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Eureka-A Prose Poem
Edgar Allan Poe 试读
Turning his immense intellect and remarkable artistic flair to the most challenging concepts of all - that of the creation of the world, its continued existence and its ultimate end - Poe has created a truly extraordinary work. In his strange blend of poetry and scientific treaty, fact and frenzied speculation, he displays amazing prescience and foresight, anticipating some of the key scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
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Letters on England
Voltaire 试读
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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The Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear 试读
Edward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon made him welcome above stairs and he began to amuse the children with comic drawings and rhymes. This book was first published in 1846.
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Ayesha, the Return of She
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
Ayesha is back in H. Rider Haggard's thrilling sequel to 'She', bursting with adventure, desire and revenge.
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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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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert 试读
This exquisite novel tells the story of one of the most compelling heroines in modern literature--Emma Bovary. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy provincial doctor, Emma revolts against the ordinariness of her life by pursuing voluptuous dreams of ecstasy and love. But her sensuous and sentimental desires lead her only to suffering corruption and downfall. A brilliant psychological portrait, Madame Bovary searingly depicts the human mind in search of transcendence. Who is Madame Bovary? Flaubert's answer to this question was superb: "Madame Bovary, c'est moi." Acclaimed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1857, the work catapulted Flaubert to the ranks of the world's greatest novelists. This volume, with its fine translation by Lowell Bair, a perceptive introduction by Leo Bersani, and a complete supplement of essays and critical comments, is the indispensable Madame Bovary.
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman 试读
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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A Dolls House
Henrik Ibsen 试读
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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Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll 试读
It tells the story of a girl named Alice into a fantasy world from rabbit dry, encountered many can speak like organisms and are generally activities cards, finally found is a dream……
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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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As You Like It
William Shakespeare 试读
Includes the unabridged text of Shakespeare's classic play plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes scene-by-scene summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters, bibliography, and more.
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Eight Cousins
Louisa May Alcott 试读
When Rose Campbell, a shy orphan, arrives at "The Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boisterous male cousins, she is quite overwhelmed. How could such a delicate young lady, used to the quiet hallways of a girls' boarding school, exist in such a spirited home It is the arrival of Uncle Alec that changes everything. Much to the horror of her aunts, Rose's forward-thinking uncle insists that the child get out of the parlor and into the sunshine. And with a little courage and lots of adventures with her mischievous but loving cousins, Rose begins to bloom.
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson 试读
Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, youngJim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he hasdiscovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island.But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages standbetween him and the stash of gold. Not to mention the most infamouspirate ever to sail the high seas...With a wonderfully funnyintroduction by award-winning author Eoin Colfer, "Treasure Island"is one of the twelve brilliant classic stories being relaunched in"Puffin Classics" in March 2008.
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What Katy Did at School
Susan Coolidge 试读
What Katy Did at School and What Katy Did Next continue the story of the high-spirited and rebellious American girl, Katy Carr, and her family, who first appeared in What Katy Did. What Katy Did at School is a compelling tale of the intrigues of life at the New England girls' boarding school which Katy attends. Her trials and adventures are all interwoven with a sense of fun and gently ironic good humour. What Katy Did Next describes a tour by Katy of Europe, as she evolves from the child of earlier books into a spirited young woman, and brings to a satisfying close this delightful trilogy.
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Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life
Sherwood Anderson 试读
Winesburg, Ohio is a short story cycle by the Sherwood Anderson. The work is revolves around the life of George Willard, from the time he was a child to his growing independence and abandonment of Winesburg as a young man. It is set in the fictional town of Winesburg, which is based loosely on the author's childhood in Clyde, Ohio. The stories were ..".conceived as complementary parts of a whole, centered in the background of a single community." The book consists of twenty-two stories, with the first story, "The Book of the Grotesque," serving as an introduction.
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Scenes from a Courtesans Life
Honoré de Balzac 试读
Honoré de Balzac (20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust?mile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux 试读
The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. The wildest and most fantastic of tales.
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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 Soul of Man under Socialism
王尔德 试读
The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes. Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin a great poet, like Keats a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand 'under the shelter of the wall, ' as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world.
