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Tess of the d‘Urbervilles 德伯家的苔丝（英文版）
托马斯·哈代 试读
《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代小说代表作，奠定了哈代在英国乃至世界文学的地位。小说描写的是社会如何把一个纯洁、善良、质朴、美丽的农村姑娘逼得走投无路，最终拿起武器向仇人复仇的故事。小说对主人公苔丝不幸命运的描述，表现了人的命运、人与社会的关系、社会的等级差异和贫富不公等丰富深刻的内容，给人以众多的认知、启迪和警示。女主人公苔丝早已成为世界文学画廊之中的不朽形象。此电子书版本为全英文版。
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The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比（英文原版）
菲茨杰拉德 试读
《了不起的盖茨比》出版于1925年，是美国作家菲茨杰拉德的代表作，奠定了他20世纪20年代“爵士时代”发言人和“迷惘的一代”代表作家的地位。20世纪末，美国学术界权威在百年英语文学长河中选出百部最优秀的小说，《了不起的盖茨比》高居第二位。故事讲述了银行小职员尼克背井离乡来到纽约，盖茨比夜夜笙歌的奢华生活和神秘的个人背景引发了他的好奇。原来，这位富商出身贫寒却爱上了大家闺秀黛西，世界大战爆发拆散了这对有情人。盖茨比带着功勋从战场归来，等待他的却是心上人嫁作他人妇的消息。伤心欲绝的他不择手段成为富翁，挥金如土，彻夜笙箫，为的就是引起黛西的注意，挽回失去的爱情。 尼克为盖茨比的痴情打动，为两人牵线搭桥。殊不知黛西早已不复当年，而是一副拜金面孔，与盖茨比的重温旧梦不过是她在婚姻外寻求的刺激。一次意外，黛西驾车时撞死了丈夫汤姆的情人威尔逊太太，盖茨比为救心上人决意顶罪，汤姆却借此唆使威尔逊杀死了盖茨比。薄情的黛西没有为盖茨比送葬，而是与丈夫踏上欧洲游玩的旅程。盖茨比草草结束了荒唐悲剧的一生。而目睹了人世间薄情寡义的尼克，也离开了喧嚣、冷漠、空洞、虚假的纽约，黯然回到故乡。
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A Little Princess 小公主（英文原版）
F.H.伯内特 试读
父亲去世和破产的消息让萨拉顷刻之间从令人羡慕的小公主沦为寄宿学校的女佣。她饱尝人情冷暖，但始终保持着善良、高贵的心，因为她相信： “就算穿着破衣服，我也可以在心里像一位公主。”
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Diary of a Chambermaid ：女仆日记（英文版）
奥克塔夫·米尔博 试读
故事发生在1900年左右的法国。时髦少女塞莱丝汀从动荡不安的巴黎来到诺曼底当家庭女仆，她是一个很有魅力、聪明美丽的女孩。身为女仆多年，她在各个不同的主人家遭遇了很多不顺。在兰莱尔一家人的别墅里，她面对的是好色的男主人和他那性冷淡、专横和嫉妒心强的妻子。不甘示弱的塞莱丝汀不愿像家中前一任女仆那样，因为被男主人搞大肚子而被扫地出门，她知道如何巧妙地运用自己的魅力掌控命运。在忍受女主人变态般的挑剔折磨之时，塞莱丝汀渐渐看上了家中沉默寡言的园丁约瑟夫。约瑟夫有着反犹太人思想，以及残害犹太小女孩的丑恶形象。尽管如此，塞莱丝汀还是愿意跟随着他一起，实行偷盗兰莱尔家银器并逃走的计划。他们打算逃到瑟堡，开一家妓院酒吧，而塞莱丝汀可以向那些光顾的士兵提供性服务。
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英国金融时报原文阅读精选集（套1+套2+套3 共30册）
英国《金融时报》 试读
编者按：本套系所选的全部文章，均来自英国《金融时报》的原文，是一套针对英语考试阅读部分进行提高训练的书。众所周知，英国《金融时报》的文章，经常出现在各类英语考试的阅读类题目中，题材多为西方国家广泛关注的话题。本套系文章涵盖经济、环境、社会生活、文化教育、科技等话题，帮助读者全面提升阅读能力、阅读速读、语感。本套系的2大特点：1. 每篇原文后，有4道单选题，并提供答案解析，帮助您提升阅读理解水平；2. 每篇文章都提供，阅读速读对比表，读者可根据自己的阅读时间，了解自己的阅读速读水平。
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman 试读
Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.
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Through the Wall
Cleveland Moffett 试读
From the author of THE CASE IS CLOSED, a Miss Silver crime novel. When Martin Brand dies leaving his estate to a niece he has only met once, his family are furious. His niece is also disgruntled when she realises she must share her new home with the family. But when a body is found wearing her coat, unhappiness turns to panic.
