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.

本书包含： 《拥抱此刻的阳光》 《心灵深处的音乐》 《让爱在心里成长》 《假如人生不曾相遇》 《动物们教会我的事》 《成功是一种选择》 《童年是孤单的冒险》 《世界上感人的书信》 《成长是不可替代的事》 《别处的风景》 《爱是美丽的语言》 《青春是华丽的旅行》 《一个人，也能有好时光》 《无法忘却的电影对白》 《童话若有张不老的脸》 《那一年，我们一起毕业》 《那些震撼世界的声音》 《那些改变未来的身影》 《致十年后的自己》 《遇见成功的自己》 《世界上美的情书》 《那些激励我前行的睿思》 《那些触动我心扉的故事》 《快乐是自找的》 每一篇美文，都是一次成长的感悟；每一句名言，都是一场成功的遇见。 本套装中既有各个领域杰出人物的故事，又有发人深省的哲理故事，让读者在阅读中学会如何面对生活、品味情感、看待世间百态。同时还收录了很多涉及自然世界、神话寓言等方面的英语美文，让读者在学习英文佳作的同时，感受到一种沁入心田的阳光力量。

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.

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《理智与情感上下》、《曼斯菲尔德庄园3册》和《诺桑觉寺上下册》共7册。《理智与情感》是简·奥斯丁富于幽默情趣的处女作。埃诺莉和玛丽安娜两姐妹生在一个英国乡绅家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹的情感却毫无节制，因此面对爱情时，她们作出了不同的反映……小说以这两位女主角曲折复杂的婚事风波为主线，通过"理智与情感"的幽默对比，提出了道德与行为的规范问题。本书和作者的《傲慢与偏见》堪称姐妹篇，同样以细腻的笔触和生动的对白叙述没有富裕嫁妆的少女恋爱结婚的故事。如同书名里所体现的那样，故事集中表现了"理智"与"情感"的矛盾冲突。《曼菲尔德庄园》以男女青年的恋爱婚姻为题材。范妮出身贫寒，12岁时被姨父母伯特伦爵士夫妇收养。与四个表兄姊，汤姆，埃德蒙，玛丽亚和朱丽亚一起在曼斯菲尔德庄园长大，但常受到不平等的对待,玛丽亚和朱丽亚被宠坏了，十分虚荣，汤姆则既不负责又嗜赌，唯有善良表兄埃德蒙平等亲切的待他。随当时间增长，范妮的感激更逐渐转化为暗恋。虽然中间发生了很多事情，但是小说以范妮和埃德蒙喜结良缘为结局。小说中带有很多讽刺意味，特别是涉及到两位姨母时。范妮的家庭出身比奥斯丁其他小说的主人公明显低一个档次，就这一点来说这本小说可能是奥斯丁著作中现实主义的。爱德华·萨义德曾经指出，奥斯丁对于曼斯菲尔德庄园的经济基础是奴隶制这一点避而不谈，正显示了西方文化对于奴隶制度和帝国主义带来的物质利益缺乏自省坦然受之的态度。《诺桑觉寺》是一部爱情小说。然而，同其他作品不同的是，除了爱情纠纷之外，小说自始至终还贯穿着对哥特小说的嘲讽。因此，这可谓是一部"双主题"小说。 女主人公凯瑟琳是牧师之女，活泼可爱，正直善良，家道殷实。十七岁了，生活还是如一潭死水。艾伦夫妇带她一起去巴思度假，她在那里大开眼界，并结识了富家之子、牧师亨利蒂尔尼与他妹妹艾丽诺，她的可爱为她赢得了亨利?蒂尔尼真诚的爱，以及他妹妹艾丽诺?蒂尔尼的真心帮助。她们很快成为了好朋友。可她也碰上了一些虚情假意、贪慕虚荣之人，好在识破了他们的嘴脸。同时，她还碰到了另一位青年约翰?索普。索普为了抬高自己的身价，向亨利的父亲蒂尼将军谎报了莫兰家的财产，蒂尼将军信以为真，竭力怂恿儿子去追求凯瑟琳。后来，索普追求凯瑟琳的系望破灭，便恼羞成怒，把以前吹捧莫兰家的话全盘推翻，说她家如何贫穷。蒂尼将军再次听信谎言，把凯瑟琳赶出了家门，并勒令儿子把她忘掉。凯瑟琳回到家里，母亲发现昔日可爱的女儿变得如此忧郁，和之前简直判若两人。可怜的妈妈还以为女儿留恋外面的花花世界，却没想到女儿长大了，有了喜欢的人。后来，蒂尔尼的意外出现，终于让凯瑟琳父母明白，他们必须考虑是否要同意女儿的婚事了……

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.

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

Written during the 1890s, the stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision. Tagore is often seen as a serious writer, dealing with significant issues concerning religion, politics and culture in his work, he also had a lighter side to his personality, which enabled him to laugh at certain inherent human weaknesses, such as excessive piety, sentimentality, affectedness, arrogance and sexual jealousy, in a comic spirit, rather than being derogatory or sarcastic about them. Sometimes, this laughter was even at his own expense, caricaturing a certain drollery or oddity in his own personality, or at the expense of a close family or associate.

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.

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).

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。

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

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.

本套书包括《白衣女人5册》和《月亮宝石5册》共10册。《白衣女人》本书为作者开创了写侦探小说的先河，也为英国文学另辟了一条蹊径。作品主要讲述了：青年画家哈特莱特与她的学生劳拉?弗尔利坠入情网，可是罗拉的父亲在生前已经为她寻了一门亲事。在罗拉的姐姐玛琳?哈克贝的建议下，哈特来离开了蒙里基庄园，到国外工作。罗拉只能遵从父亲的遗愿，嫁给风流倜傥的皮斯威尔?格莱德先生。然而，皮斯维尔因其父母没有结婚登记而没有继承权，他负债累累，一心想要得到罗拉小姐两万英镑的遗产。他和罗拉的姑父密谋，把与罗拉相像的白衣女子安妮?凯撒里克害死，对外谎称罗拉得病而死，并把罗拉当做白衣女子送回疯人院……《月亮宝石》被誉为部长和秀的现代侦探小说。是英国维多利亚时期小说家威尔基·柯林斯创作的长篇小说。该作写一颗钻石(月亮宝石)神秘失踪，后为探长克夫所侦破。作品情节惊险曲折，结局出人意外。故事是由一颗宝石引起的。相传，印度有一颗月亮宝石，它镶嵌在一座四只手的印度神的额头之上，由三个婆罗门守护。宝石的光泽随着月亮的变化而变化，神曾经预言，谁要是拿走了这颗宝石谁就会受到诅咒。十八世纪初，月亮宝石被抢，这颗价值连城的宝石辗转被传到了英国。正如预言所说，它的拥有者都离奇死去。后来，这颗宝石落到了英国军官司亨卡斯尔上校的手中。在他将此作为生日礼物赠送给外甥女雷茜尔后，宝石突然失踪，经过一番周折，案件终于真相大白，月亮宝石后又回到了月亮神的前额之上。作者在小说中大胆地披露了英国在印度犯下的滔天罪行，要求英国人以人道主义精神面对世界，其中还不失时机地表达了自己的愿望，表明自己希望英国不要成为被世界人民痛恨的国度，不要两手沾满无辜的老百姓们的鲜血。这部小说并没有对英国国内的政治给予直接的披露，而是通过数件沾满血腥的案件有力地抨击了英国上层社会的领导者。

The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848–1850) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. The novel took two years for him to write. Set in 19th century London, England, this novel features a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis born in the country who sets out to seek his place in life and society. The novel portrays his love affairs with the callous Blanche Amory and poor Fanny. Both of them marry other people, and Pendennis finally weds Laura Bell, his adopted sister, who had always loved him. The characters include the snobbish social hanger-on Major Pendennis and the tipsy Captain Costigan. Miss Amory and Sir Francis Clavering are somewhat reminiscent of Becky Sharp and Sir Pitt from Vanity Fair. In line with other Thackeray's works, Pendennis offers an insightful and satiric picture of human character and aristocratic society. The masterful characterizations include the snobbish Major Pendennis and the tipsy Captain Costigan.

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.

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.

一边看小说、读故事,一边看英语原版,在消遣阅读中顺便学点英语,何乐不为？ 本套书精选10本英汉对照读物,既有世界名著,也有名校励志故事,主要包括《1984》《了不起的盖茨比》《美妙的新世界》《我们》《人性的弱点》《人性的优点》《快乐的人生》《语言的突破》《那些感动哈佛的励志故事》《那些启迪牛津的成功故事》共10册。 可以在休闲阅读时顺便学上一点英文,给自己加油充电。

　　《汤显祖戏剧全集（英文版）》的出版，是为“中国文化走出去”做的一件扎扎实实的工作。汪榕培教授对昆曲、评弹等中国传统戏曲艺术情有独钟，早在上世纪90年代就始翻译《牡丹亭》，近几年还完成了“玉茗堂四梦”及《紫箫记》的翻译工作，由他领衔的此书不但为国内外学者提供了全面认识汤显祖戏剧成就的契机，也让广大英语世界的读者得以一览汤显祖戏曲的动人之处和深邃意境。  

本套装包含小王子、动物庄园、呼啸山庄、老人与海、人性的弱点、假如给我三天光明、泰戈尔诗选、了不起的盖茨比共八册

The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale, Moby-Dick, a white whale of tremendous size and ferocity. Comparatively few whaling ships know of Moby-Dick, and fewer yet have encountered him. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. Ahab intends to exact revenge. Its reputation as a "Great American Novel" was established only in the 20th century, after the centennial of its author's birthIts opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous..D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written".