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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
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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Our Navy in the War
Lawrence Perry 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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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
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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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。
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梁山伯与祝英台(精品公版)
张恨水 试读
公源计划之名家张恨水,现代通俗小说作家、社会言情小说集大成者张恨水经典代表作。 《梁山伯与祝英台》于1953年8月开始动笔,1954年1月1日开始于香港《大公报》连载。 美丽少女祝英台假扮男妆。来到寒山寺。遇到梁山伯,同窗三载,感情挚深。因父亲得病,祝英台要回家。梁山伯十八里相送。英台表露自己女儿身,梁山伯甚为惊讶,互表爱慕之情。英台被嫁给马文才,英台不从,与梁山伯密会,倾诉衷肠。马家迎亲时。英台来到梁山伯坟前,悲痛欲绝,出人意料的事情出现……
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魍魉世界(精品公版)
张恨水 试读
公源计划之名家张恨水,现代通俗小说作家、社会言情小说集大成者张恨水经典代表作。 抗战时期。陪都重庆。黑暗混乱,鬼蜮横行。 区老先生一生读书,也教育四个子女认真读书,用学得的知识谋生。然而,重庆物价飞涨,物资奇缺,民不聊生,靠工资生活实难度日。于是,区老先生的三儿子弃文开车跑运输,发了大财;二儿子弃医经商作买卖,生活小康;长子仍然是机关公务员,穷愁潦倒。其周围的朋友、同事、邻居、亲戚,无不投机钻营,唯利是图,为挣钱发财苦度时光而日夜奔忙,真正是“前方吃紧,后方紧吃”!
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秦淮世家(精品公版)
张恨水 试读
公源计划之名家张恨水,现代通俗小说作家、社会言情小说集大成者张恨水经典代表作。 本书讲述了:南京。泰淮河边。歌妓唐大嫂有两个女儿,一名二春,一名小春,都长得标致可人。小春歌喉出众,成了歌女,唱得正红。上海钱商杨育权看中小春,多次调戏,遭到拒绝后,便怀恨在心,施毒计绑架并奸污了二春之后,又把二春施舍给保镖魏老八。自己不幸中弹身亡。杨育权变本加厉,对唐大嫂和小春施尽淫威,逼得母女苦不堪言。秦淮河畔下层社会的人们气愤已极,联合起来了……小说曾在40年代被改变成电视,引起广泛反响。
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北雁南飞(精品公版)
张恨水 试读
公源计划之名家张恨水,现代通俗小说作家、社会言情小说集大成者张恨水经典代表作。 《北雁南飞》以张恨水少年时在江西三湖镇私塾的读书经历为背景,描写了少女姚春华与少男李小秋的爱情悲剧,以真挚的感情,细腻的笔法,令人掩卷叹息的情节,以及三湖镇民风、民情、民俗的生动勾画,为我们提供了江南小镇的社会情景以及学堂生活实录,从这些描写中不难寻觅到作家张恨水走过的足迹。
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苦茶随笔(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 本书共收录五十一篇文章,大多为杂文,以苦茶为名,正见周作人心中之苦,笔下之苦。苦而觉爽快,却是大人的可怜处。个中滋味,诸君自知。文章内容强调思想的自由性与独立性,颇有些针对他人批评的反批评,为前此所不多见。本集是周作人散文的代表作,自此,周氏散文创作进入高潮。
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苦竹杂记(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 《苦竹杂记》收录五十一篇,多为杂文和“抄书”,属于简练淡远的后期文章。其中几篇“说鬼”,是周作人最喜欢谈论的题目之一。作者由此感受到普通人的人生境遇,生存愿望,觉得最是悲哀,又深可怜悯。看似说鬼,实为谈心,既追求真知,又不忘人情。
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儿童文学小论(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 《儿童文学小论》是周氏儿童文学研究的集大成者,正文收文十一篇、序一篇,包括《童话略论》《童话研究》《儿歌之研究》《儿童的文学》《神话与传说》《科学小说》《读〈童谣大观〉》等;附录精择了《人的文学》《儿童的世界》《关于儿童的书》《杨柳风》等十六篇相关文章。本书涵盖了周氏儿童文学研究的主要成就,是中小学语文教师提高儿童文学素养的必读书。
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近代欧洲文学史(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。《近代欧洲文学史》是《欧洲文学史》的姊妹篇,是周作人继“欧洲文学史”后为北京大学国文门二年级开设的“十九世纪欧洲文学史”讲义的整理。内容从中古到十九世纪,尤其对影响五四一代学人甚深的十九世纪欧洲传奇主义、现实主义文学有重点介绍。讲义在当时未出版,其复印件最早在2005年为学者止庵发现于国家图书馆,2007年整理出版单行本,此次首次收入自编集。周著文学史广博淹通、洞见深邃、文词典雅、深入浅出,被称为开启“中国启蒙文学”之作。
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苦口甘口(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 《苦口甘口》收周作人一九四三年九月到一九四四年八月文章二十一篇,风格基本延续《药堂杂文》,是作者对自己思想的梳理。他在自序中说:“鄙人本非文士,与文坛中人全属隔教,平常所欲窥知者,乃在于国家治乱之源,生民根本之计,但所取材亦并不废虫鱼风月,则或由于时代之异也。”书中有谈文学谈思想的“正经文章”,如《文艺复兴之梦》《灯下读书论》,也有怀旧忆往之作,如《武者先生和我》《苏州的回忆》。尤其在《我的杂学》这篇长文中,全面回顾了自己读书的兴趣所在,对绘画、戏剧等艺术的理解,国文、日文、希腊文等中外文的学习及对人类学、心理学、医学各门学科的涉猎,提出了后期思想的核心“伦理之自然化”,“道义之事功化”,是研究周作人绕不之作。
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