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A Blot in the Scutcheon
Robert Browning 试读
Oh, Mildred, have I met your brother's face? Compelled myself--if not to speak untruth, Yet to disguise, to shun, to put aside The truth, as--what had e'er prevailed on me Save you to venture? Have I gained at last Your brother, the one scarer of your dreams.
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A Boys Ride
Gulielma Zollinger 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 - - It was the last of May in the north of England, in the year 1209. A very different England from what any boy of to-day has seen. A chilly east wind was blowing. The trees of the vast forests were all in leaf but the ash trees, and they were unfolding their buds. And along a bridle-path a few miles southwest of York a lad of fourteen was riding, while behind him followed a handsome deerhound. A boy of fourteen, at that age of the world, was an older and more important personage than he is to-day. If he were well-born he had, generally, by this time, served his time as a page and was become an esquire in the train of some noble lord. That this lad had not done so was because his uncle, a prior in whose charge he had been reared since the early death of his parents, had designed him for a priest. Priest, however, he had declined to be, and his uncle had now permitted him to go forth unattended to attach himself as page to some lord, if he could.
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Ozma of Oz
Lyman Frank Baum 试读
Readers of all ages will welcome the chance to be reunited with Dorothy Gale and other beloved characters in the third Oz book by L. Frank Baum Dorothy and her trusty hen, Billina, are washed ashore in the Land of Ev after a shipwreck. At first Dorothy is delighted to find lunch grows on trees in lunchboxes. But soon she realizes there is a darker side to the Land of Ev. On the seashore, Dorothy encounters the Wheelers, terrifying creatures with wheels instead of hands and feet. She manages to escape and befriend Tik-Tok, a loyal, robot-like creature who needs to be wound up like a toy to function. He warns her to stay away from the Wheelers and tells her the story of the Land of Ev. The royal family of Ev have been dethroned by the evil Nome King of the neighboring kingdom. Tik-Tok explains to Dorothy that her friend Princess Ozma of Oz is traveling to Ev by magic carpet to help save the royal family. Can Dorothy help Ozma and the royal family?
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The Orange Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
The 33 stories in "The Orange Fairy Book" delve into the oral traditions of Rhodesia, Uganda, the American Indian, European sources, the Punjab, Jutland, and Madame All the tales are narrated in clear, lively prose.
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The Song of Roland
Anonymous 试读
One of the crowning achievements of medieval artistic genius, The Song of Roland tells the story of the battle of Roncesvals in 778.At the center of this heroic epic is Roland, the supreme embodiment of the chivalric ideal who leads his men into combat and fights valiantly to the death.As Robert Harrison, the translator of this acclaimed edition, explains, "The carefully balanced structure of The Song of Roland is designed like a folding mirror to reflect the battle between Good and Evil at all levels of meaning."
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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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Under Fire:the story of a squad
Gustave Flaubert 试读
MONT BLANC, the Dent du Midi, and the Aiguille Verte look across at the bloodless faces that show above the blankets along the gallery of the sanatorium. This roofed-in gallery of rustic wood-work on the first floor of the palatial hospital is isolated in Space and overlooks the world. The blankets of fine wool—red, green, brown, or white—from which those wasted cheeks and shining eyes protrude are quite still. No sound comes from the long couches except when some one coughs, or that of the pages of a book turned over at long and regular intervals, or the undertone of question and quiet answer between neighbors, or now and again the crescendo disturbance of a daring crow, escaped to the balcony from those flocks that seem threaded across the immense transparency like chaplets of black pearls.
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A Christmas Carol(免费公版书)
Charles Dickens 试读
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a changed person.
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Red Saunders Pets and Other Critters
Henry Wallace Phillips 试读
"Of all the worlds I ever broke into, this one's the most curious," said Red. "And one of the curiousest things in it is that I think it's queer. Why should I, now? What put it into our heads that affairs ought to go so and so and so, when they never do anything of the sort?
