人能夠忍受痛苦，可以被毀，但意志不能被打敗。 「海面很大，船很小」。 渺小的個體(老人)對抗外在環境，有歷盡滄桑的搏鬥過程。 儘管勝利者所獲無多， 或者說沒有誰是最後的勝利者，且充滿茫然的悲劇， 故事卻在單調的情境、簡鍊的情節中延伸， 蘊藏令人回味無窮的動人描述。 這部精彩的中篇小說可以做為海明威作品和其硬漢一生的完美句點。

《美国学生艺术史》由卡尔佛特学校前校长维吉尔?M?希利尔构思、设计并编写，也是他生前为孩子们写作的最后一本教材。《美国学生艺术史》共分三个部分：绘画、雕刻和建筑，共91章，收录了200多幅人类文明史上最有代表性的艺术之作，包括古埃及、古希腊、意大利、德国、荷兰、西班牙、法国、英国、美国等名家作品。希利尔先生亲自编写，并在课堂上进行试讲，不断修订。

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. 'It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson's prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of the bible, is nothing short of a benediction. You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within' Neel Mukherjee, The Times 'Writing of this quality, with an authority as unforced as the perfect pitch in music, is rare and carries with it a sense almost of danger - that at any moment, it might all go wrong. In Gilead, however, nothing goes wrong' Jane Shilling, Sunday Telegraph

Who needs philosophy? Ayn Rand's answer: Everyone. This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we make is not whether to have a philosophy but which one to have: rational, conscious, and therefore practical; or contradictory, unidentified, and ultimately lethal. Written with all the clarity and eloquence that have placed Ayn Rand's objectivist philosophy in the mainstream of American thought, these essays range over such basic issues as education, morality, censorship, and inflation to prove that philosophy is the fundamental force in all our lives.