Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirise the English judicial system. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.
The Old Curiosity Shop（老古董店） 立即阅读
he Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment arrived in 1841.[1] The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, and found it "very interesting and cleverly written".
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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer（汤姆·索亚历险记） 立即阅读
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid. He skips school to swim and is made to whitewash the fence the next day as punishment. He cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work.
治期の文学者、夏目漱石の最初の長編小説。初出は「ホトトギス」［1905（明治38）年〜1906（明治39）年］。1905年10月上篇が刊行されると20日間で売り切れたという。中学教師の珍野苦沙弥の家に飼われる、名前のない猫「吾輩」の目で、珍野一家とその周囲に集まる人々や「太平の逸民」の人間模様を鋭く風刺し、笑いとばす。落語のような語り口に乗せたユーモアは多くの読者を集め、夏目漱石の小説家としての地位を確立する記念碑的な作品となった。
The Song of the Lark is a novel by American author Willa Cather, written in 1915. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton. Set in the 1890s in Moonstone, a fictional place located in Colorado, The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young heroine, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her hometown to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous opera star. The novel captures Thea's independent-mindedness, her strong work ethic, and her ascent to her highest achievement. At each step along the way, her realization of the mediocrity of her peers propels her to greater levels of accomplishment, but in the course of her ascent she must discard those relationships which no longer serve her.
