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作者 : 乔治·奥威尔
奥威尔的作品，不仅有远见卓识的政治寓言，更透出一股浓浓的对人类灵魂的关怀和对普通人的深爱。据说奥威尔幼时长得极丑，可想而知的成为了一个一个不合群的孩子，无法融入他所出生的上流社会。也许正是这种孤独培养出他独立思考和观察的能力，也让他接近下层的普通民众，体验他们的生活，关爱普通人的精神世界。《上来透口气》中的主人公是一个处在低层社会中的小推销员，他一直在压抑苦闷的生活中忍受和挣扎，终于有一天他决定不顾一切回自己美丽的家乡透口气。因为在他的记忆中，那里有一大片一大片的山毛榉树林，树上发着星星点点的新芽，阳光投下的影子在树叶间互相追逐，晾在路边的干草弥漫在整个村庄，还有那个有着硕大黑鱼穿梭的池塘。但他回去之后却看到他的故乡成了一个大规模的工业城镇，整片整片相连的是一个模样的鲜红色屋顶，破旧的被熏黑的院墙、肮脏的河流和简陋的街巷，这个想上来透口气的可怜人最终发现原来根本没有空气可透。在中国日益工业化、城市化的今天，几乎每个人的家乡都遭遇了和小说中描述的同样的沦落。当我们发现儿时碧水蓝天的故乡变成了一个个烟囱和一栋栋灰色的楼房，当我们发现已经无处透口气，当我们在工业化的社会中迷失了自我……也许到了该好好思考一下的时候：究竟什么是我们真正需要的？当付出了一切，才发现追求的只是最初所拥有的东西，会不会太晚了呢？
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
作者 : 路易斯·卡罗尔
Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sisteron the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she hadpeeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had nopictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,'thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'
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The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
作者 : 卡森·麦卡勒斯
本书所收录的小说，其背景则呈现为多样性，有都市生活的，有大学生活的，也有家庭生活的，但其反映的主旨似仍在人物的内心世界，以及那种没来由的孤独感。伤心咖啡馆之歌首先，爱情是发生在两个人之间的一种共同的经验——不过，说它是共同的经验并不意味着它在有关的两个人身上所引起的反响是同等的。世界上有爱者，也有被爱者，这是截然不同的两类人。往往，被爱者仅仅是爱者心底平静地蕴积了好久的那种爱情的触发剂。每一个恋爱的人都多少知道这一点。他在灵魂深处感到他的爱恋是一种很孤独的感情。他逐渐体会到一种新的、陌生的孤寂，正是这种发现使他痛苦。因此，对于恋爱者来说只有一件事可做。他必须尽可能深地把他的爱情禁铜在心中；他必须为自己创造一个全然是新的内心世界——个认真的、奇异的、完全为他单独拥有的世界。我还得添上一句，我们所说的这样的恋爱者倒不一定得是一个正在攒钱准备买结婚戒指的年轻人——这个恋爱者可以是男人、女人、儿童，总之，可以是世界上任何一个人。 至于被爱者．也可以是任何一种类型的人。最最粗野的人也可以成为爱情的触发剂。一个颤巍巍的老爷子可能仍然钟情于2o年前某日下午他在奇霍街头所见到的陌生姑娘。牧师也许会爱上一个堕落的女人。被爱的人可能人品很坏，油头滑脑，染有不良恶习。是的，恋爱者也能像别人一样对一切认识得清清楚楚——可是这丝毫也不影响他的感情的发展。一个顶顶平庸的人可以成为一次沼泽毒罂粟般热烈、狂放、美丽的恋爱的对象。一个好人也能成为—次放荡、堕落的恋爱的触发剂，一个絮絮叨叨的疯子没准能使某人头脑里出现一曲温柔、淳美的牧歌。因此． 任何一次恋爱的价值与质量纯粹取决于恋爱者本身。 正因如此，我们大多数人都宁愿爱而不愿被爱。几乎每一个都愿意充当恋爱者。道理非常简单，人们朦朦胧胧地感到，被人爱的这种处境，对于许多人来说，都是无法忍受的。被爱者惧怕而且憎恨爱者，这也是有充分理由的。因为爱者总是想把他的所爱者剥得连灵魂都裸露出来。爱者疯狂地渴求与被爱者发生任何一种可能的关系，纵使这种经验只能给他自身带来痛苦。
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Chuangtse: Mystic and Humorist
作者 : 林语堂
《庄子》十一篇英译 译者：林语堂Table:A Happy ExcursionLevelling All ThingsPreservation of LifeThis Human WorldDeformitiesThe Great SupremeJoined ToesHorses' HoovesOpening TrunksOn ToleranceAutumn FloodsTranslator's Notes
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作者 : 杜鲁门·卡波特
In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poignancy, wit, and naiveté continue to charm.杜鲁门·卡波特 美国著名作家，两次获得欧·亨利短篇小说奖。1924年生于新奥尔良，17岁受雇于《纽约客》开始写作生涯。1948年处女作《别的声音，别的房间》获得世界性的成功。1958年，奠定其大师地位的杰作《蒂凡尼的早餐》出版。1966年，完成了巅峰之作《冷血》。1984年8月25日晚，敏感、复杂和饱受争议的卡波特，因用药过度，猝死于友人家中，终年59岁。
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作者 : 查尔斯·兰姆
