产生于清代的中国古代家庭小说的一部重要作品。小说从始至末，一直笼罩着一种人生始梦的幻灭感。作者全力塑造出一个完美女性的悲剧形象，通过这样一个完美女性的毁灭，揭示出封建社会女性的悲惨的生存状况和不可避免的悲剧。《林兰香》具有一种朴素生动而又泼辣峭利的文字风格，尤其为人称道的是人物的语言，具有鲜明的性格色彩，真是一人一风格，一人一性情，确属难能可贵。小说从始至末，一直笼罩着一种人生始梦的幻灭感。开卷写道：“天地逆旅，光阴过客，后之视今，今之视昔，不过梨园，一弹词，一梦幻而已”。作者对历史，对人生的之种虚无幻灭的慨叹，与《红楼梦》中“好一似食尽鸟投林”落了片白茫茫大地真干净，何其相似。
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。
光绪廿九（1903）年上海大同书局出版，十四回。作者为孙希孟，署“藤谷古香”，伪托日文小说译出。本书写近代史上奇人沈北山事。光绪二十五（1899）年，常熟名士沈北山冒死上疏请西太后交出政权，杀荣禄、刚毅、李莲英三凶，一时轰动全国。小说中荀北山欲上万言书，请归政于皇上，诛三凶以谢天下，携奏折请大学士徐桐代奏，被徐桐逐出。亲朋故旧唯恐祸发株连，酿成大狱，派人将他押送还乡。途经天津，北山将折稿投送《国闻报》发表，引起一场轩然大波，被捕下狱。末回荀北山获释，与友人行酒令点将，历数当时维新党与革命党的风云人物，首点孙文，次点章炳麟，评云：“革命何尝不是堂堂正正的旗，但民智不开，民力不足，民德不修，这三样没有，决不能革命。”最终以“轰天雷”比拟荀北山作结。
Anne of the Island（爱德华岛的安妮） 立即阅读
Anne Shirley is off to college in this artfully packaged edition of the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she’s sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she’s excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond—a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys’ affection, she’s faced with numerous proposals she can’t possibly accept. Then Gilbert ruins everything by declaring his own feelings for her, and Anne worries that she’s lost one of her best friends…and possibly so much more. This addition to the renowned Anne of Green Gables series makes a wonderful gift and keepsake.
At sixteen Anne is grown up. . . almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins. Along with teaching the three Rs, she is learning how complicated life can be when she meddles in someone else's romance, finds two new orphans at Green Gables, and wonders about the strange behavior of the very handsome Gilbert Blythe. As Anne enters womanhood, her adventures touch the heart and the funny bone.
Anne of Green Gables（绿山墙的安妮） 立即阅读
Eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley has just arrived at Green Gables, and already her guardians want to send her back. First, she’s not the boy the Cuthberts expected. Second, she talks too much. And even with her generous spirit, the redhead’s a trouble magnet. She gets the neighbor drunk and nearly poisons the pastor! Still, despite a rocky start, the fiery Anne wins over her guardians and her new community. She enjoys life at Green Gables, excels in school, and earns a coveted scholarship. But when tragedy hits, Anne must choose between her dreams and the only home she’s ever known. In this beloved coming-of-age story, Lucy Maud Montgomery drew from her own experiences growing up in Canada during the nineteenth century to introduce generations of readers to one of literature’s most original and inspiring characters.
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.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（睡谷传说） 立即阅读
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during the Halloween season.
The War of the Worlds（星际战争） 立即阅读
The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898. It is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and that of his younger brother in London as Earth is invaded by Martians. Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The narrator, a philosophically inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to the southern country outside London. Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events as they deteriorate in the capital, forcing him to escape the Martian onslaught by boarding a paddle steamer near Tillingham, on the Essex coast.
When the Time Traveller courageously stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the year 802,700 -- and everything has changed. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to dwell together in perfect harmony. The Time Traveller thought he could study these marvelous beings -- unearth their secret and then retum to his own time -- until he discovered that his invention, his only avenue of escape, had been stolen. H.G. Well's famous novel of one man's astonishing journey beyond the conventional limits of the imagination first appeared in 1895. It won him immediate recognition, and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction.