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Chapter 1 New Historical Romance Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda<br>3. Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel<br>4. John Jeffery Farnol: The Broad Highway<br><br>Chapter 2 Supernatural Horror Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Brain Stoker: Dracula<br>3. Montague Rhodes James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary<br>4. Algernon Blackwood.. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories<br><br>Chapter 3 New Speculative Science Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Herbert George Wells: The First Man in the Moon<br>3. John Davys Beresford: The Hampdenshire Wonder<br>4. David Lindsay: A Voyage to Arcturus<br><br>Chapter 4 Espionage Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Erskine Childers: The Riddle of the Sands<br>3. William Le Queux.. The Czars Spy<br>4. John Buchan: The Thirty-Nine Steps<br><br>Chapter 5 Pornographic Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Elinor Glyn: Three Weeks<br>3. E. M. Hull: The Sheik<br><br>Chapter 6 New Magic Fantasy Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Edith Nesbit: The Enchanted Castle<br>3. Eric Rucker Eddison: The Worm Ouroboros<br>4. Lord Dunsay: The King of Elflands Daughter<br><br>Chapter 7 NewWomens Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Florence L. Barclay: The Rosary<br>3. Ethel Mary Dell: The Way of an Eagle<br>4. Ruby Mildred Ayres: The Second Honeymoon<br><br>Chapter 8 Magic Horror Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Walter de la Mare: The Return<br>3. Sax Rohmer: Brood of the Witch-Queen<br>4. Jack Mann: Grey Shapes<br><br>Chapter 9 Golden Detective Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Freeman Wills Crofts: The Cask<br>3. Dorothy L. Sayers: Whose Body<br>4. Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express<br><br>Chapter 10 Heroic Fantasy Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Charles Williams: The Greater Trumps<br>3. Terence Hanbury White: The Sword in the Stone<br>4. Clive Staples Lewis: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<br><br>Chapter 11 Historical Love Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. Georgette Heyer: The Conqueror<br>3. Margaret Irwin: The Royal Flush<br>4. Barbara Cartland: The Sweet Enchantress<br><br>Chapter 12 Hard Science Fiction<br>1. Overview<br>2. William Olaf Stapledon: Last and First Men<br>3. John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids<br>4. Arthur C. Clarke: 2001 : A Space Odyssey<br>Select Bibliography内容摘要
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