[英文原版]OliverTwist ISBN9780553211023 Published3 June2005 by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub Format Paperback Author(s)By Dickens,Charles SeriesBantamClassics This fiercely comic tale standsin marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers,Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is thesaga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den,where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: theincorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and theterrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knaverythreatens to send them all to the ghostly gallows. Yet at the heartof this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leadshim at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of Oliver Twistfirmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,according to Edgar Johnson, a clarion peal announcing to the worldthat in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused ofthe world had a champion.
什么是勇敢?这个问题让年仅10岁的安美瑞在心中想了又想，总是再不明白。但自从纳粹占领丹麦之后，安美瑞小时候熟悉的很多事物就从生活中消失了。每个街道转角总是有站岗的德国士兵 直到纳粹在丹麦展开追捕犹太人的行动时，当安美瑞必须挺身出来保护她的犹太朋友艾伦时，她才第一次通过自己的行动，深深体会了保持勇气的艰难。接着安美瑞一次又一次地把艾伦从纳粹手中救出 《数星星》是美国中学生的佳作，不论从文学、历史还是励志等角度，这都是一本值得任何年龄层的读者细细品味的作品。
