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玉管照神局(无注释版)
齐邱 试读
本书作者为南唐宋齐邱(生卒年不详)。宋齐邱,字超回,后改子嵩,庐陵(今江西省吉安市)人。曾任殿直军判官、右司员外郎、同平章事等职,被李縖封为楚国公。后获罪被废,自尽而死。 《玉管照神局》全书专论相法,颇为系统,所相有形有神,既相五官,又看身形,既论气色,又分四时。书中还特详掌法,记载各种掌纹图七十二幅。由于该书是相法著作中较早的一部,流传较广,为历代相士所取。书中保存了丰富的相法资料,可为研究我国相法的发展提供参考。 为了让读者更好地领略和研究相术文化,本书选取《四库全书》所录的《玉管照神局》作为底本,并加入其姊妹篇《月波洞中记》,进行了精心的整理与编辑,加入了精练的小标题,使其结构更加合理有序。此外,对书中一些重要的理论方法和知识点,运用数百个插图和图表,进行了生动易懂的图解分析,使读者更畅快、更轻松地读懂本书。
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补江总白猿传(无注释版)
佚名 试读
唐代传奇,作者不详。一般认为是唐前期作品。本书叙述梁大同末年欧阳纥率军南征﹐抵达长乐﹐妻被白猿精劫走。欧阳纥率兵入山﹐计杀白猿﹐但妻子已怀孕﹐后来生一子﹐状貌如猿猴。题名中“补江总”三字﹐意谓江总为欧阳纥友﹐纥死后曾收养其子﹐所以对这件事比较了解﹐唯未作传述﹐所以补之。小说攻击异己,唐初已经流行,本小说即为一例。白猿自此成为中国奇幻文学中一个鲜明独特的形象,其世外仙境、自身生活,很值得取鉴。
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混唐后传(无注释版)
佚名 试读
《混唐后传》又名《绣像薛家将平西演传》、《绣像混唐平西传》、《大唐后传》 署“竟陵钟伯敬编次,温陵李卓吾参订”,当是清人伪托。前面内容为薛仁贵、薛丁山父子平西故事,后面内容与《隋唐演义》如出一辙。
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文中子中说(无注释版)
佚名 试读
“中说”一书,有人疑其为伪作,但大多数学者认为,此书虽非王通所作,但其原本是王通门弟子姚义、薛收汇编而成的,大体上是弟子们对其师言行的回忆和追录。《中说》所反映的王通思想,还是有许多可贵之处的。王通在政治上,以恢复王道政治为目标,倡导实行“仁政”,主张“三教合一”,
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne 试读
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
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太白阴经(无注释版)
李筌 试读
12“神机制敌太白阴经”又称“太白阴经”,道家著作,中国古人认为太白星主杀伐,因此多用来比喻军事,“太白阴经”的名称由此而来。作者为唐朝的李筌。 中国古代重要兵书。唐代宗时河东节度使都虞候李筌撰。
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遁甲演义(无注释版)
程道生 试读
方术家往往把遁甲的起源推溯至黄帝玄女、周公旦和汉张子房。但真正从遁甲理论的建立来看,可能要晚至南北朝才开始完备,有信都芳的《遁甲经》和葛秘的《三元遁甲图》闻世,唐朝继续发展,至两宋时发展到高潮。在宋仁宗时代以杨维德为代表,对以往壬式理论作了系统的概括和总结。但自从陈抟邵雍发掘出先天、后天的易学观念,促使遁甲理论发生变革.并且将道家的符篆之法也融合了进去,以至向怪诞方向发展。 遁甲与六壬是相通的,只是各有所侧重。遁甲被人们更多地用于军事,它更多地引用了天文和季节历法的概念。并以九宫为基础,以三奇、六曜、八门、九星相配合,视其加临吉凶的情况,配以九宫而起符使,作为活动趋避之法。大量引用道家的符篆咒语,是《遁甲演义》的一个特点。《四库全书提要》说:“是编旨约词该,于用奇置闰之要,颇详具。至论本命行年,谓欲乘本局中吉星生旺,其说亦他书所未及。”本书不取《遁甲符应经》谈兵之法,故为后世言遁甲者习用。
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刘生觅莲记(无注释版)
佚名 试读
嘉靖到万历初佚名作。写江东人刘一春坐馆父执金翁家中,与邻园孙碧莲多次谋面,渐生爱意。两人虽有好感,但始终以礼自持。金翁内侄耿汝和向翁告状,欲坏孙刘好事,但未得逞。后刘生中举,平寇有功,舅妗将侍女(原名苗灵秀)送给他。早先刘生所遇老者说的“觅莲得新藕,折桂获灵苗”的谶语遂得到应验。
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麻姑山志(无注释版)
左宗郢 试读
二百年的物换星移,麻姑山堪以记载的人事物况当有很多,文人墨客之登游之作,山志未能备载,终是一桩缺憾。其次,麻姑山志的雏形是麻姑集,“麻姑集者,集古今英髦之所游咏,以发麻姑之胜者也”。 江西历代所修的山志,记山川形胜、人文胜事;千古兴衰,毕收其中,分门别类,全面翔实,信而有征;是集自然风光与文化资源于一体的良好文字载体。
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海角遗编(无注释版)
七峰樵道人 试读
