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Hunted Down:The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 试读
2015-03-03上架Charles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction and Hunted Down assembles a fascinating selection of his work in which the men of the law make their mark.
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Idylls of the King
Lord Alfred Tennyson 试读
2015-03-03上架Tennyson interprets the Arthurian myth as an epic poem,and his tales of Camelot soar to remarkable imaginative heights to trace the birth of a king;the founding,fellowship,and decline of the Round Table;and the king's inevitable departure.Encompassing romance,heroism,duty,and conflict,Tennyson's poetry charts the rise and fall of a legendary society.
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In Freedoms Cause – a Story of Wallace and Bruce
G.A.Henty 试读
2015-03-03上架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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In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant
Jules Verne 试读
2015-03-03上架The contents of a shark's stomach contain a bottle that holds partially deteriorated notes written in three different languages. Together they give clues to the location of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship the Britannia was lost at sea. While the latitude of Grant is known from the notes, the longitude is a mystery. Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Harry Grant's two children, and the crew of his yacht the Duncan, they set off for South America. On their journey the searchers encounter storms, earthquakes, deserts, floods, pirates, cannibals, wolves, and numerous other dangers as they trace the 37th parallel across South America, then across Australia, and finally across New Zealand. Includes 90 vintage illustrations from the original 1873 edition.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
Harriet Ann Jacobs 试读
2015-03-03上架Born into slavery, Linda spends her early years in a happy home with her mother and father, who are relatively well-off slaves. When her mother dies, six-year-old Linda is sent to live with her mother's mistress,who treats her well and teaches her to read.After a few years, this mistress dies and bequeaths Linda to a relative. Her new masters are cruel and neglectful,and Dr. Flint,the father,takes an interest in Linda and tries to force her into a sexual relationship with him. Linda continues to thwart his attempts and maintain her distance.Knowing that Flint will do anything to get his way,Linda consents to a love affair with a white neighbor,Mr.Sands.She is ashamed at her discretion,but she knows it is better than being raped by Dr.Flint.During their affair,Mr.Sands and Linda have two children.Their names are Benjamin,who is often called Benny in the narrative,and Ellen.Throughout her narrative,Jacobs argues that a powerless slave girl cannot be held to the same standards of morality as a free woman.She also has practical reasons for agreeing to the affair:she hopes that when Flint finds out about it,he will sell her to Sands in disgust.Instead,the vengeful Flint sends Linda to his son's plantation to be broken in as a field hand.
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Intentions
Deborah Heiligman 试读
2015-03-03上架Rachel thought she was grown up enough to accept that no one is perfect. Her parents argue, her grandmother has been acting strangely, and her best friend doesn't want to talk to her. But none of that could have prepared her for what she overheard in her synagogue's sanctuary.Now Rachel's trust in the people she loves is shattered, and her newfound cynicism leads to reckless rebellion. Her friends and family hardly recognize her, and worse, she can hardly recognize herself. But how can the adults in her life lecture her about acting with kavanah, intention, when they are constantly making such horribly wrong decisions themselves? This is a witty, honest account of navigating the daunting line between losing innocence and entering adulthoodandmdash;all while figuring out who you really want to be.
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Ivanhoe
Walter Scott 试读
2015-03-03上架First published in 1819 when Sir Walter Scott was at the height of his powers, Ivanhoe is a spellbinding tale of adventure, chivalry and romance set in a twelfth-century England where the Saxons are at loggerheads with the occupying Normans. Young Wilfred of Ivanhoe has been disinherited by his father because he has fallen in love with his father's ward Rowena, and wishes to marry her. Wounded during a tournament, he is nursed back to health by the beautiful Rebecca. It takes the help of Richard the Lionheart and of Robin Hood and his Sherwood Forest outlaws to ensure that the gallant Ivanhoe can save Rebecca from being burnt as a witch, establish justice and peace between Norman and Saxon, and gain the hand of the fair Rowena.
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Jack and Jill
Louisa May Alcott 试读
2015-03-03上架A children's classic from the author of Little Woman. Two inseparable friends are injured in a sledding accident but resolve to be positive and their friendship becomes closer than ever.
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte 试读
2015-03-03上架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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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy 试读
2015-03-03上架A brooding tragedy which scandalised Hardy's contemporaries on first publication. Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance. It was met with widespread condemnation upon first publication in 1895 and, as a result, was the last novel Hardy ever wrote.
