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书目答问(无注释版)
张之洞 试读
张之洞撰写的一本举要性目承书。《书目答问》一书,是作者因诸生不知“应读何书”及“书以何本为善”而为其开列的学习经史词章考据诸学指示门径的导读目录(一说系张委托缪荃孙代撰)。收录者多为重要书籍,所选版本亦从当时习见者中取其不缺少误者为主,而不追求所谓的宋椠元刊。
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佛说维摩诘经(无注释版)
支谦 试读
闻如是。一时佛游于维耶离奈氏树园。与大比丘众俱。比丘八千。菩萨三万二千。皆神通菩萨。一切大圣能随俗化。佛所住者皆已得住。为法城堑护持正法。为师子吼十方闻声。众人不请祐而安之。兴隆三宝能使不绝。皆已降弃魔行仇怨。一切所化莫不信解。
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风俗通义(无注释版)
应劭 试读
“风俗通义”,汉唐人多引作“风俗通”,东汉泰山太守应劭著。汉代汉族民俗著作。原书三十卷、附录一卷,今仅存十卷。该书考论典礼类“白虎通”,纠正流俗类“论衡”,记录了大量的神话异闻,但作者加上了自己的评议,从而成为研究古代汉民族风俗和鬼神崇拜的重要文献。
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太清神鉴(无注释版)
王朴 试读
12六壬是我国古典数术之一,与奇门、太乙并称为三式,因土为万物之母,水为万物之源,五行以水为一,且六十花甲子中六个壬故称为六壬。 其法以月将加时辰,立四课,排三传,观阴阳,辩生克,以决吉凶成败。 六壬以占卜人事著称,其法由来已久,具体年代,已无法确定,到了东汉已经盛行,由此已知定是始于汉代以前。
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搜神後记(无注释版)
陶潜 试读
《搜神后记》作者赋予这些山川风物丰富的人情美,所以显得美丽动人。一类是人神、人鬼的爱情故事。著名的有《白水素女》、《李仲文女》、《徐玄方女》等。这类题材写得绚丽多姿,极富浪漫梦幻意味,且往往加以悲剧的结尾,使他们成为全书引人注目的篇章。再一类是不怕鬼的故事,叙事机智诙谐,是“搜神后记”区别于其它志怪小说另一颇具特色的地方。
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谢小娥传(无注释版)
李公佐 试读
《谢小娥传》约作于宪宗元和末。谢小娥是豫章(今江西南昌)少妇。她的父亲与丈夫都以经商往来江湖,为盗所杀。她梦见其父与夫用隐语告以凶手姓名,醒后广求智者解答,历年不得。 《南柯太守传》 《南柯太守传》 后流浪至上元县,遇李公佐,解其隐语,知凶手二人,名为兰、申春。谢小娥乃改扮男装,为人作佣工,寻访凶手。至浔阳郡,巧遇申兰,入其家为佣,深见信任。终于伺机杀死申兰,擒申春及其党数十人。复仇后,乃出家为尼。传中写谢小娥报仇,艰苦经营,数年如一,坚忍不拔,沉着勇敢,性格鲜明。此传当时亦广为流传,李复言《续玄怪录》中《尼妙寂》一则即据此写成。《新唐书》又采其事入《列女传》。明代凌□初《初刻拍案惊奇》中《李公佐巧解梦中语 谢小娥智擒船上盗》,亦取材于此。清代王夫之又演为《龙舟会》杂剧。
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治世余闻(无注释版)
陈洪谟 试读
本书专记明孝宗弘治(1488~1505)一朝见闻,“上篇事关朝庙,下篇则臣下事也”。作者成书于明正德十六(辛巳,1521)年,内容翔实可靠,为后人提供了许多有关这时期朝政、吏治、边疆等的资料。
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蝴蝶媒(无注释版)
南岳道人 试读
第一回灵隐寺禅僧贻宝偈苎萝山蝴蝶作冰人 词曰: 世事伤心甚,天公难借问。奇才不值半文钱,困、困、困!闲检遗闻,忽惊佳遇,试编新听。富贵今非命,成败何须论。一春长莫向花前,恨、恨、恨!当日隋皇,后来唐主,异时同尽。 右调《醉春风》 话说隋朝仁寿年间。江南建康府有一秀才,姓蒋名岩,表字青岩。父亲蒋国士,曾为陈朝大司马,隋文帝屡辟不起,移家西子湖边,丘壑自娱,竟以寿终,母亲叶氏,相继而卒。单生蒋青岩一人。这蒋青岩临生之夜,蒋夫人梦孔子抱送。因此,这蒋青岩生得身长七尺,美如冠玉,俶傥风流,聪明绝世。真个一目十行。子史经书,般般精熟;诗词歌赋,件件惊人。正是:才如子建人难及,貌过潘安世莫双。
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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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Every Man in His Humor
Ben Jonson 试读
Renaissance comedy. Complete text, modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction.From the Yale ben Jonson edition.