兰姆的散文早已成为经典。这经典中都写了些什么呢？什么都写，涉及人生与社会的各个方面：读书、论画、说牌、叙旧、怀古、言情、修传、拾轶……总之，社会百般无所不谈。但其精彩还不在其题材和内容，而在他在这些题材和内容里发掘了赋予了新的意义。他作品有鲜明的个人特色，高度个性化的吐属中包含了众多不同的声音，清浅通俗的表达中伴随着凝重文雅的情调，亲切易解的文句中而兼具着古香古色的气氛，日常现实的题材中凝聚着传统与文化的积淀，民俗与历史的联想，诗情与画意的沾润，因而比一般文人笔下的东西丰富得多，具有了多方面的广阔与厚度。本文是一件多彩衣，一具百宝箱，一座众生相的活画廓和一部最迷人心魂的有趣的散文集。英国散文家查尔斯·兰姆（1775—1834）是与蒙田并列的具有世界声誉的一大家.兰姆在他的随笔中使用了一种特殊的文风，那是个性毕露、披肝沥胆的——读了他的随笔，就了解了他的个人经历、性格和感受。因此，他说过：他的随笔集，不需要序言来介绍，因为他的每篇随笔都是自己的序言。他的文章写得文白交错、迂回曲折而又跌宕多姿、妙趣横生——这是由他那不幸遭遇所形成的性格，以及他那博览群书所养成的杂学所整个决定的。他的风格像是突破了重重障碍、从大石下弯弯曲曲发芽生长、终于开放的一朵奇花。他的随．笔写作，是把个人的不幸升华为美妙的散文作品。他常常板着面孔说笑话。两剿伊利亚随笔肿贯串着一种别人无从模仿的幽默感。这种幽默乃是一颗善良的心所发出的含泪微笑。
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THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER
作者 : C·S·刘易斯
Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.
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The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt(Excerpt)
作者 : 威廉·格纳齐诺
This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germanys highest literary honor, is finally available to English-speaking readers in a pitch-perfect translation by Philip Boehm.Employed by a high-end shoe manufacturer to test new products, the narrator spends his days wandering through his native city, encountering faces from his past (primarily female) and experiencing anew the many manifestations of the mystery of life. In the grand tradition of literary flaneurs, he takes note of his surroundings, from the significant to the mundane, and assembles them into a sort of mental collage that is at once self-portrait and cityscape.Most remarkable in Genazinos work is the humor with which he invests this melancholic character. Though at times he fears that he teeters on the brink of insanity, he good-naturedly pursues the strange twists of fate that land him variously behind a table at the flea market, in a newspaper office, by the banks of a flooded river, or in a friends bed. As Peter von Matt wrote in Der Spiegel, Indeed, there is hardly a subtler humorist among todays writers than Genazino.
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作者 : 海伦·菲尔丁
海伦·菲尔丁，英国当今最受欢迎的都市女作家。1958年生于约克郡，后在伦敦生活，曾为BBC工作多年。2003年被英国《观察者报》评为最有趣的英国作家之一。《BJ单身日记》是海伦·菲尔丁的代表代，曾获尼尔森白多图书奖，被誉为现代版的《傲慢与偏见》。作品最初于《独立报》和《每日电讯报》专栏连载，获得读者的极大好评，风靡英伦，出版后长期居于英国各大畅销书排行榜第一名。2001年被改编成同名电影后，轰动世界，成为近年来最受世界影迷欢迎和津津乐道的影片，BJ一词也从此成为单身女性中最为时髦的词语。A glorious read, and there is a laugh on every pageSunday TimesThe Wilderness Years anr over! But not for long.At the end of Bridget Jones`s Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn't done the washing-up,not just the whole of the week,but ever.Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, and 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, whick takes her from the cappuccino queues of Notting Hill to the paim-and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of...Bridget is back.V.g.If you loved Bridget Jones's Diary, you`ll love this; there is no diminution of the freshness or fun, or of Fielding's underlying intelligence'Mail on Sunday.
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作者 : 赫尔曼·黑塞
In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahman.
