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The Ear in the Wall
Arthur Benjamin Reeve 试读
This early work by Arthur Benjamin Reeve was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Ear in the Wall' features super-sleuth Professor Craig Kennedy who is sometimes referred to as "The American Sherlock Holmes" due to his astounding ability at crime solving and his Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter. In 'The Ear in the Wall, ' Kennedy and Jameson, aided by a tough but compassionate woman detective start a race to save Betty Blackwell who has transcribed deals with criminal gangs and Wall Street plungers . Arthur Benjamin Reeve was born on 15th October 1880 in New York, USA. Reeve received his University education at Princeton and upon graduating enrolled at the New York Law School. However, his career was not destined to be in the field of Law. Between 1910 and 1918 he produced 82 short stories for Cosmopolitan. During this period he also began authoring screenplays, and by the end of the decade, his film career was at its peak with his name appearing on seven films, most of them serials and three of them starring Harry Houdini. Reeves died on 9th August 1936, a few years after moving to Trenton.
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English Men of Letters – Crabbe
Alfred Ainger 试读
Part of the English Men of Letters Series, published in 1903, this edition features George Crabbe the English poet and naturalist.
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Ten Girls from Dickens
Kate Dickinson Sweetser 试读
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book
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Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
Marie Daugherty Webster 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco
King of England James I 试读
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Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
Ellen Elizabeth Frewer 试读
Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving as a sailor on the schooner "Pilgrim." The crew are whale hunters that voyage every year down to New Zealand. As they plan their return after an unsuccessful season as the wife of the owner of the firm, Mrs. Weldon asks for a return passage to San Francisco for her five-year-old son Jack her cousin, an entomologist and herself. Several days into the journey they save five shipwrecked passengers from another ship and a dog who was with them at the time. Towards the end of their passage, they notice a whale and the crew, hoping for some profit after a bad season, decide to hunt it. Captain Hull reluctantly leaves Dick responsible for the ship. But the hunt goes awry and all the crew members are killed. Now Dick is left in charge of the ship with no experienced sailors to help him. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. He was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Studies of Trees
Jacob Joshua Levison 试读
In presenting this volume, the author is aware that there are several excellent books, dealing with one phase or another of tree life, already before the public. It is believed, however, that there is still need for an all-round book, adapted to the beginner, which gives in a brief and not too technical way the most important facts concerning the identification.....
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Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle 试读
Between the far away past history of the world, and that which lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history, a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of wickedness.
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Salted with Fire-George MacDonald
George MacDonald 试读
Blessed with quiet but keen dark eyes, and a complexion given a white-rose tinge by the fresh Scottish air, Maggie MacLean has grown to learn and love the trade of her father, the village's soutar, or shoemaker.A friend of her childhood has returned, she learns -- James Blatherwick, home from Edinburgh, where he was a divinity student. Yet the proud young man speaking so ably from the pulpit has a secret -- one he almost conceals from himself.Then an even stranger arrival startles her, when she stumbles upon the crying bairn -- a baby, abandoned upon the moor.
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Modern English Books of Power
George Hamlin Fitch 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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A Man and His Money
Frederic Stewart Isham 试读
"A mistake! Beg pardon!" he murmured with exquisite politeness and began to back out, when a somewhat brutal command on the other's part to "shut that d—— door d—— quick, and not let any more d—— hot air out" arrested the visitor's purpose. Instead of retreating, he advanced.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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The Lost Lady of Lone
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 试读
The preparations were being completed for a grand event. For on the morning of the next day a deep wrong was to be made right by the marriage of the young and beautiful Lady of Lone to the chosen lord of her heart.
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Susy, a story of the Plains
Bret Harte 试读
Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, and interminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat and dust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats on either side illimitable, and the distant horizon apparently remoter than ever, it suddenly slips between a stunted thicket or hedge of "scrub oaks," which until that moment had been undistinguishable above the long, misty, quivering level of the grain. The thicket rising gradually in height, but with a regular slope whose gradient had been determined by centuries of western trade winds, presently becomes a fair wood of live-oak, and a few hundred yards further at last assumes the aspect of a primeval forest.
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Lectures on Evolution
Thomas Henry Huxley 试读
The French expedition to Egypt had called the attention of learned men to the wonderful store of antiquities in that country, and there had been brought back to France numerous mummified corpses of the animals which the ancient Egyptians revered and preserved, and which, at a reasonable computation, must have lived not less than three or four thousand years before the time at which they were thus brought to light.
