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丰子恺插图格林童话全集：全10册
格林兄弟 试读
《格林童话》是深受孩子喜爱的经典。丰子恺先生曾为《格林童话》创作三百多幅插图，画风独特，很多画让人忍俊不禁。本书收入脍炙人口的格林童话，配上丰先生的精彩插图，采用翻译家杨武能的译本，相信会给小读者带来不同的感受。
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疯狂动物城·英文原版套装（共2册）
美国迪士尼公司 试读
本套装包含《疯狂动物城》第一部和第二部英文原版小说，均为迪士尼官方正版引进的电影同名小说，内容忠实于原作剧情。 在《迪士尼英文原版：疯狂动物城》中，动物城是一个所有动物和平共处的现代化都市。心怀警察梦的兔子朱迪因偏见只能担任交警，却在执勤中遇见狡黠的狐狸尼克。两人从对立到合作，共同调查一起失踪案件，最终揭露了一起动摇动物城秩序的惊天秘密。 《疯狂动物城2：英文原版》延续前作精彩，朱迪与尼克再度搭档，深入城市中不为人知的角落，应对更加棘手的案件与新出现的阴谋。他们在破案过程中不断成长，也在团队协作中深化信任。故事通过更丰富的角色与更紧张的冒险，诠释多元包容、勇气与友谊的真谛。 本套装系为纯英文原版小说，配有重点难点词汇注释，帮助读者在阅读中轻松跨越语言障碍。
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福尔摩斯探案全集之巴斯克维尔的猎犬（英文）
阿瑟·柯南·道尔 试读
《福尔摩斯探案全集之巴斯克维尔的猎犬》是英国推理小说家阿瑟·柯南·道尔创作的中篇小说，故事发生地点为英国西南部德文郡的达特穆尔。作品讲述了一桩困扰巴斯克维尔庄园一百多年的疑案，福尔摩斯和华生负责调查此案。所有人都以为罪魁祸首是传说中的可怕巨兽，但福尔摩斯经过严谨思考和科学处理，找到案件的突破口，打破巴斯克维尔家族代代相传的诅咒。
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迪士尼英文原版：疯狂动物城 Zootopia（全彩升级版）
美国迪士尼公司 试读
本书为迪士尼电影《疯狂动物城》的同名小说，官方正版引进，内容忠实于电影。故事讲述了在一个所有动物和谐共存的美好世界中，兔子朱迪从小就梦想着成为一名惩恶扬善的警察，却因为受到歧视只能当一名交警。有一次，朱迪在执勤的过程中遇见了狐狸尼克，他俩不打不相识，一起执行寻找失踪水獭的任务，最终发现了了不得的惊天秘密。此系列图书为纯英文小说，内容生动有趣，原汁原味感受地道原文，非常适合英语阅读爱好者阅读与学习。
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Gone with the Wind 飘（英文原版）
玛格丽特·米切尔 试读
美国南北战争爆发，塔拉庄园的干金斯嘉丽一夜之间告别快乐无忧的生活，困苦、伤痛、颠沛流离的日子席卷而来。面对残酷的现实，斯嘉丽变得成熟、坚强，想尽一切办法挣扎求存。然而，她的固执也让她错失了爱人…遥望瑞德离去的背影，她仍未放弃希望：“毕竟，明天又是新的一天。”
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傲慢与偏见（Pride and Prejudice·英文原版）
简·奥斯汀 试读
故事围绕贝内特一家几个女儿的婚姻大事展开。从伦敦新搬来的单身汉阔少宾利先生爱上了温柔美貌的大女儿简，他的朋友达西则倾情于二女儿伊丽莎白。由于她听信了年轻军官韦恩的谗言而对达西产生了偏见致使这桩婚姻进行的十分缓慢。经过一连串有趣的周折后，误会终于得以消除。达西克服了傲气，伊丽莎白也克服了对他的偏见，最后两人终成眷属。
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Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感（英文原版）
简·奥斯汀 试读
《理智与情感》是简·奥斯丁富于幽默情趣的处女作。埃诺莉和玛丽安娜两姐妹生在一个英国乡绅家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹的情感却毫无节制，因此面对爱情时，她们作出了不同的反应……小说以这两位女主角曲折复杂的婚事风波为主线，通过“理智与情感”的幽默对比，提出了道德与行为的规范问题。本书和作者的《傲慢与偏见》堪称姐妹篇，同样以细腻的笔触和生动的对白叙述没有富裕嫁妆的少女恋爱结婚的故事。
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消灭痤疮：知道这些就够了
戴尔·沃勒 试读
痤疮是一种常见的皮肤炎症性疾病，以粉刺、丘疹、脓疱、结节、囊肿及瘢痕为其特征。 本书介绍了痤疮的形成、类型，让读者对此有全面的认识，从而在日常生活细节上防范痤疮的生长，不再被痤疮困扰。
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The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比（英文原版）
F.司各特·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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White Fang 白牙（英文原版）
杰克·伦敦 试读
作者以寒冷的加拿大北极地区为背景，采用拟人化的手法，讲述了一只诞生于荒野名叫白牙的狼，从几个月大开始在与人类的交往过程中，历经种种磨难和曲折，在主人的感化下，很终走出荒野，过上驯养生活的故事。作者以自然主义的写作风格阐述了遗传和环境因素对动物生存的双重影响，在揭示野性的力量、残酷的生存法则的同时，很终肯定和礼赞的仍然是人性的力量。
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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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Bartleby the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
Herman Melville 试读
Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist,who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him; During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville's frustration with his own situation as a writer, and the story itself is about a writer who forsakes conventional modes because of an irresistible preoccupation with the most baffling philosophical questions Bartleby can also be seen to represent Melville's relation to his commercial, democratic society.
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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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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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Emile
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 试读
Rousseau creates an ideal model of one-on-one tutelage from infancy to manhood with himself as the child's mentor. As in so many of his other famous works, here, Rousseau asserts his main thesis that human beings are by nature good; it is only the distorting influences of civilization that have corrupted them.
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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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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself
Harriet Ann Jacobs 试读
Born into slavery, Linda spends her early years in a happy home with her mother and father, who are relatively well-off slaves. When her mother dies, six-year-old Linda is sent to live with her mother's mistress,who treats her well and teaches her to read.After a few years, this mistress dies and bequeaths Linda to a relative. Her new masters are cruel and neglectful,and Dr. Flint,the father,takes an interest in Linda and tries to force her into a sexual relationship with him. Linda continues to thwart his attempts and maintain her distance.Knowing that Flint will do anything to get his way,Linda consents to a love affair with a white neighbor,Mr.Sands.She is ashamed at her discretion,but she knows it is better than being raped by Dr.Flint.During their affair,Mr.Sands and Linda have two children.Their names are Benjamin,who is often called Benny in the narrative,and Ellen.Throughout her narrative,Jacobs argues that a powerless slave girl cannot be held to the same standards of morality as a free woman.She also has practical reasons for agreeing to the affair:she hopes that when Flint finds out about it,he will sell her to Sands in disgust.Instead,the vengeful Flint sends Linda to his son's plantation to be broken in as a field hand.
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
William Shakespeare 试读
"A Midsummer Nights Dream", which is the most mature British dramatist William Shakespeare youth comedy, is also one of the most famous comedy by William Shakespeare, tells the story of a love story, jack shall have Jill.