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Le Mythe de Sisyphe：西西弗神话（法文版）
阿尔贝·加缪 试读
这本随笔集汇集了作家的四篇文章——《荒诞推理》、《荒诞人》、《荒诞创作》和《西西弗的神话》。《西西弗的神话》篇幅最短，却是一篇提纲挈领、体现加缪思想要义的文章。他指出：“西西弗斯是荒诞英雄。既出于他的激情，也出于他的困苦。”“在他离开山顶的每个瞬息，在他渐渐潜入诸神巢穴的每分每秒，他超越了自己的命运。他比他推的石头更坚强。”其他几篇长文，实际上是从各个侧面充分阐述和充实了加缪的这些思想。哲学散文集《西西弗的神话》是加缪存在主义思想的集中体现。在这部散文集中，作家集中处理了死亡与反抗、幸福与悲剧、存在与拯救、人生的荒谬与荒诞性等一系列重要哲学命题。其中，西西弗这一古老的神话形象是整部随笔集的核心所在。
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac 试读
On the Roadswings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero. Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, and the narrative goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon 试读
The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as “a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties” living in Swindon, Wiltshire.
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Word Smart, 6th Edition
The Princeton Review 试读
LET YOUR VOCABULARY SPEAK FOR ITSELF.Whether your goal is to get a competitive e on a specific exam or simply to build your word knowle, this updated sixth edition of Word Smart gives you the tools you need to transform your vocabulary and start using words with confidence.
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How To：Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
Randall Munroe 试读
The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide, from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd and the #1 New York Times bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer. For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.
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What Can a President Really Do？
Penguin Workshop 试读
Direct from Who HQ, the team that brings you the New York Times Best-Selling Who Was? biography series, comes Who HQ Presents. These short illustrated e-Books provide quick, simple answers to the important questions being asked today about politics, social issues, the environment, and more!How much power does a US president really have?
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Fall of Giants
Ken Follett 试读
A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits.An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy.
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Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose 试读
A blistering character study and an examination of the American melting pot and the judicial system that keeps it in check, Twelve Angry Men holds at its core a deeply patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play centers on Juror Eight, who is at first the sole holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Eight sets his sights not on proving the other jurors wrong but rather on getting them to look at the situation in a clear-eyed way not affected by their personal prejudices or biases.
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck 试读
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.
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安德鲁·朗世界童话经典（英文朗读版·全12册）
Andrew Lang 试读
《安德鲁·朗世界童话经典》，为英文版电子书，赠送配套的英文朗读音频收听，全套书收录了英国作家安德鲁·朗的12本彩色童话，近200个童话故事。安德鲁整理了世界各地的民间传说和童话故事，加以编写，其中包括安徒生、格林兄弟、豪夫、贝洛、多诺夫人等人的童话故事，同时也收罗了《一千零一夜》、挪威、英格兰、苏格兰以及亚洲、非洲、美洲各地的民间童话。经过安德鲁的改编，比原作更加优美可读，风格凸显。安德鲁童话在对孩子们进行道德和人生教育的同时，也给他们带来了美好的梦想和无穷的欢乐，从而成为经久不衰的畅销童话书。 发明家爱因斯坦说道：“想让孩子变得聪明，那就给他们多读童话；想让孩子变得更聪明，那就读更多的童话。”在孩子成长和阅读的早期阶段，童话故事，带给他们丰富的想象力、欢快与悲伤的真实情感，以及对于真假、善恶的辨别力。
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Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert 试读
Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence.
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Super Thinking
Gabriel Weinberg 试读
The world's greatest problem-solvers, forecasters, and decision-makers all rely on a set of frameworks and shortcuts that help them cut through complexity and separate good ideas from bad ones. They're called mental models, and you can find them in dense textbooks on psychology, physics, economics, and more
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin 试读
Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935.
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Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice 试读
The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author the inspiration for the hit television series A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth the education of the vampire.
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Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid 试读
Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them . . . and what they will leave behind.
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The Hidden Reality
Brian Greene 试读
Using his trademark wit and precision, Greene presents a thrilling survey of cutting-edge physics and confronts the inevitable question: How can fundamental science progress if great swaths of reality lie beyond our reach? The Hidden Reality is a remarkable adventure through a world more vast and strange than anything we could have imagined.
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The Inheritance Cycle 4-Book Collection
Christopher Paolini 试读
Experience the international fantasy sensation that is the Inheritance Cycle with this complete collection of the New York Times bestselling series! For the first time, here are all four books in one ebook collection.
