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英国作家约翰·罗纳德·瑞尔·托尔金创作的长篇小说，1937年首次出版。该书不仅惊险有加，充满童真童趣，而且投射了新的时代精神和作者独到的思考。2012年，该书被改编成同名电影系列。内容简介：一个热爱安逸生活的霍比特人比尔博·巴金斯，他毫无野心。清晨和煦，睿智巫师甘道夫的到来打破了宁静。“越过冰冷而又雾蒙蒙的大山，在那深深地下洞穴已有千年”吟着古老的歌谣，十三个矮人将比尔博硬拽进冒险远行的队伍。他们密谋突袭邪恶巨龙斯毛格的洞窟，夺回属于自己的千年宝藏。在这趟“意外之旅”之中，比尔博这个与世无争的霍比特人，却孤身一人在暗如永夜的山底洞穴中发现了足以改变整个世界的小小戒指。

       小乡绅班纳特有五个待字闺中的千金，班纳特太太整天操心着为女儿物色称心如意的丈夫。 新来的邻居彬格莱是个有钱的单身汉，他立即成了班纳特太太追猎的目标。在一次舞会上，彬格莱对班纳特家的大女儿吉英一见钟情，班纳特太太为此欣喜若狂。 参加舞会的还有彬格莱的好友达西。他仪表堂堂，非常富有，许多姑娘纷纷向他投去羡慕的目光；但他非常骄傲，认为她们都不配做他的舞伴，其中包括吉英的妹妹伊丽莎白。伊丽莎白自尊心很强，决定不去理睬这个傲慢的家伙。可是不久，达西对她活泼可爱的举止产生了好感，在另一次舞会上主动请她同舞,伊丽莎白不经意间答应了达西，但对达西还是有很深的偏见，所以两人还是不欢而散． 彬格莱的妹妹一心追求达西，她发现达西有意于伊丽莎白，妒火中烧，决意从中阻挠。而遭到伊丽莎白冷遇的达西也鄙视班纳特太太及其小女儿丽底亚的粗俗。在妹妹和好友达西的劝说下，彬格莱不辞而别，去了伦敦，但吉英对他还是一片深情。

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the son of an engineer. He briefly studied engineering, then law, and contributed to university magazines while a student. Despite life-long poor health, he was an enthusiastic traveller, writing about European travels in the late 1870s and marrying in America in 1879. He contributed to various periodicals, writing first essays and later fiction. His first novel was Treasure Island in 1883, intended for his stepson, who collaborated with Stevenson on two later novels. Some of Stevenson's subsequent novels are insubstantial popular romances, but others possess a deepening psychological intensity. He also wrote a handful of plays in collaboration with W.E. Henley. In 1888, he left England for his health, and never returned, eventually settling in Samoa after travelling in the Pacific islands. His time here was one of relatively good health and considerable writing, as well as of deepening concern for the Polynesian islanders under European exploitation, expressed in fictional and factual writing from his final years, some of which was so contrary to contemporary culture that a full text remained unavailable until well after Stevenson's death. R. L. Stevenson died of a brain haemorrhage in 1894.

A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". The story revolves around four characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Cyril Fielding, Mrs. Moore, and Adela Quested. During a trip to the Marabar Caves, Adela accuses Aziz of attempting to rape her. Aziz's trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring out all the racial tensions and prejudices between indigenous Indians and the British colonists who rule India. In A Passage to India, Forster employs his first-hand knowledge of India.　　本书是英国著名作家福斯特的代表作。二十世纪初，英国人穆尔夫人和阿德拉小姐前往印度，一个看望在那里任殖民官的儿子，另一个则是看望这位未婚夫。印度穆斯林医生阿齐兹出于热情和友谊，组织了不少人陪同两位客人前往当地名胜马拉巴山洞游览。在幽暗的山洞里，阿德拉小姐感觉似乎有人侮辱了她，于是掀起了一场轩然大波……