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金匮要略方论(无注释版)
张仲景 试读
21“金匮要略方论”三卷,分二十五篇。其内容主要是论述中医所称的“杂病”的证候与治疗。其中包括的疾病,有疟疾、中风、虚劳、肺痿、肺痈、咳嗽、消渴、黄疸、疮痈、妇人妊娠、产后病,以及中毒急救等。由于这些都是古代医家临床经验的总结,至今仍有许多确切的疗效,因此,“金匮要略方论”可供中西医学习和研究中医之用。本次重刊,书后附有方剂索引,更便于读者查阅。
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耳食录(无注释版)
乐钧 试读
天下至文,本无定质,譬诸夕霞布空,倏忽异态,飞英绣水,纵横成章。要须自出机杼,为一家言。虽墨卿游戏,三昧可参,不必高文典册,始克与金石并寿也。 吾友莲裳,早负俊才,高韵离俗。以粲花之笔,抒镂雪之思,摭拾所闻,纪为一编,日“耳食录”。事多出于儿女缠绵,仙鬼幽渺,间以里巷谐笑助其波澜。胸情所寄,笔妙咸鞍,虽古作者无多让焉。同好诸君,请付剞劂,适仆至都,因属为叙。 夫隋璧汉珠,荫映山海,岂藉誉者以增重哉?良以寄兴偶同,寓言多感,梦簧得友,乐奏先声。残暑初退,兀坐紫藤之阴,追忆旧闻,手草数则,还以质之作者,而为述其梗概如此。 中国古代笔记小说源远流长,作品繁富,蔚为大观。本书所选收的作品,均系在古代笔记小说中有较大影响或独具风格者。这些作品,反映了当时的社会生活和人民的要求,并具有一定的艺术感染力。对于爱好文学的读者们具有参考和借鉴作用。
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续玄怪录(无注释版)
李复言 试读
中国古典小说的概念非常宽泛,内涵很广,类别很多,又是随着历史的发展而不断演化的。古代小说限和分类,在目录上是一个有待研究论的问题。古人所谓的小说家言,如《四库全书》所列小说家杂事之属的作品,今人多国偏重史料性的笔记,中华书局已摘要编入《历代史料笔记丛刊》陆续出版。相当于古代的方文言小说。为了便于对举,参照古代诗体的发展,把文言小说称为古体,把“五四”之前的白话小说称为近体,这是一种粗略概括的分法。本丛刊选收历代比较重要或比较罕见的作品,采用所能得到的善本,加以标点校勘,如有新校新注的版则优先录用。个别已经散佚的书,也摘要作新的辑本。
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西游记补·续西游记(无注释版)
董说 试读
13中国古代小说汗牛充栋,蔚为大观,其中许多作品世代流传,深受广大人民群众喜爱。中国古代小说是中国古代人民劳动、生活、情感、智慧的形象反映,是我们珍贵的精神遗产。为了弘扬华夏文化,我社从卷帙浩繁的古典文学宝库中精选了有代表性的作品100余部,奉献给大家。这套书选题面宽,除了历史写实类的作品如《秦始皇传》、《东周列国志》、《三国演义》、《说唐》、《说岳全传》、《水浒全传》等外,还有言情类作品《红楼梦》、《好逑传》、《定情人》、《玉娇梨》、《怡情佚史》等,神魔类作品《封神演义》、《搜神记》、《西游记》、《韩湘子全传》、《观音达摩罗汉全传》等,公案类作品《狄公案》、《包公案》、《彭公案》、《施公案》、《刘公案》等。除了长篇作品,也选了一些中短篇代表作,如三言二拍等。为了方便阅读,我们在每一本书前都写了前言,介绍《中国古典文学名著丛书:续西游记(套装共2册)》的作者及作品成书情况,对书中难读的字词典故也作了注释。希望这本书能得到您的喜爱,也希望专家和读者提出意见和建议,以使这书书日臻完善。
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富翁醒世录(无注释版)
落魄道人 试读
世情冷暖俗人多,那个不来敬我。半世忧愁郁结,一生劳碌奔波。披星戴月却因何。只为其中这个。这个不是别个,就是天地间第一件至宝,无德而尊,无势而热,无翼而飞,无足而走,无远不往,无幽不至。上可以通神,下可以使鬼,系斯人之性命,关一生之荣辱,危可使安,死可使活,贵可使贱,生可使杀。凡人之愤恨,非这个不胜幽滞,非这个不拔,怨仇非这个不解,令闻非这个不发。真是天地间第一件的至宝。
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胡涂世界(无注释版)
吴趼人 试读
话说湖南官场,同时有三位出色人员,都是抚台眼前顶红的人。抚台姓黄,江西人。三个红人,一唤任承仁,一唤俞洪宝,一唤李才雄,三个人都是候补知县。任承仁新近从那里交卸回来,抚台极赏识他,曾经保过送部引见。俞、李二位是一直跟着抚台,办过几年文案;李才雄现又兼当土药局的差使。
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Letters on England
Voltaire 试读
Franois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. A satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize Christian Church dogma and the French institutions of his day. Many of his works and ideas would influence important thinkers of both the American and French Revolutions, an honour that he would share with other political theorists such as John Locke and Thomas Hobbes. In general criticism and miscellaneous writing, Voltaire's writing was comparable to his other works. Almost all of his more substantive works, whether in verse or prose, are preceded by prefaces of one sort or another, which are models of his caustic yet conversational tone. He wrote Letters on England (1733), Zadig; or, The Book of Fate (1747), Candide (1759) and Philosophical Dictionary (1764).
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens 试读
A novel in which Dickens launches a ferocious onslaught against England and English society.He draws on the memory of his father in his depiction of the Marshalsea debtors prison and there is also the story of the love between an older man and a younger woman.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce 试读
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original—text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words.Word,sentence,paragraph counts,and reading time help readers and teachers determine chapter complexity.Co—occurrence graphs depict character—to—character interactions as well character to place interactions.Sentiment indexes identify positive and negative trends in mood within each chapter.Frequency graphs help display the impact this book has had on popular culture since its original date of publication.Use Trajectory analytics to deepen comprehension,to provide a focus for discussions and writing assignments,and to engage new readers with some of the greatest stories ever told. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce.It traces the intellectual and religio—philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus,a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus,the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology.Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown,and culminates with his self—exile from Ireland in Europe.
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A Woman of Thirty
Honoré de Balzac 试读
By the French author,who,along with Flaubert,is generally regarded as a founding—father of realism in European fiction.His large output of works,collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine),consists of 95 finished works (stories,novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works.His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France.They are placed in a variety of settings,with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
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Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis 试读
Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to re examine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire remains an ever-relevant tale of an individual caught in the machinery of modern life.
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Daisy Miller
Henry James 试读
Famous novella chronicles a young American girl’s willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a narrative rich in psychological and social insight.
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Roughing It
Mark Twain 试读
A classic tour of the wild west.In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a tenderfoot in the Wild West—and Roughing It is his hilarious record of his travels come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.
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Tess of the dUrbervilles
Thomas Hardy 试读
Violated by one man, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy's immortal work. Of all the great English novelists, no one writes more eloquently of tragic destiny than Hardy. With the innocent and powerless victim Tess, he creates profound sympathy for human frailty while passionately indicting the injustices of Victorian society. Scorned by outraged readers upon its publication in 1891, Tess of the d'Urbervilles is today one of the enduring classics of nineteenth-century literature.
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The Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear 试读
Edward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon made him welcome above stairs and he began to amuse the children with comic drawings and rhymes. This book was first published in 1846.
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer 试读
A monumental study of comparative folklore and religion, THE GOLDEN BOUGH was originally published in two volumes in 1890, grew to 12 volumes for the third edition in 1915, then abridged by the author into this one-volume edition in 1922. Drawing on the beliefs and customs of ancient European civilizations and primitive cultures throughout the world, James Frazer's work continues to be an important reference.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Two on a Tower
Thomas Hardy 试读
The Penguin English Library Edition of Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy.'Then they proceeded to scan the sky, roving from planet to star, from single stars to double stars, from double to coloured stars...'Hardy's atmospheric, moving story of star-crossed lovers shows human beings at the mercy of forces far beyond their control, setting a tragic drama of human passion and conflict against a background of vast stellar space and scientific discovery. Two on a Tower tells the story of Lady Constantine, who breaks all the rules of decorum when she falls in love with the beautiful youth Swithin St Cleeve, her social inferior and ten years her junior. Together, in an ancient monument converted into an astronomical observation tower, they create their own private universe - until the pressures of the outside world threaten to destroy it.
