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Hi. I'm Rick Steves, back with more of the best of Europe. This time we're in Madrid — palaces, paseo.and perhaps Europe's best ham.jamon. Thanks for joining us.

Madrid was once the capital of the most powerful empire on earth. It's studded with riches from its glory days. We'll experience the majesty of its palaces and museums — and we'll also experience today's Madrid at it's fun-loving best.

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

2000s

1. Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
2. Saturday – Ian McEwan
3. On Beauty – Zadie Smith

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
by Edward Gibbon
Edited, with notes, by the Rev. H. H. Milman

Table of Contents

ab ovo: from the beginning.
abattoir: a slaughterhouse.
abecedarian: pertaining to the alphabet; also, rudimentary; also, a beginner.

1. emolument: the wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor.
2. palindrome: a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
3. deprecate: to disapprove of; also, to belittle.

CHAPTER 33
BLISSFUL

David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens

PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION

Dune
by Frank Herbert

The Oxford Book of English Verse

Chosen and Edited by
Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night (1933)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• G 格林：The Power and the Glory
• G 格林：The Ministry of Fear
• G 格林：The Heart of the Matter

The Power and the Glory
by GRAHAM GREENE

The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene

• 赫胥黎：Island
• 赫胥黎：BRAVE NEW WORLD
• 赫胥黎：Ape and Essence

by Aldous Huxley

BRAVE NEW WORLD
by Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963)

Ape and Essence
by Aldous Huxley

99 Novels:The Best in English Since 1939
by Anthony Burgess