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The Eyes of the World
Harold Bell Wright 试读
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He Fell in Love with His Wife
Edward Payson Roe 试读
Reverend Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American novelist born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S. V., and in 1864 chaplain of Hampton Hospital in Virginia. In 1866-74 he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Highland Falls, New York. In 1874 he moved to Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, where he devoted himself to the writing of fiction and to horticulture. During the American Civil War he wrote weekly letters to the New York Evangelist, and subsequently lectured on the war and wrote for periodicals. Amongst his novels are: Barriers Burned Away (1872), What Can She Do? (1873), Opening a Chestnut Burr (1874), Success with Small Fruits (1880), A Day of Fate (1880), Without a Home (1881), His Sombre Rivals (1884), A Young Girl's Wooing (1884), An Original Belle (1885), He Fell in Love with His Wife (1886), Driven Back to Eden (1886) The Earth Trembled (1887), Miss Lou (1888), Nature's Serial Story (1889), Taken Alive, and Other Stories (1892), and The Home Acre.
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How to Do It
Edward Everett Hale 试读
Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 - June 10, 1909) was an American author and Unitarian clergyman.
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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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Out of the Primitive
Robert Ames Bennet 试读
The second night north of the Zambezi, as well as the first, the little tramp rescue steamer had run out many miles into the offing and laid-to during the hours of darkness. The vicinity of the coral reefs that fringe the southeast coast of Africa is decidedly undesirable on moonless nights.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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English Past and Present
Richard Chenevix Trench 试读
In editing the present volume I have thought it well to follow the same rule which I laid down for myself in editing The Study of Words,and have made no alteration in the text of Dr. Trench’s work (the fifth edition).
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Snake and Sword A Novel
Percival Christopher Wren 试读
Afterwards he adjured the sole witness of this impulsive and emotional act, Major John Decies, never to mention his "damned theatrical folly" to any living soul, and to excuse him on the score of an ancient sword-cut on the head and two bad sun-strokes.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith 试读
"She Stoops to Conquer" is the comedic drama that depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised to a woman that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth, however in the company of women of the lower classes he transforms into a lecherous rogue. Learning of this, Kate Hardcastle, the woman he is promised too, pretends to be a serving-maid in order to win Charles's affections. "She Stoops to Conquer" is a charming and light-hearted play.
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
Mark Twain 试读
"How to Tell a Story and Other Essays" is a collection of essays on various subjects by America's most famous satirist, Mark Twain. Contained in this volume you will find the following essays: How to Tell a Story, In Defense of Harriet Shelley, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses, Travelling With a Reformer, Private History of the 'Jumping Frog' Story, Mental Telegraphy Again, What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us, A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget, The Invalid's Story, The Captain's Story, Stirring Times in Austria, Concerning the Jews, From the 'London Times' of 1904, and At the Appetite-Cure.
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New Chronicles of Rebecca
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 试读
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A Crooked Path A Novel
Mrs. Alexander 试读
The London season had not yet reached its height, some years ago, before the arch admitting to Constitution Hill had been swept back to make room for the huge, ever-increasing stream of traffic, or the plebeian 'bus had been permitted to penetrate the precincts of Hamilton Place. It was the forenoon of a splendid day, one of the earliest of June, and at that hour the roadway between the entrance to Hyde Park and the gate then surmounted by the statue of the Duke of Wellington on his drooping steed was comparatively free, when two gentlemen coming from opposite directions recognized each other, and paused at the gate of Apsley House—the elder, a stout, florid man of military aspect, middle age, and average height, with large gray mustache and small, slightly bloodshot eyes; the younger, who was tall and bony, might have been thirty, or even forty, so grave and sedate was his bearing, although his erect carriage, elastic step, and clear keen dark eyes suggested earlier manhood.
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Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley
Plunkett,Edward J. M. D.,Lord Dunsany 试读
After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery, arising partly out of ignorance and partly from the compulsion of those oaths by which magic protects its precincts from the tiptoe of curiosity. Moreover, magic, even in small quantities, appears to affect time, much as acids affect some metals, curiously changing its substance, until dates seem to melt into a mercurial form that renders them elusive even to the eye of the most watchful historian. It is the magic appearing in Chronicles III and IV that has gravely affected the date, so that all I can tell the reader with certainty of the period is that it fell in the later years of the Golden Age in Spain.
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I, Thou, and the Other One A Love Story
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 试读
Beyond Thirsk and Northallerton, through the Cleveland Hills to the sea eastward, and by Roseberry Topping, northward, there is a lovely, lonely district, very little known even at the present day. The winds stream through its hills, as cool and fresh as living water; and whatever beauty there is of mountain, valley, or moorland, Farndale and Westerdale can show it; while no part of England is so rich in those picturesque manor-houses which have been the homes of the same families for twenty generations.
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The Romance of Golden Star ..
George Chetwynd Griffith 试读
'Ah, what a thing it would be for us if his Inca Highness were really only asleep, as he looks to be! Just think what he could tell us—how easily he could re-create that lost wonderland of his for us, what riddles he could answer, what lies he could contradict. And then think of all the lost treasures that he could show us the way to. Upon my word, if Mephistopheles were to walk into this room just now, I think I should be tempted to make a bargain with him. Do you know, Djama, I believe I would give half the remainder of my own life, whatever that may be, to learn the secrets that were once locked up in that withered, desiccated brain of his.'
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A Fool for Love
Francis Lynde 试读
Francis Lynde (1856-1930) was an American author who wrote The Master of Appleby (1902), The Grafters (1904), A Fool for Love (1905), The Quickening (1906), Empire Builders (1907), The Taming of Red Butte Western (1911), The Price (1911), The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush (1913), Branded (1918), The Golden Spider (1923) and Mr. Arnold (1923). " It was a December morning, --the Missouri December of mild temperatures and saturated skies, --and the Chicago and Alton's fast train, dripping from the rush through the wet night, had steamed briskly to its terminal track in the Union Station at Kansas City. "
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A Columbus of Space
Garrett Putman Serviss 试读
We simply listened in silence for what could we say The facts were more eloquent than any words, and called for no commentary. Here we "were," out in the middle of space and "there" was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud. At least we knew where we were if we didn't quite understand how we had got there. . . .
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说唐后传-(清)无名氏
无名氏 试读
21《说唐后传》,清代无名氏著,共55回。故事前14回主要讲述唐太宗扫北,被敌军困于木阳城内,罗成之子罗通挂帅扫北,大败敌军,救出太宗,俗称《罗通扫北》。后41回说了唐朝大将薛仁贵保唐太宗跨海征讨辽东的故事,俗称《薛仁贵征东》。
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民族文话(精品公版)
郑振铎 试读
