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"Star Hunter" tells the story of a man who thinks with another's brain as he is pursued in a dangerous game of hide and seek. This adventure story captures the reader's attention from the very first sentences. "Nahuatl's larger moon pursued the smaller, greenish globe of its companion across a cloudless sky in which the stars made a speckled pattern like the scales of a huge serpent coiled around a black bowl. Ras Hume paused at the border of scented spike-flowers on the top terrace of the Pleasure House to wonder why he thought of serpents. He understood. Mankind's age-old hatred, brought from his native planet to the distant stars, was evil symbolized by a coil in a twisted, belly-path across the ground. And on Nahuatl, as well as a dozen other worlds, Wass was the serpent."

裘德·弗利是一个不懈努力的年轻人，他如饥似渴地学习以提高自己，并向老师理查德·菲洛森学习古典作品及神学。老师要去基督大教堂这个大学城学习。为了生计他成了石匠并离开韦塞克斯来到基督大教堂，他希望一边干活一边继续学业。他和两个截然不同的女人的关系阻碍了他的发展。裘德在到达基督大教堂之前遇到了阿拉贝娜·唐，一个养猪农民的女儿。她当时正在和其他年轻女人洗杀死的猪身上的器官。她把一个公猪生殖器扔到了裘德的头上以引起他的注意。被她的外貌所吸引，裘德把这串肉还给她，两人就开始了浪漫的调情，而那串肉被随手挂在了附近的桥栏杆上。之后不久在阿拉贝娜的引诱下，他们结为夫妻。在最初的激情过后，他俩并没有共同语言，最终两人分手。尽管他们已有了孩子。重获自由可追求学业的裘德。来到基督大教堂并见到了他的表亲淑·布赖德黑德，一个性格上阴柔与阳刚交集的女人。她的才华和她为妇女权利和性别平等做出的努力使她成为一个“新女性”。尽管两人相爱，淑还是选择嫁给裘德的老师菲洛森。他们的婚姻并不幸福。在淑离开菲洛森之后，她与裘德生活在一起。他们生了两个孩子，但孩子都被裘德和阿拉贝娜的孩子法瑟·蒂姆杀死。法瑟·蒂姆也自杀了。淑离开裘德后，裘德又回到阿拉贝娜身边，但已命不久矣。裘德望着他迫切想要进入的却拒他于门外的大学而死。死时未满三十岁。阿拉贝娜发现他的尸体后，决定等到第二天告诉所有的人，这样她就可以和裘德朋友共享节日之夜了。

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide,with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who went on to become a senior manager in Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom he often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, "as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff.This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, entitled Three Men on the Bummel. A similar book was published seven years before Jerome's work, entitled Three in Norway (by two of them) by J. A. Lees and W. J. Clutterbuck. It tells of three men on an expedition into the wild Jotunheimen in Norway.

A league of tangled forest and canyon behind Rough-and-Ready, for which he had paid Don Ramon's heirs an extravagant price in the presumption that it was auriferous, furnished the most accessible timber to build the town, at prices which amply remunerated him.

Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present ... Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu. A master criminal, Fu Manchu's murderous plots are marked by the extensive use of arcane methods; he disdains guns or explosives, preferring dacoits, Thuggee, and members of other secret societies as his agents armed with knives, or using "pythons and hamadryads... fungi and my tiny allies, the bacilli... my black spiders" and other peculiar animals or natural chemical weapons.

From the Earth to the Moon与Round the Moon的中文译名分别为《从地球到月球》和《环月旅行》，两部小说前后呼应，构成了一个完整的故事。本书是充满传奇、冒险与幻想的科幻巨著，由法国著名作家、“现代科幻小说之父”儒勒·凡尔纳编著。 故事讲述的是美国南北战争结束后，一些退伍军人在巴尔的摩成立了大炮俱乐部。俱乐部主席巴比康大胆设想，倡议用大炮把人送上月球，并因此建立地球与月球之间的联系。当法国冒险家米歇尔获悉这一消息后，建议造一颗可以载人的空心炮弹。为了实现到月球探险的愿望，志同道合的巴比康、米歇尔和船长尼切尔随着空心炮弹的发射升空出发了。运行中的炮弹碰到流星，致使轨道偏离，未能在月球上着陆，却在离月球2800英里的地方绕月飞行。

1877年短篇小说集《三故事》一篇，作者通过日常生活细节，塑造了一个朴实动人的劳动妇女形象，展现了她美好善良的心灵和勇敢机智的品质。

Set ten years later than Three Men in a Boat it tells of a cycling expedition through the Black Forest.