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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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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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Outdoor Sports and Games
Claude Harris Miller 试读
If we live a natural open-air life we shall have but little need of doctors or medicine. Many of our grandmothers' notions on how to keep well have changed in recent years. Old-fashioned remedies made from roots and herbs have been almost completely replaced by better habits of life and common-sense ideas.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)"
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Over the Top
Arthur Guy Empey 试读
Claudia Monroe discovers that life doesn't always favor her dreams when deadly obstacles are thrown on her path to success. As the new owner of OverTheTop Gym, Claudia Monroe struggles to keep her business up and running after her top personal trainer is found murdered. A short time later, one of the trainer's clients is killed in his home. The stakes become personal as a series of threatening events force Claudia to investigate the murders using methods she never imagined. Claudia valiantly attempts solid marketing strategies and best business practices to stay afloat in the fitness industry, while involving her donut eating assistant, Charlene, and the ever stealth detective, Mitch, in her attempts figure out why the murders seem to involve her. Staying alive becomes a fitness goal she fights to achieve. Realizing she can trust very few people, she picks up her game pursuing answers to questions that may keep her alive. Claudia's professional relationship with one of her 'to die for clients' becomes closer when he insists on providing her with increased security measures as the investigation continues. Black cats, black shoes, and dark romances clutter life's journey as Claudia pieces the puzzle together. In the end, none of her protection plans are sufficient enough to save her from the ultimate encounter
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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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The Daughters of Danaus
Mona Caird 试读
This brilliantly witty novel (1894) follows the lives of two sisters in a wealthy Scots family. One escapes to a profession in London and eventually a decent marriage while the heroine, Hadria, vows to become a composer in Paris, but is thwarted. The novel reveals the power of marriage and the family hold in controlling the lives of talented, spirited women; but unlike other oppressed heroines of the period, Hadria and her feminism both survive. The books includes a trailblazing essay on marriage published by Caird, a visionary novelist and social critic.
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The Two Vanrevels
Booth Tarkington 试读
It was long ago in the days when men sighed when they fell in love when people danced by candle and lamp, and did dance, too, instead of solemnly gliding about in that mellow time so long ago, when the young were romantic and summer was roses and wine, old Carewe brought his lovely daughter home from the convent to wreck the hearts of the youth of Rouen. That was not a far journey only an afternoon's drive through the woods and by the river, in an April, long ago Miss Betty's harp carefully strapped behind the great lumbering carriage, her guitar on the front seat, half-buried under a mound of bouquets and oddly shaped little bundles, farewell gifts of her comrades and the good Sisters. In her left hand she clutched a small lace handkerchief, with which she now and then touched her eyes, brimmed with the parting from Sister Cecilia, Sister Mary Bazilede, the old stone steps and all the girls: but for every time that she lifted the dainty kerchief to brush away the edge of a tear, she took a deep breath of the Western woodland air and smiled at least twice
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Voyage au Centre de la Terre(French Edition)
Jules Verne 试读
Un professeur découvre un ancien parchemin sur lequel est indiqué le moyen de se rendre au centre de la terre, par le biais d'un cratère de volcan éteint. Enthousiaste, il tente lui même l'aventure, en compagnie de son neveu (narrateur de l'histoire) et d'un guide.Le début est un peu lent et on se perd un peu dans les considérations minéralogiques, la descripton des paysages et les physionomies de personnages secondaires.
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The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
Thomas Henry Huxley 试读
“The narrative may be exactly true. That is to say, the words, taken in their natural sense, and interpreted according to the rules of grammar, may convey to the mind of the hearer, or of the reader an idea precisely correspondent with one which would have remained in the mind of a witness. For example, the statement that King Charles the First was beheaded at Whitehall on the 30th day of January 1649, is as exactly true as any proposition in mathematics or physics...”
