《英文观止》一书规模宏大，全书分为上、下册，1400多页，160万字；上启公元8世纪的英国文学史诗《贝奥武甫》下至20世纪70年代的美国华裔文学，其中中古英语作品在国内第一次以原文风貌展现给读书。这是继著名学者王佐良、李赋宁等人编写的《英国文学名篇选注》之后23年第一部最重要的文学详注读本。

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic.

An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.

《独角兽》表面看来是一部复杂纯熟、充满神秘色彩的哥特式罗曼司。汉娜先是个与他人通奸、将丈夫推下悬崖的恶毒淫妇，然后又变身成为承载着无数人的想象、无欲无求、甘心承担一切罪恶并甘愿为世人献身赎罪的耶稣基督。而当这个救世主因为自己丈夫即将归来，突然变成真实的个体，一个与人通奸又试图谋害亲夫的邪恶女人时，无论是她还是众人经由对她的想象所创建的那个精神上的空中楼阁均瞬间崩塌……全书既有曲折生动甚至浪漫神秘的故事，又笼罩着一种世事无常、一位皆为荒诞的宗教-哲学氛围，既引人入胜又耐人寻味。

Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man.