英语小说网

   MISS BILLY- MARRIED The final entry in Porter’s charming Miss Billy Trilogy about a young orphan who finds love and acceptance in the family of her late father’s college friend, Miss Billy Married concludes the trilogy with an account of the heroine’s first few years as a newlywed. 

Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev, his best known work. The title of this work in Russian is Отцы и дети (Otcy i Deti), which literally means "Fathers and Children"; the work is often translated to Fathers and Sons in English for reasons of euphony.《父与子》描写的是父与子冲突的主题。这一冲突在屠格涅夫笔下着上了时代的色彩。巴扎罗夫代表了19世纪60年代的年轻一代——激进的平民知识分子。而巴威尔和尼古拉则代表了保守的自由主义贵族的老一代人。当然，在对待年轻人的态度上，父辈中的人们态度各有不同，尼古拉比较温和，希望理解子辈，想跟上时代，只是不太成功。巴威尔则固执己见，信奉贵族自由主义，对年轻人的反叛耿耿于怀。父与子的冲突在广义上表现为巴威尔和巴扎罗夫之间的对立，由此，在巴扎罗夫身上塑造了时代“新人”的形象。

Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on 20 October 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. Dialogue and descriptions of thought and actions are used in equal amount, unlike in Woolf's later book, To the Lighthouse. There are four major characters, Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. Night and Day deals with issues concerning women's suffrage, if love and marriage can coexist, and if marriage is necessary for happiness. Motifs throughout the book includes the stars and sky, the River Thames, and walks. Also, Woolf makes many references to the works of William Shakespeare, especially As You Like It.

本书是萨德的代表作，是他恣意放纵的奇书之一。他笔下所展示的各种各样的变态行为，将病态的人性描写得淋漓尽致，刻画了人们欲望的尴尬与人性的困境， 直到今天才让人们了解到了它的真实性和它所具备非凡的价值。他的作品一直是广为流传的奇书，尤其在艺术家和作家之间备受推崇，深深影响了近代文学、艺术和哲学思潮。 本书讲述了一个名叫鞠斯汀娜的少女遇到的十次经历、十段故事。由于父母的破产，她和姐姐不得走上流浪的道路。姐姐毫不犹豫地投身妓院。但鞠斯汀娜坚信上帝的万能，为自己的命运苦苦挣扎。然而她却屡遭劫难，她所遭遇到的是：吝啬、抢劫、同性恋、无人道、奸淫、奴役、忘思负义、偷窃、诬告、栽赃陷害。她本想通过虔诚的忏悔，求助宗教的力量以得到拯救，但却跌入了更为苦难的深渊。她落入了一群承险邪恶习的伪君子之手，被他们肆意欺辱。她极为维护自己的清纯，珍爱自己的人格，但一个弱女子终究还是难逃厄运。

Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the counter of the express office and shook his fist.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett's finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James's diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because it is loosely structured, many critics view the book not as a novel, but a series of sketches; however, its structure is unified through both setting and theme. Jewett herself felt that her strengths as a writer lay not in plot development or dramatic tension, but in character development. Indeed, she determined early in her career to preserve a disappearing way of life, and her novel can be read as a study of the effects of isolation and hardship on the inhabitants who lived in the decaying fishing villages along the Maine coast.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach, is a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. It was first published in 1970 as "Jonathan Livingston Seagull — a story." By the end of 1972, over a million copies were in print, Reader's Digest had published a condensed version, and the book reached the top of the New York Times Best Seller list where it remained for 38 weeks. In 1972 and 1973 the book topped the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States. It is still in print as of 2010.

人类是地球这颗行星上最成功的动物。所谓成功，是指在与其他动物的斗争中取得的成功。在争夺食物或土地的问题上，我们人类战无不胜。我们砍伐树木，修建房屋或工厂，自己种植粮食。其他动物不得不去另找其他的地方生活――如果它们能找着的话。

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) was a Russian short story writer and a playwright. His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practiced as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife, " he once said, "and literature is my mistress". Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896; but the play was revived to acclaim by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Uncle Vanya and premiered Chekhov's last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a special challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text". His originality consists in an early use of the stream-of-consciousness technique combined with a disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure.