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Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humourous travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). In 1877, he decided to try his hand at acting, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe who tried to produce plays on a shoestring budget, often drawing on the meager resources of the actors themselves to purchase costumes and props. He tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years he was a school teacher, a packer, and a solicitor's clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage-and Off, a humourous book, the publication of which opened the door for more plays and essays

Emile Gaboriau (1833-1873) is an important figure in the history of detective fiction. A French journalist and novelist, he created the "roman policier" with a series of books involving private detective Monsieur Lecoq, who works logically. Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned policeman named Francois Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs mixed fiction and fact. Gaboriau's huge following was eclipsed by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Interestingly, Holmes may have been at least partly based on another of Gaboriau's characters, consulting detective Father Tabaret, whose methods Monsieur Lecoq adopts in the first Lecoq book.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound.

美籍阿富汗裔作家卡勒德·胡塞尼第三部小说，2013年5月21日在美国首发，出版5个月，销量就突破300万册。荣获美国亚马逊书店2013年上半年最佳图书、美国独立书店排行第一、巴诺书店（Barnes & Noble）畅销榜首、书店店员首选推荐上半年度最佳小说、美国国家公共电台（NPR）夏季最佳图书、ABC《早安美国》读书俱乐部夏季最佳图书。故事简介：讲述了一对兄妹因贫穷和战争铸成的六十年悲欢离合。围绕父母、兄妹、甚至表亲和继母，他们如何去爱，如何被伤害，如何相互背叛，如何为彼此牺牲。 这部小说形式类似短篇小说集，整部小说一共九章，分别由九个不同人物作为第一人称来讲述故事。小说不仅延续了胡塞尼一贯的悲伤和温情风格，而且小说技巧更加丰富圆熟，被誉为胡塞尼迄今最具野心的一部小说。

The Golden Slipper is a collection of nine mysteries solved by Violet Strange, a young sleuth. 

塞缪尔·约翰逊(Samuel Johnson),英国作家,批评家。（1709—1784）英国文学史上重要的诗人、散文家、传记家和健谈家，编纂的《词典》对英语发展作出了重大贡献。和琼森一样，他也是当时文坛的一代盟主，他对文学小说诗歌文学作品的评论，即使片言只语，也被众口宣传，当作屑金碎玉。约翰逊1765年出版了经他校订的《莎士比亚全集》，这个版本在后世常为学者诟病，因为约翰逊有时出于己意，对原文进行删改。他对莎评的主要贡献，在于他为莎剧所作的批注和他为这个版本所作的序言。在约翰逊时代，文化氛围已经在向浪漫主义方向发展，人们已不再视“三一律”为神圣。与德莱登、伏尔泰相比，约翰逊是更为宽容的新古典主义者。

《远离尘嚣（Far from the madding crowd）》发表于一八七四年，是哈代第一部成功的长篇，也是他此后一系列以威塞克斯乡村为背景的优秀长篇小说的第一部。这些小说包括《还乡记》（1878）、《卡斯特桥市长》（1886）、《德伯家的苔丝》（1891）以及《无名的裘德》（1896）。这一系列作品反映了资本主义发展在英国农村城镇的社会、经济、道德、人伦、风俗等方面所引起的深刻而剧烈的变化，表现了现存道德观念和法律制度与这一变化之间的冲突，以及处于这一变化冲突间的“威塞克斯乡民”的惶惑和抗争。变幻莫测、无从把握的命运和作为人的本能和感情之表现的爱情，是哈代作品中两个最主要的内容。

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