Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague.Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, helped you see the world as a more profound place, gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded, and the world seemed colder.Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you, receive wisdom for your busy life today the way you once did when you were younger? Mitch Albom had that second chance.He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life.Knowing he was dying, Morrie visited with Mitch in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college.Their rekindled relationship turned into one final "class": lessons in how to live. Tuesdays with Morrie is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

《德伯家的苔丝》讲述了苔丝的悲剧，还有其社会道德根源，主要就是男性中心社会中那种强固的妇女贞操观念。哈代在规定苔丝的思想行为时，始终与这一观念针锋相对，批判的矛头直接指向维护这一观念的社会和基督教教会。按照世俗的成见陋习，苔丝失身后，或顺水推舟甘当亚雷·德伯的姘妇，或想方设法进而使他们的关系合法化，方为良策，而苔丝却坚持宁可作令人侧目的"不正派女人"而不作无爱情的结合。她第一次逃离亚雷·德伯，从纯瑞脊回到家乡的路上，看到路边用血红色书写的宗教诫律"不要犯（奸淫）"，就脱口而出："呸，我不信上帝说过这种话。"由此刻到她私自给非婚生婴儿洗礼，苔丝在思想上对世俗成见陋习和教会已经开始怀疑，尽管此时她还相信有上帝和地狱存在，并未彻底摆脱宗教迷信观念。随后，"陷淖沾泥"的苔丝离群索居，在默默承受身心的创痛之中，思想上那种离经叛道的变化也日益深刻。这正是她与这种成见陋习及其对自己的影响长期较量的战果。到苔丝第二次离家，与安玑·克莱相爱并决心与之结合，直至她历尽波折，最后亲手杀死亚雷·德伯，与安玑·克莱潜逃，这全部过程清楚地说明，苔丝对世俗成见陋习的态度是从怀疑到否定，直到反抗，最后以自己年轻的生命付出了高昂的代价。哈代不仅以苔丝的思想言行与世俗成见陋习进行抗争，而且有时亲自出马，径直掷出投枪。失身后的苔丝，在世俗眼中，简直已经失去了为人处世的资格，而在哈代笔下，"她的外表，漂亮标致，惹人注目；她的灵魂，是一个有了近一两年来那样纷乱的经验而完全没有腐化堕落的妇人那样的。如果不是由于世俗的成见，那番教育还得算是一种高等教育呢。"如果把书中诸如此类的议论放回到一百年前维多利亚王朝时代去体味，我们更不能不叹服哈代思想的"前卫"。正因他在塑造苦丝形象过程中，时时融进了这类思想见解，才赋予这一形象更加丰富的内涵和更加深刻的社会批判性。哈代在他随后所写的《无名的裘德》里，此类思想见解则更有进一步发挥。