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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard Kipling 试读
"Plain Tales From the Hills" is a classic collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Contained here in this volume are the following tales: Lispeth, Three and-an Extra, Thrown Away, Miss Youghal's Sais, 'Yoked with an Unbeliever', False Dawn, The Rescue of Pluffles, Cupid's Arrows, The Three Musketeers, His Chance in Life, Watches of the Night, The Other Man, Consequences, The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, The Taking of Lungtungpen, A Germ-Destroyer, Kidnapped, The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly, In the House of Suddhoo, His Wedded Wife, The Broken Link Handicap, Beyond the Pale, In Error, A Bank Fraud, Tods' Amendment, The Daughter of the Regiment, In the Pride of His Youth, Pig, The Rout of the White Hussars, The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, Venus Annodomini, The Bisara of Pooree, A Friend's Friend, The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The Madness of Private Ortheris, The Story of Muhammad Din, On the Strength of a Likeness, Wressley of the Foreign Office, By Word of Mouth, and To be Filed for Reference.
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In the Midst of Alarms
Robert Barr 试读
A story of the attempted Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866. Novel by the teacher, journalist, editor and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland and educated in Canada. In 1876 he became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature "Luke Sharp." In 1881 he removed to London, to establish the weekly English edition of the Free Press, and in 1892 he joined Jerome K. Jerome in founding the Idler magazine, from whose co-editorship he retired in 1895. He was a prolific author, producing many popular novels of the day.
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Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
王尔德 试读
With a Preface by Robert Ross. Contents Include: How they Struck a Contemporary - The Quality of George Meredith - Life the Fallacious Model - Life the Disciple - Life the Plagiarist - The Indispensable East - The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate - An Exposure of Naturalism - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright - Wainewright at Hobart Town - Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers - Robert Browning - The Two Supreme and Highest Arts - The Secrets of Immortality - The Critic and his Material - Dante the Living Guide - The Limitations of Genius - Wanted a New Background - Without Frontiers - The Poetry of Archaeology - The Art of Archaeology - Herod Suppliant - The Tetrarch's Remorse - The Tetrarch's Treasure - Salome Anticipates Dr. Strauss - The Young King - A Coronation - The King of Spain - A Bull Fight - The Throne Room - A Protected Country - The Blackmailing of the Emperor - Covent Garden - A Letter from Miss Jane Percy to her Aunt - The Triumph of American 'Humor' - The Garden of Death - An Eton Kit-Cat - Mrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a Grandmother - Motherhood more than Marriage - The Damnable Ideal - From a Rejected Prize-Essay - The Possibilities of the Useful - The Artist - The Doer of Good - The Disciples - The Master - The House of Judgment - Wilde gives Directions about 'De Pro Fundis' - Carey Street - Sorrow Wears no Mask - Vita Nuova - The Grand Romantic - Clapham Junction - The Broken Resolution - Domesticity at Berneval - A Visit to the Pope
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The After House
Mary Roberts Rinehart 试读
By the bequest of an elder brother, I was left enough money to see me through a small college in Ohio, and to secure me four years in a medical school in the East. Why I chose medicine I hardly know. Possibly the career of a surgeon attracted the adventurous element in me. Perhaps, coming of a family of doctors, I merely followed the line of least resistance. It may be, indirectly but inevitably, that I might be on the yacht Ella on that terrible night of August 12, more than a year ago.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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Widdershins
Oliver Onions 试读
The centerpiece of this rare collection, "The Beckoning Fair One," is widely regarded as a classic of the horror genre. At first blush, it's a conventional haunted house story involving an unsuccessful writer, who moves into an empty house in hope that isolation will help his failing creativity. His sensitivity and imagination are enhanced by his seclusion, but his art, his only friend, and his sanity are all destroyed in the process. . . .
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The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
Thomas Henry Huxley 试读
“The narrative may be exactly true. That is to say, the words, taken in their natural sense, and interpreted according to the rules of grammar, may convey to the mind of the hearer, or of the reader an idea precisely correspondent with one which would have remained in the mind of a witness. For example, the statement that King Charles the First was beheaded at Whitehall on the 30th day of January 1649, is as exactly true as any proposition in mathematics or physics...”
