Passing of the Third Floor Back（三楼去又回） 立即阅读
The Passing of the Third Floor Back is a 1935 British drama film directed by Berthold Viertel and starring Conrad Veidt, Anna Lee, Rene Ray and Frank Cellier. The film is based on a 1908 play and short story by Jerome K. Jerome and depicts the various small-minded inhabitants of a building and the arrival of a stranger who works to redeem them. The work had previously been adapted into a 1918 film version by Herbert Brenon.
共有一百回，起于满清之源起，终于宣统帝逊位，凡294年。满清入关后，成为继蒙古人之后的第二个外来政权，中历所谓的康雍乾盛世，近代中国版图大致确定。当西方世界因工业革命下而瞬息万变之时，而处于停滞状态的清帝国终究未能逃避现实。帝国疆域中，百姓们因着种种原因，不断对着帝国挑起战争的开端，而帝国外缘则遭受西方世界不时的觊觎。一场不名誉的鸦片战争，将中国史拉到近代史范畴之中。接着的半个世纪，清帝国处于内忧外患而不知所措。由鸦片战争而太平天国，加以捻、回之变乱，元气丧失殆尽，后虽有洋务、维新等变法改革实行，却因守旧派势力的阻挠而告终。义和团的排外运动导致八国联军的入侵，庚子赔款后清帝国己无力再振。武昌一役，不仅结束了清帝国的国脉，也结束了两千多年的帝制时代。
The Idle Thoughts of An Idle Fellow（懒人闲思录） 立即阅读
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter. A second "Idle Thoughts" book, The Second Thoughts of An Idle Fellow, was published in 1898. The essays had previously appeared in Home Chimes, the same magazine that later serialised Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.
Three Men on the Bummel（三人同游） 立即阅读
Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the German Black Forest. D. C. Browning's introduction to the 1957 Everyman's edition says "Like most sequels, it has been compared unfavourably with its parent story, but it was only a little less celebrated than Three Men in a Boat and was for long used as a school book in Germany."