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A Daughter of To-Day
Sara Jeannette Duncan 试读
Sara Jeannette Duncan, later Cotes (1861-1922), was a Canadian author and journalist. She first worked as a schoolteacher before taking up journalism as a full-time occupation. Various freelancing work led to her taking her first position at the Washington Post in 1885. In 1886, she made history as the first woman to be hired as a professional journalist in Canada, taking a regular position at the Toronto Globe, now the Globe and Mail. She later moved to the Montreal Star, where she was the paper s Parliamentary correspondent. She published 22 books, including two volumes of personal sketches and a collection of short stories. Her first book, A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Around the World by Ourselves (1890) documented an around-the-world trip, but she is best known today for her 1904 novel The Imperialist. Amongst her other works are: A Daughter of Today (1894), The Story of Sonny Sahib (1894), A Voyage of Consolation (1898), The Path of a Star (1898), Hilda: A Story of Calcutta (1898), The Crow s Nest (1901), The Pool in the Desert (1903), Set in Authority (1906) and Cousin Cinderella: A Canadian Girl in London (1908).
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A Dog with a Bad Name
Talbot Baines Reed 试读
This book was published in 1894 and later serialized. It starts at Bolsover, with the headmaster's decision that all of the boys are to play rugby football. We are introduced to a great range of characters, amongst whom is "Cad" Jeffreys a hulking and short-tempered sort. Jeffreys severely injures the most popular boy at the school and leaves in disgrace. (Jeffreys is the "dog" with the bad name.) We then follow Jeffreys' path to redemption. This sounds rather dry and melodramatic, but the character sketches are so compelling, the dialogue is so bright, and the narrative is so driving it is actually a very refreshing and satisfying read.
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 试读
I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason:he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew.All grown-ups were once children-- although few of them remember it.
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The Great Gatsby了不起的盖茨比(英文原版)
菲茨杰拉德 试读
《了不起的盖茨比》出版于1925年,是美国作家菲茨杰拉德的代表作,奠定了他20世纪20年代“爵士时代”发言人和“迷惘的一代”代表作家的地位。20世纪末,美国学术界权威在百年英语文学长河中选出百部最优秀的小说,《了不起的盖茨比》高居第二位。故事讲述了银行小职员尼克背井离乡来到纽约,盖茨比夜夜笙歌的奢华生活和神秘的个人背景引发了他的好奇。原来,这位富商出身贫寒却爱上了大家闺秀黛西,世界大战爆发拆散了这对有情人。盖茨比带着功勋从战场归来,等待他的却是心上人嫁作他人妇的消息。伤心欲绝的他不择手段成为富翁,挥金如土,彻夜笙箫,为的就是引起黛西的注意,挽回失去的爱情。 尼克为盖茨比的痴情打动,为两人牵线搭桥。殊不知黛西早已不复当年,而是一副拜金面孔,与盖茨比的重温旧梦不过是她在婚姻外寻求的刺激。一次意外,黛西驾车时撞死了丈夫汤姆的情人威尔逊太太,盖茨比为救心上人决意顶罪,汤姆却借此唆使威尔逊杀死了盖茨比。薄情的黛西没有为盖茨比送葬,而是与丈夫踏上欧洲游玩的旅程。盖茨比草草结束了荒唐悲剧的一生。而目睹了人世间薄情寡义的尼克,也离开了喧嚣、冷漠、空洞、虚假的纽约,黯然回到故乡。
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A Little Princess 小公主(英文原版)
F.H.伯内特 试读
父亲去世和破产的消息让萨拉顷刻之间从令人羡慕的小公主沦为寄宿学校的女佣。她饱尝人情冷暖,但始终保持着善良、高贵的心,因为她相信: “就算穿着破衣服,我也可以在心里像一位公主。”
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Ideas of Good and Evil
W. B. Yeats 试读
This book has a unique status in Nietzsche's works, with a connecting role. Nietzsche's most important thought, that is to re evaluate the value of all the value and power will and superman philosophy, in this book are fully reflected. Nietzsche from fundamental challenge before all of Western civilization, negative western traditional metaphysics, and put forward his own "philosophy of action", paving the way for the development of non rational philosophy in the 20th century. Live reading!