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The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins 试读
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple having breakfast on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.
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Self-Made Man
Norah Vincent 试读
Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women aren’t around. As Ned, she joined a bowling team, took a high-octane sales job, went on dates with women (and men), visited strip clubs, and even managed to infiltrate a monastery and a men’s therapy group.
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Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham 试读
Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham's novels. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him.
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When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats 试读
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische.
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The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets
Roald Dahl 试读
Feast your eyes on a secret! Between these covers is a long-lost chapter—and the original ending—from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and other delicious never-before-seen tidbits from Mr. Wonka's factory. Then slip into some tasty tales from Roald Dahl's life to discover more about the world's No. 1 storyteller. No Roald Dahl collection is complete without this splendiferous treat!
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Out of the Maze
Spencer Johnson 试读
When we first met them in Who Moved My Cheese?, two mouse-sized characters named Hem and Haw were faced with unexpected change, when the Cheese they loved suddenly disappeared. Haw learned how to deal with that change successfully by setting off in search of New Cheese. But Hem remained stuck where he was. Now Out of the Maze reveals what Hem did next - and how his discoveries can help you unlock the riddle of whatever mazes you may face yourself.
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A Taste for Death
P. D. James 试读
When the quiet Little Vestry of St. Matthew's Church becomes the blood-soaked scene of a double murder, Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh faces an intriguing conundrum: How did an upper-crust Minister come to lie, slit throat to slit throat, next to a neighborhood derelict of the lowest order? Challenged with the investigation of a crime that appears to have endless motives.
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The Inner Game of Tennis
W. Timothy Gallwey 试读
Master your game from the inside out!This phenomenally successful guide has become a touchstone for hundreds of thousands of people. Not just for tennis players, or even just for athletes in general, this handbook works for anybody who wants to improve their performance in any activity, from playing music to getting ahead at work. W. Timothy Gallwey, a leading innovator in sports psychology, reveals how to focus your mind to overcome nervousness, self-doubt, and distractions.
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The Mad Wolf‘s Daughter
Diane Magras 试读
A Scottish medieval adventure about the youngest in a war-band who must free her family from a castle prison after knights attack her home--with all the excitement of Ranger's Apprentice and perfect for fans of heroines like Alanna from The Song of the Lioness series.
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Absolutely Almost
Lisa Graff 试读
Albie has never been the smartest kid in his class. He has never been the tallest. Or the best at gym. Or the greatest artist. Or the most musical. In fact, Albie has a long list of the things he's not very good at.;But then Albie gets a new babysitter, Calista, who helps him figure out all of the things he good at and how he can take pride in himself.
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Ugly
Robert Hoge 试读
Strangers stared at him. Kids called him names, and adults could be cruel, too. Everybody seemed to agree that he was But Robert refused to let his face define him. He played pranks, got into trouble, had adventures with his big family, and finally found a sport that was perfect for him to play.
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Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe 试读
This is the spirited story of a survivor whose racy anecdotes and shady dealings only underline her essential warmth and goodness. But there is nothing sentimental about Moll, who presents herself warts and all. Though her adventures take her abroad, she remains the vivid creation of London.
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Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto 试读
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline.
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Dark Waters
Katherine Arden 试读
Until next time. That was chilling promise made to Ollie, Coco and Brian after they outsmarted the smiling man at Mount Hemlock Resort. And as the trio knows, the smiling man always keeps his promises. So when the lights flicker on and off at Brian's family's inn and a boom sounds at the door, there's just one visitor it could be.
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Last Stories
William Trevor 试读
With a career that spanned more than half a century, William Trevor is regarded as one of the best writers of short stories in the English language. Now, in Last Stories, the master storyteller delivers ten exquisitely rendered tales—nine of which have never been published in book form--that illuminate the human condition and will surely linger in the reader's mind long after closing the book.
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Whole Again
Jackson MacKenzie 试读
Through his close work with--and deep connection to--thousands of survivors of abusive relationships Jackson discovered that most survivors have symptoms of trauma long after the relationship is over. These range from feelings of numbness and emptiness to depression, perfectionism, substance abuse, and many more.