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Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift 试读
The book is written in a captain Gulliver monologue mode, mainly describes the captain Gulliver in Lilliput, Brobdingnag strange experiences, flying island and "Hui Si" in china. Through the form of the novel, in the first half of eighteenth Century British Society of satire and criticism of comprehensive, thought characteristic has distinctive democratic.
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Jack and Jill
Louisa May Alcott 试读
A children's classic from the author of Little Woman. Two inseparable friends are injured in a sledding accident but resolve to be positive and their friendship becomes closer than ever.
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy 试读
A brooding tragedy which scandalised Hardy's contemporaries on first publication. Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance. It was met with widespread condemnation upon first publication in 1895 and, as a result, was the last novel Hardy ever wrote.
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain 试读
Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain's life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America's most profound chronicler of the human comedy.
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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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A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe 试读
Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct — historically and fictionally — the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details.
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 试读
The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. Embroiled in the intrigues which centre around the ruling classes, he emerges as a combination of the Christian ideal and Dostoevsky's own views. The world created by the ruling classes cannot accommodate the goodness of this idiot.
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The War of the Worlds
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.
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A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States
Clément Juglar 试读
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again worldwide.
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A Chance Acquaintance
William Dean Howells 试读
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.
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A Child-World
James Whitcomb Riley 试读
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American writer and poet, known as the "Hoosier Poet" and the "Children's Poet." He started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. His verse tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one-thousand poems that Riley published, over half are in dialect. Claiming that "simple sentiments that come from the heart" were the secret of his success. He satisfied the public with down-to-earth verse that was "heart high. " Although he was a bestselling author in the early 1900s and earned a steady income from royalties, he also travelled and gave public readings of his poetry. His favourite authors were Robert Burns and Charles Dickens, and he himself befriended bestselling Indiana authors such as Booth Tarkington, George Ade and Meredith Nicholson. Many of his works were illustrated by the popular illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. His works include: Afterwhiles (1887), Rhymes of Childhood (1890), The Flying Islands of The Night (1892), A Child- World (1897) and Riley Love-Lyrics (1899).
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O Pioneers!
Willa Sibert Cather 试读
A classic novel of the Nebraska prairie, O Pioneers! is the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, whose devotion to the land sustains her against the hardships and suffering of prairie life. A new addition to the Bantam Classic line.
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens 试读
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of Oliver Twist firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion."
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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens 试读
In this, his final completed novel, Dickens weaves together many stories, uniting them in the symbolism of the wealth which derives from a rubbish tip.
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 试读
Tells the story of Robinson in distress after the sea, then in the island's experience. He is not satisfied with the ordinary life of the father of the hand, then go out sailing, several rounds of distress. Once, he was captured by the moors, slave; fled to Brazil, he became a planter, on their way to Africa buy slaves, he again suffered shipwreck, drifting to a no human habitation on the island, spent a full twenty-eight years. Where, by virtue of his strong will to overcome their own, to overcome the hard natural conditions, with labor and wisdom of reform of the environment around, he is hunting, planting crops, livestock, save the savage "Friday"...... Finally, he helped a captain to quell the rebellion, and finally returned to his hometown, a rich and carefree life.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
This splendid collection of mysteries carries readers back to a gaslit era, when literature's greatest detective team lived on 222B Baker Street, London. The brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson, investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Featured tales include several of the author's personal favourites: The Speckled Band , The Red-Headed League , The Five Orange Pips , and A Scandal in Bohemia . This title is a reprint of the Penguin, New York, 1994 edition.
