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.
Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes（福尔摩斯历险记） 立即阅读
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892; the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.
The Survivors of the Chancellor（大臣号幸存者） 立即阅读
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger (French: Le Chancellor: Journal du passager J.-R. Kazallon) is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). At the beginning of its voyage, the Chancellor carried eight passengers and twenty crew members. By the end, only eleven people (five passengers and six crew) remained alive.
清代文学家袁枚撰写的一部文言短篇小说集。《子不语》的正集大约成书于乾隆五十三年（1788年）前，后来又有些陆陆续续的篇章，汇为续集。《子不语》的书名本于《论语·述而》：“子不语怪力乱神”，后来作者发现元人说部有同名者，遂改为《新齐谐》，本于《庄子·逍遥游》：“齐谐者，志怪者也”。元人说部之同名书早已失传，故后人仍多沿用《子不语》之名。它仿照六朝志怪小说及《聊斋志异》而写，文章大都言鬼神，谈怪异，其中因果报应、荒诞迷信成分较多，部分篇章从偶然、猎奇的角度写不怕鬼的故事。全书文字简练、语言自然、亦庄亦谐，展现了光怪陆离的世间百态，用极尽幽默且晦涩的方式揭示了当时社会的诸多恶弊，体现了袁枚对理学思想的批判和对封建迷信的怀疑。