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King Henry V
William Shakespeare 试读
2015-03-03上架Shakespeare based on life,king Henry v of England in 1599 created the famous historical plays, describes emphatically agincourt during the war of one hundred.Young Henry v longer than counsel,is good at fighting,the subordinates is deep affection.Because of unwilling French prince insult,he invaded France,expedition edge palace on the battlefield.With superhuman courage, he led the nobles and dorks defeated the French army in the war,forced French king to sign the contract and to marry a French princess Kathleen, become the heir to the throne of France.
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King Solomons Mines
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
2015-03-03上架This is a full of good and evil,after the legendary adventure story.British Sir Henry Curtis and colonel John Goode company in South Africa,on a boat from Cape Town to natal province met hunter Alan quarters of Maine.On the way, the three of them to assist a fugitive prince ancient warfare and overthrew the king tikvah's brutal rule,makes the ancient prince became the real king.They then make dangerous in the king Solomon's mines,finally returned home in triumph,and found in the way Henry Curtis long-lost brother George.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Mark Twain 试读
2015-03-02上架This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur's Age of Chivalry the "great and beneficent" miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era's faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is at once a hilarious comedy of anachronisms and incongruities, a romantic fantasy, a utopian vision, and a savage, anarchic social satire that only one of America's greatest writers could pen.
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A Dolls House
Henrik Ibsen 试读
2015-03-02上架This epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized homelife collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self.
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Cranford
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 试读
2015-03-02上架A sensitive and moving portrait of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s, Cranford recounts the events and activities in the lives of a group of spinsters and widows who struggle in genteel poverty to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness.
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 试读
2015-03-02上架Mary Shelly's classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.
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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Moral
Immanuel Kant 试读
2015-03-02上架The nature and theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits of great scholars. In "The Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals" (1785), Immanuel Kant, one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, inquires into the true nature of morality. In rejecting the results or cons……
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Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln 试读
2015-03-02上架The words of President Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address are as relevant and meaningful today as they were in 1863. This magnificent book is a stunning exploration of some of the most powerful words ever spoken in American history.
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Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen 试读
2015-03-02上架Powerful psychological drama (1881) exposes hypocrisy of social conventions and society's moral codes. Mrs. Helen Alving is haunted by her husband's infidelities and the disease he has passed to their son. Ultimately, she is forced to acknowledge the ghosts that have kept her from living just for the joy of life.
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Gitanjali
泰戈尔 试读
2015-03-02上架Moving, heart-felt prose poems by the beloved and much admired Bengali poet and mystic who first achieved international fame (and a Nobel Prize) in 1913 with his translation of these moving poems. Reminiscent of Blake and Gibran, they include many works that are almost biblical in their rhythms, phrasing and images. Introduction by William Butler Yeats.
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A Daughter of Eve
Honoré de Balzac 试读
2015-02-28上架The most amusing society, but also the most mixed, which Madame Felix de Vandenesse frequented, was that of the Comtesse de Montcornet, a charming little woman, who received illustrious artists, leading financial personages, distinguished writers; but only after subjecting them to so rigid an examination that the most exclusive aristocrat had nothing to fear in coming in contact with this second-class society.
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A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Mark Twain 试读
2015-02-28上架Mark Twain is best known for his novels and short stories. Twain uses his incredible whit to depict life in America. His books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been read by school children for generations. His life on the Mississippi River has peeked the imagination of boys to go and build a raft and sail off into unknown adventures. Double Barrelled Detective Story is a story in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the Old West. From Wikipedia, At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case. This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic.
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A House of Pomegranates
王尔德 试读
2015-02-28上架A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers of all ages will be delighted by these fanciful tales.
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A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe 试读
2015-02-28上架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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A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
2015-02-28上架Captain Crewe is very wealthy and states that Sara is destined for a lavish, comfortable future. Despite being pampered all her life in India, Sara herself is very intelligent, polite, and creative. Headmistress Miss Minchin is secretly jealous and dislikes Sara for her cleverness, but openly praises and flatters her because of her father's wealth. Before departing for India, Captain Crewe purchases Sara an elegant wardrobe and a doll whom Sara adores and names "Emily." Sara's friendliness and love for pretending and storytelling makes her popular with most of the school's students.
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Blacky the Crow
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
2015-02-28上架Children will love this wonderful tale of a crow who spies two fresh eggs in a nest belonging to Hooty the Owl and Mrs. Hooty. Does Blacky snatch those delicious eggs? Filled with humor and important lessons about nature and wildlife. Reset in large, easy-to-read type. 4 original illustrations by Harrison Cady.