公源计划之名家郑振铎,现代作家、文学评论家、文学史家、艺术史家,同时也是现代杰出的爱国主义者和社会活动家,又是国内外闻名的收藏家、训诂家。郑振铎《民族文话》一书分为三编,收录郑振铎先生《民族文话》 《古事新谈》 《桂公塘》等三部抗战前后创作的作品。《民族文话》收《周民族的史诗》 《武王伐纣》等15篇先秦故事。《古事新谈》收24则秦汉故事,以喻战后民生之事。《桂公塘》收四篇历史小说,包括《桂公塘》 《风涛》 《毁灭》 《黄公俊之最后》。
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文心雕龙札记(精品公版)
黄侃 试读
公源计划之名家黄侃。《文心雕龙札记》是黄侃先生在北京大学讲授辞章学和中国文学史的讲义,对《文心雕龙》这部中国古代最重要的文学理论专著作了细致入微的深入剖析,在中国文学史的研究中具有重要意义。一般研究者多认为,中国古代文学批评史作为现代学科的确立,即是以黄侃在北京大学讲授《文心雕龙》课程并最终写成《文心雕龙札记》为标志的。
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国学概论(精品公版)
章太炎 试读
公源计划之名家章太炎,国学大师章太炎经典著作。《国学概论》主要论述中国经学、哲学、文学的发展演变及其阶段性特点、代表人物和主要著作,可谓是中国经学、哲学、文学的一部综论。
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十力语要(精品公版)
熊十力 试读
公源计划之名家熊十力,中国当代哲学之杰出人物、新儒家开山祖师代表作。《十力语要》收录了熊十力的信函、短论、讲词、语录等,涉及中国学术界许多著名学者,其所讨论的问题,如哲学与科学对象的界定、中国哲学与西方哲学的区别及融通、佛儒道之异同、先秦诸子学的评价等,都是20世纪20年代到40年代中国思想学术界所关注的重要问题,足以呈现中国近现代哲学的一个侧面。
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东北史纲(精品公版)
傅斯年 试读
公源计划之名家傅斯年,著名历史学家、教育家、古典文学研究专家,一代学术领袖的经典文献。《东北史纲》是傅斯年在“九一八”事变后心焦如焚的情绪下赶出来的作品,主要是为了说服国联李顿调查团东北自古以来是中国领土。此书大概旨在根据史书之记载证明东北属于中国,以驳斥日人“汉蒙在历史上非支那领土”之谬论。
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宋元戏曲史(精品公版)
王国维 试读
公源计划之名家王国维,一代国学巨匠的传世经典。《宋元戏曲史》是王国维多年从事戏曲研究的一部总结性著作,被公认为中国近代古典戏曲研究的“开山之作”。它大大提升了戏曲在文学中的地位,把他从“托体近卑”的俗文学拉升到了文学艺术的范畴。全书共十六章,以宋、元两朝为重点,徵引历代有关资料,考察中国古典戏曲形成、演变、发展的过程,描绘出清晰的途径和线索。对戏曲语言的艺术特点和审美价值作了具体的分析和发挥。是中国首部系统研究戏曲发展史的专著,材料丰富,治学态度谨严,影响深远。此次整理出版以1933年3月商务印书馆《国学小丛书》本为底本,同时参考上海古籍出版社本,内容更加完善。
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旷野的呼喊(精品公版)
萧红 试读
公源计划之名家萧红,“文学洛神”民国著名作家萧红代表作品,影响数代人的经典。 《旷野的呼喊》以其敏锐纤细的艺术感受力,朴实细腻的笔调,写出当时东北乡村小镇的闭塞与荒凉,塑造的人物鲜活可爱,风格明丽凄婉,弥漫着忧郁和感伤气息,为诗化小说的精品。
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith 试读
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion. This is a public domain book converted by anonymous volunteers and you may find it for free on the web.This work is respectfully inscribed by the author.
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野火(精品公版)
鲁彦 试读
公源计划之名家鲁彦,20世纪20年代著名的乡土小说家、翻译家,他的作品细腻、朴素、自然。 《野火》由鲁彦所著,又名《愤怒的乡村》,《野火》是鲁彦的一部长篇小说。它以作者家乡浙江农村农民的悲惨生活遭遇为题材,着力表现了傅家桥农民在地主残酷压榨下所遭遇的种种灾难,表现了地主豪绅无恶不作的丑态,同时也写出了农民们再遭受“人祸”侵害的同时,还时常遭受着自然灾害的侵袭。作品反映了旧中国农民在走投无路时愤怒的情绪和最后的奋起反抗,然而,这种奋起的反抗最终是失败的,代价是惨重的。作品精心刻画了不同性格、不同类型的农民形象,生动地展示了浙江农村独具地方色彩的风俗民情。它是现代乡土文学的重要代表作之一。
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Yollop
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
Instead of obeying Cassius beckoned to him. Then followed a long, whispered conference between lawyer and client, at the end of which the former, visibly annoyed, declared that the defendant had decided not to testify. The Court indicated that it was optional with the prisoner and asked if the counsel desired to introduce any further testimony. Counsel for the defense announced that his client's decision had altered his plans and that he was forced to rest his case. The Assistant District Attorney stated that he had two witnesses to examine in rebuttal.