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百年哈佛经典:英文原版(全50卷)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
13百年哈佛经典(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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Journey to the Centre of the Earth 地心游记(英文原版)
儒勒·凡尔纳 试读
《地心游记》是凡尔纳早期著名的科幻小说之一。小说讲述的是德国一位具有献身精神的科学家受到前人一封密码信的启发,偕同侄子和向导进行了一次穿越地心的探险旅行。小就文笔流畅,情节波澜起伏,妙趣横生,充满了幻想与传奇色彩,把读者带进了一具幻想世界。小说发表后曾风靡世界。
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The Lost World 失落的世界(英文原版)
柯南·道尔 试读
19世纪与20世纪之交,车卓教授带领一个科学考察团,离开烟雾弥漫的伦敦,远赴南美雨林寻找时光停滞的传说之地——那里仍有恐龙漫步大地。同行的有车卓教授的学术劲敌萨马里教授、勇敢的猎人罗斯顿勋爵、年轻记者马龙。考察团将经历种种冒险,在失落的世界挣扎求存……
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百年哈佛经典第13卷:伊尼亚德(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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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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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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Pride and Prejudice
简·奥斯汀 试读
13Pride and Prejudice is the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet (minor gentry), their five daughters, and the various romantic adventures at their Hertfordshire residence of Longbourn. The parents' characters are greatly contrasted: Mr Bennet being a wise and witty gentleman; while Mrs Bennet is permanently distracted by the issue of marrying off her daughters at any cost. The reason for Mrs Bennet's obsession is that their estate will pass by law after Mr Bennet's death to his closest blood relative: his cousin, the Reverend William Collins (a fatuous, tactless and pompous man). Austen's tale is spurred on by the arrival of the young and wealthy bachelor Charles Bingley and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. It is the story of the various affections, affectations and engagement shenanigans that develop due to Mrs Bennet's relentless matchmaking and the dashing Darcy's tempestuous relationship with Elizabeth Bennet who Jane Austen claimed was favourite amongst her literary offspring. Its 1797 earlier version was turned down for publication and it appeared in this form in 1813.
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Jules Verne 试读
In this classic adventure story, a wealthy gentleman, Phileas Fogg, makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg and his servant set off immediately, determined to win this race against time. Little do they know they aren't making the journey alone.... Fogg has been fingered as the culprit in a bank robbery, and a detective in hot pursuit is trailing them as they cross every continent.
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HEART OF DARKNESS黑暗之心
Joseph Conrad 试读
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. This short but complex and often ambiguous story, which has been the basis of several films and plays, continues to provoke interpretation and discussion.作
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Aesop‘s Fables
Aesop 试读
203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with 50 classic woodcuts by the great French artist J.J. Grandville.
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens 试读
Great Expectations tells the unforgettable story of the orphan Pip and his coming of age with the help of a mysterious benefactor. It is at once an expertly crafted novel and a profound reappraisal of the Victorian middle class and its values.
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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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Ethan Frome
伊迪丝·华顿 试读
Tragic story of wasted lives, set against a bleak New England background. A poverty-stricken New England farmer, his ailing wife and a youthful housekeeper are drawn relentlessly into a deep-rooted domestic struggle in this hauntingly grim tale of thwarted love.
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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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Lady Windermeres Fan
王尔德 试读
"Lady Windermere's Fan" is Oscar Wilde's classic comedic play set in London in the late 19th century. It is the story of Lady Windermere who becomes jealous of her husband's interest in Mrs. Erlynne. Lady Windermere suspects her husband of infidelity, however unbeknownst to her, Mrs. Erlynne is really Lady Windermere's divorced mother who for the last 20 years was thought to be dead.
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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 Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 试读
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider society in the destruction of the Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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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.
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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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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Mark Twain 试读
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). He is also known for his quotations. His first important work, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in 1865. His next publication was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which drew on his youth in Hannibal. The character of Tom Sawyer was modeled on twain as a child, with traces of two schoolmates, John Briggs and Will Bowen. His next major published work, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, solidified him as a noteworthy American writer. Some have called it the first Great American Novel. Finn was an offshoot from Tom Sawyer and proved to have a more serious tone than its predecessor. The main premise behind Huckleberry Finn is the young boy's belief in the right thing to do even though the majority of society believes that it was wrong.
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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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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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Swanns Way
Marcel Proust 试读
Marcel Proustas "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century.
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The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
Poor Mrs. Quack the Duck has suffered terrible misfortunes at the hands of hunters with guns. Peter Rabbit, Jerry Muskrat, and the other animals of the Green Forest band together to help her find a safe place to live and to locate the missing Mr. Quack. 6 new illustrations.
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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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Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare 试读
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, producing plays, such as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies and collaborated with other playwrights.
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Ideas of Good and Evil
W. B. Yeats 试读
This book has a unique status in Nietzsche's works, with a connecting role. Nietzsche's most important thought, that is to re evaluate the value of all the value and power will and superman philosophy, in this book are fully reflected. Nietzsche from fundamental challenge before all of Western civilization, negative western traditional metaphysics, and put forward his own "philosophy of action", paving the way for the development of non rational philosophy in the 20th century. Live reading!
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Pamela, Volume II
Samuel Richardson 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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Idle Ideas in 1905
Jerome K. Jerome 试读
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humourous travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). In 1877, he decided to try his hand at acting, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe who tried to produce plays on a shoestring budget, often drawing on the meager resources of the actors themselves to purchase costumes and props. He tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years he was a school teacher, a packer, and a solicitor's clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage-and Off, a humourous book, the publication of which opened the door for more plays and essays.
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Nada the Lily
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
For I will call you by the name that for fifty years has been honoured by every tribe between Zambesi and Cape Agulbas,--I greet you!Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men and matters of which you know the most of any who still look upon the light; therefore, I set your name within that book and, such as it is, I offer it to you.
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T. Tembarom
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was an English- American playwright and author. She was best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (1911) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886). Her first story was published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1868. Her main writing talent was combining realistic detail of workingclass life with a romantic plot. Her first novel was published in 1877 That Lass o' Lowrie's was a story of Lancashire life. After moving to Washington, D.C., Burnett wrote the novels Haworth's (1879), Louisiana (1880), A Fair Barbarian (1881), and Through One Administration (1883), as well as a play, Esmeralda (1881), written with William Gillette. Her later works include Sara Crewe, or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's (1888) - later rewritten as A Little Princess (1905) and A Lady of Quality (1896) - considered one of the best of her plays. The Lost Prince was published in 1915, and The Head of the House of Coombe was published in Canada in 1922. During World War I, Burnett put her beliefs about what happens after death into writing with her novella The White People (1917).
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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman
Hornung,E W 试读
The sequel to "The Amateur Cracksman" finds A.J. Raffles up to his old tricks.
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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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Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson 试读
This unusual illustrated book with its spectacular photographs is devoted to the complex structures and manifestations to be found in nature. In each of the three main chapters - Earth, Water, and Plants - apparently simple motifs become complex photographic landscapes, nature's works of art. From geological formation in Arizona and Iceland's geysers to pink flamingos-these artistic photographs follow nature's tracks and renew awareness of its fragile beauty.
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Oh, Money! Money!
Eleanor H.Porter 试读
Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920) was an American novelist. Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, Eleanor Hodgman trained as a singer but later turned to writing. In 1892 she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts. Porter mainly wrote children's literature, for example three Miss Billy books, Cross Currents (1928), The Turn of the Tide (1928) and Six Star Ranch (1916). Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Story of Marco (1920), Just David (1915), The Road to Understanding (1916), Oh, Money Money (1917), Dawn (1918), Keith's Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920), Sister Sue (1921), short stories include Money, Love and Kate (1924) and Little Pardner (1927).
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Echoes of the War(免费公版书)
James Matthew Barrie 试读
A non fiction story line of how it was lived with emotions of becoming a crew member, as a i130 Flight Engineer. To bring together family life and Air Force life, with some joy and some sorrow as it unfolded. Written with hopes of going into high schools to inspire the young and give them the urge to want to be able to fly the planes and travel the world.
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Poets of the South
Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter 试读
Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated. "The poets of the South, who constitute a worthy galaxy of poetic talent and achievement, are not sufficiently known. Even in the South, which might naturally be expected to take pride in its gifted singers, most of them, it is to be feared, are but little read. "
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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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Living Up to Billy
Elizabeth Cooper 试读
It is a collection of letters,it tells some little stories in life.
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North and South
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 试读
On its appearance in 'Household Words,' this tale was obliged to conform to the conditions imposed by the requirements of a weekly publication, and likewise to confine itself within certain advertised limits, in order that faith might be kept with the public.
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From the Lips of the Sea
Clinton Scollard 试读
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Hereward, the Last of the English
Charles Kingsley 试读
A great read for those who are into history. Lots of background giving an understanding of why the events happened. It gave a life to all the dry facts that are fed to us from childhood and later taken for granted that we should know.
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Found at Blazing Star
Bret Harte 试读
The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers had washed away the debris and dust heaps before the cabin doors. Indeed, it was recorded in Blazing Star that a fortunate early riser had once picked up on the highway a solid chunk of gold quartz which the rain had freed from its incumbering soil, and washed into immediate and glittering popularity. Possibly this may have been the reason why early risers in that locality, during the rainy season, adopted a thoughtful habit of body, and seldom lifted their eyes to the rifted or india-ink washed skies above them. "Cass" Beard had risen early that morning, but not with a view to discovery. A leak in his cabin roof, -quite consistent with his careless, improvident habits, -had roused him at 4 A. M., with a flooded "bunk" and wet blankets. The chips from his wood pile refused to kindle a fire to dry his bed-clothes, and he had recourse to a more provident neighbor's to supply the deficiency. This was nearly opposite. Mr. Cassius crossed the highway, and stopped suddenly. Something glittered in the nearest red pool before him. Gold, surely But, wonderful to relate, not an irregular, shapeless fragment of crude ore, fresh from Nature's crucible, but a bit of jeweler's handicraft in the form of a plain gold ring. Looking at it more attentively, he saw that it bore the inscription, "May to Cass."