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1492
Mary Johnston 试读
1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto traces modernity to its roots in the year 1492. It focuses on specific events of 1492 (including the Renaissance and voyages of Columbus) which Fernandez-Armesto views as crucial to the development of modern ways of thinking and the physical state of the world today. Exploring how the creation of the earliest surviving globe showed a world shrinking with advances in cartography as a result of exploration, Fernandez-Armesto shows how people, separated by millions of years of geographical change and evolution in terms culture and ecology, began to set out to chart the places they visited, shifting the balance of global power west and establishing a global trade which prefigured that of today, while China marked time. While civilizations were rediscovering one another, however, further divisions emerged as Granada, the last Muslim-ruled state in Western Europe, fell to Spanish Christians confining Islam to the southern shore of the Mediterranean and the Sahara. Meanwhile, Jews expelled from Spain were making their way to destinations around the Mediterranean and Russia was expanding North. With confessional, sovereign states on the rise and challenging the pluralistic empires of the past, ideological differences were more than ever becoming a pretext for war. Power and economic concerns were at the forefront in Florence and Rome, and science and secular clashed with the supernatural. 1492: The Year Our World Began explores a crucial, yet largely neglected point in history and demonstrates how events during this year and the surrounding period began the globalisation and hegemony of the West and the shaping of power relations which we see today.
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A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn 试读
Immigrants from Denmark and NW Germany arrived in Britain in the 5th and 6th Centuries A.D., speaking in related dialects belonging to the Germanic and Teutonic branches of the Indo-European language family. Today, English is most closely related to Flemish, Dutch, and German, and is somewhat related to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. Icelandic, unchanged for 1,000 years, is very close to Old English.
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Moby Dick: or the White Whale
Herman Melville 试读
A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.
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Moon and Sixpence
毛姆 试读
Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.
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Robin Hood
J.Walker McSpadden 试读
Escape to Sherwood Forest's idyllic charms and join the jolly fellowship of the green wood with these rollicking, tales of the celebrated archer and gentleman thief. Lively episodes introduce each of the famous merry men and other colorful characters, including the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, lovely Maid Marian, and King Richard the Lionhearted.
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续济公传
坑余生 试读
17‘续济公传’,清代坑余生所著。‘续济公传’虽名为续集,情节却完全可以独立于‘济公全传’之外而存在,其内容与人物形象,与‘全传’相比有较大的变化。续集叙述了济公率领弟子,劝导一批忠臣后裔和江湖义士,严惩卖国投降的奸臣和皇亲国戚,平定“大狄国”的内患,以保南宋江山“国泰民安”的种种故事。在这些故事中,济公的活动范围从市井社会拓展到整个朝野江湖,其所作为也从撮合男女美满姻缘、扶危济困、除怪降妖扩展到关系国家安危的军机大事,社会场景更为广阔,情节也特别丰富、曲折,引人入胜。济公的形象也从一个游戏人间行侠仗义的“颠憎”,逐渐演化成一个忠肝义胆、神机妙算、佛法无边的济世活佛。
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Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen
Harding, Emily J. 试读
Aleksander Borejko Chodzko Chodsko coat of arms Kozciesza (1804-1891) was a Polish poet, Slavist and Iranologist. He was a Native of Krzywicze in the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. Chodsko was an Alumnus of the University of Vilnius, and a friend of poet Adam Mickiewicz. He was an Alumnus of the Institute of Oriental Studies that was attached to the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of the Russian Empire in Saint-Petersburg. From 1830 until 1844, he worked as a Russian diplomat in Iran. From 1852 until 1855, he worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affaires of France. From 1857 until 1883 he succeeded Adam Mickiewicz in the chair of Slavic languages and literature in the College de France. Chosdsko was a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Societe de Linguistique de Paris. He spoke many languages such as: French, English, Russian, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Polish and German. His works include: Popular Poetry of Persia, Specimens of the Popular Poetry of Persia, Theatre Persan, Polish-English and English-Polish Dictionary and Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen.
