《七侠五义》是中国平民文学中的一个流派——侠义公案小说的代表性作品。小说描叙的是公元11世纪，中国北宋(960～1127)年间一群侠义之士归服清官包拯，并协助包拯断案除害的故事。该小说脱胎于清代(1644～1911)著名艺人石玉昆的说书，后由文人俞樾加以润饰，修订而成。书中故事曲折离奇，语言风趣流畅，塑造出了展昭、白玉堂等12位侠客义士，人物形象生动鲜明。该书问世后，轰动一时，上至文人名仕，下至市井小民皆陶醉其中。 《七侠五义))成书于公元19世纪的清朝后期，也是中国君主专制社会的末期。当时整个社会弥漫着愤懑不平和焦躁不安的情绪，侠义公案小说在此时诞生，他在一定程度上宣泄着百姓对社会的不满，同时也反映了百姓把希望寄托在辅佐清官的侠士身上的意识。这类小说都是从口头文学到书面文学，具有浓厚的市井气息和民间说唱

《太平广记》是成书于北宋太平兴国年间（976～984）的中国古代小说总集，收录了上自先秦、下至北宋初年的小说作品约7000则。这些作品的内容以志怪传奇为主，通过简洁洗练的文字，记录或叙述一个个异闻趣事。该书所记录的题材内容，以及所形成的志怪传奇的艺术形式，对中国文言小说以至中国文学的发展影响巨大，宋以后，许多作者从《太平广记》中选取题材、转引故事，加以敷衍，创造传奇和戏曲。同时，该书引用的四百余种书籍，大多已经失传，正是得益于《太平广记》的采录保存，这些失传的古籍文献才能为后人所了解和认识。 本书选录了《太平广记》中较为成熟的篇目共155篇，中文版本选自中华书局出版的汪绍楹点校本，英文选自张光前译本。

“评话”，原是讲说故事的一种民间表演技艺，在宋代的城市里极为盛行。后来，这类口头表演的内容被记录整理成书面文字，称为“话本”或者“白话小说”。元代时开始专指演叙历史题材的白话小说为评话，到了明清两代，评话便成了涵盖各种题材的白话小说的通称。“评话”以城市中的普通大众作为主要的读者对象，语言通俗易懂，内容也多是反映市井小人物的荣枯沉浮和悲欢离合，表现的是与传统士大夫诗文迥然不同的市俗精神风貌，有着极高的文学、艺术价值。 《喻世明言》、《警世通言》、《醒世恒言》、《拍案惊奇》和《二刻拍案惊奇》（合称“三言二拍”）是五部为著名的宋明短篇白话小说集，其中很多作品在成书后不久即被翻译成多种外文，流传到世界各地。本书的20篇作品均选自于上述五部小说集，英文部分由著名的翻译家杨宪益、戴乃迭

《十日谈》是欧洲文学目前第一部现实主义巨著，约写于1349-1353年间。作品开头有个序曲，叙述了在佛罗伦萨瘟疫流行的背景下，十名青年男女在一所乡村别墅里避难时所发生的事情。十个青年每人每天讲一个故事，十天共讲了一百个故事，故名《十日谈》。每篇故事长短不一，内容包罗万象，而人文主义思想是贯穿全书的一条主线。

《战争与和平（上下）》 俄罗斯伟大作家列夫？托尔斯泰的《战争与和平》是世界文学目前一部不朽名著。作家以一八一二年拿破仑入侵俄国为中心，描写俄国人民奋起抗击侵略者的英勇场景。本书具有史诗的气魄，画面广阔，人物众多。书中既有俄国和西欧重大历史事件的记叙，又有故事情节的虚构；既写了金戈铁马、刀光血影的战斗，又写了安逸宁静的日常生活；既有慷慨激昂的议人论世，又有细腻婉约的抒情述怀。作者以高超的艺术技巧塑造了一系列鲜明的人物形象，写尽了各种人情世态。著名作家屠格涅夫称这部小说为“伟大作家的伟大作品”，说从中可以“更加直接和更加准确地了解俄罗斯人民的性格和气质以及整个俄国生活”，读它“胜过读几百部有关民族学和历史的著作”。 《复活》 《复活(精)》(1889―1890)是列夫·托尔斯泰思想艺术的总结。作品

