Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, an Irish writer. It was his first book and was first published in 1914.The fifteen stories were supposed to describe very well the life of Irish people living in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories in the collection are first told by children, and as the stories continue they deal with the lives of older people. The last story, "The Dead", is the longest and the most famous.
Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine（一个中国人在中国的遭遇） 立即阅读
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1879. Kin-Fo est un jeune Chinois riche, qui est indifférent à tout et ne connaît pas le bonheur. Un jour, il se retrouve ruiné. Ne voulant pas imposer à sa future épouse une vie misérable, il préfère mourir. Au moment de se donner la mort, il se rend compte qu'il ne ressent rien, et décide qu'il ne peut mourir sans connaître d'émotions au moins une fois dans sa vie. Il demande donc à son maître et ami, le philosophe Wang, de le tuer dans un délai imparti, ce qui, il l'espère, lui fera redouter la mort et éprouver quelques émotions.
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green（蓝色和绿色的薰衣草草图） 立即阅读
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Reginald Blake was as typical a specimen of the well-bred cad as one could hope to find between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner. Vicious without passion, and possessing brain without mind, existence presented to him no difficulties, while his pleasures brought him no pains. His morality was bounded by the doctor on the one side, and the magistrate on the other.
The Underground City（地下之城） 立即阅读
The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.
鲁迅的小说作品集，共收入其1924年至1925年所作小说十一篇。首篇《祝福》写于1924年2月16日，末篇《离婚》写于1925年11月6日。整部小说集贯穿着对生活在封建势力重压下的农民及知识分子“哀其不幸，怒其不争”的关怀。《彷徨》仅存短小篇幅，却以一批个性独异、涵蕴深广的知识分子形象，准确地记录、描述了辛亥革命到新文化运动这一新旧交替历史年代中国社会各阶层知识分子的生活和思想，从而成为“中国现代小说的开端与成熟标志”。鲁迅笔下新一代知识分子的悲剧命运，恰恰充满荒诞意味和喜剧色彩——他们企图用“传统”培育的某些文化精神、思想信念来推翻整个传统，其勇猛和坚毅，终不能掩盖其幼稚与无力。
Kangaroo is an account of a visit to New South Wales by an English writer named Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet in the early 1920s. This appears to be semi-autobiographical, based on a three-month visit to Australia by Lawrence and his wife Frieda, in 1922. The novel includes a chapter ("Nightmare") describing the Somers' experiences in wartime St Ives, Cornwall, vivid descriptions of the Australian landscape, and Richard Somers' sceptical reflections on fringe politics in Sydney.
Twenty Years at Hull-House（赫尔大厦二十年） 立即阅读
While on a trip to East London in 1883, Jane Addams witnessed a distressing scene late one night: masses of poor people were bidding on rotten vegetables that were unsalable anywhere else. This scene haunted Addams for the next two years as she traveled through Europe, and she hoped to find a way to ease such suffering. Five years later, she visited Toynbee Hall, a London settlement house, and resolved to replicate the experiment in the U.S.