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter 试读
"The Amazing Pop-up Tale of Peter Rabbit" retells the much-loved story of Peter Rabbit and his adventures in Mr. McGregor's garden. It contains Beatrix Potter's original illustrations and text, but is brought to life through an amazing series of flaps, pull-tabs and pop-ups. It is delightful book for all ages.
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The Winters Tale
William Shakespeare 试读
The Winter's Tale was one of the very last plays Shakespeare wrote, a moving romance whose themes are sin, forgiveness, death, rebirth, and the power of Time and Nature to heal all wounds. Based on a novella by Shakespeare's enemy and arch rival Robert Greene, The Winter's Tale introduces Perdita, perhaps the Bard's most richly symbolic character. At times tragic, at times humorous, but always entertaining and instructive, The Winters Tale is a complex and rewarding work by the greatest dramatist of all time.A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in four acts.
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The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
American Indian, Russian, German, Icelandic, French, and other stories -- 48 in all -- among them "The Tinder-box," "The Nightingale," and "How to Tell a True Princess." 104 illustrations.
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A Boys Ride
Gulielma Zollinger 试读
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was the last of May in the north of England, in the year 1209. A very different England from what any boy of to-day has seen. A chilly east wind was blowing. The trees of the vast forests were all in leaf but the ash trees, and they were unfolding their buds. And along a bridle-path a few miles southwest of York a lad of fourteen was riding, while behind him followed a handsome deerhound. A boy of fourteen, at that age of the world, was an older and more important personage than he is to-day. If he were well-born he had, generally, by this time, served his time as a page and was become an esquire in the train of some noble lord. That this lad had not done so was because his uncle, a prior in whose charge he had been reared since the early death of his parents, had designed him for a priest. Priest, however, he had declined to be, and his uncle had now permitted him to go forth unattended to attach himself as page to some lord, if he could.
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A Changed Man; and other tales
Thomas Hardy 试读
1913 short story collection, by the English novelist, short story writer, and poet who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
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Ozma of Oz
Lyman Frank Baum 试读
Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and other beloved characters in the third Oz book by L. Frank Baum Dorothy and her trusty hen, Billina, are washed ashore in the Land of Ev after a shipwreck. At first Dorothy is delighted to find lunch grows on trees in lunchboxes. But soon she realizes there is a darker side to the Land of Ev. On the seashore, Dorothy encounters the Wheelers, terrifying creatures with wheels instead of hands and feet. She manages to escape and befriend Tik-Tok, a loyal, robot-like creature who needs to be wound up like a toy to function. He warns her to stay away from the Wheelers and tells her the story of the Land of Ev. The royal family of Ev have been dethroned by the evil Nome King of the neighboring kingdom. Tik-Tok explains to Dorothy that her friend Princess Ozma of Oz is traveling to Ev by magic carpet to help save the royal family. Can Dorothy help Ozma and the royal family?
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Pinocchio The Tale of a Puppet
Carlo Collodi 试读
Once in a small village there lived a lonely woodcutternamed Geppetto-who always dreamed of having a little boy of hisown.So one day he carved a puppet from a piece of wood and namedhim pinocchio.When the little puppet magically comes to life it's adream come true.Except Pinocchio turns out to be not such a nicelittle boy after all!In fact, Pinocchio enjoys playing tricks onpeople and getting into mischief and telling lies.For Pinocchioplaying and loafing is much more fun than working or studying orgoing to school. But as Pinocchio discovers,boys who spend all their time havingfun earn nothing but trouble!
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Eben Holden, a tale of the north country
Bacheller,Irving 试读
Large Format for easy reading. Bacheller's novels are primarily concerned with early American life in the North Country of New York State. In 1900 his novel Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country, proved a major success. According to the New York Times it was the 4th best-selling novel in the United States that year.
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Baby Mine
Margaret Mayo 试读
The first year of a baby's life is a wondrous time, with each day bringing new changes and emotions. This journal goes above and beyond the traditional baby book, recognizing the journey that mother and child embark on together. Guided prompts throughout allow a new mom to record all the precious moments of baby's development, and also to reflect on what these milestones stir within her. There's also room to add pictures and other mementos.
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Jack Haydons Quest
John FinnemoreJohn Jellicoe 试读
Jack was on fire to be off to Brindisi and see what was wrong.He made short work of his packing, and within an hour he wasdriving to Longhampton to catch the London express. He caught itwith scarcely two minutes to spare, and was soon whirling towardsthe great city. A short distance from Longhampton, he caught aglimpse of Rushmere School in the distance on its hill, and thestrip of heath country running up to the foot of the slope. Thisbrought to mind his adventure, which remained as mysterious anaffair as ever. The police had been most active, stations had beenwatched, inquiries had been made in every direction, but all to noresult. The Thugs had vanished and left no trace behind. But thethought of his encounter on the heath soon faded from Jack's mind.It was crushed out by the pressing question of the moment. What wasthe matter at Brindisi? Why had Risley cabled and not his father?Had something happened to his father? Jack felt wretchedly uneasy,for he and his father were bound together by no ordinary ties ofaffection.In the first place, he had, as far as he knew, no other livingrelation. His mother had been dead for many years, and his fatherwas the only close friend that Jack knew. Then the elder Haydon hadalways been a great hero in his son's eyes. His profession ofmining engineer had carried him into many wild corners of theworld, and the store of marvellous tales which he would pour forthfor the boy's delight had made Jack's holidays a time of intensepleasure. Mr. Haydon had always made a point, if it was possible,of keeping himself free for such times, and he and Jack had spentthe weeks joyously, until the day for return to school had become aBlack Monday indeed in the boy's eyes.
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Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods
Isabel Hornibrook 试读
Now, Neal Farrar, you've got to be as still as the night itself, remember. If you bounce, or turn, or draw a long breath, you won't have a rag of reputation as a deer-hunter to take back to England. Sneeze once, and we're done for. That means more diet of flapjacks and pork, instead of venison steaks. And I guess your city appetite won't rally to pork much longer, even in the wilds. Neal Farrar sighed as if there was something in that. "But, you know, it's just when an unlucky fellow would give his life not to sneeze that he's sure to bring out a thumping big one," he said plaintively.
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Yollop
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
Instead of obeying Cassius beckoned to him. Then followed a long, whispered conference between lawyer and client, at the end of which the former, visibly annoyed, declared that the defendant had decided not to testify. The Court indicated that it was optional with the prisoner and asked if the counsel desired to introduce any further testimony. Counsel for the defense announced that his client's decision had altered his plans and that he was forced to rest his case. The Assistant District Attorney stated that he had two witnesses to examine in rebuttal.
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Nancy Stair A Novel
Elinor Macartney Lane 试读
Nancy Stair is a Biographical book. Nancy as a poet; the heart of the matter with him being to commend her English verses, as well as those in " gude braid Scot". With these accounts to be secured so easily it may seem presumptuous, as well as superfluous, for me to undertake a third. I state at the outset, therefore, that it is beyond my ambition and my abilities to add a word to stories told so well. Nor do I purpose to mention either the work on the bum or Nancy's song-making, save when necessary for clearness. For me, however, the life of Nancy Stair has a far deeper significance than that set forth by either of these gifted authors. My knowledge of her was naturally of the most intimate; I watched her grow from a wonderful child into a wonderful woman; and saw her, with a man's education, none but men for friends, and no counselings save from her own heart, solve most wisely for the race the problem put to every woman of gift; and with sweetest reasoning and no bitter renouncings enter the kingdom of great womanhood.
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Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework Business principles applied to housework
C. Helene Barker 试读
This little book is not a treatise on Domestic Science. The vacuum cleaner and the fireless cooker are not even mentioned. The efficient kitchen devised in such an interesting and clever way has no place in it. Its exclusive object is to suggest a satisfactory and workable solution along modern lines of how to get one's housework efficiently performed without doing it one's self.
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A Christmas Carol(免费公版书)
Charles Dickens 试读
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a changed person.
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The King in Yellow
Robert William Chambers 试读
Classic novel by the American artist and writer, most well known for his collection of weird fiction short stories The King in Yellow. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status.
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English Past and Present
Richard Chenevix Trench 试读
In editing the present volume I have thought it well to follow the same rule which I laid down for myself in editing The Study of Words,and have made no alteration in the text of Dr. Trench’s work (the fifth edition).