This celebrated Chinese classic novel is a masterpiece of realism written in themiddle of the 18th century. Taking as its background the decline of several relatedbig families and drawing much from his own experiences， the author Can Xueqin（？- c.1763） focused on the tragic love between Jia Baoyou and Lin Daiyu and， inthe meantime， provided a panorama of the lives of people of various levels in thedegenerating empire. But he left the work unfinished （or the last 40 chapterswere lost）. Gao E （c.1738- cA815） completed the work some years later in muchof Gao's spirit and also put in his own revelations， which aroused protractedcontroversy throughout the centuries. Exposing social evils， the book cries outits denunciation against the feudal system. All techniques of literal' merit developedin previous periods were incorporated into the great work with much originality. Itstands out in world literature， ranking with Hamlet and War and Peace. Illustratedwith woodblock prints.

Stealing the Golden Bells, tells how Monkey cures the king of Purpuria of his illness. Monkey learns that the queen has been kidnapped by a demon doing harm in the kingdom. He manages to enter the demon's cave, steal his magic golden bells, subdue him and rescue the queen.

From Emperor to Citien is the autobiography of Pu Yi, the man who was the last emperor of China. A unique memoir of the first half of the 20th century as seen through the eyes of one born to be an absolute monarch, the book begins with the author's vivid account of the last, decadent days of the Ching Dynasty,and closes with an introspective self-portrait of the last Ching emperor transformed into a retiring scholar and citizen of the People's Republic of China. In detailing the events of the fifty years between his ascension to the throne and the final period of his life as a quiet-living resident of Beijing, Pu Yi reveals himself to be first and foremost a survivor, caught up in the torrent of global power struggles and world conflict that played itself out on the Asian continent through many decades of violence and upheaval. This firsthand de*ion of the dramatic events of Pu Yi's life was the basis for the intemationally acclaimed 1987 Bemardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor which was named Be

《悲惨世界》是雨果最重要的作品。在这部小说中，雨果刻画了从拿破仑滑铁卢的失败直到反对七月王朝的人民起义这一阶段的历史面貌，绘制了一幅规模宏大的社会和政治生活的图画。书中描述了在逃犯冉·阿让和流落街头的妇女芳汀，还有她的女儿珂赛特三位中心人物的悲惨遭遇，愤怒地谴责和控诉了造成这一切不合理和不公平现象的原因。 此次收入“丛书”，特为中小学生课外阅读制作，书前配有“导读”，书后有“知识链接”，以给青少年朋友以必要阅读指引和知识积累。

Catching the Red Boy, tells how the Tang Priest is tricked by a demon who disguises himself as a boy, Monkey battles the demon but cannot defeat him because the demon uses more powerful magic, so Monkey sends Pig to fetch the Bodhisattva Guanyin. With her help Monkey finally conquers the demon and rescues his master.

Trouble on Black Wind Mountain, tells how the Tang Priest's cassock is stolen by the Black Bear Spirit when Monkey shows it off at the Guanyin Monastery. To get it back, Monkey makes trouble on the Black Wind Mountain before the Bodhisattva Guanyin agrees to help subdue the Black Bear Spirit and get the cassock back.