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens 试读
2015-02-28上架The death of Pietro di Donato's immigrant father sent Pietroto work at twelve as a bricklayer. His acclaimed,semi-autobiographical bestseller, Christ in Concrete (1939), was aseminal novel that influenced a generation of writers. --This textrefers to the Paperback edition.
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Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau 试读
2015-02-28上架The great naturalist recounts his experiences during a series of beach-combing walking trips around Cape Cod in the early 1850s. His compelling account of the region's plants, animals, topography, weather, and people features captivating tales of exploration, settlement, and survival.
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine 试读
2015-02-28上架Without Thomas Paine, the United States of America would not be the strong and independent country it is today. In 1776 Paine insightfully argued that it would only be a short time before the colonies would break with England. Within the first three months of its publication, Common Sense sold 120,000 copies and became the foundation for American political literature. Paine's vision and quotable slogans defined the United States at its most critical point in history and remains relevant for today's citizens.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas de Quincey 试读
2015-02-28上架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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Cyrano De Bergerac
Edmond Rostand 试读
2015-02-28上架Edmond Rostand's bittersweet melodrama tells the tale of France's master swordsman--Cyrano de Bergerac, a valiant soldier cursed with the face of a clown. Gallantry, love, poetry, and failure all combine in this timeless classic, further enhanced by Kyle Baker's captivating illustrations.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster 试读
2015-02-28上架Bright and lively Judy Abbott is an orphan who dreams of escaping the drudgery of her life at the John Grier Home. One day she receives a marvelous opportunity—a wealthy male benefactor has agreed to fund her higher education. In return, Judy must keep him informed about the ups and downs of college life. From horrendous Latin lessons to falling in love, the result is a series of letters both hilarious and poignant. Fans of L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will relish this American-girl-power coming-of-age story. This gentle romance is the seventh book in the Looking Glass Library series.
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Daisy Miller
Henry James 试读
2015-02-28上架Famous novella chronicles a young American girl’s willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a narrative rich in psychological and social insight.
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De Profundis
王尔德 试读
2015-02-28上架While jailed for homosexual offenses, Wilde wrote this long, bitter letter of recrimination to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. It offers fascinating insights into Wilde's life in prison and the background and psychology of a notorious affair, but its eloquence, passion and literary excellence make it a universal statement about love, injustice and suffering.
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Greenmantle
John Buchan 试读
2015-02-28上架Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley.Following his adventures foiling the plans of the Black Stone gang in "The Thirty-Nine Steps", Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, climaxing at the battle of Erzurum.As well as being a gripping adventure story, "Greenmantle" is surprisingly modern in the concept of using a Jihad to mobilise Muslim forces, and is disturbingly relevant to the modern world.
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La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote
Honoré de Balzac 试读
2015-02-28上架Dans ce roman, je lirai balzac avaient fait preuve de personnalités très percutant décrivent les capacités et la vie sociale à paris et JingDao vivants panoramique. En général on balzac traduisent la noblesse grimper riches ou le mariage, ainsi que l’importance de MenDangHuDui différents secteurs des unions de personnes d’origine ne peut en métal et des idées de toute espèce, la tragédie. Nom roman est un portrait magasins, un chat et pour la pelote roman métaphore.
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Lady Susan
简·奥斯汀 试读
2015-02-28上架Written in 1795, Jane Austen's epistolary novel Lady Susan brims with satire and wit. The recently widowed Lady Susan is beautiful and attractive, yet selfish and manipulative. She flirts atrociously in order to secure a good marriage not only for herself but for her daughter as well.
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Lady Windermeres Fan
王尔德 试读
2015-02-28上架"Lady Windermere's Fan" is Oscar Wilde's classic comedic play set in London in the late 19th century. It is the story of Lady Windermere who becomes jealous of her husband's interest in Mrs. Erlynne. Lady Windermere suspects her husband of infidelity, however unbeknownst to her, Mrs. Erlynne is really Lady Windermere's divorced mother who for the last 20 years was thought to be dead.
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Le Rouge et le noir
Stendhal 试读
2015-02-28上架The hero Julien was born in the small owner family, obsessed with Napoleon valiant record him, want to rise head and shoulders above others, helpless at that time France was in Bourbon Restoration period. The army without the door he chose the Church Road, due to be able to recite the whole of the "New Testament", even by the local mayor fancy, become his home tutor, after church recommend, as the royalist Marquess of Larmor served as a private secretary to representative. But in the end, a letter informing messenger he be destroyed on one day be successful in one's official career. This book is not only a realistic novel, but also created the "psychological novel" precedent. The author used the exquisite brushwork in even the contradiction of rich inner world, he struggled between ambition and love.