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伊索寓言:THE AESOP FOR CHILDREN(英文朗读版)
伊索 试读
伊索,被誉为“希腊寓言之父”、“西方寓言的开山鼻祖”。大约出生于公元前620-560年,他的寓言至今仍成为全球孩子道德教材的经典读本。其中许多故事,如《狐狸和葡萄》、《龟兔赛跑》、《北风和太阳》等成为世界儿童皆知的故事,并被选入中国小学语文课本。 《伊索寓言》脍炙人口,对欧洲的寓言文学影响很大,拉封丹著名的《寓言诗》即以《伊索寓言》为主要素材。著名哲学家阿波罗尼如此评价道:“我十分享用伊索寓言是世界上最古老、影响最大的寓言,由于形象生动、寓意深刻、富于哲理,在全世界流传两千五百余年而经久不衰。阅读伊索寓言使人趋向聪明、理智、沉稳。这些用简单的盘子端上的一道道美食,他讲述最朴实明了的事情,却教给人们最伟大的真理。比起诗歌来,这些故事更接近真理。每个故事之后,他还附上一则建议与忠告,告诫人们应该做或不该做什么。”古希腊历史学家希罗多德、作家阿里斯多芬尼斯、著名哲学家柏拉图等,都对伊索讲述的这些故事予以盛赞。
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Le Mythe de Sisyphe:西西弗神话(法文版)
阿尔贝·加缪 试读
这本随笔集汇集了作家的四篇文章——《荒诞推理》、《荒诞人》、《荒诞创作》和《西西弗的神话》。《西西弗的神话》篇幅最短,却是一篇提纲挈领、体现加缪思想要义的文章。他指出:“西西弗斯是荒诞英雄。既出于他的激情,也出于他的困苦。”“在他离开山顶的每个瞬息,在他渐渐潜入诸神巢穴的每分每秒,他超越了自己的命运。他比他推的石头更坚强。”其他几篇长文,实际上是从各个侧面充分阐述和充实了加缪的这些思想。哲学散文集《西西弗的神话》是加缪存在主义思想的集中体现。在这部散文集中,作家集中处理了死亡与反抗、幸福与悲剧、存在与拯救、人生的荒谬与荒诞性等一系列重要哲学命题。其中,西西弗这一古老的神话形象是整部随笔集的核心所在。
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百年哈佛经典第15卷:天路历程(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第43卷:美国历史文件·1000-1904(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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安德鲁·朗世界童话经典(英文朗读版·全12册)
Andrew Lang 试读
《安德鲁·朗世界童话经典》,为英文版电子书,赠送配套的英文朗读音频收听,全套书收录了英国作家安德鲁·朗的12本彩色童话,近200个童话故事。安德鲁整理了世界各地的民间传说和童话故事,加以编写,其中包括安徒生、格林兄弟、豪夫、贝洛、多诺夫人等人的童话故事,同时也收罗了《一千零一夜》、挪威、英格兰、苏格兰以及亚洲、非洲、美洲各地的民间童话。经过安德鲁的改编,比原作更加优美可读,风格凸显。安德鲁童话在对孩子们进行道德和人生教育的同时,也给他们带来了美好的梦想和无穷的欢乐,从而成为经久不衰的畅销童话书。 发明家爱因斯坦说道:“想让孩子变得聪明,那就给他们多读童话;想让孩子变得更聪明,那就读更多的童话。”在孩子成长和阅读的早期阶段,童话故事,带给他们丰富的想象力、欢快与悲伤的真实情感,以及对于真假、善恶的辨别力。
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The Secret Agent 间谍(英文版)
约瑟夫·康拉德 试读
这部长篇小说是一部与康拉德的航海小说不同的政治小说,被认为是康拉德成名代表作,同时本书也预言了20世纪恐怖主义、无政府主义以及英国军情五处这样的秘密机构的兴起。 《纽约时报》赞誉本书是“对恐怖主义杰出的小说式研究”,本书还入选了美国现代文库20世纪百佳英语小说榜单,以及美国侦探小说家协会有史以来百佳侦探小说榜单。
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The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起(英文版)
欧内斯特·海明威 试读
《太阳照常升起》以1924年至1925年这一历史时段和名城巴黎为背景。围绕一群在感情或爱情上遭受过严重创伤,或者在战争中落下了严重心理或生理机能障碍的英美男女青年放浪形骸的生活,以及发生在他们之间的情感纠葛而展开。反映了这代人意识觉醒后却又感到无路可走的痛苦、悲哀的心境。在《太阳照常升起》之中海明威尽量采用直截了当的抒情、鲜明的对话、简短句式,用简单易懂的词语把事件、景物、人物的语言、心理描写、行动等呈现在读者眼前。作者借此成为“迷惘的一代”的代言人,并以此书开创了海明威式的独特文风。
