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). One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island is idyllic; food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat.

本套书包括《犹太人的财富思维》、《犹太人的处事思维》、《犹太人的创新思维》、《犹太人的教育思维》、《犹太人的进取思维》和《犹太人的生活思维》共6册。《犹太人的财富思维》通过对犹太民族生存、智慧、经商等领域的展示，浅显易懂地阐释了犹太人的经商秘诀，为读者介绍犹太人在投资创业、目标选择、广告营销、市场定位、商场谈判等方面表现出的出神入化的商业智慧。《犹太人的处事思维》论述了犹太人在社会交往中的逻辑关系，从修身、处事、礼仪、言语等方面介绍了犹太人的智慧和行为，通过剖析犹太人成功背后的处事思维，为读者提供为人处世的方法和技巧。《犹太人的创新思维》犹太人崇尚创新，能想出新奇点子并能付诸现实。本书从犹太人一系列的创新事件出发，介绍犹太人独辟蹊径、勇于创新、不拘一格的商业思维，为读者呈现犹太人智慧和创造力。《犹太人的教育思维》通过介绍犹太人对教育的高度重视，以及教育是犹太民族突出的优良传统，来引导人们学习以思考为基础，要敢于怀疑，随时发问。犹太人的智慧并非高深莫测，而是和世代相传的独特家庭教育息息相关。

本套书包括《基督山伯爵9册》和《三个火枪手6册》共15册。《基督山伯爵》The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). It is one of the author's most popular works completed in 1844. The story takes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean during the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the Bourbon Restoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. It begins just before the Hundred Days period (when Napoleon returned to power after his exile). The historical setting is a fundamental element of the book, an adventure story primarily concerned with themes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. It centres on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune, and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty. In addition, it is a story that involves romance, loyalty, betrayal, and selfishness, shown throughout the story as characters slowly reveal their true inner nature.《三个火枪手》A timeless tale of adventure, romance, intrigue, and revenge, "The Three Musketeers"is the captivating story .A historical romance, this novel tells of the adventures of the hot-headed young Gascon, d'Artagnan and his three companions Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they gallantly defend the Queen of France, using their wit and their swords. They must foil the nefarious plotting of Cardinal Richelieu against the King and Queen, despite his appearance as an ally. D'Artagnan and the three Musketeers must also overcome the villainous machinations of Milady de Winter, whose lethal criminality threatens those in political power and the love of d'Artgnan for Constance Bonacieux. Dumas' classic story, first serialized in 1844, has enthralled readers with its fast-paced plot, endearing characters, and romantic ideals, immortalized by the motto" one for all, all for one.

本套书包括《大疫年日记4册》、《摩尔：弗兰德斯3册》、《鲁滨逊漂流记续集4册》和《辛格尔顿船长5册》共16册。《大疫年日记》A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. The story is set in 1665, the horrors of the devastating pestilence struck London at that time. The Journal is narrated by a Londoner named "H. F." who allegedly lived through the devastating effects of the pestilence and produced this eye witness account. Henry Foe. H.F. claims that the plague has reached England because of active commerce with mainland Europe. Despite the different measures taken by the local health authorities, it has spread like wildfire amid the city crowds. The narrator reports the multiplying numbers of people with black “tokens” on their bodies and the consequent mass burials. When the nightmare has finally come to an end, tens of thousands of dead Londoners are reported. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings. The Journal of the Plague Year will fascinate students, teachers, and general readers alike.《摩尔：弗兰德斯》a prolific and versatile writer/purportedly true story/a woman lives in sin and wickedness/ shocked countless readers/ how circumstances and a fear of poverty can drive one into a life of crime

a story of mystery and suspense /Dickens' first historical novel/ blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama / conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution

Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens which satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury, in the form of his fictional "Circumlocution Office". In addition he satirises the stratification of society that results from the British class system. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.” Dickens criticizes the hierarchical society which would demand such an impossible thing of a man, and also questions which class of their acquaintance are good people and true friends.

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. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale).’The distortions of the plot, the violent and irrational reactions of the characters, reflect and dramatise the ways in which his readers’ perceptions were distorted by the assumptions and hypocrisies of the society in which they lived," writes Catherine Peters in the comment book.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).