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman 试读
2015-02-28上架Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life.Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading [Leaves of Grass], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."
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Letters on England
Voltaire 试读
2015-02-28上架Franois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Christian Church dogma and the French institutions of his day. Many of his works and ideas would influence important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions, an honour that he would share with other political theorists such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. In general criticism and miscellaneous writing, Voltaire's writing was comparable to his other works. Almost all of his more substantive works, whether in verse or prose, are preceded by prefaces of one sort or another, which are models of his caustic yet conversational tone. He wrote Letters on England (1733), Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (1747), Candide (1759) and Philosophical Dictionary (1764).
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Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes 试读
2015-02-28上架The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry: he argues from first principles to human nature to politics. This book's appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace.
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain 试读
2015-02-28上架Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain's life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America's most profound chronicler of the human comedy.
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Lightfoot the Deer
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
2015-02-28上架A beloved storyteller relates the exciting, thought-provoking tale of a courageous animal pursued by a determined, two-legged predator with a deadly weapon. Kids learn valuable lessons about nature and wildlife in this illustrated, easy-to-read text about a gentle creature and his helpful friends in the Green Forest.
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens 试读
2015-02-28上架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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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
2015-02-28上架Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather...
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Little Men
Louisa May Alcott 试读
2015-02-28上架"Little Men" (1871) continues Louisa May Alcott's story of the March family. It picks up from "Little Women" and "Good Wives" to follow tomboy Jo into her married life. Jo and her husband, Prof. Bhaer, have opened a school for boys. Jo takes charge, but she retains a "merry sort of face," and the boys call her jolly. The school takes in troubled cases including homeless "little chap," Nat, and rowdy run-away Dan. Alcott pictures the kind of boyhood that the recent bestseller, "The Dangerous Book for Boys," hopes to rekindle. Alcott's boys climb trees and sneak off to light their first (choke ) cigars, but each lad has the makings of a good man -- qualities that Jo intends to bring out. The language might sound as quaint as "thunder turtles " and "hoydens" (grrrls), but the drama is the same now as always. Jo's concern for her boys is every teacher's -- every right parent's -- hope for every child. The story concludes with "Jo's Boys: And How They Turned Out."
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 试读
2015-02-28上架Timeless, heartwarming tale of the four young March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — their mother Marmee, and other memorable characters. Generations of readers have enjoyed this story of the joys, heartaches, and triumphs of a warm, close-knit family, poor in material wealth, but rich in love and devotion to one another.
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Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Storie
王尔德 试读
2015-02-28上架Book contains five story:Arthur Lord saville crimes,the guardian spirit,no confidential sphinx,model millionaire,Mr W.H.portrait.
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Love and Mr. Lewisham
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
2015-02-28上架The famous British novelist Herbert George Wells wrote a humorous novels.
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert 试读
2015-02-28上架Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in a marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, voracious spending and eventually,adultery.
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Mademoiselle de Maupin
Theophile Gautier 试读
2015-02-28上架Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his boredom, he is thrown into tumultuous confusion when she receives a dashing young visitor. Exquisitely handsome, Theodore inspires passions d'Albert never believed he could feel for a man and Rosette also seems to be in thrall to the charms of her guest. Does this bafflingly alluring person have a secret to hide? Subversive and seductive, "Mademoiselle de Maupin" (1835) draws readers into the bedrooms and boudoirs of a French chateau in a compelling exploration of desire and sexual intrigue.
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Mansfield Park
简·奥斯汀 试读
2015-02-28上架"Mansfield Park"encompasses not only Jane Austen's great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal,but her personal credo as well--her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency,and wit.At the novel's center is Fanny Price,the classic"poor cousin,"brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse),and as she herself resolutely resists the advantages of marriage to the fascinating but morally unsteady Henry Crawford,her seeming austerity grows in appeal and makes clear to us why she was Austen's own favorite among her heroines.
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Marching Men
Sherwood Anderson 试读
2015-02-28上架This early work by Sherwood Anderson was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.'Marching Men'is a novel about an ambitious man striving to create order out of his fellow labourers.Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden,Ohio in 1876.He left school at fourteen,and after working various jobs served in the Spanish-American War in 1898. In 1908, Anderson began writing short stories and novels.During the twenties,Anderson published Poor White (1920),The Triumph of the Egg (1921),Many Marriages (1923) and Horses and Men (1923).Although considered to be a minor work by the critics,Anderson's most commercial successful novel was Dark Laughter,published in 1925.Anderson died of peritonitis in Panama in 1941,aged 64.