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A Dog with a Bad Name
Talbot Baines Reed 试读
This book was published in 1894 and later serialized. It starts at Bolsover, with the headmaster's decision that all of the boys are to play rugby football. We are introduced to a great range of characters, amongst whom is "Cad" Jeffreys a hulking and short-tempered sort. Jeffreys severely injures the most popular boy at the school and leaves in disgrace. (Jeffreys is the "dog" with the bad name.) We then follow Jeffreys' path to redemption. This sounds rather dry and melodramatic, but the character sketches are so compelling, the dialogue is so bright, and the narrative is so driving it is actually a very refreshing and satisfying read.
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A Fair Barbarian
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
1901. Burnett, began as a novelist, but she is now best remembered for her children's books including The Secret Garden and Sara Crewe (which was later rewritten to become The Little Princess). Her romance novels were also quite popular during her lifetime. A Fair Barbarian begins: Slowbridge had been shaken to its foundations. It may as well be explained, however, at the outse...
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A Fool and His Money
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
Fabulous romantic comedy adventure featuring a castle, hidden treasure, and we can't forget the villain - the count. This was made into a silent film in the 20's. I say it would make a nice remake today. Reads like a modern book - very entertaining and witty.
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Allan and the Holy Flower
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an orchid hunt of so remarkable a character that I think it ...
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The Moon-Voyage
Jules Verne 试读
The Moon Voyage compiles From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy novel that tells the story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who built an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launched themselves with intentions of a Moon landing. Around the Moon is Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon in which a bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begin the five-day trip to the moon. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. He was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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The Trumpeter Swan
Temple Bailey 试读
It had rained all night, one of the summer rains that, beginning in a thunder-storm in Washington, had continued in a steaming drizzle until morning. There were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of them-two in adjoining sections in the middle of the car, a third in the drawing-room, a fourth an intermittent occupant of a berth at the end. They had gone to bed unaware of the estate or circumstance of their fellow-travellers, and had waked to find the train delayed by washouts, and side-tracked until more could be learned of the condition of the road. The man in the drawing-room shone, in the few glimpses that the others had of him, with an effulgence which was dazzling. His valet, the intermittent sleeper in the end berth, was a smug little soul, with a small nose which pointed to the stars. When the door of the compartment opened to admit breakfast there was the radiance of a brocade dressing-gown, the shine of a sleek head, the staccato of an imperious voice.
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Voyage au Centre de la Terre(French Edition)
Jules Verne 试读
