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人类进入宇宙殖民时代后，与强大而好战的圣约人遭遇，圣约人宣称人类亵渎了他们的信仰，对人类发动了全面战争。很早以前，人类就在进行一个绝密军事计划——“斯巴达II”。

在英国维多利亚时代，资本主义经济的迅速发展使田园牧歌式的封建宗法制社会急剧瓦解，恬静的乡村生活已不那么平静了。勤劳朴实的加布里埃尔在趋于赤贫的情况下爱上了女农场主芭思希芭并做了她的羊倌。可是轻佻的芭思希芭却醉心于乡村中一个唐璜式的浪荡不羁人物特洛伊。特罗伊曾引诱过一位天真无邪的姑娘范妮，后来又抛弃她与芭思希芭结了婚。另一个农场主波德伍德像疯了似的爱着曾“引诱”过他的芭思希芭，后来他杀死了特洛伊，陷入精神错乱，被判终身监禁。最后芭思希芭与对她忠心耿耿的加布里埃尔结了婚。

《地海孤雏》（Tehanu）是美国作家娥苏拉·勒瑰恩于1990年发表的奇幻小说，是地海系列的第四部长篇小说，获得1990年的星云奖。故事叙述中年孀居的恬娜收养遭火烧伤的女孩瑟鲁，并与失去法力的格得相会、一同生活的过程。

Maurice LeBlanc became famous for the creation of Ars?ne Lupin, a gentleman thief and master of disguise. LeBlanc was born to a wealthy family, studied law, worked as a police reporter for a time, then found his career as a fiction writer. His first Lupin novel, was hugely popular and set the pattern for his career. While LeBlanc wrote much other fiction, it was the Lupin series which made him internationally famous, the French equivalent of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Anne of the Island is a the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling "Anne of Green Gables." In the continuing story of Anne Shirley, Anne attends Redmond College in Kingsport, where she is studying for her BA.

The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

Neverwhere is an urban fantasy television series by Neil Gaiman that first aired in 1996 on BBC Two. The series is set in "London Below", a magical realm coexisting with the more familiar London, referred to as "London Above". It was devised by Neil Gaiman and Lenny Henry, and directed by Dewi Humphreys. Gaiman later adapted the series into book form. The series & novel were partially inspired by Gene Wolfe's novel Free Live Free   I have never been to St. John's Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of firtrees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the bearing of the wings of the Eagle.     --_The Napoleon of Netting Hill, G. K. Chesterton     If ever thou gavest hosen or shoon     Then every night and all     Sit thou down and put them on     And Christ receive thy soul     _This aye night, this aye night     Every night and all     Fire and fleet and candlelight     And Christ receive they soul_     If ever thou gavest meat or drink     Then every night and all     The fire shall never make thee shrink     And Christ receive thy soul     --_The Lyke Wake Dirge_ (traditional)

This is Jules Verne's original sequel to a book that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. The narrative proceeds to build up our expectations of a spectacular "revelation" as only Verne can. At the same time the novel is very scientific and detailed. This expedition to the South Pole was based on a real person and an authentic journey. How will it end? What is the "mystery"? Is it a "lost civilization" or a definitive answer what was that great white shrouded figure that Pym witnessed in real life? This fantastic and exciting story by one of the world's best writers belongs in every Jules Verne library! Not to be missed!

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens. After the publication, the widow of the illustrator Robert Seymour claimed that the idea for the novel was originally her husband's; however, in his preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens strenuously denied any specific input, writing that "Mr Seymour never originated or suggested an incident, a phrase, or a word, to be found in the book." Dickens was asked to contribute to the project as an up and coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling instalments before being published in the complete volume). Dickens increasingly took over the unsuccessful monthly publication after Seymour had committed suicide. With the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10, the book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise.