成书于明朝末年，全书四十篇，选自冯梦龙之“三言”（《喻世明言》八篇、《警世通言》十篇、《醒世恒言》十一篇）、凌濛初之二拍（《初刻拍案惊奇》八篇、《二刻拍案惊奇》三篇）部份作品，刊行于世。编者对各篇作了一些文字上的加工。其中的故事、小说包罗万象、涵盖古今，既有大气磅礴的历史变迁，也有荡气回肠的人生际遇；既有缠绵悱恻的真挚情感，也有生动细腻的云雨之情；这些故事直到今天依然令人津津乐道、乐此不疲，是一部名副其实的“中国古代畅销书龙虎榜”。在选取标准上，大致有四：“一曰著果报，二曰明劝惩，三曰情节新奇，四曰故典琐闻，可资谈助”。清朝初年，三言和二拍曾湮没不彰，《今古奇观》成了流传最广的古代白话小说集，产生了较大的社会影响。
涉县的东南角上，清漳河边，有个西峧口村，姓牛的多。离西峧口三里，有个丁岩村，姓孟的多。牛孟两家都是大族，婚姻关系世代不断。像从前女人不许提名字的时候，你想在这两村问询一个牛孟两姓的女人，很不容易问得准，因为这里的“牛门孟氏”或“孟门牛氏”太多了。孟祥英的娘家在丁岩，婆家在西峧口，也是个牛门孟氏。不过你却不要以为他们既是世代婚姻，对对夫妻一定是很美满的，其实糟糕的也非常多。这地方是个山野地方，从前人们说：“山高皇帝远”，现在也可以说是“山高政府远”吧，离区公所还有四五十里。为这个原因，这里的风俗还和前清光绪年间差不多；婆媳们的老规矩是当媳妇时候挨打受骂，一当了婆婆就得会打骂媳妇，不然的话，就不像个婆婆派头；男人对付女人的老规矩是“娶到的媳妇买到的马，由人骑来由人打”，谁没有打过老婆就证明谁怕老婆。
The Yellow Wallpaper（黄色墙纸） 立即阅读
The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
Tender Is the Night（夜色温柔） 立即阅读
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final completed novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January and April 1934 in four issues. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats. In 1932, Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was hospitalized for schizophrenia in Baltimore, Maryland. The author rented the La Paix estate in the suburb of Towson to write this story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is also one of his patients.