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Nostromo 诺斯特罗莫(英文版)
约瑟夫·康拉德 试读
小说虚构了一个南美国家科斯塔瓦那,这个国家长期处于暴政、革命和战争之中。查尔斯·古尔德拥有一座藏量丰富的银矿,他对这个国家的动荡与无处不在的腐败深恶痛绝,决定用他的财富支持当时的独裁政府,认为此举能给这个国家带来稳定。但是开采银矿将带来的巨额财富招致各种势力的觊觎,引发了新一轮的革命和自我割据的军阀战争,将这个国家带入更大的混乱之中。腐败与贪婪侵入了每一个人的生活,小说的主角“不被腐蚀”的诺斯特罗莫面临着巨大的考验。
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Parade‘s End 队列之末(英文版)
福特·马多克斯·福特 试读
A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration,Parade's End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the First World War. Tracing the psychological damage inflicted by battle,the collapse of England's secure Edwardian values-embodied in Christopher's wife,the beautiful,cruel socialite Sylvia - and the beginning of a new age,epitomized by the suffragette Valentine Wannop,Parade's End is an elegy for both the war dead and the passing of a way of life.
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The Old Wives‘ Tale 老妇谭(英文版)
阿诺德·本涅特 试读
Old wives tale is an epithet used to indicate that a supposed truth is actually a superstition or something untrue, to be ridiculed.It can be said sometimes to be a type of urban legend,said to be passed down by older women to a younger generation.Such "tales" are considered superstition,folklore or unverified claims with exaggerated and/or inaccurate details.Old wives' tales often center on women's traditional concerns,such as pregnancy,puberty,social relations,health,herbalism and nutrition.
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Tess of the d‘Urbervilles 德伯家的苔丝(英文版)
托马斯·哈代 试读
《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代小说代表作,奠定了哈代在英国乃至世界文学的地位。小说描写的是社会如何把一个纯洁、善良、质朴、美丽的农村姑娘逼得走投无路,最终拿起武器向仇人复仇的故事。小说对主人公苔丝不幸命运的描述,表现了人的命运、人与社会的关系、社会的等级差异和贫富不公等丰富深刻的内容,给人以众多的认知、启迪和警示。女主人公苔丝早已成为世界文学画廊之中的不朽形象。此电子书版本为全英文版。
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The Golden Bowl 金碗(英文版)
亨利·詹姆斯 试读
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo.The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism.
