类别：经典英文小说 作者： George Gissing 乔治·吉辛
简介： New Grub Street (1891), George Gissing's most highly regarded novel, is the story of men and women forced to make their living by writing. Their daily lives and broken dreams, made and marred by the rigors of urban life and the demands of the fledgli...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： George Gissing 乔治·吉辛
简介： The Nether World (1889) is a novel written by the English author George Gissing. The plot concerns several poor families living in the slums of 19th century London. Rich in naturalistic detail, the novel concentrates on the individual problems and ha...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Edgar Allan Poe
简介： UPON my return to the United States a few months ago, after the extraordinary series of adventure in the South Seas and elsewhere, of which an account is given in the following pages, accident threw me into the society of several gentlemen in Richmon...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Moving the Mountain tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved 'half a revolution' between 1960 and 1990. In this award-winning book, the most complete history of the women's movement to date, Flora Davis pre...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Fergus Hume
简介： A splash of chloroform . . . The drunken man was staggering -- but he was quite alive, when the thoughtful gentleman stumbled upon him in the thick Melbourne night, and hailed a cab to take him home. By the time the cabdriver was in the proper neighb...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Maxim Gorky 玛克西姆·高尔基
简介： 《母亲》是俄国伟大的无产阶级作家高尔基最优秀的作品之一。这部小说深刻地反映了20世纪初俄国无产阶级政党领导下波澜壮阔的群众革命斗争，第一次塑造了具有社会主义觉悟的无产阶级英雄的形象。小说描写了老钳工伊尔弗拉索夫的一生以及他的儿子的变化，通过这一家的遭遇...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees....
类别：经典英文小说 作者： H.G. Wells
简介： Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia (1905) has been called not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia. The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 瓦尔特.司各特 Sir Walter Scott
简介： Set on the eve of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland, The Monastery is full of supernatural events, theological conflict, and humour. Located in the lawless Scottish Borders, the novel depicts the monastery of Kennaquhair (a thinly disguised Melr...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. Sh...