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Napoleon the Little
Victor Hugo 试读
""The suffrages of the nation, and the oath I have just taken,command my future conduct. My duty is clearly marked. I willfulfill it as a man of honor. I shall regard as the enemies of thecountry all who seek to change, by illegal means, that which allFrance has established "" When he was done speaking, theConstituent Assembly rose, and with a single voice the exclamationshouted: "Long live the Republic " The small man descended from thetribune and went up to General Cavaignac, offering him his hand.The general, for a few instants, hesitated to accept the grasp. Allwho had just heard the words of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte,pronounced in a tone so imbued with good faith, blamed the generalfor his hesitation Victor Hugo (1802-85), son of one of thegenerals of Napoleon's armies, included among his vast literaryoutput the political portrait "Napolon le petit," first publishedin 1852.
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A Chinese Wonder Book
Norman Hinsdale Pitman 试读
The winter had been a hard one: extreme cold deep snow and violent winds. The Wang house had suffered greatly. The roof had fallen in weighed down by heavy snow. Then a hurricane had blown a wall over and Ming-li the son up all night and exposed to a bitter cold wind had caught pneumonia.
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Keeping up with Lizzie
Irving Bacheller 试读
Bacheller's novels are primarily concerned with early American life in the North Country of New York State. In 1900 his novel Eben Holden, A Tale of the North Country, proved a major success. According to the New York Times it was the 4th best-selling novel in the United States that year.
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A Chosen Few Short Stories
Frank Richard Stockton 试读
The stories contained in this little volume were chosen, by virtue of a sort of literary civil-service examination, in order that they might be grouped together as a representative class of the author’s best-known work in this line.Several of these stories have points of peculiar interest to the author. For instance, “Negative Gravity” was composed in Switzerland when the author was temporarily confined to the house in full view of unreachable Alps.
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Yesterdays
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 试读
This little volume might be called ‘Echoes from the land of youthful imaginings’; or ‘Ghosts of old dreams. ’ It has been compiled at the request of Messrs. Gay and Hancock (my only authorised publishers in Great Britain), and contains verses written in my early youth, and which never before (with the exception, perhaps, of three or four) have been placed in book form.
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Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw 试读
Caesar and Cleopatra satirizes Shakespeare's use of history and comments wryly on the politics of Shaw's own time, but the undertone of melancholy makes it one of his most affecting plays.
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You Never Can Tell
George Bernard Shaw 试读
Kathleen Eagle's novels of love and passion have touched the hearts of countless readers. Now this award-winning writer has created her most compelling story of all. Reporter Heather Reardon has been hot on the trail of Native American activist Kole Kills Crow for years, so when she finds him living on a Minnesota reservation, she's shocked that the outspoken activist is now a private man who has faced both a disastrous brush with the law and a tragic twist of fate. Soon the pair is involved in a cause that forces Kole back intothe spotlight -- and challenges Heather's belief that Kole shouldreturn to the public eye. They travel from the isolation ofMinnesota to the bright lights of Los Angeles...and to a placewhere they must each face the truth about their love. You Never Can Tell is a story you will never forget.
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I Will Repay
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 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 - - Coward Coward Coward The words rang out, clear, strident, passionate, in a crescendo of agonised humiliation. The boy, quivering with rage, had sprung to his feet, and, losing his balance, he fell forward clutching at the table, whilst with a convulsive movement of the lids, he tried in vain to suppress the tears of shame which were blinding him. "Coward " He tried to shout the insult so that all might hear, but his parched throat refused him service, his trembling hand sought the scattered cards upon the table, he collected them together, quickly, nervously, fingering them with feverish energy, then he hurled them at the man opposite, whilst with a final effort he still contrived to mutter: "Coward "
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Danger! and Other Stories
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
The Title story of this volume was written about eighteen months before the outbreak of the war, and was intended to direct public attention to the great danger which threatened this country. It is a matter of history how fully this warning has been justified and how, even down to the smallest details, the prediction has been fulfilled. The writer must, however, most thankfully admit that what he did not foresee was the energy and ingenuity with which the navy has found means to meet the new conditions. The great silent battle which has been fought beneath the waves has ended in the repulse of an armada far more dangerous than that of Spain.
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Tales for Fifteen, or, Imagination and Heart
James Fenimore Cooper 试读
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.
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Queens of the French Stage
H. Noel Williams 试读
FEW women in French history have been the subject of more discussion than the young girl whom Molière married, at the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, on February 20, 1662.