清国兴师伐大明,封疆职守任非轻。将军尽瘁巡江海,一木难支厦屋倾。北朝牧马下江东,白面书生耀武功。擂鼓扬旗动地震,悬灯植木彻天红。岂无壮士思擒敌,亦有奇材想效忠。何事朝廷行贿赂,仁贤不信国先空。岁次乙酉春间,明朝江南,年号还是弘光元年。
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养生随笔(无注释版)
曹庭栋 试读
少寐乃老年大患,“内经”谓“卫气不得入于阴。”常留于阳,则阴气虚,故目不瞑。载有方药,罕闻奏效。邵子曰:“寤则神栖于心。”又曰:“神统于心。”大抵以清心为切要。然心实最难把捉,必先平居静养。入寝时,将一切营为计虑,举念即除,渐除渐少,渐少渐无,自然可得安眠;若终日扰扰,七情火动,辗转牵怀,欲其一时消释得乎!《南华经》曰:“其魂交。”养生家曰:“先睡心,后睡目。”俱空言拟议而已。愚谓寐有操纵二法,操者:如贯想头顶,默数鼻息,返观丹田之类。使心有所着,乃不纷驰,庶可获寐;纵者:任其心游思于杳渺无朕之区,亦可渐入朦胧之境。
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夜谭随录(无注释版)
和邦额 试读
夜谭随录(《夜谭随录》),清代笔记式文言短篇小说集,全书4卷(或作12卷),包括传奇和志怪小说 160篇左右。著者和邦额。《夜谭随录》在形式上极力摹拟《聊斋志异》,以描写平民女子见长,塑造了一些带有“村野”气的少女形象,如碧碧(《碧碧》)、香云(《香云》)、白萍(《白萍》)、收香(《娄方华》)、白氏(《王侃》)、秀姑(《秀姑》)等,她们天真活泼、开朗大方、敢作敢为。有些长篇,情节诡异,叙述婉曲,也尚可观。但多数人物形象面目苍白,失之粗率。
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那桐奏折存稿(无注释版)
那桐 试读
这部分奏折起于光绪二十七年(1901年)四月,止于光绪三十一年(1905年)十二月,共35件,为那桐在这一时期上奏朝廷的奏折及奉到朱批的存稿抄件汇集。那桐时任户部右侍郎兼管钱法堂事务、外务部左侍郎、户部尚书、外务部尚书会办大臣、步军统领管理工巡局事务大学士等职。光绪二十七年七月曾作为朝廷专使出使日本。因此,这部分奏折具有较高的史料价值,可与本书此前刊登的《那桐日记》相互印证。
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香祖笔记(无注释版)
王士禛 试读
《香祖笔记》(十二卷)[1]是清初诗文泰斗王士禛先生继《居易录》、《池北偶谈》、《皇华纪闻》诸书之后的又一部重要笔记著作。撰述时间起自康熙四十一年壬午,止于康熙四十三年甲申,时间跨度为三年。康熙乙酉初刻本中宋荦序谓“近又辑癸未迄甲申两年笔记,嘱校订为序”云云,约略言之也。
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楹书隅录(无注释版)
杨绍和 试读
为我国清末著名四大题解目录之一,作者杨绍和(1832一1875)。绍和,字彦和,号娜卿,山东聊城人,为清末四大藏书楼之一—海源阁藏书楼主人杨以增之子,同治四年进士,授翰林院编修。
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校雠通义(无注释版)
章学诚 试读
中国清代目录学著作。章学诚撰。成书于乾隆四十四年(1779),共4卷。该书总结了自汉代刘向、刘歆以来目录学的优良传统,继承与发展了宋代郑樵的目录学理论,是通过亲身编纂地方志与书目的实践经验而写成的。
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遂初堂书目(无注释版)
尤袤 试读
中国宋代私家藏书目录。南宋尤袤撰。尤袤(1127~1194),字延之,号遂初居士,无锡人。南宋绍兴十八年(1148)进士,曾任秘书丞、礼部尚书。能诗。家富藏书,在九龙山(今无锡惠山)下建有遂初堂,编《遂初堂书目》1卷。《遂初堂书目》(今传本)共收录图书3000余种。分为44类,对四部分类体系作了调整,突出本朝著作与新出现的图书,设有“小说”、“类书”、“乐曲”等小类。仅著录书名,部分款目著录作者。在经部书和一些史部书名之下简记版本情况,如记《史记》有“川本”、“严州本”。该目录中著录的版本有旧本、旧监本、秘阁本、京本、旧杭本、杭本等10余种,但未确记刻书地点与年月。该书开创了中国古代书目著录版本的先例。
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苏轼集(无注释版)
苏轼 试读
25苏轼集,就是宋代大文学家苏轼的作品集。在中国文学艺术的历史上,苏轼是一位有多方面卓越成就的人。这里且不说他在哲学思想上的成就,也不说他在书画艺术方面的造诣,也不谈西湖的苏堤和饮食中的东坡肉等等,单就文学方面的地位而言,有关诗,人称“苏黄”(苏轼与黄庭坚),又有“苏门四学士”;有关词,人称“苏辛”(苏轼与辛弃疾);有关文,人称“三苏”(苏洵、苏轼、苏辙父子),而“三苏”又占据着“唐宋八大家”的三席。可以说,苏轼是中国文学史上甚至整个中国古代史上的一位奇人。因此,要为这样一位大家编选一部简要而恰当的文集,向广大读者展示其多方面的文学成就,并不是一件容易的事。然而,这无疑是一件有意义的事。这不仅因为在我们的生活中,无论艺术方面,抑或人生方面,都或多或少存留着苏轼的影子,更为重要的是,我们仍然极其需要苏轼。
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贾谊新书(无注释版)
贾谊 试读
“贾谊新书”是贾谊文著汇集,为西汉后期刘向整理编辑而成,最初称“贾谊新书”,当时刘向整理过的其他一些书也称某某新书,以别于未经整理过的“旧书”。后来,别的书逐渐去掉了"新书"二字,“新书”就成了贾谊文集的专名。后班固撰“汉书”时,录入“新书”中的许多文字。多数为论文,也有一些答问和告诫之语,可能是贾谊进行教学活动的记录。“贾谊集”中还收录有疏7篇、赋5篇及一些佚文,资料收集较全。
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后宋慈云走国全传(无注释版)
佚名 试读
自古忠奸贤佞,历朝混沌难分;明哲庸愚,举世矇眬靡辨。是谓人有忠奸愚哲,难在洞分其邪正也。然在士庶,不分其邪正,其害尚属浅鲜,倘被其惑者,不过灾及其身,为一家之害耳。至为君上被其所惑,于大害匪轻矣。邪正不分,则君子日退,小人日增矣。其祸患岂非遍及于天下。是以分辨忠奸邪正,是为君之首务而大有关乎政纪也。是古今大略之所同鉴。 盖闻天何言哉,而广长有舌,久矣嚼破虚空;心方寸耳,而芥子能容,悠然遍满法界。造有造无,三藏灵文,由兹演出;观空观色,百千妙义,如是得来。耳之稀有,谛听若雷;目所未曾,静观如镜。故花吐拈香,泠泠般若之音;月呈指影,滴滴菩提之味。悟入我闻,万缘解脱;猛登彼岸,千佛证盟。无如聋聩渺茫,失之觌面;遂至痴嗔固结,误也当身。 话说此书乃青石山一段故事。细考此山形势,原在浙西宁波县城外,乃是个清静地方。四面远近虽有些村庄,较那居民稠密、城郭繁华之处,别有一种明秀幽雅气象。因此便引动一位告退的官宦,此人姓周,名斌,字艺全。年将花甲,夫人已故。膝下只有一子,名唤信,号鸿年。年方十八,生的聪明文秀,体态风流。又有一仆,姓李名忠,因他上了年纪,都以老苍头称之;生有一子,名唤延寿,年方十二,亦在周府伺候公子。
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三国志平话(无注释版)
不题撰人 试读
10三国志平话,元代讲史话本,作者不明。全书有上中下三卷。对后来罗贯中所著的历史演义小说经典之作,三国志通俗演义产生了一定的影响,是元代较为经典的文学作品之一。
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正统道藏目录(无注释版)
不题撰人 试读
10本书的内容十分庞杂,篇卷数量很大,既有大批道教的经典、丹经、符箓、戒律以及神仙人物传记、宫观山志等等,又有儒家和诸子百家著作上百种,还收入不少有关中国古代科学技术的著作,如医药学著作和天文历法著作等等。
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灵城精义(无注释版)
何溥 试读
明代人伪托五代十国何溥之名所撰《灵城精义》,创立三元三运之说,把天地之运结合起来,再辅以河洛八卦,使阴宅风水学说的适用性更为广阔。伪托宋代廖磓所撰《九星穴法》,结合天文地理,创立了若干基本定格,如果地形不符,可以人工加以改造以求吉,获得了更大的灵活性。不但从统治阶级到一般平民都信奉遵行,有些著名的大儒也持相信支持的态度,这些都使得阴宅风水的应用和影响日益广泛,成为传统文化的重要内容,并在社会生活、民间风俗中占据重要地位。自宋以来,诸家书目皆不著录。
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas de Quincey 试读
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic mind. A close associate of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the brilliant but troubled de Quincey recounts both the pleasures and pain of opium addiction in captivating prose. The result is by turns enlightened, nightmarish and witty – a faithful mirror of the drug itself.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster 试读
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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Fathers and Children
Ivan Turgenev 试读
Examines the conflict of attitudes in mid-19th-century Russia, as distant pre-echoes of the Revolution continue to rumble through the remote rural landscape. The story follows the Kirsanov family, representatives of the old regime, and the violent character of the anti-hero Bazarov.
