[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.
Tuck Everlasting 内容简介 Doomed to or blessed with eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune." 作者简介 A gifted artist and writer, Natalie Babbitt is the award-winning author of the modern classic "Tuck Everlasting," "The Eyes of the Amaryllis," "Kneeknock Rise" and many other brilliantly original books for young people. She began her career in 1966 as the illustrator of "The Forty-ninth Magician," a collaboration with her husband. When her husband became a college president and no longer had time to collaborate, Babbitt tried her hand at writing. Her first novel, "The Search for Delicious," establish