《战争与和平（上下）》 俄罗斯伟大作家列夫？托尔斯泰的《战争与和平》是世界文学目前一部不朽名著。作家以一八一二年拿破仑入侵俄国为中心，描写俄国人民奋起抗击侵略者的英勇场景。本书具有史诗的气魄，画面广阔，人物众多。书中既有俄国和西欧重大历史事件的记叙，又有故事情节的虚构；既写了金戈铁马、刀光血影的战斗，又写了安逸宁静的日常生活；既有慷慨激昂的议人论世，又有细腻婉约的抒情述怀。作者以高超的艺术技巧塑造了一系列鲜明的人物形象，写尽了各种人情世态。著名作家屠格涅夫称这部小说为“伟大作家的伟大作品”，说从中可以“更加直接和更加准确地了解俄罗斯人民的性格和气质以及整个俄国生活”，读它“胜过读几百部有关民族学和历史的著作”。 《复活》 《复活(精)》(1889―1890)是列夫·托尔斯泰思想艺术的总结。作品

The MONKEY SERIES are picture books based on the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West, a story rich in tales about demons and monsters who try to stop the Tang Priest Xuanzang from reaching the Thunder Monastery in India to fetch Buddhist *ures. The real hero of this novel, loved for four hundred years by Chinese readers, is the resourceful, brave and humorous Monkey.

The Beginnings of Monkey tells how Monkey is born when a magic stone on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit splits open, how he becomes the Handsome Monkey King, how he sails across the seas to learn great magical powers,and how he comes back home to deal with the demons who have taken over the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.

《飘》是美国作家玛格丽特·米切尔创作的长篇小说，该作1937年获得普利策文学奖。小说以亚特兰大以及附近的一个种植园为故事场景，描绘了内战前后美国南方人的生活。一方面，小说从主人公斯佳丽命运的变迁、情感的经历反映出人生命运的变化无常，塑造了一个坚强独立的女性形象，并通过一系列意象表达了小说的文学主旨，具有独特的艺术魅力和审美价值。另一方面，《飘》镜像式地呈现了两种重农主义之间的斗争以及内战后重农主义的全线崩溃。女主角斯佳丽战后为重振田园所付出巨大代价，隐喻了重农主义在南方终将没落的命运。斯佳丽执着的不是虚幻的爱情，而是情人阿希礼所代表的南方重农主义文化。作为重农主义神话的悲壮挽歌，《飘》也反映了大萧条时期美国人对过度重商主义的普遍质疑以及对社会过快转型的不适和怀旧。

"The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus is has ever been." With this characterization of the inevitable cycle of Chinese history, the monumental tale Three Kingdoms begins. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be read and loved throughout China as well as in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The novel offers a startling and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways that Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. ThreeKingdomsportrays a fateful moment at the end of the Hart dynasty(206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the future of the Chinese empire lay in the balance.Writing more than a millennium later, Luo Guanzhong drew on ofen-told tales of this turbulent period to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative, whose characters display vivid individuality and epic grandeur. The story begins when the e

The MONKEY SERIES are picture books based on the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West, a story rich in tales about demons and monsters who try to stop the Tang Pdest Xuanzang from reaching the Thunder Monastery in India to fetch Buddhist *ures. The real hero of this novel,loved for four hundred years by Chinese readers, is the resourceful, brave and humorous Monkey.

该书以导盲犬珍妮的口吻讲述了它与主人陈燕之间成长励志的故事，其中的酸甜苦涩是她们一生珍贵的回忆。 她生于北京，它长于大连。 她从小被亲生父母抛弃，它却有三个深深爱着自己的家庭。 它离开故乡，只为日夜陪伴在她身旁。她放弃蒸蒸日上的事业，就为给它一个无牵无绊的家。她是中国位女盲人钢琴调率师，它是一条拉布拉多导盲犬。 命运使她和它走到了一起，她是它的“妈妈”，它是她的“眼睛”。他们一起担当，共同分享喜悦，他们是两个不能分开的灵魂。

The MONKEY SERIES are picture books based on the ancient Chinese fantasy novel Journey to the West, a story rich in tales about demons and monsters who try to stop the Tang Priest Xuanzang from reaching the Thunder Monastery in India to fetch Buddhist *ures. The real hero of this novel,loved for four hundred years by Chinese readers, is the resourceful, brave and humorous Monkey.