The $30,000 Bequest and other short stories(VI) 三万元遗产(英文版)
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This book is a collection of thirty comic short stories. These stories contained span the course of career of MarkTwain , from "Advice to Young Girls" in 1865 to the titular tale in 1904. Although Twain had ample time to refine his short stories between their original publication date and this collection, there is little evidence to suggest he took an active interest in doing so.
Little Men Life At Plumfield With Jo's Boys(I) 小绅士(英文版)
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Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel (1871)by American author Louisa May Alcott. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy.
Catherine A Story(III) 凯瑟琳(英文版)
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Catherine: A Story, first appeared in serialized installments in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. It was the first full-length work of fiction produced by William Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray's original intention in writing it was to criticize the Newgate school of crime fiction, exemplified by Bulwer-Lytton and Harrison Ainsworth, whose works Thackeray felt glorified criminals.
The Blithedale Romance(II) 福谷传奇(英文版)
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The Blithedale Romance (1852) is the third major romance of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions." In the novel's preface, Hawthorne describes his memories of this temporary home as "essentially a daydream, and yet a fact" which he employs as "an available foothold between fiction and reality." The story takes place primarily in the utopian community of Blithedale, presumably in the mid-1800s.
The House of the Seven Gables(IV) 七角楼带七个尖角阁的房子(英文版)
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The House of the Seven Gables (1851) is a Gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family.
The Marble Faun(IV) 玉石人像(英文版)
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The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance, and the last of the four major romances that Hawthorne wrote, possibly one of the strangest major works of American fiction. It’s published in 1860.
The Scarlet Letter(III) 红字(英文版)
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The Scarlet Letter rightly deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, is an absorbing tale about the temptations of power, wealth, and passion. It is a Wonderful and playful story.
Armadale(III) 阿马达尔(英文版)
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The novel is a 19th-century semi-epistolary one. Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of Wilkie Collins’s four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859–60) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). Some linking passages consist of letters between the various characters, or of extracts from Lydia's journal, but the great majority of the text narrates the events as they occur.
From the Earth to the Moon(II)地球到月球(英文版)
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From the Earth to the Moon is a novel by Jules Verne, published in1865. It is one of the earliest science fantasy stories. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.
From the Earth to the Moon(IV)地球到月球(英文版)
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From the Earth to the Moon is an novel by Jules Verne in 1865 .It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.
No Name(V) 无名氏(英文版)
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No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. Norah and Magdalen Vanstone have an idyllic life. With loving parents, a caring governess, and an expansive estate to roam, the girls desire nothing else.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner(IV) 福克纳短篇小说集(英文版)
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This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter.
Little Men Life At Plumfield With Jo's Boys(III) 小绅士(英文版)
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Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a book by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy.
The Birth-Mark 胎记(英文版)
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"The Birth-Mark" by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne examines obsession with human perfection. This short story was first published in the March 1843 edition of The Pioneer and later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of Hawthorne's short stories published in 1846.
Armadale(II) 阿马达尔(英文版)
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The novel is a 19th-century semi-epistolary one. Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. Some linking passages consist of letters between the various characters, or of extracts from Lydia's journal, but the great majority of the text narrates the events as they occur.
Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome(I) 安东尼娜 罗马的沦落(英文版)
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Antonina is an 1850 novel by Wilkie Collins. Ancient Rome, Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths in AD 408. The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were, in the autumn of the year 408, already furrowed in numerous directions by the tracks of the invading forces of those northern nations generally comprised under the appellation of Goths.
Paradise Lost(III)失乐园(英文版)
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books. The poem focuses on the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
The Coral Island(I) 珊瑚岛(英文版)
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All Ballantyne’s novels are, in his own words, "adventure stories for young folks", and The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is no exception. It is a Robinsonade, a genre of fiction inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719).
The Norsemen in the West(I) 斯堪的纳维亚的西部传奇(英文版)
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The Norsemen in the West is a tale of adventure and evangelism by Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) , a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books, an accomplished artist who exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy.Norsemen , common name for the Scandinavians when they spoke the Old Norse language Norse.
The Book of Snobs(II) 庸人之书(英文版)
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William Makepeace Thackeray is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. While the word 'snob' had been in use since the end of the 18th century Thackeray's adoption of the term to refer to people who look down on others who are "socially inferior" quickly gained popularity. The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair.
The Jumping Frog 卡城名蛙(英文版)
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The Jumping Frog is a short story by Mark Twain published in 1865. It’s fullname is "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil", also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog." A french translation which Contains the original story (in english) was published in la Revue des Deux Mondes.