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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James 试读
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
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The Upper Berth
Francis Marion Crawford 试读
Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels. He was born at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. In 1879 he went to India, where he studied Sanskrit and edited the Allahabad Indian Herald. Returning to America he continued to study Sanskrit at Harvard University for a year, contributed to various periodicals, and in 1882 produced his first novel, Mr Isaacs. This book had an immediate success, and its author's promise was confirmed by the publication of Doctor Claudius: A True Story (1883). After a brief residence in New York and Boston, in 1883 he returned to Italy, where he made his permanent home. He also published the historical works, Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South (1900) renamed Sicily, Calabria and Malta in 1904, and Gleanings from Venetian History (1905). The Saracinesca series is perhaps known to be his best work, with the third in the series, Don Orsino, set against the background of a real estate bubble, told with effective concision. A fourth book in the series, Corleone, was the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature.
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The Valley of Decision
伊迪丝·华顿 试读
Edith Wharton (1862-1937), born Edith Newbold Jones, was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She combined her insider's view of America's privileged classes with a brilliant, natural wit to write humourous and incisive novels and short stories. Wharton was well-acquainted with many of her era's literary and public figures, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Besides her writing, she was a highly regarded landscape architect, interior designer, and taste-maker of her time.
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin 试读
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history's most influential thinkers.
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The Way of the World
William Congreve 试读
One of the greatest of all Restoration comedies, this knowing comedy of manners depicts the scheming of a nest of shallow, deceitful aristocrats to prevent two lovers from marrying. The play abounds with felicitous phrasing, delicious verbal battles of the sexes and a depth of feeling and sensitivity.
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The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb ? Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia
Charles Lamb 试读
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English essayist with Welsh heritage, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare (1807), which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb (1764-1847). Charles and Mary both suffered periods of mental illness, and Charles spent six weeks in a psychiatric hospital during 1795. He was, however, already making his name as a poet. Despite Lamb's bouts of melancholia, both he and his sister enjoyed an active and rich social life. Their London quarters became a kind of weekly salon for many of the most outstanding theatrical and literary figures of the day. On her own, Mary Lamb published an epistolary work, Mrs Leicester's School (1809) which the poet Samuel Coleridge believed would and should be "acknowledged as a rich jewel in the treasury of our permanent English literature." Among their other famous works are: Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808) and Poetry for Children (1809).
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Tom Sawyer Abroad
Mark Twain 试读
DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be. For a while he WAS satisfied. Everybody made much of him, and he tilted up his nose and stepped around the town as though he owned it. Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust. You see he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. The boys envied me and Jim a good deal, but land they just knuckled to the dirt before TOM.
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Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories
Sherwood Anderson 试读
Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) was a novelist and short story writer who has been recognized as one of the most innovative and important American authors of his time. He was a prolific writer, publishing seven novels and myriad collections of essays, memoirs, poetry and short stories. Anderson wrote in a characteristically simple prose style, and his unconventional techniques caused him to at first be written off. However, his unique exploration of the unconscious and its effect on behavior created very vulnerable, human characters that evoke sympathy from readers. "Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories" is a collection of fifteen stories published in 1921. It includes some of his greatest works: "The Egg," a story about the struggle to find success and happiness in the American Midwest, "I'm a Fool," about a young man who sabotages his chance at love because of his own feelings of inferiority, and "I Want to Know Why," about the confusion and desperation felt by a boy entering adulthood.
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Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare 试读
Troilus and Cressida is perhaps Shakespeare's mostphilosophical play, and its preoccupation with war, sex, and timehas seemed peculiarly relevant since the First World War. Fineproductions have demonstrated the play's theatrical power, andcritics have explored and illuminated its ideas and itsexceptionally plex language. Kenh Muir, in his introduction,sets the play in its historical context, discusses its odd careerin the theatre, examines Shakespeare's handling of his multiplesources, and assesses the contribution of interpretative criticismto a deeper understanding of this sombre examination of a fallenworld. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title.
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Twenty Years at Hull House; with autobiographical notes
Jane Addams 试读
In 1889, while many Americans were disdainful of newly arrived immigrants, Jane Addams established Hull-House as a refuge for Chicago's poor. The settlement house provided an unprecedented variety of social services. Addams's inspiring autobiography chronicles the institution's early years and discusses the ever-relevant philosophy of social justice that served as its foundation.
