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The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841.The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.

每天清晨，羚羊都知道，它必须跑得比最快的狮子快；狮子知道，它必须跑得比最慢的羚羊快。不管是狮子还是羚羊，太阳升起时，都要开始奔跑。地球上的其他哺乳动物都在自由奔跑，难道只有人类是例外？ 墨西哥的铜峡谷，隐居着史上最强的长跑族群塔拉乌马拉人。他们能活下来，是因为父辈跑得比鹿快，而父辈能活下来，是因为祖父跑得比阿帕奇人的战马快。他们永远不知道追赶猎物时要跑多快多久。只有随时调整姿势、方向和速度，敏捷地在石块和沟壑间蹦跳，才能跑过错综的山路，爬上陡峭的岩壁，回家。 塔拉乌马拉人跑，与其说是为了更快，不如说是为了彼此更接近，与自然无限地接近。 原来，人天生就会跑！

A group of boys was assembled in an open field tothe west of the public schoolhouse in the town ofCrawford. Most of them held hats in their hands,while two, stationed sixty feet distant from eachother, were ``having catch.''

这是一个不同寻常的真实故事，讲述一个家庭搬进一座破败动物园的奇妙经历。出于对冒险的钟爱，也为了有一个全新的开始，本杰明?梅(Benjamin Mee)一家人搬进了新家——英国乡间一座破旧的动物园。梅有一个梦想：翻新动物园，并将其办成家族企业。起初，朋友和同事们都说他疯了。不过，他和孩子们、几个忠心耿耿的员工一直辛勤劳动，希望能让动物园早日重新开门迎客。2006年，梅夫妇和两个孩子、梅先生的弟弟和他76岁的老母亲一起，搬进了达特穆尔野生动物园(Dartmoor Wildlife Park)。 没有什么事是能一蹴而就的。作为动物园管理人员，这个家庭显然缺乏经验。接下来，作者将带你探索神秘的动物王国，领略让人惊奇不已的悲喜剧。

The Idiot is a novel written by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published serially in Russkiy Vestnik between 1868 and 1869. The Idiot is ranked beside some of Dostoevsky's other works as one of the most brilliant literary achievements of the "Golden Age" of Russian literature. It was not published in English until the 20th century.

"The Faith of Men" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth.

The Three Golden Apples is part of the Nathaniel Hawthorne's series of A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.

 MRS. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and wherefores thereof.