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes. Maggie Tulliver is the protagonist and the story begins when she is 9 years old. Maggie Tulliver’s entire life has been spent in the shadow of Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss with her beloved older brother, Tom.The Mill on the Floss is the story of Maggie Tulliver’s search for love, and acceptance by her family and community, and of her need for intellectual and spiritual growth. Her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem and with Stephen Guest constitute the most significant narrative threads. Misunderstood Maggie Tulliver is torn. Her rebellious and passionate nature demands expression, while her provincial kin and community expect self-denial. Based closely on the author's own life, Maggie's story explores the conflicts of love and loyalty and the friction between desire and moral responsibility. A classic work of 19th century literature, "The Mill on the Floss" remains a popular and enduring example of George Eliot's impact on English literature.

vivid characterization /unfailingly realistic description/ impulse and fear and hesitation/ the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel

本套书包括《艾格妮丝·格雷3册》和《威尔德菲尔庄园的房客6册》共9册。《艾格妮丝·格雷》Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Bront? (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Bront? suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Bront?'s own experiences as a governess for five years. Agnes, her sister Mary, and their mother all try to keep expenses low and bring in extra money, but Agnes is frustrated that everyone treats her like a child. To prove herself and to earn money, she is determined to get a position as a governess. Eventually, she obtains a recommendation from a well-placed acquaintance, is offered a position, and secures her parents' permission. With some misgivings, she travels to Wellwood house to work for the Bloomfield family. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair treatment of animals. Agnes Grey also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue.《威尔德菲尔庄园的房客》This work is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Bront?. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Bront?s' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication. Most critics now consider The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to be one of the first feminist novels. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events connected with the meeting of his wife. A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and a servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert befriends Helen and discovers her past. In her diary, Helen depicts her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and her desperate attempts to save their son from his influence in the dissipated aristocratic society from which she ultimately flees. The depiction of marital strife and women's professional identification has also a strong moral message mitigated by the authors's belief in universal salvation.

Antonina, or the Fall of Rome (1850) is an novel by Wilkie Collins. A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' are reset to suit the purpose of the author.

In the early 1800s, John Astor made the fateful decision to make good on his long-held dream of establishing a fur-trading company in the Northwest United States. Astor later convinced Washington Irving, one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American literature, to create a non-fiction account of the operation's origins. The result, Astoria, is a fascinating work of history. Astoria is a history book published in 1836 by Washington Irving. The full title being "Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains". The book was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810–1812. The book became a bestseller in 1836 and at the time was required reading in some schools. Astoria has been read as a vivid and fascinating history, comparable indeed to the finest of romances, but rooted in the rough and hardy life of trapping, hunting, and exploration.

“Knickerbocker's History of New York” is the book by Washington Irving, an American writer who was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. It is published in December, 1809, with which Washington living, at the age of twenty-six, first won wide credit and influence. Knickerbocker's History of New York is a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in New York newspapers seeking information on Diedrich Knickerbocker, a crusty Dutch historian who had allegedly gone missing from his hotel in New York City. Today, author Washington Irving is best remembered for the iconic tales "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." However, Irving also produced a number of well-regarded works of history and biography. This brilliant volume combines fact and fiction, offering a satirical history of New York from the perspective of make-believe Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker.

Thomas Hardy’s final novel “Jude the Obscure” began as a serial publication on December 1894 before being published in book form the following year. It is the story of its titular character Jude Fawley, a young lower-class man with dreams of being a scholar, and his relationships with his wife, Arabella, and his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. The novel follows the life of Jude from his youth living in a village in southern England where he works in a bakery and studies Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time with hopes of one day becoming a scholar at Christminster, a fictional city modeled after Oxford. His dreams are dashed however when he becomes ensnared by deceit into marriage with Arabella Donn, a coarse and superficial girl. What follows is a classic and tragic tale that plays upon many themes, principally of which is the idea that one’s ruinous downfall is the product of having lived a sinful life. Having been harshly criticized in its day for its scandalous portrayals, “Jude the Obscure” has since been recognized as one of Hardy’s finest and most intricate works.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus. It was inspired by a model of the French submarine Plongeur (launched in 1863) was displayed at the 1867 University Expo, where it was studied by Jules Verne. The description of Nemo's ship, the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels. The book was highly acclaimed when it was released and still is. It is regarded as one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

本套书包括《木偶奇遇记3册》、《一个孩子的星星梦》、《圣诞颂歌小气财神3册》和《圣诞树》共8册。《木偶奇遇记》The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi in 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. The lonely woodcarver Geppetto carves himself a son—a mischievous puppet he names Pinocchio who learns that he can become a real boy by doing good deeds. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a dogfish, before he gains real happiness. A narration is presented that has moral lessons and provokes to think in the right direction. An universal icon and a metaphor of the human condition, the book is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has had great impact on world culture.《圣诞颂歌小气财神》A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism.