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Two on a Tower
Thomas Hardy 试读
The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy.'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...'Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. Two on a Tower tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. Together, in an ancient monument converted into an astronomical observation tower, they create their own private universe - until the pressures of the outside world threaten to destroy it.
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Way Down East A Romance of New England Life
Joseph Rhode Grismer 试读
"It had come at last, the day of days, for the two great American universities Harvard and Yale were going to play their annual game of football and the railroad station of Springfield, Mass., momentarily became more and more thronged with eager partisans of both sides of the great athletic contest. All the morning trains from New York, New Haven, Boston and the smaller towns had been pouring their loads into Springfield. Hampden Park was a sea of eager faces. The weather was fine and the waiting for the football game only added to the enjoyment-the appetizer before the feast. "
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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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A Daughter of Eve
Honoré de Balzac 试读
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 House of Pomegranates
王尔德 试读
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 Modern Utopia
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
In A Modern Utopia,two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves upon a Utopian Earth controlled by a single World Government.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce 试读
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original—text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words.Word,sentence,paragraph counts,and reading time help readers and teachers determine chapter complexity.Co—occurrence graphs depict character—to—character interactions as well character to place interactions.Sentiment indexes identify positive and negative trends in mood within each chapter.Frequency graphs help display the impact this book has had on popular culture since its original date of publication.Use Trajectory analytics to deepen comprehension,to provide a focus for discussions and writing assignments,and to engage new readers with some of the greatest stories ever told. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce.It traces the intellectual and religio—philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus,a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus,the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology.Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown,and culminates with his self—exile from Ireland in Europe.
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A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain 试读
Cast in the form of a waling tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, Mark Twain's account of traveling in Europe (1880) sparkles with his shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture. A TRAMP ABROAD showcases Twain's unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Illustrated by Twain.
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A Woman of No Importance
王尔德 试读
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words.Word,sentence,paragraph counts,and reading time help readers and teachers determine chapter complexity.Co-occurrence graphs depict character-to-character interactions as well character to place interactions.Sentiment indexes identify positive and negative trends in mood within each chapter.Frequency graphs help display the impact this book has had on popular culture since its original date of publication.Use Trajectory analytics to deepen comprehension,to provide a focus for discussions and writing assignments,and to engage new readers with some of the greatest stories ever told. "A Woman of No Importance"by Oscar Wilde is a 19th Century dark comedy play that examines English Upper Class society.Lord Illingworth is known for his ability to seduce women.He is invited to all the parties while the women he seduces hide out in humiliation.
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Aesops Fables
Aesop 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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Anna of the Five Towns
Arnold Bennett 试读
Anna, a reserved and subtle woman of great integrity, lives with her overbearing and miserly father. Wooed for her money by the darkly handsome Henry Mynors, Anna courageously defies her father's wrathful indignation. But the complex passions aroused lead to tragedy and heartache. Set in the Potteries against a background of dour Wesleyan Methodism, "Anna of the Five Towns" is a brilliantly perceptive novel of provincial life in Victorian England.
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At Fault
Kate Chopin 试读
An intrepid explorer of taboos, Chopin wrote some of America's boldest and best 19th-century fiction. Divorce and alcoholism are among the daring subjects of her first novel, set in the rural post-Reconstruction South against a backdrop of economic devastation and simmering racial tension.
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Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope 试读
Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers-- struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect- actually want to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, let to civil war and constitutional upheaval。
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Blacky the Crow
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
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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Cape Cod
Henry David Thoreau 试读
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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Cranford
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 试读
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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Cyrano De Bergerac
Edmond Rostand 试读
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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De Profundis
王尔德 试读
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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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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Essays and Lectures
王尔德 试读
Contents include: The Rise of Historical Criticism, The English Renaissance of Art, House Decoration, Art and the Handicraftsman, Lecture to Art Students, London Models and Poems in Prose.
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Every Man in His Humor
Ben Jonson 试读
Renaissance comedy. Complete text, modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction.From the Yale ben Jonson edition.