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London 试读
In this quintessential adventure story, Jack London takes readers on an arduous journey through the forbidding Alaskan landscape during the gold rush of the 1890s. Buck, a rangy mixed breed used to a comfortable, sun-filled life as a family dog, is stolen by a greedy opportunist and sold to dog traffickers. In no time, Buck finds himself on a team of sled dogs run ragged in the harsh winter of the Klondike. In a climate where every day is a savage struggle for survival, the last traces of Buck's soft, pampered existence are erased as his dormant primordial urges -- deeply embedded for generations -- are brutally awakened.
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Backlog Studies
Charles Dudley Warner 试读
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri studied law at the University of Pennsylvania practiced in Chicago was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870). Amongst his other works are Saunterings (1872), Backlog Studies (1873), Being a Boy (1878), In the Wilderness (1878), Captain John Smith (1881), Washington Irving (1881), A Little Journey in the World (1889), As We Were Saying (1891) and That Fortune (1899).
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Calumet K
Samuel Merwin 试读
The contract for the two million bushel grain elevator, Calumet K, had been let to MacBride & Company, of Minneapolis, in January, but the superstructure was not begun until late in May, and at the end of October it was still far from completion. Ill luck had attended Peterson, the constructor, especially since August.
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Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary
Henry Sweet 试读
Although the idea of scanning and printing out-of-print books is a noble one, this particular effort is criminal. It takes an important text and turns it into a piece of garbage.
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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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Kai Lungs Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah 试读
Kai Lung is a wandering storyteller accused of treason—and like Scheherazade of The One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, he must rely upon his silver tongue to escape conviction. With the help of beautiful Hwa Mei, who has the attention of evil Ming Shu, Kai tries to regain his freedom by spinning a series of entertaining tales that intrigue his captor. Laced with romance and adventure, spiced with fantasy and the supernatural, these stories will transport readers to a mandarin's court in ancient China.
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Edmund Dulacs Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
Edmund Dulac 试读
The old wife sang merrily as she sat in the inglenook stirring the soup, for she had never felt so sad. Many, many years had come and gone, leaving the weight of their winters on her shoulders and the touch of snow on her hair without ever bringing her a little child.
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Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
Archibald Forbes 试读
We were a kind of happy family at the Hagen; the tone of the coterie was that of the easiest intimacy into which every newcomer slid quite naturally.
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A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day
Helen Maria Winslow 试读
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New observations on the natural history of bees
Francis Huber 试读
Interesting observations and an eye opener to experimental methods used in the 1700s. Much early information on the use of " leaf" hives. This book is a good reference for the bee-keeping.
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Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel
Florence Antoinette Kilpatrick 试读
The Elizabeth in the title is a newly-hired servant (housemaid, cook, laundress, etc.) in the household of a writing couple. Husband is a journalist and the wife writes an advice column. They've gotten along fine for ten years, but when the husband complains about eating scrambled eggs and tinned soup -- again! -- the wife decides it's time to hire some help.Elizabeth is an engaging character with a tendency toward match-making, and her scheming to bring a friend of the family together with the wife's sister is fun to watch.This was a fun read and felt surprisingly contemporary. Hard to believe it was written almost a hundred years ago.
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John Smith, U.S.A.
Eugene Field 试读
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Yesterdays
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 试读
It is a collection of poems.You can enjoy all kinds of emtion and beauty.It is worth of reading.
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Gypsys Cousin Joy
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 试读
A story of a brave ,kind, girl, helping other people,giving much to other people.
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King Coal – a Novel
Upton Sinclair 试读
Upton Sinclair is one of the not too many writers who have consecrated their lives to the agitation for social justice, and who have also enrolled their art in the service of a set purpose. A great and non-temporizing enthusiast, he never flinched from making sacrifices. Now and then he attained great material successes as a writer, but invariably he invested and lost his earnings in enterprises by which he had hoped to ward off injustice and to further human happiness. Though disappointed time after time, he never lost faith nor courage to start again. As a convinced socialist and eager advocate of unpopular doctrines, as an exposer of social conditions that would otherwise be screened away from the public eye, the most influential journals of his country were as a rule arraigned against him. Though always a poor man, though never willing to grant to publishers the concessions essential for many editions and general popularity, he was maliciously represented to be a carpet knight of radicalism and a socialist millionaire. He has several times been obliged to change his publisher, which goes to prove that he is no seeker of material gain.
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The Foolish Lovers
St John G. Ervine 试读
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This Is the End
Stella Benson 试读
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