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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill 试读
In one of the most influential philosophical works ever writer, John Stuart Mill explores the risks and responsibilities of liberty. Examining the tyranny that can come both from government and from the herd-like opinion of the majority, Mill proposes a freedom to think, unite, and pursue our pleasures as the most important freedoms, as long as we cause no harm to others. "Great Ideas": throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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The Invisible Man
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells'People screamed. People sprang off the pavement ... "The Invisible Man is coming! The Invisible Man!"'With his face swaddled in bandages, his eyes hidden behind dark glasses and his hands covered even indoors, Griffin - the new guest at The Coach and Horses - is at first assumed to be a shy accident-victim. But the true reason for his disguise is far more chilling: he has developed a process that has made him invisible, and is locked in a struggle to discover the antidote. Forced from the village, and driven to murder, he seeks the aid of an old friend, Kemp. The horror of his fate has affected his mind, however - and when Kemp refuse to help, he resolves to wreak his revenge.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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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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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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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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New Atlantis
Francis Bacon 试读
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) wrote New Atlantis around 1632. He wrote of his aspiration for establishing an ideal commonwealth. This section from the introduction gives a summary of Bacon's reasons for writing this short essay. "The generosity and enlightenment, the dignity and splendor, the piety and public spirit, of the inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities which Bacon the statesman desired rather than hoped to see characteristic of his own country and in Solomon's House we have Bacon the scientist indulging without restriction his prophetic vision of the future of human knowledge. No reader acquainted in any degree with the processes and results of modern scientific inquiry can fail to be struck by the numerous approximations made by Bacon's imagination to the actual achievements of modern times." Even in Bacon's idealistic viewpoint he still saw science in a practical manner. Science was the way to man's advancement. Bacon's ideals have yet to be achieved, but they do give us goals to reach for.
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National Epics
Kate Milner RabbHarrison Fisher 试读
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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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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Back Home
Eugene Wood 试读
Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! Now available in gorgeous miniature hardback edition.One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up, up, up and away he flies, high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds, stars and planets until suddenly, he runs out of petrol!Miles from earth, the boy crashes into the moon and waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold and lonely, a friendly martian appears from the darkness, also with a broken aircraft.Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox.Can the boy find his way back home safely and will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend?
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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
Hamilton Wright Mabie 试读
A comprehensive collection of tales edited by the American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. American culture is indebted to him for helping to spread, by his lectures as well as his writings, a love of good reading in the United States.
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La Maison Tellier
Guy de Maupassant 试读
"Fermé pour cause de première communion" : un tel avis, sur laporte d'une maison close, n'est pas chose courante, et les habituésde la maison Tellier, de Fécamp, n'en reviennent pas. Pendant cetemps, Madame et ses cinq pensionnaires vont retrouver à lacampagne, le temps d'une fête, leurs émois et leur innocence depetites filles... A c?té de ce chef-d'?uvre, huit autres nouvellesdéploient ici l'éventail du génie de Maupassant. Petits employésparisiens, paysans timides, noceurs désabusés, filles rouées ouna?ves : toute une humanité, où des surprenantes candeurs se mêlentà la violence des appétits et des intérêts, est dépeinte avec lacouleur éclatante et le réalisme vigoureux des toiles de Renoir, deManet ou de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Salthaven
W. W. Jacobs 试读
This early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Salthaven' is one of the author's few full length novels. Jacobs worked as a clerk in the civil service before turning to writing in his late twenties, publishing his first short story in 1895. Most of Jacobs' work appeared before the onset of World War I, and although the majority of his output was humorous in tone, he is best-remembered now for his macabre tales, particularly those contained in his 1902 collection The Lady of the Barge, such as 'The Monkey's Paw' and 'The Toll House'.
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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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The Celtic Twilight
William Butler Yeats 试读
Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Yeats produced a vast collection of stories, songs, and poetry of Ireland's historical and legendary past. "The Celtic Twilight" includes forty-two Celtic folklore tales, and Yeats makes no secret of his fascination and even belief in the world of the occult and the existence of faeries. Yeats' passion in these tales comes forth through the pages and adds a new dimension to these age-old tales. Though the stories are short in length, there is no scarcity of depth.
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New Arabian Nights
Robert Louis Stevenson 试读
During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even by what was known of him and that was but a small part of what he actually did. Although of a placid temper in ordinary circumstances, and accustomed to take the world with as much philosophy as any ploughman, the Prince of Bohemia was not without a taste for ways of life more adventurous and eccentric than that to which he was destined by his birth. Now and then, when he fell into a low humor, when there was no laughable play to witness in any of the London theaters, and when the season of the year was unsuitable to those field sports in which he excelled all competitors, he would summon his confidant and Master of the Horse, Colonel Geraldine, and bid him prepare himself against an evening ramble. The Master of the Horse was a young officer of a brave and even temerarious disposition. He greeted the news with delight, and hastened to make ready. Long practice and a varied acquaintance of life had given him a singular facility in disguise he could adapt not only his face and bearing, but his voice and almost his thoughts, to those of any rank, character, or nation and in this way he diverted attention from the Prince, and sometimes gained admission for the pair into strange societies. . . .
