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William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a prominent abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. Born into slavery in the Southern United States, Brown escaped to the North, where he worked for abolitionist causes and was a prolific writer and lecturer. In 1847, he published the Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself, which became a bestseller second only to Frederick Douglass' narrative. He was also a pioneer in several different literary genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama, and wrote what is considered to be the first novel by an African American: Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853). However, because the novel was published in England, the book is not the first African-American novel published in the United States. Most scholars agree that Brown is the first published African-American playwright. He wrote two plays, The Experience; or, How to Give a Northern Man a Backbone (1856) and The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom (1858). Brown also wrote several historical works, including: The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), The Negro in the American Revolution (1867) and The Rising Son (1873).

在地球人类接近灭亡之际，只有程心和艾AA两个幸存者乘坐光速飞船离开。罗辑成为设置于冥王星的地球文明博物馆的“守墓人”，她们在冥王星带走人类文明的精华。在云天明送的恒星的一颗行星上，程心遇到关一帆且探讨了宇宙降维的真相，然而超乎一切之上的力量要求宇宙归零重生，在黑域中穿越长达1800万年的时空……程心没有等到云天明到来，和关一帆在小宇宙中短暂居住后重新进入大宇宙生活

Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by American author Thomas Pynchon published in 1997. It centers on the collaboration of the historical Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in their astronomical and surveying exploits in Cape Colony, Saint Helena, Great Britain and along the Mason-Dixon line in British North America on the eve of the American Revolutionary War. Intermingled with Mason and Dixon's biographies, history, fantasy, legend, speculation, and outright fabrication, the novel is based on the focal point of one Rev. Wicks Cherrycoke, a clergyman of dubious orthodoxy, who attempts to entertain and divert his extended family on a cold December evening — partly for amusement, and partly to keep his coveted status as a guest in the house.

Satirical novel published in 1759 that is the best-known work by Voltaire. It is a savage denunciation of metaphysical optimism--as espoused by the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz--that reveals a world of horrors and folly. In this philosophical fantasy, naive Candide sees and suffers such misfortune that he ultimately rejects the philosophy of his tutor Doctor Pangloss, who claims that "all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds." Candide and his companions--Pangloss, his beloved Cunegonde, and his servant Cacambo--display an instinct for survival that provides them hope in an otherwise somber setting. When they all retire together to a simple life on a small farm, they discover that the secret of happiness is "to cultivate one's garden," a practical philosophy that excludes excessive idealism and nebulous metaphysics.　《老实人》是伏尔泰的代表作。主人公老实人纯朴善良，头脑简单，寄居在森特一登·脱龙克男爵府上，信奉导师邦葛罗斯关于“世界尽善尽美”的哲学。老实人因和男爵的小姐居内贡自由恋爱，被男爵逐出家门，从此开始流浪生涯。最初，老实人被抓丁，在保加利亚军队里服役，由于自由行动而遭毒打。不久，保加利亚王和那伐马王交战，老实人目睹了两军厮杀，奸淫掳掠，无恶不作的景象。战乱中侥幸逃生后，老实人到了荷兰境内，遇见导师邦葛罗斯。邦葛罗斯已染上性病，变得面目全非，但仍然坚持“一切皆美”的说教。师徒二人一起流落到西班牙，遇上大地震。两人都被里斯本的宗教裁判所无辜捉拿判处火刑，以阻止地震。他们奇迹般脱险后，老实人巧遇恋人居内贡，邦葛罗斯则不知去向。原来男爵一家在战乱中惨遭不幸，小姐被人贩卖到里斯本。老实人杀死了玩弄居内贡的犹太银行家和大法官，携居内贡逃往他处。不料案发，老实人不得已暂别居内贡，只带仆人加刚菩到巴拉圭避风。尔后又历尽风险到达黄金国。休养生息了一个多月之后，老实人和加刚菩满载金银财宝分头寻找居内贡。途中，老实人辗转巴黎，几乎被骗子神甫等盘剥一空，还亲眼看见人们互相残杀的场面和尔虞我诈的勾当，开始对“天下十全十美”的哲学产生怀疑。后来在悲观哲学家马丁的帮助下，老实人得知爱人居内贡在君士坦丁堡当奴隶，他历尽艰辛，终于和大难不死的邦葛罗斯及被生活折磨得奇丑无比的居内贡等人在君士坦丁堡重逢。老实人信守诺言，娶居内贡为妻，并购买了地产和同伴们一起生活。但是，日子过得百无聊赖，幸亏从一个土耳其庄稼汉那里受到启发：“工作可以免除三大不幸——烦恼、纵欲和饥寒。”这样，老实人省悟了，告诫同伴“种我们的田地要紧”。小说就此结束。

The Bobbsey Twins series. This interesting children’s series first became available to readers all the way back in 1904. That is when the debut book in the series came out. It ran for quite a while and the last of the books would be released in 1979.

This is a book of stories. For that reason I have excluded all purelylyrical poems. But the word "stories" has been stretched to its fullestapplication. It includes both narrative poems, properly so called; talesdivided into scenes; and a few pieces of less obvious story-telling import in which one might say that the ramatis personae are air, clouds, trees, houses, streets, and such like things. It has long been a favourite idea of mine that the rhythms of `verslibre' have not been sufficiently plumbed, that there is in them a power of variation which has never yet been brought to the light of experiment. Ithink it was the piano pieces of Debussy, with their strange likeness to short vers libre poems, which first showed me the close kinship of musicand poetry, and there flashed into my mind the idea of using the movement of poetry in somewhat the same way that the musician uses the movement of music.

It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consisted of only six chapters. For the finished product, however, Alcott continued the story from the chapter "Six Years Afterwards" and so it ended up with nineteen chapters in all. The book turns around Polly Milton, the old-fashioned girl who titles the story. Polly visits her wealthy friend Fanny Shaw in the city and is overwhelmed by the fashionable and urban life they live––but also left out because of her "countrified" manners and outdated clothes. The novel was the basis of a 1949 musical film starring Gloria Jean as Polly.

斯克罗吉积攒了很多钱，然而他却不舍得为职员的炉火加一块儿煤，他的侄子好意的邀请他参加圣诞夜的晚会，他却认为侄子是为了占他的便宜而推辞，社会活动者请他为穷人施舍一点圣诞的饭菜，也被他无情地断然拒绝。他晚上回到了家，夜幕里他看见了三个幽灵，这真的是幽灵？还是他的幻像？然而，幽灵的出现却使他发生了天翻地覆的变化。

One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest. From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'" In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic.