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The Bride of Lammermoor
Walter Scott 试读
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The Man Who Would Be King
Rudyard Kipling 试读
Rudyard Kipling is one of the most magical storytellers in the English language. This new selection brings together the best of his short writings, following the development of his work over fifty years. They take us from the harsh, cruel, vividly realized world of the 'Indian' stories that made his name, through the experimental modernism of his middle period to the highly-wrought subtleties of his later pieces. Including the tale of insanity and empire, 'The Man Who Would Be King', the high-spirited 'The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat', the fable of childhood cruelty and revenge 'Baa Baa, Black Sheep', the menacing psychological study 'Mary Postgate' and the ambiguous portrayal of grief and mourning in 'The Gardener', here are stories of criminals, ghosts, femmes fatales, madness and murder.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy 试读
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in whichdrunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passingsailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveriesat its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique placeamong Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in earlynineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesomeSophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willfulHenchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer amost bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to hisown destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’sLord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroesin all fiction.
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The Mystery
Samuel Hopkins Adams 试读
The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence. On the ocean's wide expanse a hulk wallowed sluggishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave and sightly ship, possibly the Sphinx of some untold ocean tragedy, she lay black and forbidding in the ordered procession of waves. Half a mile to the east of the derelict hovered a ship's cutter, the turn of her crew's heads speaking expectancy. As far again beyond, the United States cruiser Wolverine outlined her severe and trim silhouette against the horizon. In all the spread of wave and sky no other thing was visible. For this was one of the desert parts of the Pacific, three hundred miles north of the steamship route from Yokohama to Honolulu, five hundred miles from the nearest land, Gardner Island, and more than seven hundred northwest of the Hawaiian group.
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The Princess of Cleves
Madame de La Fayette 试读
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of Thomas Sargent Perry's 1892 translation, indisputably the translation that has best served readers in English. Reprinted repeatedly over the last one hundred years, the Perry translation is a classic in its own right. After careful review, the editor has corrected minor infelicities of translation (necessary to remain true to Lafayette's text) and updated vocabulary. To experience the innovation of Lafayette's writing, it is necessary to understand the critical resistance it met with in seventeenth-century France. "Contemporary Reactions" includes five assessments of The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette herself, Roger de Bussy-Rabutin and Marie de Sevigne, Jean-Baptiste-Henry du Trousset de Valincour, Jean-Antoine de Charnes, and Du Plaisir following its controversial publication. John Lyons's translations for this Norton Critical Edition make these reactions available in English for the first time. "Criticism" includes eleven modern studies of the novel, five of which appear here in English for the first time, by Jean Fabre, Michel Butor, Jean Rousset, Helen Karen Kaps, Gerard Genette, Roger Francillon, Kurt Weinberg, Peggy Kamuf, Erica Harth, Joan DeJean, and Laurence Gregario. A Glossary of Characters and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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Oedipus Trilogy
Sophocles Montrose Jonas Moses 试读
Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Before he was born, his parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle prophesied that Oedipus would murder his father and marry his mother. In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment, Laius ordered Oedipus's feet to be bound together, and pierced with a stake. Afterwards, the baby was given to a herdsman who was told to kill him. Unable to go though with his orders, he instead gave the child to a second herdsman who took the infant, Oedipus, to the king of Corinth, Polybus. Polybus adopted Oedipus as his son. Oedipus was raised as the crown prince of Corinth. Many years later Oedipus was told that Polybus was not his real father. Seeking the truth, he sought counsel from an Oracle and thus started the greatest tragedy ever written.
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Fairy Book
Sophie May 试读
Rebecca Sophia Clarke (1833-1906) was an American author of children's fiction. She wrote under the penname Sophie May and had 45 published works between 1860 and 1903. The most successful were the Little Prudy characters which made their first appearance in short stories for the children's periodicals, The Little Pilgrim and the Congregationalist. The series was later published into books. Her sister Sarah Jones Clarke (1840- 1929) was also an author of children's books. She wrote under the penname Penn Shirley. Rebecca attended a "female academy" in Norridgewock and taught for a while, but she never married. Amongst her works are: Little Prudy (1863), Little Prudy's Sister Susy (1864), Little Prudy's Captain Horace (1864), Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple (1868), Dotty Dimple Out West (1868), Dotty Dimple at Play (1869), Little Folks Astray (1870) and The Twin Cousins (1880).
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Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
Sewell Ford 试读
Sewell Ford (1868-1946) was an American prolific author who wrote Horses Nine: Stories of Harness and Saddle (1903), Shorty McCabe (1906), Cherub Divine (1907), Side-Stepping with Shorty (1908), Torchy (1911), Trying Out Torchy (1912), Odd Numbers (1912), On With Torchy (1914), Torchy, Private Sec. (1915), Shorty McCabe on the Job (1915), Wilt Thou Torchy (1917), The House of Torchy (1918), Torchy and Vee (1919) and Torchy as a Pa (1921).
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Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece
Homer 试读
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Earths Enigmas A Volume of Stories
Charles George Douglas Roberts 试读
One side of the ravine was in darkness. The darkness was soft and rich, suggesting thick foliage. Along the crest of the slope tree-tops came into view—great pines and hemlocks of the ancient unviolated forest—revealed against the orange disk of a full moon just rising. The low rays slanting through the moveless tops lit strangely the upper portion of the opposite steep,—the western wall of the ravine, barren, unlike its fellow, bossed with great rocky projections, and harsh with stunted junipers. Out of the sluggish dark that lay along the ravine as in a trough, rose the brawl of a swollen, obstructed stream.
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Baldy of Nome
Esther Birdsall Darling 试读
At all events, Tom had resented the entrance of the Eskimo, Wolf, into the Kennel; and never failed, when "Scotty" was not about, to manifest an enmity that would have told a civilized dog not to attempt any liberties with him. But Wolf was only an ignorant puppy, taken from a native igloo, where all of the dogs and all of the family lived in happy harmony; and so, one day when he was particularly joyous, he nipped, in a spirit of mischief, the end of Tom's wagging stump of a tail. Tom wheeled instantly, his hair bristling and his jaws apart, but the timely arrival of Matt made further demonstration impossible; and Tom's instinctive dislike for Wolf grew into an obsession after that direct and personal insult.
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Elkan Lubliner, American
Montague Glass 试读
"What do you mean bum round our shop " Philip demanded. He was asking about his brother-in-law, who'd just written, asking for money. "In the first place, Polatkin, I ain't said I am going to send him money, y'understand and, in the second place, if I want to send the feller money to come over here, understand me, that's my business. Furthermore, when you are coming to call my brother-in-law a loafer and a bum, Polatkin, you don't know what you are talking about. His "Grossvater," "olav hasholem," was the great Harkavy Rav, Jochannon Borrochson."
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Richard Vandermarck
Miriam Coles Harris 试读
American novel first published in 1871, by Mrs Sidney S. (Miriam) Harris, nee Coles.
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The Three Eyes
Maurice Leblanc 试读
Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
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Jessamine A Novel
Marion Harland 试读
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Our Navy in the War
Lawrence Perry 试读
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Andy Grants Pluck
Horatio Alger 试读
Part of a series of rags to riches stories of boys achieving the American dream of wealth through hard work, these works can also be seen as helpful in understanding the development of American cultural and social ideals.
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Household Papers and Stories
Harriet Beecher Stowe 试读
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Chess History and Reminiscences
Henry Edward Bird 试读
Of all the claims which have been advanced to the invention and origin of chess, that of the Hindu Game the Chaturanga is the most ancient, and its accounts contain the earliest allusion worthy of serious notice to anything partaking of the principles and form of chess. The description of it is taken from the Sanskrit text, and our first knowledge of it is obtained through the works of Dr. Hyde, 1693, and Sir William Jones, 1784, Professor Duncan Forbes in a History of Chess, dedicated to Sir Frederic Madden and Howard Staunton, published in 1860, further elaborated the researches of his predecessors and claims by the aid of his better acquaintance with chess, and improved knowledge of the Sanskrit to have proved the Chaturanga as the first form of chess beyond a shadow of doubt.
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Lady Mary and her Nurse
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 试读
The nurse smiled, and said, "It is not a fish at all, my dear;it is a dried beaver's tail. I brought it from the back lakes whenI was at home, that you might see it. See, my lady, how curiouslythe beaver's tail is covered with scales; it looks like some sortof black leather, stamped in a diaper pattern. Before it is dried,it is very heavy, weighing three or four pounds. I have heard mybrothers and some of the Indian trappers say, that the animal makesuse of its tail to beat the sides of the dams and smoothe the mudand clay, as a plasterer uses a trowel.
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The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas 试读
A deceptively simple story and the shortest of Dumas's most famous novels, The Black Tulip (1850) weaves historical events surrounding a brutal murder into a tale of romantic love. Set in Holland in 1672, this timeless political allegory draws on the violence and crimes of history, making a case against tyranny and creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.
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Jack Hinton The Guardsman
Charles James Lever 试读
Author's intention was to depict, in the early experiences of a young Englishman in Ireland, some of the almost inevitable mistakes incidental to such a character.
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Romola
Edward Dicey 试读
George Eliot, the pen named used by Mary Anne Evans, wrote popular works that mirrored the settings and ideology of contemporary Victorian England. She was brought up in the Church of England, where she developed strong moral convictions that carried over into her fiction. During a visit to Florence in 1860 it was suggested to Eliot that the historical Fra Girolamo Savonarola would make a good subject for a novel, so Eliot spent her visit, and many months after, exhaustively researching Florentine history and culture. Her effort is undeniably evident within the pages of "Romola," however Eliot has been criticized for using a 15th Century setting to deal with the 19th Century issues of Victorian England. Romola is the female protagonist through which the story is rendered; her intellectual and religious growth, often painful, reflects the religious and cultural transitions of the Italian Renaissance in Florence.
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On the Choice of Books
Thomas Carlyle 试读
ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Gentlemen, I have accepted the office you have elected me to, and have now the duty to return thanks for the great honour done me. Your enthusiasm towards me, I admit, is very beautiful in itself, however undeserved it may be in regard to the object of it. It is a feeling honourable to all men, and one well known to myself when I was in a position analogous to your own. I can only hope that it may endure to the end? that noble desire to honour those whom you think worthy of honour, and come to be more and more select and discriminate in the choice of the object of it; for I can well understand that you will modify your opinions of me and many things else as you go on. (Laughter and cheers.) There are now fifty-six years gone last November since I first entered your city, a boy of not quite fourteen?fifty-six years ago? to attend classes here and gain knowledge of allkinds, I know not what, with feelings of wonder and awe-struck expectation; and now, after a long, long course, this is what we have come to. (Cheers.) There is something touching and tragic, and yet at the same time beautiful, to see the third generation, as it were, of my dear old native land, rising up and saying, " Well, you are not altogether an unworthy labourer in the vineyard: you have toiled through a great variety of fortunes, and have had many judges." As the old proverb says, " He that builds by the wayside has many masters." We must expect a variety of judges; but the voice of young Scotland, through you, is really of some value to me, and I return you many thanks for it, though I cannot describe my emotions to, you, and perhaps they will be much more conceivable if expressed in silence. (Cheers.) When this office was first p...
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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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A Daughter of the Snows
Jack London 试读
"A Daughter of the Snows" by Jack London is the story about a rebellious girl who is not afraid to challenge a traditional society where females are expected to be obedient.
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A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare(1763)
William Shakespeare 试读
Quince, a Carpenter, Mr. Love.Bottom, the Weaver, Mr. Baddely.Snug, the Joiner, Mr. Clough.Flute, the Bellows-mender, Mr. Castle.Snout, the Tinker, Mr. Ackman.Starveling, the Taylor, Mr. Parsons.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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A Hoosier Chronicle
Meredith Nicholson 试读
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling Indiana author, and later a politician. Three of his books were yearly national best sellers: "The House of a Thousand Candles," "The Port of Missing Men," and "A Hoosier Chronicle."
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且介亭杂文附集(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《且介亭杂文附集》的文章,收自《海燕》,《作家》,《现实文学》,《中流》等。《半夏小集》,《这也是生活》,《死》,《女吊》四篇,先生另外保存的,但都是这一年的文章,也就附在《末编》一起了。
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汉文学史纲要(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《汉文学史纲要》原系鲁迅于1923年厦门大学讲授中国文学史课程时编写的讲义,题为《中国文学史略》;次年在广州中山大学讲授同一课程时又曾使用,改题《古代汉文学史纲要》。在作者生前未正式出版,1938年编入《鲁迅全集》时改用此名。 该书虽然只写到西汉两司马,但在这短短的十节讲义中,无论在选材、体例和观点上,都写出了自己的特色,因此在我国文学史研究领域中具有重要的地位。
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狂人日记(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
32公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《狂人日记》是鲁迅于1918年发表的第一篇白话短篇小说,当时正值“五四”运动前夕,由于辛亥革命的半途而废,尤其是帝国主义的侵略加剧,使国内种种矛盾更加复杂尖锐。鲁迅以他锐敏的思想与犀利的笔触,对封建制度及其上层建筑表现了彻底的反抗。
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出口成章(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《出口成章》是老舍先生在1963年编选的集子,书中收录了他在1955年至1963年5月之间写成的22篇文章,其中包括书信和讲稿等各种形式。这是老舍先生自编的第一本标明论著的集子,也是老舍先生一生写作经验中的精华,是他创作心血的结晶,是他为一代又一代的文学创作者留下的宝贵财富。
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牛天赐传(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《牛天赐传》讲述了商户牛老头和其官派的太太年老无子,一天,有人给他们送来了一个孩子,夫妻俩认为这个孩子是老天爷赐予的遂取名牛天赐。天赐从小娇养,加之牛氏夫妇畸形的教育,除了玩和写点小文章什么都不会做。养母病逝,养父的生意破产随后也撒手而去,家中又被不明身份的亲戚抢劫一空,除了曾经的下人和朋友虎爷,天赐一无所有,他的人生面临巨大的困境。怎么办?这时,曾经受过牛老头恩惠的天赐的老师突然出现,给这个“天官赐福”的“孩子”带来了一线生机……
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正红旗下(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《正红旗下》是老舍自传体长篇小说。著于1961年至1962年。遗憾的是,因当时的文化大革命运动,老舍并未完成,就被迫停笔。
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朱自清翻译作品集(精品公版)
朱自清 试读
公源计划之名家朱自清,本系列书共收录朱自清27篇著作。 本书是朱先生的翻译作品集,收入作者的译文与译诗,其中译文十二篇,译诗两首。有些译文,大概作者为了试行直译,标点符号的用法和文笔与作者自己的著作不尽相同。
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淮南王书(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 本书中的第五章,半个月写成。胡适自认为这是最重要的一章,曾专门抽出来于1931年12月由新月书店单独出版,翌年专门郑重其事送给蒋介石,要他“参考”。1962年临终前还在撰写本书台湾商务印书馆影印手稿本序,连写几遍皆不满意,直至撒手人寰,终成残稿,胡适对《淮南王书》的重视与宝爱可见一斑。
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丁文江的传记(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。丁文江是胡适先生的好友,胡适当年有二十年不谈政治之说,丁断然不允许胡这样将自己超然世外,拉着胡和其他好友办《努力周刊》和《独立评论》。丁对胡说,不管你做如何的思想改革,文字运动(胡是白话文的发起者与推动者),文艺复兴,但倘是政治是腐败的,则所有这些断然也不能成功。 丁文江因事故逝世后,胡适痛不欲生,决心为他立传。《丁文江传》为胡适所写的最长一部传记。可以说是胡适《四十自述》之外,又一部值得称道的优秀传记。
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白话文学史(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 《白话文学史》为胡适论述的白话文学史,在中国文学史上同样具有开创性的、里程碑的地位。作者以全新的思路与结构框架,揭示中国文学发展的规律和特质,其突破性的成就具体表现在:打破了前人文学史研究的狭隘框限,把视野伸展到了经典作家作品以外的广阔领域,大拓阔了中国文学史的内涵;研究方法上,注重纵向的考查与横向的比较;跳出传统的思维偏见,以全新的审美观和价值观评判中国古代文学。