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Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories
John Fox 试读
John Fox, Jr. (1862-1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He graduated in 1883 before becoming a reporter in New York City. After working for both New York Times and the New York Sun, he published a successful serialization of his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in Century magazine in 1892. Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional novel, The Kentuckians in 1898. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders. " Six years later he travelled to the Orient to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works.
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The Iron Game A Tale of the War
Henry Francis Keenan 试读
When expulsion from college, in his junior years, was visited upon Jack Sprague, he straightway became the hero of Acredale. And, though the grave faculty had felt constrained to vindicate college authority, it was well known that they sympathized with the infraction of decorum that obliged them to put this mark of disgrace upon one of the most promising of their students.
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A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland 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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The Day of the Dog
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
A story about gang violence, criminal sexual conduct and class warfare where a boy becomes a man by redefining rescue and accepting the consequences of his own brand of justice that puts both Catholic and Protestant theologies to the test
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Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens 试读
Three Ghost Stories is a collection of three stories that are Gothic classics. Included are: The Signal Man, The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder.
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A Prisoner in Fairyland
Algernon Blackwood 试读
Minks—Herbert Montmorency—was now something more than secretary, even than private secretary: he was confidential-private-secretary, adviser, friend; and this, more because he was a safe receptacle for his employer's enthusiasms than because his advice or judgment had any exceptional value. So many men need an audience. Herbert Minks was a fine audience, attentive, delicately responsive, sympathetic, understanding, and above all—silent. He did not leak. Also, his applause was wise without being noisy. Another rare quality he possessed was that he was honest as the sun. To prevaricate, even by gesture, or by saying nothing, which is the commonest form of untruth, was impossible to his transparent nature. He might hedge, but he could never lie. And he was 'friend,' so far as this was possible between employer and employed, because a pleasant relationship of years' standing had established a bond of mutual respect under conditions of business intimacy which often tend to destroy it.
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Pygmalions Spectacles
Stanley G. Weinbaum 试读
Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His career in science fiction was short but influential. His first story, "A Martian Odyssey", was published to great (and enduring) acclaim in July 1934, but he would be dead from lung cancer within eighteen months.
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Ridgway of Montana（Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain）
William MacLeod Raine 试读
The young woman who was giving the last touches to the very effective picture framed in her long looking-glass nodded almost imperceptibly.
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The White Linen Nurse
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 试读
The White Linen Nurse was so tired that her noble expression ached. Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapaci-tate
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Education as Service
J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti 试读
In long past lives the author of this little book had much to do with educational work, and he seems to have brought over with him an intense interest in education.
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Loveliness A Story
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 试读
It is a story about a dog.His owner has a deep feeling with the dog,but it is lost.
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Selected Short Stories of Jack London 杰克伦敦短篇小说选（英文原版）
杰克·伦敦 试读
《杰克·伦敦短篇小说选（插图本）》精选了杰克·伦敦较有代表性的短篇小说，包括《热爱生命》、《北方的奥德赛》、《为赶路的人干杯》、《黄金谷》、《强者的力量》等。杰克·伦敦的作品场景宏阔，诗意盎然，人物往往展现出最原始的本能。他常常将笔下人物置于最严酷、生死攸关的环境之下，以此展露人性中最深刻、最真实的品格。
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ANNA KARENINA安娜卡列尼娜
列夫·托尔斯泰 试读
Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery marks a turning point in the author's career. His compelling, emotional saga recounts the effects of nonconformist behavior — a society woman's adulterous affair and a landowner's unconventional quest for a meaningful existence — against a backdrop of late 19th-century Russia.
