夜雨秋灯录全书8卷，共115篇，各卷篇章不一，是作者长期漂泊流浪后，在40岁生日时才开始的“抒怀愤发”之作，成书于1877年（清光绪三年），原版真本现存中国国家图书馆。该书是清代文言小说压卷之作。内容多是神奇怪诞、扑朔迷离的故事，通过这些故事，作者反映社会现实，描摹人情世态，抒发人生感慨，传布劝善之道，反映了普通老百姓的命运和清末动荡不安的社会状态。其中，有的抨击了封建礼教和婚姻制度，有的揭露黑暗吏治，讽刺时弊，有的歌颂豪侠。成就最高的是以男女爱情为题材的作品，如《麻疯女邱丽玉》等篇。此外，《夜雨秋灯录》中至少十几种被改编成戏曲，流传于今，如《病玉缘》、《捆仙索》等，已经成为传统剧目。
Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.
Bleak House is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and the story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which came about because someone wrote several conflicting wills. Dickens uses this case to satirise the English judicial system. Though the legal profession criticised Dickens' satire as exaggerated, this novel helped support a judicial reform movement, which culminated in the enactment of legal reform in the 1870s.
The Old Curiosity Shop（老古董店） 立即阅读
he Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final installment arrived in 1841.[1] The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841, and found it "very interesting and cleverly written".
治期の文学者、夏目漱石の最初の長編小説。初出は「ホトトギス」［1905（明治38）年〜1906（明治39）年］。1905年10月上篇が刊行されると20日間で売り切れたという。中学教師の珍野苦沙弥の家に飼われる、名前のない猫「吾輩」の目で、珍野一家とその周囲に集まる人々や「太平の逸民」の人間模様を鋭く風刺し、笑いとばす。落語のような語り口に乗せたユーモアは多くの読者を集め、夏目漱石の小説家としての地位を確立する記念碑的な作品となった。
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.
Our Mutual Friend（我们共同的朋友） 立即阅读
Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864–65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, "money, money, money, and what money can make of life." Most reviewers in the 1860s continued to praise Dickens' skill as a writer in general, though not reviewing this novel in detail. Some found the plot too complex, and not well laid out. The Times of London found the first few chapters did not draw the reader into the characters.