling book of that century, following the Bible.It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s. In the first year after it was published, 300,000 copies of the book were sold in the United States alone. In 1855, three years after it was published, it was called "the most popular novel of our day."The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change." The book, and even more the plays it inspired, also helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people,many of which endure to this day. These include the affectionate, dark-skinned "mammy"; the "pickaninny" stereotype of black children; and the Uncle Tom, or dutiful, long-suffering servant faithful to his white master or mistress. In recent years, the negative associations with Uncle Tom's Cabin have, to an extent, overshadowed the historical impact of the book as a "vital antislavery tool."

《懒人闲思录》出自英国幽默名家杰罗姆之手，这位“懒人”思想家善于从“懒人”的视角静观众生世相。平淡的生活细节一进入他的文章，就会妙趣盎然，栩栩如生。在这些文章中杰罗姆运用幽默冷峻的笔触展现了19世纪英格兰的社会风貌。

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。