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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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Evelina Or the History of a Young Ladys Entrance into the World
Frances Burney 试读
Leaving the secluded home of her guardian for the first time, beautiful Evelina Anville is captivated by her new surroundings in London's beau monde--and in particular by the handsome, chivalrous Lord Orville. But her enjoyment soon turns to mortification at the hands of her vulgar and capricious grandmother, and the rakish Sir Clement Willoughby, who torments the naive young woman with his unwanted advances. And while her aristocratic father refuses to acknowledge her legitimacy, Evelina can hold no hope of happiness with the man she loves. Published anonymously in 1778, Frances Burney's epistolary novel brought her instant fame when the secret of its authorship was revealed. With its ingenious combination of romance and satire, comedy and melodrama, Evelina is a sparkling depiction of the dangers and delights of fashionable society.
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In Search of the Castaways; or the Children of Captain Grant
Jules Verne 试读
The contents of a shark's stomach contain a bottle that holds partially deteriorated notes written in three different languages. Together they give clues to the location of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship the Britannia was lost at sea. While the latitude of Grant is known from the notes, the longitude is a mystery. Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Harry Grant's two children, and the crew of his yacht the Duncan, they set off for South America. On their journey the searchers encounter storms, earthquakes, deserts, floods, pirates, cannibals, wolves, and numerous other dangers as they trace the 37th parallel across South America, then across Australia, and finally across New Zealand. Includes 90 vintage illustrations from the original 1873 edition.
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 试读
Timeless, heartwarming tale of the four young March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — their mother Marmee, and other memorable characters. Generations of readers have enjoyed this story of the joys, heartaches, and triumphs of a warm, close-knit family, poor in material wealth, but rich in love and devotion to one another.
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Mansfield Park
简·奥斯汀 试读
"Mansfield Park"encompasses not only Jane Austen's great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal,but her personal credo as well--her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency,and wit.At the novel's center is Fanny Price,the classic"poor cousin,"brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse),and as she herself resolutely resists the advantages of marriage to the fascinating but morally unsteady Henry Crawford,her seeming austerity grows in appeal and makes clear to us why she was Austen's own favorite among her heroines.
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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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White Fang
Jack London 试读
With an introduction from award winning K.A. Applegate, White Fang is one of London's classic tales of survival and one of his most popular stories. White Fang is part dog, part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the law of the North--kill or be killed.
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Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
W. B. Yeats 试读
"At sea, when the nets are out and the pipes are lit, then will some ancient hoarder of tales become loquacious, telling his histories to the tune of the creaking of the boats. Holy-eve night, too, is a great time, and in old days many tales were to be heard at wakes. But the priest have set their faces against wakes. . . ." From the celebrated poet, William Butler Yeats, a volume of folk and fairy tales to stir the Irish soul.
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A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
Sarah Orne Jewett 试读
Follows a young woman's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional. The book addresses the themes of women's independence and equality. By one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century.
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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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用英文讲好中国故事：经典文化
汪珺 试读
本书为《用英文讲好中国故事》的第四辑。从考试刚需到国际交流刚需，中国文化的“英文表达能力”已成核心竞争力：在中高考、四六级、考研等考试中，中国文化相关分值与考查比重逐年上升；留学申请、国际交流、海外生活里，能否用英文讲清“饺子”习俗、“七夕”传说，更是展现文化自信的关键。面对这样的需求与学习者“想表达却无方”的困境，《用英文讲好中国故事》应运而生。 《用英文讲好中国故事》由新东方名师汪珺与剑桥雅思考官Matthew Clark联手打造，以“中英名师播客式文化对谈”为核心，分5辑，覆盖48个中国文化常考话题，涵盖传统节日、一饮一食、日常生活、经典文化、中国符号五大类。书中配备48个思维导图、144个读前思考问题、240道读后练习、1300+必备词汇（含核心词、拓展词、通用词），帮学习者搭建“懂文化+会表达”的完整路径。 建议5-8 年级孩子或已开启独立阅读的学习者使用。 全书总阅读量约10万，蓝思值1000L，AR值7.4，既能衔接小学到初中的英语阅读需求，更能满足英语水平较高者的英文拓展阅读需求，实现“读故事、学文化、提英语”的多重目标。
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