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Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle 试读
Between the far away past history of the world, and that which lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history, a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of wickedness.
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Modern English Books of Power
George Hamlin Fitch 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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A Man and His Money
Frederic Stewart Isham 试读
"A mistake! Beg pardon!" he murmured with exquisite politeness and began to back out, when a somewhat brutal command on the other's part to "shut that d—— door d—— quick, and not let any more d—— hot air out" arrested the visitor's purpose. Instead of retreating, he advanced.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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The Lost Lady of Lone
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 试读
The preparations were being completed for a grand event. For on the morning of the next day a deep wrong was to be made right by the marriage of the young and beautiful Lady of Lone to the chosen lord of her heart.
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The Ear in the Wall
Arthur Benjamin Reeve 试读
This early work by Arthur Benjamin Reeve was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Ear in the Wall' features super-sleuth Professor Craig Kennedy who is sometimes referred to as "The American Sherlock Holmes" due to his astounding ability at crime solving and his Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter. In 'The Ear in the Wall, ' Kennedy and Jameson, aided by a tough but compassionate woman detective start a race to save Betty Blackwell who has transcribed deals with criminal gangs and Wall Street plungers . Arthur Benjamin Reeve was born on 15th October 1880 in New York, USA. Reeve received his University education at Princeton and upon graduating enrolled at the New York Law School. However, his career was not destined to be in the field of Law. Between 1910 and 1918 he produced 82 short stories for Cosmopolitan. During this period he also began authoring screenplays, and by the end of the decade, his film career was at its peak with his name appearing on seven films, most of them serials and three of them starring Harry Houdini. Reeves died on 9th August 1936, a few years after moving to Trenton.
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English Men of Letters – Crabbe
Alfred Ainger 试读
Part of the English Men of Letters Series, published in 1903, this edition features George Crabbe the English poet and naturalist.
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Ten Girls from Dickens
Kate Dickinson Sweetser 试读
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book
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Plain Tales from the Hills
Rudyard Kipling 试读
"Plain Tales From the Hills" is a classic collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Contained here in this volume are the following tales: Lispeth, Three and-an Extra, Thrown Away, Miss Youghal's Sais, 'Yoked with an Unbeliever', False Dawn, The Rescue of Pluffles, Cupid's Arrows, The Three Musketeers, His Chance in Life, Watches of the Night, The Other Man, Consequences, The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin, The Taking of Lungtungpen, A Germ-Destroyer, Kidnapped, The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly, In the House of Suddhoo, His Wedded Wife, The Broken Link Handicap, Beyond the Pale, In Error, A Bank Fraud, Tods' Amendment, The Daughter of the Regiment, In the Pride of His Youth, Pig, The Rout of the White Hussars, The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case, Venus Annodomini, The Bisara of Pooree, A Friend's Friend, The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The Madness of Private Ortheris, The Story of Muhammad Din, On the Strength of a Likeness, Wressley of the Foreign Office, By Word of Mouth, and To be Filed for Reference.
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In the Midst of Alarms
Robert Barr 试读
A story of the attempted Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866. Novel by the teacher, journalist, editor and novelist, born in Glasgow, Scotland and educated in Canada. In 1876 he became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature "Luke Sharp." In 1881 he removed to London, to establish the weekly English edition of the Free Press, and in 1892 he joined Jerome K. Jerome in founding the Idler magazine, from whose co-editorship he retired in 1895. He was a prolific author, producing many popular novels of the day.
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The After House
Mary Roberts Rinehart 试读
By the bequest of an elder brother, I was left enough money to see me through a small college in Ohio, and to secure me four years in a medical school in the East. Why I chose medicine I hardly know. Possibly the career of a surgeon attracted the adventurous element in me. Perhaps, coming of a family of doctors, I merely followed the line of least resistance. It may be, indirectly but inevitably, that I might be on the yacht Ella on that terrible night of August 12, more than a year ago.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
Marie Daugherty Webster 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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A Golden Book of Venice
Lawrence Turnbull 试读
Sea and sky were one glory of warmth and color this sunny November morning in 1565, and there were signs of unusual activity in the Campo San Rocco before the great church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, which, if only brick without, was all glorious within, "in raiment of needlework" and "wrought gold." And outside, the delicate tracery of the cornice was like a border of embroidery upon the sombre surface;