当下英语已经不只是一门语言专业，更成了一个了解理论和先进知识的工具。 一直以来，在国内的英语学习法中风行着一种速成的论调：7天搞定单词，一个月攻破听力……仿佛学习者吃了一颗大补丸，英语水平就能立刻回血。然而尝试过速成法的学习者，往往发现这些方法都难以坚持下去。 在这本书中，作者刘晓光和伍君仪从自己英语逆袭的亲身经历入手，提供了一套理论清晰、操作性强的英语训练体系，向所有英语学习者传达了这样的理念：语言学习没有捷径，但没有捷径并不意味着学习者要坚持下去一定会十分艰辛。英语是一门人人都可以掌握的技能，并不是一门只停留在卷面上的学科。只要遵循书中阐释的科学的训练体系，在自己现有的水平上小梯度却不间断地前进，持续收获的正反馈会让自己毫不费力地坚持学习下去，在成就感的增长过程中变成一个能流利使用英语的大咖！

《速查速用旅游英语口语》收录了实用、新鲜的语料，囊括了旅行中的行前准备、出发乘机、旅行住宿、出行交通、旅游玩乐、旅行物、旅行美食，以及旅途麻烦等 50 个真正有用的旅游场景，涉及内容全面，切实贴合旅游者的需求。每个部分包含趣味情景对话中的高频词汇、旅游实用表达和知识加油站三个版块，让你循序渐地掌握基本英语口语，提高交际能力。

伊索，被誉为“希腊寓言之父”、“西方寓言的开山鼻祖”。大约出生于公元前620-560年，他的寓言至今仍成为全球孩子道德教材的经典读本。其中许多故事，如《狐狸和葡萄》、《龟兔赛跑》、《北风和太阳》等成为世界儿童皆知的故事，并被选入中国小学语文课本。 《伊索寓言》脍炙人口，对欧洲的寓言文学影响很大，拉封丹著名的《寓言诗》即以《伊索寓言》为主要素材。著名哲学家阿波罗尼如此评价道：“我十分享用伊索寓言是世界上古老、影响的寓言，由于形象生动、寓意深刻、富于哲理，在全世界流传两千五百余年而经久不衰。阅读伊索寓言使人趋向聪明、理智、沉稳。这些用简单的盘子端上的一道道美食，他讲述朴实明了的事情，却教给人们伟大的真理。比起诗歌来，这些故事更接近真理。每个故事之后，他还附上一则建议与忠告，告诫人们应该做或不该做什么。”古希腊历史学家希罗多德、作家阿里斯多芬尼斯、著名哲学家柏拉图等，都对伊索讲述的这些故事予以盛赞。

故事发生在1900年左右的法国。时髦少女塞莱丝汀从动荡不安的巴黎来到诺曼底当家庭女仆，她是一个很有魅力、聪明美丽的女孩。身为女仆多年，她在各个不同的主人家遭遇了很多不顺。在兰莱尔一家人的别墅里，她面对的是好色的男主人和他那性冷淡、专横和嫉妒心强的妻子。不甘示弱的塞莱丝汀不愿像家中前一任女仆那样，因为被男主人搞大肚子而被扫地出门，她知道如何巧妙地运用自己的魅力掌控命运。在忍受女主人变态般的挑剔折磨之时，塞莱丝汀渐渐看上了家中沉默寡言的园丁约瑟夫。约瑟夫有着反犹太人思想，以及残害犹太小女孩的丑恶形象。尽管如此，塞莱丝汀还是愿意跟随着他一起，实行偷盗兰莱尔家银器并逃走的计划。他们打算逃到瑟堡，开一家妓院酒吧，而塞莱丝汀可以向那些光顾的士兵提供性服务。

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?is the?first novel?of Irish writer?James Joyce. It is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce’s early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution. The novel begins with the confidence, ease and innocence of a story told to a child and ends with a tone that is hesitant, suspicious, fragmented and estranged. Between the two comes the education of one Stephen Dedalus, as the nets of race, religion and family attempt to ensnare his tender soul and complex imagination. The publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the short story collection Dubliners earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.