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A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Mark Twain 试读
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 Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
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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A Short History of the World
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
A Short History of the World is a period—piece non—fictional historic work by H.G. Wells first published by Cassell & Co,Ltd Publishing in 1922. It was republished under Penguin Classics in 2006. The book was largely inspired by Wells earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book tells of the history of the world,starting with the believed origins of the Earth around 2,000 million years ago,now known to be 4,404 million years according to 2005 estimates.The book then goes on to explain the,at the time believed,development of the Earth and life on Earth,until reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation. The book ends with the outcome of the First World War,the Russian famine of 1921,and the League of Nations in 1922.
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins 试读
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant 'Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Uncle Toms Cabin, Young Folks Edition
Harriet Beecher Stowe 试读
uncle tom's cabin is the rnost popular,influential and controversial book written by an american. stowe's rich novel passionately dramatises why the whole of america is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery,and resoundingly concludes that only‘repentance,justice and mercy’will prevent the onset of‘the wrath of almighty god!’.the novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that president lincoln half-jokingly greeted stowe as‘the little lady’ who started the great civi war,as keith carabine argues in his lively and provocative introduction. the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing and contradictory responses among northern and southern readers,moderate and radical abolitionist groups,blacks and women with regard to issues of form. genre,politics,religion,race and gender,that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex and divide modern readers and critical constituencies.