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作者 : 尼古拉斯·斯帕克斯
A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories....until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous relationship remain, and the gulf between their worlds is too vast to ignore. With her impending marriage only weeks away, Allie is forced to confront her hopes and dreams for the future, a future that only she can shape. Like a puzzle within a puzzle, the story of Noah and Allie is just the beginning. As it unfolds, their tale miraculously becomes something different, with much higher stakes. The result is a deeply moving portrait of love itself, the tender moments and the fundamental changes that affect us all. Shining with a beauty that is rarely found in current literature, The Notebook establishes Nicholas Sparks as a classic storyteller with a unique insight into the only emotion that really matters. I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. And so begins one of the most poignant and compelling love stories you will ever read....The Notebook
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作者 : 弗兰克·鲍姆
L. Frank Baum never imagined the impact The Wonderful Wizard of Oz would have on children's writing or the appeal the book would have to generations of readers. Although he wrote numerous books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is easily his most enduring. Baum wanted to write a fairy tale that was American, not European, although he introduced elements of traditional European fairy tales (witches, castles, forests) into the story. By presenting a female protagonist, casual language, characters such as the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman, and settings such as Kansas, Baum created a new approach to children's writing that is distinctly American.Before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, children's books were stilted morality tales designed to instruct or to frighten readers into behaving properly. Baum, however, presented a thrilling adventure from a child's point of view, showing the child's ability to solve her own problems and return to the security of her home.The Wonderful Wizard of Oz received praise from critics and readers alike. Critics applauded Baum's simple storytelling, his message, and his imaginative, believable characters. Readers fell in love with the wonders of Oz and demanded more books about this enchanted land. Although the book did not win any awards during Baum's lifetime, it was given the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1968.
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作者 : 劳拉·英格尔斯·怀德
《大森林里的小木屋》是美国女作家劳拉·怀尔德(1867-1957)九部 小木屋系列小说中的第一部。本书讲述了小姑娘劳拉和家人一起生活在大森林深处的小木屋里的经历。作家用细腻的笔触描绘了拓荒者生活的点点滴滴：大自然一年四季的变化之美；收获季节的欢乐和温馨；恶劣环境中的生存和冒险……细致生动、趣味横生，让读者沉醉在往昔的质朴生活中。 本书以小女孩天真无邪的眼光观察生活中的点点滴滴。大森林里的梅花鹿、大懒熊、冬天的白雪、春天树上的绿芽，还有小木屋里温暖的火光、妈做的可口点心、爸的悠扬琴声，都是罗兰最甜蜜的童年回忆。 本书没有太多曲折的情节，但它是精彩的、令人感到愉悦的、经久不衰的世界儿童文学的经典名著。全书文辞妙趣横生，涉及到自然、探险、动物、亲情、成长等许多青少年关注的兴趣点，可以引起青少年的极大阅读兴趣，是对他们的求知和成长大有益处的高价值图书。 Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her folks celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. And every night they are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa's fiddle sending Laura and her sisters off to sleep. And so begins Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
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作者 : 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
Experimentation with the absurd, both in theme and technique, is by no means a totally new development in literature, especially for those readers familiar with the works of Camus, Kafka, Beckett, Genêt, and Robbe-Grillet. Like these writers, Mr. Barthelme satirizes and mimics most of the clichés of our popular culture, and, through the predicaments of his characters, makes the reader ask Why? Yet these predicaments, although bizarre, inane, and usually surrealistic, do not necessarily contain the morose connotations of most writers of the absurd. For example, in one tale the narrator is thirty-five years old, six feet tall, with the logic and reasoning of an adult. He is in the sixth grade, where Miss Mandible, his teacher, is frustrated in her desires to have an affair with him because, officially, he is a child!These imaginative stories of dark humor, some of which have appeared in The New Yorker, are to be interpreted on many levels, and offer refreshing and thoroughly exciting reading.
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作者 : 德希蕾·克拉里
Bernadottes new position now takes Desiree to the royal court of Sweden. Life there is very hard for the silk merchants daughter who almost married Napoleon in Marseilles. She is happier in Paris, even without her family. But Napoleon is still jealous of her husband. When he and Desiree meet, there is always trouble. And when war comes again, the two men are on opposite sides.Napoleon does at last, on the island of St Helena. He had terrible faults, said Desiree. But he was my first love--- and Im not ashamed of those days in Marseilles. She goes back to Sweden and there she is crowned: the first Queen of the royal family of Bernadotte.
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作者 : 叶芝
Here ends 'Four Years,' written by William Butler Yeats. Four hundred copies of this book have been printed and published by Elizabeth C. Yeats on paper made in Ireland, at the Cuala Press, hurchtown, Dundrum, in the County of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on All Hallows' Eve, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty one.
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