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迪士尼英文原版·疯狂元素城 Elemental
青橙英语 试读
《疯狂元素城 Elemental》是皮克斯打造的全新奇幻喜剧电影。在这个故事设定中,风、土、水、火四大元素被赋予了生动的卡通形象,他们共同生活在奇妙绚丽的城市里。两位“水火不容”的主角——渡阿波和小焰,“不打不相识”,他俩将跨越隔阂,开启一段看似不可能的浪漫故事,一同去寻找自己向往的新生活。
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AS I LAY DYING 我弥留之际(英文版)
威廉·福克纳 试读
《我弥留之际》是福克纳代表作之一,也是他的“约克纳帕塔法世系”的重要作品。 全篇讲述了美国南方农民本德伦为遵守对妻子的承诺,率全家将妻子的遗体运回家乡安葬的“苦难历程”,多视角的叙述和意识流手法使其成为现代主义小说的经典之作,对后世作家影响巨大,被誉为20世纪美国长篇小说出色的开篇。
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Pride and Prejudice
简·奥斯汀 试读
16Pride and Prejudice is the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet (minor gentry), their five daughters, and the various romantic adventures at their Hertfordshire residence of Longbourn. The parents' characters are greatly contrasted: Mr Bennet being a wise and witty gentleman; while Mrs Bennet is permanently distracted by the issue of marrying off her daughters at any cost. The reason for Mrs Bennet's obsession is that their estate will pass by law after Mr Bennet's death to his closest blood relative: his cousin, the Reverend William Collins (a fatuous, tactless and pompous man). Austen's tale is spurred on by the arrival of the young and wealthy bachelor Charles Bingley and his friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. It is the story of the various affections, affectations and engagement shenanigans that develop due to Mrs Bennet's relentless matchmaking and the dashing Darcy's tempestuous relationship with Elizabeth Bennet who Jane Austen claimed was favourite amongst her literary offspring. Its 1797 earlier version was turned down for publication and it appeared in this form in 1813.
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AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Jules Verne 试读
In this classic adventure story, a wealthy gentleman, Phileas Fogg, makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg and his servant set off immediately, determined to win this race against time. Little do they know they aren't making the journey alone.... Fogg has been fingered as the culprit in a bank robbery, and a detective in hot pursuit is trailing them as they cross every continent.
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HEART OF DARKNESS黑暗之心
Joseph Conrad 试读
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. This short but complex and often ambiguous story, which has been the basis of several films and plays, continues to provoke interpretation and discussion.作
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Aesop‘s Fables
Aesop 试读
203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with 50 classic woodcuts by the great French artist J.J. Grandville.
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens 试读
Great Expectations tells the unforgettable story of the orphan Pip and his coming of age with the help of a mysterious benefactor. It is at once an expertly crafted novel and a profound reappraisal of the Victorian middle class and its values.
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A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Mark Twain 试读
Mark Twain is best known for his novels and short stories. Twain uses his incredible whit to depict life in America. His books Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn have been read by school children for generations. His life on the Mississippi River has peeked the imagination of boys to go and build a raft and sail off into unknown adventures. Double Barrelled Detective Story is a story in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the Old West. From Wikipedia, At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Since this occurs when Holmes happens to be visiting, he brings his skills to bear upon the case and arrives at logically worked conclusions that are proved to be abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell, which he employs in solving the case. This could be seen as yet another piece where Twain tries to prove that life does not quite follow logic.
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A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
Captain Crewe is very wealthy and states that Sara is destined for a lavish, comfortable future. Despite being pampered all her life in India, Sara herself is very intelligent, polite, and creative. Headmistress Miss Minchin is secretly jealous and dislikes Sara for her cleverness, but openly praises and flatters her because of her father's wealth. Before departing for India, Captain Crewe purchases Sara an elegant wardrobe and a doll whom Sara adores and names "Emily." Sara's friendliness and love for pretending and storytelling makes her popular with most of the school's students.
