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德国语言学家雅可布·格林和威廉·格林兄弟收集、整理、加工完成的德国民间文学，大部分源自民间的口头传说。它是世界童话的经典之作，自问世以来，在世界各地影响十分广泛。格林兄弟以其丰富的想象、优美的语言给孩子们讲述了一个个神奇而又浪漫的童话故事。故事用通俗、质朴、流畅的语言，对神奇童话世界里湛蓝的天空、茂密的森林、英俊的王子、美丽的公主等进行了描写，颂扬了诚实、善良、勤劳、勇敢，批评了懒惰、自私、虚伪、狡猾，体现了德国人民丰富的想象力，优美的内心世界和崇高的道德境界。

This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems… (Summary by Gesine)

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。

Tragic novel by Edith Wharton, published in 1911. Wharton's original style and her use of hard-edged irony and the flashback technique set Ethan Frome apart from the work of her contemporaries. The main characters are Ethan Frome, his wife Zenobia, called Zeena, and her young cousin Mattie Silver. Frome and Zeena marry after she nurses his mother in her last illness. Although Frome seems ambitious and intelligent, Zeena holds him back. When her young cousin Mattie comes to stay on their New England farm, Frome falls in love with her. But the social conventions of the day doom their love and their hopes. The story forcefully conveys Wharton's abhorrence of society's unbending standards of loyalty. Written while Wharton lived in France but before her divorce (1913), Ethan Frome became one of the best known and most popular of her works.

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators. Join Allan as he relives his past lives with the help of the Holy Flower he discovered in Africa.

爵士Mauley是黑侏儒，是作者根据斯科特的一位相熟的现实中的人塑造的一个形象。Mauley被卷进了他朋友的一次吵架中-当他因为这次吵架入狱的时候才发现，他被害他失去自由的朋友背叛了。被释放的时候，他去了Mucklestane Moor，在那里他可以展示他非凡的能力，学识和医术和财富，这使得当地人把他当做幽灵-恶魔的仆人...... Sir Edward Mauley is "The Black Dwarf," a character based on a very real man of Scott's acquaintance. Mauley becomes involved in the quarrel of a friend -- and, when imprisoned for his actions in that quarrel, finds himself betrayed by the very man in whose cause he lost his liberty. When free, he goes to Mucklestane Moor, where his extraordinary strength, knowledge of medicine, and ready wealth lead the local people to regard him as a supernatural being -- a servant of the Devil. . . .

"Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea. Beyond them to the east there lies a desert, for ever untroubled by man: all yellow it is, and spotted with shadows of stones, and Death is in it, like a leopard lying in the sun . . ." So begins "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean," Lord Dunsany's celebrated story about the enchantment of the sea over young men. This collection of sixteen stories, including "Idle Days on the Yann," "Bethmoora," and "In Zaccarath," contains Dunsany's finest writing. Dunsany is considered the precursor of modern fantasy. His style influenced, among others, H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "pirates and buried gold". First published as a book in 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881-82 under the title The Sea Cook; or, Treasure Island: A Story for Boys. Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, character and action, and also a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality—as seen in Long John Silver—unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatised of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen with parrots on their shoulders.