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray 试读
A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Called in its subtitle "A Novel Without a Hero," Vanity Fair has instead two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp. It also engages a huge cast of wonderful supporting characters as the novel spins from Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies to affairs of love and war on the Continent to liaisons in the dazzling ballrooms of London. Thackeray's forte is the bon mot and it is amply exercised in a novel filled with memorably wicked lines. Lengthy and leisurely in pace, the novel follows the adventures of Becky and Amelia as their fortunes rise and fall, creating a tale of both picaresque and risqué. Thackery mercilessly skewers his society, especially the upper class, poking fun at their shallow values and pointedly jabbing at their hypocritical "morals." His weapons, however, are not fire and brimstone but an unerring eye for the absurd and a genius for observation of the foibles of his age. An enduring classic, this great novel is a brilliant study in duplicity and hypocrisy…and a mirror with which to view our own times.
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Umbrellas and Their History
William Sangster 试读
In Persia the Parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sir John Malcolm has an article on the subject in his "History of Persia." In some sculptures--of a very Egyptian character, by the way--the figure of a king appears attended by a slave, who carries over his head an Umbrella, with stretchers and runner complete. In other sculptures on the rock at Takht-i-Bostan, supposed to be not less than twelve centuries old, a deer-hunt is represented, at which a king looks on, seated on a horse, and having an Umbrella borne over his head by an attendant.
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Northanger Abbey
简·奥斯汀 试读
Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.
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Of Human Bondage
毛姆 试读
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and maso...
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Poor White
Sherwood Anderson 试读
Sherwood Anderson was a 20th century American writer of short stories. Anderson grew up in Ohio and after college became a copywriter in Chicago. He is most famous for his collection of interrelated short stories, Winesburg Ohio, which he began writing in 1919. Poor White was published in 1920. Hugh McVey is an inventor who rises from poverty. The story is set on the banks of the Mississippi River during the years when rural America is influenced by industrialization sweeping the country.
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Queer Little Folks
H·Stowe 试读
Now she bustled up to the parsonage at the top of the oak-tree, to tell old Parson Too-Whit what she thought he ought to preach for his next sermon, and how dreadful the morals of the parish were becoming. Then, having perfectly bewildered the poor old gentleman, who was always sleepy of a Monday morning, Mother Magpie would take a peep into Mrs. Oriole's nest, sit chattering on a bough above, and pour forth floods of advice, which, poor little Mrs. Oriole used to say to her husband, bewildered her more than a hard north-east storm.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 试读
"I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett . . . and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four sonnets to Robert, which she disclosed to no one -- not even to him -- until three years after their marriage. The poems were later collected in a volume entitled Sonnets form the Portuguese. In this elegant new edition, the poems are accompanied by relevant excerpts from Elizabeth and Robert's love letters.
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The Duel and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov 试读
Six selections from the famed Russian,show case his natural aptitude for detail, dialogue, humor, and compassion. Includes The Darling, a poignant piece supporting the claim that life has no meaning without love; as well as The Kiss, Anna on the Neck, The Man in a Case, The Malefactor, and the title story.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
王尔德 试读
Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian's beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. Beware of what you have wish for Each time Dorian commits a sin his portrait ages, showing him what is happening to his soul.
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The Professor
Charlotte Bronte 试读
'The Professor' is Charlotte Bront's first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death. Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterisation she perfected in her later works, such as 'Jane Eyre', the novel is Brontë's portrayal of a love story from a male perspective.Writing from the point of view of orphaned young teacher, William Crimsworth - the sole male protagonist among Brontë's works - the author allows herself a freedom of action in love and will that reveals her character's loves, desires and ambitions as he forges a new life on his own terms in Brussels. William finds himself caught between the desire he feels for Zoraide Reuter, the beguiling head of the girls' school where he teaches, and the gentle love he feels for one of his pupils, Frances Henri.Exploring questions of love, identity, freedom and independence, 'The Professor' is an important work in the small opus that is Charlotte Brontë's significant contribution to English literature.