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A Short History of the World
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
A Short History of the World is a period—piece non—fictional historic work by H.G. Wells first published by Cassell & Co,Ltd Publishing in 1922. It was republished under Penguin Classics in 2006. The book was largely inspired by Wells earlier 1919 work The Outline of History. The book tells of the history of the world,starting with the believed origins of the Earth around 2,000 million years ago,now known to be 4,404 million years according to 2005 estimates.The book then goes on to explain the,at the time believed,development of the Earth and life on Earth,until reaching primitive thought and the development of humankind from the Cradle of Civilisation. The book ends with the outcome of the First World War,the Russian famine of 1921,and the League of Nations in 1922.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas de Quincey 试读
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic mind. A close associate of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the brilliant but troubled de Quincey recounts both the pleasures and pain of opium addiction in captivating prose. The result is by turns enlightened, nightmarish and witty – a faithful mirror of the drug itself.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
Jean Webster 试读
Bright and lively Judy Abbott is an orphan who dreams of escaping the drudgery of her life at the John Grier Home. One day she receives a marvelous opportunity—a wealthy male benefactor has agreed to fund her higher education. In return, Judy must keep him informed about the ups and downs of college life. From horrendous Latin lessons to falling in love, the result is a series of letters both hilarious and poignant. Fans of L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will relish this American-girl-power coming-of-age story. This gentle romance is the seventh book in the Looking Glass Library series.
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The Professor
Charlotte Bronte 试读
'The Professor' is Charlotte Bront's first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death. Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterisation she perfected in her later works, such as 'Jane Eyre', the novel is Brontë's portrayal of a love story from a male perspective.Writing from the point of view of orphaned young teacher, William Crimsworth - the sole male protagonist among Brontë's works - the author allows herself a freedom of action in love and will that reveals her character's loves, desires and ambitions as he forges a new life on his own terms in Brussels. William finds himself caught between the desire he feels for Zoraide Reuter, the beguiling head of the girls' school where he teaches, and the gentle love he feels for one of his pupils, Frances Henri.Exploring questions of love, identity, freedom and independence, 'The Professor' is an important work in the small opus that is Charlotte Brontë's significant contribution to English literature.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson 试读
Scientist Dr. Henry Jekyll believes every human has two minds: one good and one evil. He develops a potion to separate them from each other. Soon, his evil mind takes over, and Dr. Jekyll becomes a hideous fiend known as Mr. Hyde.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan 试读
In this fast-paced spy thriller, a self-described "ordinary fellow" stumbles upon a plot involving not only espionage and murder but also the future of Britain itself. This classic of suspense served as the basis for one of Hitchcock's most famous films and was the first novel in the author's Greenmantle series.
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins 试读
The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel'. Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. The novel is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction - Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant 'Napoleon of Crime'. A masterwork of intricate construction, The Woman in White sets new standards of suspense and excitement, and achieved sales which topped even those of Dickens, Collins's friend and mentor. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Tom Sawyer Abroad
Mark Twain 试读
DO you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures I mean the adventures we had down the river, and the time we set the darky Jim free and Tom got shot in the leg. No, he wasn't. It only just p'isoned him for more. That was all the effect it had. You see, when we three came back up the river in glory, as you may say, from that long travel, and the village received us with a torchlight procession and speeches, and everybody hurrah'd and shouted, it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be. For a while he WAS satisfied. Everybody made much of him, and he tilted up his nose and stepped around the town as though he owned it. Some called him Tom Sawyer the Traveler, and that just swelled him up fit to bust. You see he laid over me and Jim considerable, because we only went down the river on a raft and came back by the steamboat, but Tom went by the steamboat both ways. The boys envied me and Jim a good deal, but land they just knuckled to the dirt before TOM.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Mark Twain 试读
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). He is also known for his quotations. His first important work, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, was published in 1865. His next publication was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which drew on his youth in Hannibal. The character of Tom Sawyer was modeled on twain as a child, with traces of two schoolmates, John Briggs and Will Bowen. His next major published work, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, solidified him as a noteworthy American writer. Some have called it the first Great American Novel. Finn was an offshoot from Tom Sawyer and proved to have a more serious tone than its predecessor. The main premise behind Huckleberry Finn is the young boy's belief in the right thing to do even though the majority of society believes that it was wrong.
