共十二回，题“苏庵主人编次”、“白香山居士校正”，作者的真实身份与姓名已不可考。产生的年代大约在明代后期。小说写的是明朝山东泰安州乡民白双山夫妻，因为天旱，颗粒无收，被双双饿死，留下了个十二岁的女儿。一天，一位僧人经过泰安州，见白双山女儿孤苦伶仃，无依无靠，遂起恻隐之心，将其带到泰山，交给一位叫真如法师的僧人收养，真如法师为其取名莲岸，莲岸自此就在真如法师的教导下修行学佛。六年之后，莲岸十八岁时，她告别真如法师，下山访道，自创门户。在路上，她遇到了一位白猿大仙，大仙送给她一卷天书，叫《白莲经》。莲岸如获至宝，刻苦揣摩，从而学会了神通法术。后来，官逼民反，她聚众起事，与官府作对，带领造反者占领了柳林寨，创立教门，成为白莲教的开山祖师白莲大师。
The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras（哈特拉斯船长历险记） 立即阅读
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (French: Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in two parts: The English at the North Pole (French: Les Anglais au pôle nord) and The desert of ice (French: Le Désert de glace). The novel was published for the first time in 1864. The definitive version from 1866 was included into Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). Although it was the first book of the series it was labeled as number two. Three of Verne's books from 1863-65 (Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon) were added into the series retroactively. Captain Hatteras shows many similarities with British explorer John Franklin.
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. Leviathan ranks as a classic western work on statecraft comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince.