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She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith 试读
"She Stoops to Conquer" is the comedic drama that depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised to a woman that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth, however in the company of women of the lower classes he transforms into a lecherous rogue. Learning of this, Kate Hardcastle, the woman he is promised too, pretends to be a serving-maid in order to win Charles's affections. "She Stoops to Conquer" is a charming and light-hearted play.
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
Mark Twain 试读
"How to Tell a Story and Other Essays" is a collection of essays on various subjects by America's most famous satirist, Mark Twain. Contained in this volume you will find the following essays: How to Tell a Story, In Defense of Harriet Shelley, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, Travelling With a Reformer, Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story, Mental Telegraphy Again, What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us, A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget, The Invalid's Story, The Captain's Story, Stirring Times in Austria, Concerning the Jews, From the 'London Times' of 1904, and At the Appetite-Cure.
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New Chronicles of Rebecca
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 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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Oh, Money! Money!
Eleanor H.Porter 试读
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars. He was a tall, spare man, with a fringe of reddish-brown hair encircling a bald spot. His blue eyes, fixed just now in a steady gaze upon a row of ponderous law books across the room, were friendly and benevolent in direct contradiction to the bulldog, never-let-go fighting qualities of the square jaw below the firm, rather thin lips. The lawyer, a youthfully alert man of sixty years, trimly gray as to garb, hair, and mustache, sat idly watching him, yet with eyes that looked so intently that they seemed to listen. For fully five minutes the two men had been pulling at their cigars in silence when the millionaire spoke. "Ned, what am I going to do with my money?" Into the lawyer's listening eyes flashed, for a moment, the keenly scrutinizing glance usually reserved for the witness on the other side. Then quietly came the answer. "Spend it yourself, I hope-for some years to come, Stanley."
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How to Do It
Edward Everett Hale 试读
Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 - June 10, 1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman.
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The Magic City
Edith Nesbit 试读
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar Wilde’s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim’s Progress and Othello.
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Many Voices
Edith Nesbit 试读
Many Voices, One Echo is about young female insurance industry clericals in Hartford CT during the 60s and how they changed in a changing society. It is for anyone who has ever worked as a clerical in an office. This novel is about girls who didn't go to college, didn't drop out or protest because they were earning a living.
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How to Fail in Literature; a lecture
Andrew Lang 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 Columbus of Space
Garrett Putman Serviss 试读
We simply listened in silence for what could we say The facts were more eloquent than any words, and called for no commentary. Here we "were," out in the middle of space and "there" was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud. At least we knew where we were if we didn't quite understand how we had got there. . . .
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A Crooked Path A Novel
Mrs. Alexander 试读
The London season had not yet reached its height, some years ago, before the arch admitting to Constitution Hill had been swept back to make room for the huge, ever-increasing stream of traffic, or the plebeian 'bus had been permitted to penetrate the precincts of Hamilton Place. It was the forenoon of a splendid day, one of the earliest of June, and at that hour the roadway between the entrance to Hyde Park and the gate then surmounted by the statue of the Duke of Wellington on his drooping steed was comparatively free, when two gentlemen coming from opposite directions recognized each other, and paused at the gate of Apsley House—the elder, a stout, florid man of military aspect, middle age, and average height, with large gray mustache and small, slightly bloodshot eyes; the younger, who was tall and bony, might have been thirty, or even forty, so grave and sedate was his bearing, although his erect carriage, elastic step, and clear keen dark eyes suggested earlier manhood.
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Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley
Plunkett,Edward J. M. D.,Lord Dunsany 试读
After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery, arising partly out of ignorance and partly from the compulsion of those oaths by which magic protects its precincts from the tiptoe of curiosity. Moreover, magic, even in small quantities, appears to affect time, much as acids affect some metals, curiously changing its substance, until dates seem to melt into a mercurial form that renders them elusive even to the eye of the most watchful historian. It is the magic appearing in Chronicles III and IV that has gravely affected the date, so that all I can tell the reader with certainty of the period is that it fell in the later years of the Golden Age in Spain.
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I, Thou, and the Other One A Love Story
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 试读
Beyond Thirsk and Northallerton, through the Cleveland Hills to the sea eastward, and by Roseberry Topping, northward, there is a lovely, lonely district, very little known even at the present day. The winds stream through its hills, as cool and fresh as living water; and whatever beauty there is of mountain, valley, or moorland, Farndale and Westerdale can show it; while no part of England is so rich in those picturesque manor-houses which have been the homes of the same families for twenty generations.
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Rung Ho!
Talbot Mundy 试读
Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English writer who often wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. At age 19 he left London to travel to India and parts of the Near and Far East. Most of Mundy's novels are set in India under British Occupation in which the loyal British officers encounter ancient Indian mysticism. In the 1920's Mundy wrote stories about Tros of Samothrace, a Greek freedom fighter who aided Britons and Druids in their fight against Julius Caesar. Rung Ho Is a 1914 adventure tale set in India. India offers a land full of mystery, nobility, cruelty, arid heat and excitement. It is a land so very old yet in many ways new.
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Red Saunders Pets and Other Critters
Henry Wallace Phillips 试读
"Of all the worlds I ever broke into, this one's the most curious," said Red. "And one of the curiousest things in it is that I think it's queer. Why should I, now? What put it into our heads that affairs ought to go so and so and so, when they never do anything of the sort?
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How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell
Sara Cone Bryant 试读
The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part those which I have found to be best liked by the children to whom I have told these and others. I have tried to reproduce the form in which I actually tell them,—although that inevitably varies with every repetition,—feeling that it would be of greater value to another story-teller than a more closely literary form.
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Old French Fairy Tales
Sophie Segur 试读
A wonderful book by Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse De Segur (1799-1874) of 5 timeless French fairy tales, magnificently illustrated with beautiful and dramatic black-and-white drawings by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931). De Segur, a French writer of Russian descent, wrote numerous books, the most famous of which was Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophie's Misfortunes). Done when she was only 19 years of age, this was Chicago-born Sterrett's first book. She is often called the "female Kay Nielsen," referring to the renowned Danish fairy tale illustrator.
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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini 试读
This autobiography is full of pain,I wrote it to thank god.He brought me to the life of the soul,and I look forward to build achievement success.Is God for my bad luck to conquer,make life more caring honest glory;he let me show such virtue,and I than everyone in a tight.When I realized the time lost,will not firm couldn't help lies lure,just feel infinite sorrow.I know the regret is It doesn't help the situation,in the beautiful Tuscany,and you are welcome to one's heart's content.
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That Very Mab
May Kendall 试读
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923.This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introducedtypographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may haveoccasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poorpictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the originalartifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believethis work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuingcommitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. Weappreciate your understanding of the imperfections in thepreservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine 试读
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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A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery
Juliet Corson 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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T. Haviland Hicks Senior
J. Raymond Elderdice 试读
Big Butch Brewster captain and full-back of the Bannister College football squad his behemoth bulk swathed in heavy blankets and crowded into a narrow bunk shifted his vast tonnage restlessly.
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Rose of Dutchers Coolly
Hamlin Garland 试读
Widely regarded as the best of Hamlin Garland's novels, "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly" tells the story of a country girl of precocious ability who is raised by her widower father on a small Wisconsin farm. She wants to be a poet and eventually attends the university, where her talent is encouraged. A carefully crafted defense of the New Woman, the first generation of women to achieve economic and social independence, "Rose of Dutcher's Coolly" deals with issues that are still with us--the nature of femininity, the problem of reconciling career and family, the meaning of "love," and the need for equal opportunity. Above all, it records a nineteenth-century man's vision of a world that still eludes us, one in which men and women are equal partners. This edition reprints the text of the 1895 printing and includes an introduction that places the novel in the historical context of the early feminist movement.
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Not Like Other Girls
Rosa Nouchette Carey 试读
Five-o’clock tea was a great institution in Oldfield.It was a form of refreshment to which the female inhabitants of that delightful place were strongly addicted. In vain did Dr. Weatherby, the great authority in all that concerned the health of the neighborhood...
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Rabbi and Priest A Story
Milton Goldsmith 试读
On the high road from Tscherkask to Togarog, and not far from the latter village, there stood, in the year 1850, a large and inhospitable-looking inn. Its shingled walls, whose rough surface no paint-brush had touched for long generations, seemed decaying from sheer old age.(This paragraph from the first chapter)