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Uncle Toms Cabin, Young Folks Edition
Harriet Beecher Stowe 试读
uncle tom's cabin is the rnost popular,influential and controversial book written by an american. stowe's rich novel passionately dramatises why the whole of america is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery,and resoundingly concludes that only‘repentance,justice and mercy’will prevent the onset of‘the wrath of almighty god!’.the novel gave such a terrific impetus to the crusade for the abolition of slavery that president lincoln half-jokingly greeted stowe as‘the little lady’ who started the great civi war,as keith carabine argues in his lively and provocative introduction. the novel immediately provoked a storm of competing and contradictory responses among northern and southern readers,moderate and radical abolitionist groups,blacks and women with regard to issues of form. genre,politics,religion,race and gender,that are still of great interest because they anticipate the concerns that vex and divide modern readers and critical constituencies.
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Villette
Charlotte Bronte 试读
Another powerful novel from Charlotte Bront, Villette tells the story of Lucy Snowe, a teacher at an all-girls school who finds herself in the thralls of romance and adventure. A novel known less for its plot than the compelling psychology of protagonist, Villette touches upon the themes of gender roles, repression, and religious conflict in nineteenth century Belgium.
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Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 试读
Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them on trivial subjects in her pleasant homely way. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, this narrative traces the development of two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and watchful society of Hollingford.
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Northanger Abbey
简·奥斯汀 试读
Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.
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Of Human Bondage
毛姆 试读
The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, he settles in London to train as a doctor where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a tortured and maso...
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Poor White
Sherwood Anderson 试读
Sherwood Anderson was a 20th century American writer of short stories. Anderson grew up in Ohio and after college became a copywriter in Chicago. He is most famous for his collection of interrelated short stories, Winesburg Ohio, which he began writing in 1919. Poor White was published in 1920. Hugh McVey is an inventor who rises from poverty. The story is set on the banks of the Mississippi River during the years when rural America is influenced by industrialization sweeping the country.
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Queer Little Folks
H·Stowe 试读
Now she bustled up to the parsonage at the top of the oak-tree, to tell old Parson Too-Whit what she thought he ought to preach for his next sermon, and how dreadful the morals of the parish were becoming. Then, having perfectly bewildered the poor old gentleman, who was always sleepy of a Monday morning, Mother Magpie would take a peep into Mrs. Oriole's nest, sit chattering on a bough above, and pour forth floods of advice, which, poor little Mrs. Oriole used to say to her husband, bewildered her more than a hard north-east storm.
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Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs 试读
The classic tale of adventure and romance?in a vibrant new package . Adopted as an infant by the she-ape Kala after his parents died and his father was killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, John is named "Tarzan" or, "White Skin" in the ape language. and raised in ignorance of his human heritage until he meets a marooned couple from England, John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton. Known around the world, the story of Tarzan, a man raised by apes, led to 25 such books beginning with Tarzan of the Apes (1914).
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The Duel and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov 试读
Six selections from the famed Russian,show case his natural aptitude for detail, dialogue, humor, and compassion. Includes The Darling, a poignant piece supporting the claim that life has no meaning without love; as well as The Kiss, Anna on the Neck, The Man in a Case, The Malefactor, and the title story.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
王尔德 试读
Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian's beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. Beware of what you have wish for Each time Dorian commits a sin his portrait ages, showing him what is happening to his soul.
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Persuasion
简·奥斯汀 试读
This volume, first published in 2006, is a comprehensive scholarly edition of Jane Austen's innovative final novel.
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Pages from a Journal with Other Papers
William Hale White 试读
William Hale White (1831-1913) known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford was a British writer and civil servant. White was born in Bedford educated at Bedford Modern School. He had already served an apprenticeship to journalism before he made his name as a novelist by the three books edited by Reuben Shapcott, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881), Mark Rutherford's Deliverance (1885), and The Revolution in Tanner's Lane (1887). Later books are Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers (1890), Catharine Furze (1893), Clara Hopgood (1896), Pages from a Journal, with Other Papers (1900), and The Early Life of Mark Rutherford. Though for a long time little appreciated by the public, his novels, particularly the earlier ones, share a power and style which must always give his works a place of their own in the literary history of their time. George Orwell described Mark Rutherford's Deliverance as 'one of the best novels written in English'.