子夜的太陽

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...

　　A budding art restorer travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. Little does she know she is placing her life in danger from an evil curse and a monster born of myth and brutal pain.

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　　在一個家族傳承的塔格特鐵路公司，現(xiàn)任總裁為家族長子詹姆斯·塔格特，副總裁是達(dá)格妮·塔格特，兄妹倆為挽救公司岌岌可危的營運，想法與方法可說是南轅北轍，一位只是口頭囔囔一些沒有經(jīng)過詳細(xì)評估的墨西哥——圣賽巴斯蒂安支線的投資，卻沒有提出一絲一毫的規(guī)劃與執(zhí)行方案，常常以見不得別人成功的酸葡萄心態(tài)看待事情與詆毀他人；另一位是以“我是像一個餓瘋了一樣，去找任何一個能把事情做好的人！”為挽救塔格特鐵路公司，與愛迪·威勒斯孜孜矻矻、焚膏繼晷的努力工作，為順利完成里約諾特的鐵路支線，找上里爾登鋼鐵的漢克·里爾登合作，采用里爾登剛發(fā)明的新合金當(dāng)鐵軌，沒想到成功營造出里約諾特的鐵路支線，卻是另一個不幸的開端?！　∧缓笾谱鳌　　栋⑻乩孤柭柤纭肥巧鲜兰o(jì)美國著名哲學(xué)家、小說家安·蘭德的代表巨著，這位俄裔美籍小說家推崇理性，認(rèn)為人的最高美德便是理性。她不顧傳統(tǒng)輿論的偏見，力倡個人主義，認(rèn)為不能使個人利益得到最大伸張的社會，就不是理想社會。她的客觀主義哲學(xué)自上世紀(jì)50年代起便風(fēng)靡美國校園，影響了幾代美國人，她本人也成為美國青年崇拜的偶像?！　　栋⑻乩孤柭柤纭肥撬钪囊槐拘≌f，曾在美國社會產(chǎn)生巨大影響。書中宣揚金錢至上的思想，探討了理性利己主義的道德性。1957年剛剛出版曾遭遇社會惡評，但卻異常暢銷，在美國的銷售量僅次于《圣經(jīng)》，并影響了當(dāng)時社會的很多知識分子，甚至成為美國學(xué)生必讀的課外書籍。