Un professeur découvre un ancien parchemin sur lequel est indiqué le moyen de se rendre au centre de la terre, par le biais d'un cratère de volcan éteint. Enthousiaste, il tente lui même l'aventure, en compagnie de son neveu (narrateur de l'histoire) et d'un guide.Le début est un peu lent et on se perd un peu dans les considérations minéralogiques, la descripton des paysages et les physionomies de personnages secondaires.
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 试读
I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason:he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew.All grown-ups were once children-- although few of them remember it.
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花边文学(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《花边文学》是鲁迅的一部杂文集,收录了鲁迅在1934年所写的杂文六十一篇。包括《女人未必多说谎》《北人与南人》《古人并不纯厚》《读几本书》《玩具》《算账》《看书琐记》《汉字和拉丁化》《考场三丑》《略论梅兰芳及其他(上)》等。
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面子问题(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《面子问题》共三幕,创作于1941年,剧中主要人物佟景铭秘书所苦恼的是“不能因为抗战失了身份”、“不能因为一件公事而把自己恼死”。他不务正业,对工作敷衍了事。当他闹了一辈子“面子问题”终于丢尽面子被免职以后,他所考虑的是向医生讨要一个“体面”的自杀办法,保住他的“面子”。剧中其他人物的“面子问题”又各不相同。老舍对这些人物的讽刺,不仅是对国民劣根性的又一次批判,也是对抗战时期国民党官僚机构的腐败作风的鞭挞。
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谁先到了重庆(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《谁先到了重庆》共四幕,内容为主人公吴凤鸣帮助弟弟凤羽逃出北平沦陷区去重庆参加抗战,自己则留在北平刺杀日本军官和汉奸,最后以身殉国。牺牲前说,“还是我先到了重庆”。在这里,重庆已成为抗战的中心和精神的象征。一颗心先到重庆,就是为抗战献身。
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老牛破车(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《老牛破车》是老舍杂文作品集,主要收录了《我怎样写老张哲学》、《我怎样写赵子曰》、《我怎样写二马》、《我怎样写小坡的生日》、《我怎样写大明湖》、《我怎样写猫城记》、《我怎样写离婚》、《我怎样写短篇小说》、《我怎样写牛天赐传》、《谈幽默》、《景物的描写》、《人物的描写》、《事实的运用》、《言语与风格》等14篇文章,再现了一代大师的心路历程。
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幽默小品集(精品公版)
老舍 试读
11公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《幽默小品集》是老舍的幽默小品集,收录老舍先生谈生活、谈时事、谈理想、谈友人等六十余篇小文,写于二十世纪三十年代至六十年代,都是老舍对当时社会时事、人事和自己处境的有感而发,写出真实生活中的幽默,写出老舍和平常人一样的可笑心态,使人感受到大文学家朴实亲切、可乐可爱的另一面。并有几位画家所绘插画,颇具民族与时代风格,构图简练却独具匠心,既写实传神,又夸张好笑,与文字相映成趣、相得益彰。
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国文教学(精品公版)
朱自清 试读
公源计划之名家朱自清,本系列书共收录朱自清27篇著作。 《国文教学》是作者将他写的关于国文教学的论文和随笔编辑而成。内容以中学国文教学为主,大学的也有几篇论及。内容偏重教学的技术方面,精神方面谈到的很少。
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伦敦杂记(精品公版)
朱自清 试读
公源计划之名家朱自清,本系列书共收录朱自清27篇著作。 伦敦,作为英国的首都、四大世界级城市之一,拥有的是非凡的历史和文化。朱自清在伦敦居住达七个月,一段不算长的时间,却让他看见了多样的人和情。在朱自清细腻、简炼的文字下,伦敦的「人」、「情」、「味」活灵活现了起来,搭配铅笔画风的伦敦风景图片,仿佛可以看见一幅幅的风景在眼前浮动过,这游记不仅仅是物的记载,更看见了英国人道地的生活方式,也体会他们对生活的态度。
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南游杂忆(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 在游记中有对当时沿途风土人情的描写,但即使在游玩中,胡适所见也不止是"山"和"水",还看见当地的宗教、文化、教育和国家建设,甚至不忘考证庐山上的一个塔,意在引导出一个思想学问的方法:“疑而后信,考而后信,有充分证据而后信。”
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中国中古思想史长编(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 《中国中古思想史长编》由胡适所著,本书共分 7章,分别对齐学、杂家、秦汉之间的思想状态、道家、淮南王、统一帝国的宗教、儒家的有为主义,对中国中古思想史进行研究讨论,在20世纪中国学术史上占有一席之地。《中国中古思想史长编》所创的体例,也成为20世纪学术史的一种范例。为了使读者更好的了解胡适对中国中古思想史的研究和看法,供读者阅读参考。
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中国哲学史大纲(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 中国哲学史大纲》,是胡适先生在博士论文《先秦名学史》和此后的北大中国哲学史讲义的基础上修改、扩充而成,是第一部用现代学术方法系统研究中国哲学的专著,是中国哲学史学科的开山之作。胡适先生继承了汉学家对哲学的考究方法和成果,运用西方哲学方法,把中国秦以前的经史研究贯连成一个条理清晰的学术系统。书中按照时代的先后及思想的演变,对每一派哲学进行考证、分析、研究,说明其产生的原因,对后世的影响等,使哲学史不再是流水账式的块状记录,而成为有其内在逻辑的哲学进化史。
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语体文法大纲(精品公版)
许地山 试读
公源计划之名家许地山,本系列书共收录许地山15篇著作。文法是词、短语、句子等语言单位的结构规律。 《语体文法大纲》共12章,讲述句法及名词、代名词、形容词、副词、介词、连词、助词、感叹词等词的种类、构造及其他的相关用法。后附图表法、文法略表等。内容浅显易懂,能使读者在短时间内掌握文法的纲领。定义、举例等都以简单为主,无繁长难读之弊。
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缀网劳蛛(精品公版)
许地山 试读
公源计划之名家许地山,本系列书共收录许地山15篇著作。 本书收《命命鸟》、《商人妇》、《换巢鸾凤》、《黄昏后》、《缀网劳蛛》、《无法投递之邮件》、《海世间》、《海角底孤星》、《天女》、《枯杨生花》、《慕》等12篇小说。
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危巢坠简(精品公版)
许地山 试读
公源计划之名家许地山,本系列书共收录许地山15篇著作。 本书收《在费总理底客厅里》、《三博士》、《街头巷尾之伦理》、《法眼》、《归途》、《解放者》、《无忧花》、《东野先生》、《人非人》、《春桃》、《无法投递之邮件》、《玉官》、《危巢坠简》、《铁鱼底鳃》14篇小说。
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翡冷翠的一夜(精品公版)
徐志摩 试读
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