Around the World in 80 Days(八十天环游地球) 立即阅读
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,075,400 in 2017) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
古典长篇侠义公案小说的经典之作,堪称中国武侠小说的开山鼻祖;同时,作为中国第一部具有真正意义的武侠小说,《三侠五义》的版本众多、流传极广,书中脍炙人口的故事对中国近代评书曲艺、武侠小说乃至文学艺术的内容都产生了深远的影响。小说叙写北宋仁宗年间,包拯在众位侠义之士的帮助下,审奇案、平冤狱、以及众侠义除暴安良、行侠仗义的故事。书中塑造了一位铁面无私、不畏权势的清官形象,充分地体现了底层人民的愿望。其中包公平冤狱、“铡庞昱”、“除藩王”等情节,在一定程度上暴露了封建统治的黑暗,表现了人民群众的斗争精神。书中穿插了大量侠客们路见不平、拔刀相助的正义行为,表现出他们侠之大者、为国为民的本质。
The Moon and Sixpence(月亮和六便士) 立即阅读
The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham first published in 1919. It is told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is in part based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin.