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Fire & Blood
乔治·R.R.马丁 试读
Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire & Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.
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A Clash of Kings
乔治·R.R.马丁 试读
A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war.
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The Servant
James C. Hunter 试读
In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, he reluctantly attends a weeklong leadership retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery.
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown 试读
The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
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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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The Last Kids on Earth
Max Brallier 试读
Ever since the monster apocalypse hit town, average thirteen year old Jack Sullivan has been living in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Zombies and Winged Wretches and Vine Thingies, and especially not for the eerily intelligent monster known only as Blarg.
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Are You There God? It‘s Me, Margaret
Judy Blume 试读
Margaret Simon, almost twelve, has just moved from New York City to the suburbs, and she's anxious to fit in with her new friends. When she's asked to join a secret club she jumps at the chance. But when the girls start talking about boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret starts to wonder if she's normal.
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Fairy Mom and Me #1
Sophie Kinsella 试读
Ella Brook can't wait to grow up, because one day she will become a fairy and have her own sparkly wings and a teacher on Fairy Tube, just like her mom! Until then, Ella has to learn by watching.
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Great Dialogues of Plato
Plato 试读
Written in the form of debates,Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love.
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High Output Management
Andrew S. Grove 试读
In this legendary business book and Silicon Valley staple, the former chairman and CEO of Intel shares his perspective on how to build and run a company. A practical handbook for navigating real-life business scenarios and a powerful management manifesto with the ability to revolutionize the way we work.
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Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor 试读
In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways; yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of her village and a terrible rape by an enemy general wanders into the desert, hoping to die. Instead, she gives birth to an angry baby girl with hair and skin the color of sand.
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The Dollmaker of Krakow
R. M. Romero 试读
Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in Kraków, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past.
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 试读
Daniel Defoe relates the tale of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly three decades. An ordinary man struggling to survive in extraordinary circumstances, Robinson Crusoe wrestles with fate and the nature of God. This edition features maps.
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore(The Complete Screenplay)
Rowling J.K. 试读
Professor Albus Dumbledore knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone,he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander to lead an intrepid team of wizards,witches,and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald's growing legion of followers. But with the stakes so high,how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines?
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Who Was Albert Einstein?
Jess Brallier 试读
Everyone has heard of Albert Einstein-but what exactly did he do? How much do kids really know about Albert Einstein besides the funny hair and genius label? For instance, do they know that he was expelled from school as a kid? Finally, here's the story of Albert Einstein's life, told in a fun, engaging way that clearly explores the world he lived in and changed.
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Animal Farm 动物农庄(英文版)
乔治·奥威尔 试读
马诺尔农庄一只名叫老梅杰的猪在提出了“人类剥削动物,动物须革命”的理论之后死去,几个月后,农庄里掀起了一场由猪领导的革命,原来的剥削者——主人琼斯先生被赶走,动物们实现了“当家作主”的愿望,尝到了革命果实的甘美,马诺尔农庄被更名为“动物农庄”,还制定了七戒。然而不久,两只领头的猪为了权力而互相倾轧,胜利的一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸,猪们逐渐侵占了其他动物的劳动成果,成为新的特权阶级,“所有动物一律平等”的原则被修正为“但有些动物比其他动物更平等”,动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。
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A Game of Thrones
乔治·R.R.马丁 试读
There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop 大主教之死(英文版)
薇拉·凯瑟 试读
薇拉·凯瑟的代表作《大主教之死》被视为一部历史题材的传奇小说,也是凯瑟“精心构思的作品”。《大主教之死》讲述了兰塔主教与其助手及友人维勇神父在荒蛮的新墨西哥主教教区传教过程中的传奇经历。两人以真诚的友谊、智力上的伙伴关系以及灵魂中的亲密感,写就了一份毕生的生死盟约。此电子书为全英文版。
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绿山墙的安妮(英文原版)Anne of Green Gables
露西·莫德·蒙哥玛利 试读
本书讲述了纯真善良、热爱生活的女主人公小安妮,自幼失去父母,11岁时被绿山墙的马修和玛丽拉兄妹领养,但她个性鲜明,富于幻想,而且自尊自强,凭借自己的刻苦勤奋,不但得到领养人的喜爱,也赢得老师和同学的关心和友谊。成长与梦想是全书的主题。
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Junie B. Jones #1: Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
Barbara Park 试读
Meet the World's Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! Remember when it was scary to go to school? In the first Junie B. Jones book, it’s Junie B.'s first day and she doesn't know anything. She's so scared of the school bus and the meanies on it that when it's time to go home, she doesn't.
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Short Stories from Hogwarts of Heroism, Hardship and Dangerous Hobbies
Rowling, J.K. 试读
‘Minerva was the Roman goddess of warriors and wisdom. William McGonagall is celebrated as the worst poet in British history. There was something irresistible to me about his name, and the idea that such a brilliant woman might be a distant relative of the buffoonish McGonagall.’ – J.K. Rowling Pottermore Presents is a collection of J.K. Rowling’s writing from the Pottermore archives: short reads originally featured on pottermore.com with some exclusive new additions. These eBooks, with writing curated by Pottermore, will take you beyond the Harry Potter stories as J.K. Rowling reveals her inspiration, intricate details of characters’ lives and surprises from the wizarding world.These stories of heroism, hardship and dangerous hobbies profile two of the Harry Potter stories’ most courageous and iconic characters: Minerva McGonagall and Remus Lupin. J.K. Rowling also gives us a peek behind the closed curtains of Sybill Trelawney’s life, and you’ll encounter the reckless, magical-beast-loving Silvanus Kettleburn along the way.
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The Maltese Falcon 马耳他之鹰(英文版)
达希尔·哈米特 试读
达希尔·哈米特所著的《马耳他之鹰》是美国硬汉派侦探推理文学的经典之作,多年来一直深受世界各国读者的喜爱。小说中的主要人物――私家侦探山姆·斯佩德被卷入了一起连环凶杀案,而凶杀案的背后却是对一件价值连城的十六世纪珍宝的嗜血争夺。面对人性的丑陋、贪婪与背叛……斯佩德游走于法律的边缘,孤胆与各派势力进行着巧妙的周旋……《马耳他之鹰》曾数度被好莱坞搬上银幕,尤其是一九四一年的汉弗莱·博加特版,已成为黑白影片的经典。此电子书为全英文版。
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A Farewell to Arms 永别了,武器(英文版)
欧内斯特·海明威 试读
《永别了,武器》描写了一场发生在战争年代的爱情故事,海明威在对战争发起控诉的同时,也毫无保留地表达了自己对人生的深沉思考。一对年轻男女,在战火纷飞的时代相爱,不可避免地经历生死别离,他们一直怀抱着希望等待和平,但战争中无法逃避的宿命却给了他们沉重的打击。此电子书版本为全英文版。
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The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起(英文版)
欧内斯特·海明威 试读
《太阳照常升起》以1924年至1925年这一历史时段和名城巴黎为背景。围绕一群在感情或爱情上遭受过严重创伤,或者在战争中落下了严重心理或生理机能障碍的英美男女青年放浪形骸的生活,以及发生在他们之间的情感纠葛而展开。反映了这代人意识觉醒后却又感到无路可走的痛苦、悲哀的心境。在《太阳照常升起》之中海明威尽量采用直截了当的抒情、鲜明的对话、简短句式,用简单易懂的词语把事件、景物、人物的语言、心理描写、行动等呈现在读者眼前。作者借此成为“迷惘的一代”的代言人,并以此书开创了海明威式的独特文风。
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百年哈佛经典第23卷:两年水手生涯(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第24卷:伯克文集(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W. ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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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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百年哈佛经典第16卷:天方夜谭(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第14卷:唐吉珂德(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W. ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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A Woman of Thirty
Honoré de Balzac 试读
By the French author,who,along with Flaubert,is generally regarded as a founding—father of realism in European fiction.His large output of works,collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine),consists of 95 finished works (stories,novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works.His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France.They are placed in a variety of settings,with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
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Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis 试读
Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to re examine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire remains an ever-relevant tale of an individual caught in the machinery of modern life.
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Daisy Miller
Henry James 试读
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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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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Love and Mr. Lewisham
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
The famous British novelist Herbert George Wells wrote a humorous novels.
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A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn 试读
Immigrants from Denmark and NW Germany arrived in Britain in the 5th and 6th Centuries A.D., speaking in related dialects belonging to the Germanic and Teutonic branches of the Indo-European language family. Today, English is most closely related to Flemish, Dutch, and German, and is somewhat related to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. Icelandic, unchanged for 1,000 years, is very close to Old English.
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Moby Dick: or the White Whale
Herman Melville 试读
A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.
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Moon and Sixpence
毛姆 试读
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
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Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Herman Melville 试读
IN old times authors were proud of the privilege of dedicating their works to Majesty. A right noble custom, which we of Berkshire must revive. For whether we will or no, Majesty is all around us here in Berkshire, sitting as in a grand Congress of Vienna of majestical hill-tops, and eternally challenging our homage. But since the majestic mountain, Greylock—my own more immediate sovereign lord and king—hath now, for innumerable ages, been the one grand dedicatee of the earliest rays of all the Berkshire mornings, I know not how his Imperial Purple Majesty (royal-born: Porphyrogenitus) will receive the dedication of my own poor solitary ray. Nevertheless, forasmuch as I, dwelling with my loyal neighbors, the Maples and the Beeches, in the amphitheater over which his central majesty presides, have received his most bounteous and unstinted fertilizations, it is but meet, that I here devoutly kneel, and render up my gratitude, whether, thereto, The Most Excellent Purple Majesty of Greylock benignantly incline his hoary crown or no.
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Roughing It
Mark Twain 试读
A classic tour of the wild west.In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West—and Roughing It is his hilarious record of his travels come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.
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Tess of the dUrbervilles
Thomas Hardy 试读
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth-century literature.
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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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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer 试读
A monumental study of comparative folklore and religion, THE GOLDEN BOUGH was originally published in two volumes in 1890, grew to 12 volumes for the third edition in 1915, then abridged by the author into this one-volume edition in 1922. Drawing on the beliefs and customs of ancient European civilizations and primitive cultures throughout the world, James Frazer's work continues to be an important reference.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Danger! and Other Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
The Title story of this volume was written about eighteen months before the outbreak of the war, and was intended to direct public attention to the great danger which threatened this country. It is a matter of history how fully this warning has been justified and how, even down to the smallest details, the prediction has been fulfilled. The writer must, however, most thankfully admit that what he did not foresee was the energy and ingenuity with which the navy has found means to meet the new conditions. The great silent battle which has been fought beneath the waves has ended in the repulse of an armada far more dangerous than that of Spain.
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X Y Z A Detective Story
Anna Katharine Green 试读
Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected or with attendant circumstances of greater interest than in the instance I am now about to relate.
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Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen
Harding, Emily J. 试读
Aleksander Borejko Chodzko Chodsko coat of arms Kozciesza (1804-1891) was a Polish poet, Slavist and Iranologist. He was a Native of Krzywicze in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. Chodsko was an Alumnus of the University of Vilnius, and a friend of poet Adam Mickiewicz. He was an Alumnus of the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Russian Empire in Saint-Petersburg. From 1830 until 1844, he worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran. From 1852 until 1855, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of France. From 1857 until 1883 he succeeded Adam Mickiewicz in the chair of Slavic languages and literature in the College de France. Chosdsko was a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Societe de Linguistique de Paris. He spoke many languages such as: French, English, Russian, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Polish and German. His works include: Popular Poetry of Persia, Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia, Theatre Persan, Polish-English and English-Polish Dictionary and Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen.
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A Chinese Wonder Book
Norman Hinsdale Pitman 试读
The winter had been a hard one: extreme cold deep snow and violent winds. The Wang house had suffered greatly. The roof had fallen in weighed down by heavy snow. Then a hurricane had blown a wall over and Ming-li the son up all night and exposed to a bitter cold wind had caught pneumonia.
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Familiar Letters on Chemistry
Justus Liebig 试读
Until very recently it was supposed that the physical qualities of bodies, i.e. hardness, colour, density, transparency, and still more their chemical properties, must depend upon the nature of their elements, or upon their composition. It was tacitly received as a principle, that two bodies containing the same elements in the same proportion, must of necessity possess the same properties. We could not imagine an exact identity of composition giving rise to two bodies entirely different in their sensible appearance and chemical relations.
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La debacle
Emile Zola 试读
La Débâcle est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1892, le dix-neuvième volume de la série les Rougon-Macquart, dont il constitue la conclusion historique. Pendant la guerre de 1870, deux soldats se lient d'amitié ; Jean Macquart, incarnation des solides valeurs rurales, et Maurice Levasseur, intellectuel qui rêve d'un cataclysme où s'anéantirait le monde corrompu - et le lecteur va les suivre jusqu'à ce que la Commune les sépare et dramatiquement les voie s'affronter. Mais si Zola choisit, bien au-delà de leur opposition symbolique, de les mêler à d'innombrables autres figures, c'est qu'il veut écrire le roman des masses et nous montrer une nation tout entière meurtrie par l'Histoire. Il juxtapose donc des scènes de combat et de vie civile, montre sans fard toutes les souffrances des corps, et jour après jour déroule sous nos yeux la douloureuse chronique qui va conduire à l'humiliation de Sedan. La Débâcle que Zola fait paraître en 1892, avant de clore Les Rougon-Macquart par un ultime roman, est le seul de ses livres dont le sujet soit un événement historique, le seul aussi qui soit consacré à la guerre. En abordant la crise la plus grave de l'histoire récente de la France, il adopte pour la dernière fois une vision tragique, mais nous donne à comprendre que sans doute la défaite fut un mal nécessaire. Après quoi Le Docteur Pascal pourra interpréter la totalité de la fresque romanesque comme une célébration de la vie.
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Yesterdays
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 试读
This little volume might be called ‘Echoes from the land of youthful imaginings’; or ‘Ghosts of old dreams. ’ It has been compiled at the request of Messrs. Gay and Hancock (my only authorised publishers in Great Britain), and contains verses written in my early youth, and which never before (with the exception, perhaps, of three or four) have been placed in book form.
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You Never Can Tell
George Bernard Shaw 试读
Kathleen Eagle's novels of love and passion have touched the hearts of countless readers. Now this award-winning writer has created her most compelling story of all. Reporter Heather Reardon has been hot on the trail of Native American activist Kole Kills Crow for years, so when she finds him living on a Minnesota reservation, she's shocked that the outspoken activist is now a private man who has faced both a disastrous brush with the law and a tragic twist of fate. Soon the pair is involved in a cause that forces Kole back intothe spotlight -- and challenges Heather's belief that Kole shouldreturn to the public eye. They travel from the isolation ofMinnesota to the bright lights of Los Angeles...and to a placewhere they must each face the truth about their love. You Never Can Tell is a story you will never forget.
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I Will Repay
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 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 - - Coward Coward Coward The words rang out, clear, strident, passionate, in a crescendo of agonised humiliation. The boy, quivering with rage, had sprung to his feet, and, losing his balance, he fell forward clutching at the table, whilst with a convulsive movement of the lids, he tried in vain to suppress the tears of shame which were blinding him. "Coward " He tried to shout the insult so that all might hear, but his parched throat refused him service, his trembling hand sought the scattered cards upon the table, he collected them together, quickly, nervously, fingering them with feverish energy, then he hurled them at the man opposite, whilst with a final effort he still contrived to mutter: "Coward "
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Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle 试读
Between the far away past history of the world, and that which lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history, a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of wickedness.
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Salted with Fire-George MacDonald
George MacDonald 试读
Blessed with quiet but keen dark eyes, and a complexion given a white-rose tinge by the fresh Scottish air, Maggie MacLean has grown to learn and love the trade of her father, the village's soutar, or shoemaker.A friend of her childhood has returned, she learns -- James Blatherwick, home from Edinburgh, where he was a divinity student. Yet the proud young man speaking so ably from the pulpit has a secret -- one he almost conceals from himself.Then an even stranger arrival startles her, when she stumbles upon the crying bairn -- a baby, abandoned upon the moor.
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Modern English Books of Power
George Hamlin Fitch 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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The Lost Lady of Lone
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 试读
The preparations were being completed for a grand event. For on the morning of the next day a deep wrong was to be made right by the marriage of the young and beautiful Lady of Lone to the chosen lord of her heart.
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The Ear in the Wall
Arthur Benjamin Reeve 试读
This early work by Arthur Benjamin Reeve was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Ear in the Wall' features super-sleuth Professor Craig Kennedy who is sometimes referred to as "The American Sherlock Holmes" due to his astounding ability at crime solving and his Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter. In 'The Ear in the Wall, ' Kennedy and Jameson, aided by a tough but compassionate woman detective start a race to save Betty Blackwell who has transcribed deals with criminal gangs and Wall Street plungers . Arthur Benjamin Reeve was born on 15th October 1880 in New York, USA. Reeve received his University education at Princeton and upon graduating enrolled at the New York Law School. However, his career was not destined to be in the field of Law. Between 1910 and 1918 he produced 82 short stories for Cosmopolitan. During this period he also began authoring screenplays, and by the end of the decade, his film career was at its peak with his name appearing on seven films, most of them serials and three of them starring Harry Houdini. Reeves died on 9th August 1936, a few years after moving to Trenton.
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English Men of Letters – Crabbe
Alfred Ainger 试读
Part of the English Men of Letters Series, published in 1903, this edition features George Crabbe the English poet and naturalist.