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一个刚刚离婚、整天酗酒的伦敦女人蕾切尔（Rachel），她每天早上坐火车都会经过一对夫妻的房子，那对夫妻看上去十分完美，直到有一天蕾切尔发现妻子不见了，蕾切尔怀疑她被人害了，于是开始沉迷于对此事的调查。

本书是美国迄今为止最重要、读者最多的自传作品之一，无论从自传的角度还是从美国思想史的角度来看，都具有划时代的意义。富兰克林以拉家常的方式，把自己成功的经验和失败的教训娓娓道来，整部自传在通俗易懂的叙述中不时会有睿智和哲理的火花，开创了美国传记文学的优良传统，使自传成为一种新的文学体裁。《富兰克林自传》是在读者如饥似渴的等待中出版的，一经问世被一抢而光。世界各地的青年人都希望学习富兰克林成功的秘诀，他们把这部书当成“人生指导”读物。

The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism. Maugham wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley. The Magician was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography. The novel inspired a 1926 Rex Ingram film of the same name, see: The Magician (1926 film).

Don Quixote , fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha (Spanish: El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.

One of nineteenth-century novelist George MacDonald's most important works, Phantastes tells the story of its narrator's dreamlike adventures in fairyland, masterfully recounted to convey a sense of profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. Introduced by C.S. "I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of its depth and meaning. At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self. The glory of MacDonald's work is that this surrender is both hard won (or lost!) and yet rippling with joy when at last experienced. As the narrator says of a heavenly woman in this tale, "She knew something too good to be told." One senses the same of the author himself.

每天清晨，羚羊都知道，它必须跑得比最快的狮子快；狮子知道，它必须跑得比最慢的羚羊快。不管是狮子还是羚羊，太阳升起时，都要开始奔跑。地球上的其他哺乳动物都在自由奔跑，难道只有人类是例外？ 墨西哥的铜峡谷，隐居着史上最强的长跑族群塔拉乌马拉人。他们能活下来，是因为父辈跑得比鹿快，而父辈能活下来，是因为祖父跑得比阿帕奇人的战马快。他们永远不知道追赶猎物时要跑多快多久。只有随时调整姿势、方向和速度，敏捷地在石块和沟壑间蹦跳，才能跑过错综的山路，爬上陡峭的岩壁，回家。 塔拉乌马拉人跑，与其说是为了更快，不如说是为了彼此更接近，与自然无限地接近。 原来，人天生就会跑！

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. 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. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail.

故事发生在彼得、苏珊、爱德蒙和露茜统治纳尼亚的时期。一天，少年沙斯塔发现自己将被他的养父卖给一个凶恶的卡乐门贵族为奴。夜里，他和贵族的战马布里一起逃跑。布里原是纳尼亚会说话的马。沙斯塔和它一起逃往纳尼亚。途中，他们遇到了贵族少女阿拉维斯和她会说话的母马赫温。阿拉维斯是因为不满包办婚姻而逃跑的。于是他们四个便结伴而行。途中，他们历尽艰险，还得知卡乐门王子拉巴达什在向苏珊女王求婚被拒之后，试图突袭阿钦兰的安瓦德城，然后再进攻纳尼亚。在狮王阿斯兰的帮助下，他们骑马飞奔报信，最后，沙斯塔拯救了纳尼亚和阿钦兰。胜利后，他发现自己是阿钦兰王子，原名科奥，自幼被居心不良的叛徒偷走，后被渔夫所抚养。他后来继承了阿钦兰王位，并与阿拉维斯结婚。