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The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on the paths

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。

《底牌》，又译作《牌中牌》，是英国推理小说作家阿加莎·克里斯蒂著的长篇小说。 故事简述的是四位侦探——赫尔克里·波洛、亚瑞妮·奥利弗太太、巴特尔警监、强尼·雷斯上校，在四名嫌疑人找出凶手，而每一位“侦探”都有自己的判断和理由。

"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequently published by Harper Collins in the collection The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories and Sketches (1900).

三部被誉为“二十世纪读者最多、最受爱戴的童话”之一。好莱坞根据本书改编的电影，让倔强而可爱的鼠小弟征服了全世界。内容简介：利特尔家的第二个孩子斯图尔特生下来只有两英寸高，模样活脱脱就是一只小老鼠。这位老鼠小弟心地善良、聪明伶俐，一家人里头，除了那只名叫“野茉莉”的猫，没有不喜欢它的。斯图尔特最要好的朋友是寄居在他们家的小鸟玛加洛，为了让美丽的玛加洛不受“野茉莉”的欺负，鼠小弟可真是鼓足了勇气，动足了脑筋。他发誓要把玛加洛找回来，于是开动玩具车就上了路。一路上，险情趣事层出不穷，鼠小弟历尽千辛万苦……鼠小弟最后到底有没有找到玛加洛呢？你一定猜不着。好莱坞根据本书改编的电影，让倔强而可爱的鼠小弟征服了全世界。

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly, but depressive John Jarndyce, and the childish and disingenuous Harold Skimpole, as well as the likeable but imprudent Richard Carstone. 　　At the novel's core is long-running litigation in England's Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. This case revolves around a testator who apparently made several wills, all of them seeking to bequeath money and land surrounding the Manor of Marr in South Yorkshire. The litigation, which already has consumed years and sixty to seventy thousand pounds sterling in court costs, is emblematic of the failure of Chancery. Dickens's assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk, and in part on his experiences as a Chancery litigant seeking to enforce his copyright on his earlier books. His harsh characterisation of the slow, arcane Chancery law process gave memorable form to pre-existing widespread frustration with the system. Though Chancery lawyers and judges criticized Dickens's portrait of Chancery as exaggerated and unmerited, his novel helped to spur an ongoing movement that culminated in enactment of the legal reform in the 1870s. In fact, Dickens was writing just as Chancery was reforming itself, with the Six Clerks and Masters mentioned in Chapter One abolished in 1842 and 1852 respectively: the need for further reform was being widely debated. These facts raise an issue as to when Bleak House is actually set. Technically it must be before 1842, and at least some of his readers at the time would have been aware of this. However, there is some question as to whether this timeframe is consistent with some of the themes of the novel. The great English legal historian Sir William Holdsworth (see below), set the action in 1827.

《贝奥武夫》（Beowulf） 一译贝奥武甫。完成于公元八世纪（约750年左右）的英雄叙事长诗。 全诗共3182行，以斯堪的纳维亚（Scandinavia）（位于北欧的斯堪的纳维亚半岛）的英雄贝奥武夫（Beowulf）的英勇事迹构成主要内容。虽然历史上并未证实确有贝奥武夫其人，但诗中所提及的许多其他人物与事迹却得到印证。 本诗以西撒克斯（Wessex）方言写成，押头韵而不押尾韵，用双字隐喻而不用明喻。是现存古英语文学中最古老的作品，也是欧洲最早的方言史诗。在语言学方面也是相当珍贵的文献。

A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie"[1] who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer.[2] The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his fiction. Her name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman, though her inspiration has also been said to include London's friend Anna Strunsky. It is also notable for a racist sensibility which is also detectable in some of his other work. Welse says at one point: "We are a race of doers and fighters, of globe-encirclers and zone-conquerors... All that the other races are not, the Anglo-Saxon, or Teuton if you please, is." Such sentiments were common currency in Jack London's time and he places them in the mouths of characters, not the narrator.