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Father Goriot
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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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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Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Moral
Immanuel Kant 试读
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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Greenmantle
John Buchan 试读
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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Grimms Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm 试读
The Brothers Grimm The Grimm brothers were early 19th century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interest in German folk tales. The Grim brothers were academics who invited friends to their home and asked them to relate stories they had heard. They soon published their first collection of tales and from there several more volumes followed. Included in this collection are Hansel and Gretel, Briar Rose, The Fisherman and His Wife, Rapunzel, The Frog Prince, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltshin, Tom Thumb and many more. These stories are a delight to read and will rekindle up many childhood memories as they are reread.
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad 试读
The story of the civilized, enlightened Mr. Kurtz who embarks on a harrowing "night journey" into the savage heart of Africa, only to find his dark and evil soul. The Secret Sharer. The saga of a young, inexperienced skipper forced to decide the fate of a fugitive sailor who killed a man in self-defense. As he faces his first moral test the skipper discovers a terrifying truth -- and comes face to face with the secret itself. Heart Of Darkness and The Secret Sharer draw on actual events and people that Conrad met or heard about during his many far-flung travels. In portraying men whose incredible journeys on land and at sea are also symbolic voyages into their own mysterious depths, these two masterful works give credence to Conrad's acclaim as a major psychological writer.
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Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw 试读
this entertaining allegory examines apathy, confusion and lack of purpose as causes of major world problems, with larger-than-life characters representing the evils of the modern world.
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Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen 试读
This dark psychological drama was first produced in Norway in 1890 and depicts the evil machinations of a ruthless, nihilistic heroine: the infamous Hedda Gabler. Readers will discover a masterly exploration of the nature of evil, along with the potential for tragedy that lies in human frailty. A true masterpiece.
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House of Mirth
伊迪丝·华顿 试读
"House of Mirth"tells the story of the early twentieth Century New York, noble beauty behind Lily Bart living relatives at home in the way under the fence. Since she was 29 years old, in fear of poverty and a beauty in her old age concerns are eager to find a home to return to, want to marry into a wealthy family and failed, again framed into the bottom of society.
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Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm 试读
They saw their work in gathering the fairy tales of Europe as an academic exercise,but the Brothers Grimm-aka German folklorists and linguists JAKOB (1785-1863) and WILHELM GRIMM (1786-1859)-are today remembered best as tellers of dark stories for children.Here,in one compact volume,are 53 of the most beloved of the stories they assembled,from well-known ones such as"The Sleeping Beauty,""The Frog Prince,""Rapunzel,"and"Hansel and Grethel"to more obscure ones including"The Rabbit's Bride,""Six Soldiers of Fortune,""Faithful John,"and"The Three Spinsters."A treasury of classic stories,this replica of an 1886 edition-translated by English writer LUCY CRANE (1842-1882),with beautiful line drawings by her brother,William Crane-will delight children and adults alike.
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Hunted Down:The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 试读
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
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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Intentions
Deborah Heiligman 试读
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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Jack and Jill
Louisa May Alcott 试读
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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King Solomons Mines
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
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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La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote
Honoré de Balzac 试读
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
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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Lightfoot the Deer
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
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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Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Storie
王尔德 试读
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
The famous British novelist Herbert George Wells wrote a humorous novels.
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert 试读
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
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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Marching Men
Sherwood Anderson 试读
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.
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Utopia
Thomas More 试读
Robert M. Adams's celebrated translation of Utopia has been meticulously revised for the Second Edition of this Norton Critical Edition as have the accompanying annotations.Backgrounds is designed to assist student readers in an appreciation of Utopia by shedding light on the different points of view contemporary with More's work.Included are new selections from Saint Benedict and Tasso, as well as a medieval satire on the land of Cockayne.The Humanist Circle, a carefully chosen selection of letters, includes another important contribution by Erasmus.Criticism includes five new thought-provoking essays by Alistair Fox, Edward L. Surtz, G. R. Elton, Northrop Frye, and Robert M. Adams.Also new are selections from two modern anti-utopias or quasi-utopias—Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and B. F. Skinner's Walden Two—plus a selection from Edward Bellamy's once futuristic but now almost contemporary Looking Backward, which may be compared and contrasted with More's masterpiece.