又译《孤星血泪》，是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯晚年写成的教育小说。故事背景为1812年耶诞节前夕至1840年冬天，主角孤儿皮普（Pip）以自传式手法，叙述从7岁开始的三个人生阶段。《远大前程》贯切了狄更斯文以载道的风格，透过剧中孤儿的跌宕起落，表达他对生命和人性的看法。《远大前程》自1860年12月到1861年8月连载于作者制作的周刊《一年四季》，百年来被多次改编成电影、电视剧及舞台剧。孤儿匹普从小由姐姐抚养，受雇于贵族郝薇香，并且爱上了她的养女艾丝黛拉，一心想成为“上等人”。他小时候好心搭救的一名逃犯在国外发财致富，为报答救命之恩，巧妙安排他去伦敦接受上等教育，进入上流社会。
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon（亚马逊漂流记） 立即阅读
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft. Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém at the river's mouth.