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麦克白：莎士比亚漫画版
威廉·莎士比亚 试读
请欣赏莎士比亚四大悲剧之一《麦克白》！苏格兰的旷野上，三女巫高声预言：“麦克白，未来的国王！”从此之后，英勇的将军被野心驱使、掌控，一步步走向命运的深渊……纸上舞台，即刻开演！“麦克白，未来的国王！”，谁能遏制麦克白的疯狂？ 看完漫画才明白，原来麦克白的悲剧早已注定！！
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Gone with the Wind 飘（英文原版）
玛格丽特·米切尔 试读
美国南北战争爆发，塔拉庄园的干金斯嘉丽一夜之间告别快乐无忧的生活，困苦、伤痛、颠沛流离的日子席卷而来。面对残酷的现实，斯嘉丽变得成熟、坚强，想尽一切办法挣扎求存。然而，她的固执也让她错失了爱人…遥望瑞德离去的背影，她仍未放弃希望：“毕竟，明天又是新的一天。”
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Triggers
Marshall Goldsmith 试读
Bestselling author and world-renowned executive coach Marshall Goldsmith examines the environmental and psychological triggers that can derail us at work and in life.Do you ever find that you are not the patient, compassionate problem solver you believe yourself to be? Are you surprised at how irritated or flustered the normally unflappable you becomes in the presence of a specific colleague at work?
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Letter Perfect
David Sacks 试读
A fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet--and cultural history. Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions: the alphabet.
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WOMEN IN LOVE
David Herbert Lawrence 试读
D.H. Lawrence's magnificent exploration of human sexuality in the days surrounding World War I. "Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions," wrote D.H. Lawrence in "Women In Love, a masterpiece that heralded the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Echoing elements of Lawrence's own life, "Women In Love delves into the mysteries between men and women as two couples strive for love against a haunting backdrop of coal mines, factories, and a beleaguered working class.
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A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe 试读
Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct — historically and fictionally — the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details.
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Across China on Foot
Edwin John Dingle 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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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith 试读
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion. This is a public domain book converted by anonymous volunteers and you may find it for free on the web.This work is respectfully inscribed by the author.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas de Quincey 试读
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic mind. A close associate of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the brilliant but troubled de Quincey recounts both the pleasures and pain of opium addiction in captivating prose. The result is by turns enlightened, nightmarish and witty – a faithful mirror of the drug itself.
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte 试读
Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step into Classics(TM) adaptations feature easy-to-read texts, big type, and short chapters that are ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle original classics.
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens 试读
A novel in which Dickens launches a ferocious onslaught against England and English society.He draws on the memory of his father in his depiction of the Marshalsea debtors prison and there is also the story of the love between an older man and a younger woman.
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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 试读
Robert Burns (1759-1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard), was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the bestknown of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic Movement and after his death became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. Burns also worked to collect and preserve Scottish folk songs, sometimes revising, expanding, and adapting them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay (New Year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well-known across the world today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for A' That, To a Louse, To a Mouse, The Battle of Sherramuir, and Ae Fond Kiss.
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Sons and Lovers
David Herbert Lawrence 试读
Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. Using the first edition text, which Lawrence approved, this edition also offers a fresh and stimulating introduction - particularly in its treatment of Lawrence's language and imagery.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain 试读
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg - whether getting his friends to whitewash a fence for him, or escaping the demands of his vigilant Aunt Polly - have won him the hearts of generations.
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The Moonstone
Wilkie Collins 试读
Praised by T.S. Eliot as the first……and best of modern English detective novels, "The Moonstone" draws the reader into its world of danger, suspense, and foreign menace as Collins unmasks a restrictive society marked by sexual and imperial domination. Revised reissue.
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The Pink Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
41 Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales: The Snow-Queen, The Cunning Shoemaker, The Two Brothers, The Merry Wives, The Man without a Heart, and more. 69 illustrations.
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The Princess of Cleves
Madame de La Fayette 试读
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of Thomas Sargent Perry's 1892 translation, indisputably the translation that has best served readers in English. Reprinted repeatedly over the last one hundred years, the Perry translation is a classic in its own right. After careful review, the editor has corrected minor infelicities of translation (necessary to remain true to Lafayette's text) and updated vocabulary. To experience the innovation of Lafayette's writing, it is necessary to understand the critical resistance it met with in seventeenth-century France. "Contemporary Reactions" includes five assessments of The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette herself, Roger de Bussy-Rabutin and Marie de Sevigne, Jean-Baptiste-Henry du Trousset de Valincour, Jean-Antoine de Charnes, and Du Plaisir following its controversial publication. John Lyons's translations for this Norton Critical Edition make these reactions available in English for the first time. "Criticism" includes eleven modern studies of the novel, five of which appear here in English for the first time, by Jean Fabre, Michel Butor, Jean Rousset, Helen Karen Kaps, Gerard Genette, Roger Francillon, Kurt Weinberg, Peggy Kamuf, Erica Harth, Joan DeJean, and Laurence Gregario. A Glossary of Characters and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam 试读
Omar Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. His poetry, which received very little notoriety in its day, achieved classic status when it was discovered and rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald more than 700 years later. Presented here are the traditionally collected first and fifth editions with the original notes and Introduction by Fitzgerald.
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