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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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Queen Lucia
E. F. Benson 试读
Queen Lucia is a humorous delightful book. E F Benson was a 19th century English biographer, novelist, short story writer, and memoirist. Benson wrote several ghost stories. His Mapp and Lucia series is his best known work. Lucia's supremacy as the social and cultural queen of an English village is challenged when one friend discovers an Indian guru and begins yoga lessons. Olga a beautiful diva comes to challenge Lucia's rule over the gentry of Riseholme. Lucia's ego is challenged by the guru who is a fraud and her Italian which is also fraudulent.
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A Circuit Riders Wife
Corra Harris 试读
If you will look back over the files of the "Southern Christian Advocate," published at the time in Macon, Georgia, you will find the following notice—by a singular coincidence on the page devoted to "obituaries": "Married—Mary Elizabeth Eden to William Asbury Thompson. The bride is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Eden, of Edenton; the groom is the son of the late Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Asbury Thompson, and is serving his first year in the itinerancy on the Redwine Circuit. We wish the young people happiness and success in their chosen field."
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Kathleen
Christopher Morley 试读
The literary society, named in accordance with the grotesque whim of Oxford undergraduates, consisted of eight members, and it was proposed that each one should contribute a chapter. Forbes was of a fertile wit, and he had been nominated the first operator. He had been allowed the whole Christmas vacation to prepare his opening chapter; which was why on this first Sunday of term while the rest of Merton College was at dinner in hall, he sat at his desk desperately driving his pen across the paper.
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Palmistry for All
Cheiro 试读
There is no country in the world where the "study of character" is more indulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visits there I could not help remarking how even the "hardest headed" business men used any form of this study that they could get hold of to help them in their business dealings with other men and also in endeavouring to ascertain the character of their clerks and employees.
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Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale
Charlton Miner Lewis 试读
Arms and the man I sing,—not as of old,The Mantuan bard his mighty verse unrolled,But in such humbler strains as may beseem,Light changes rung on a fantastic theme.My tale is ancient, but the sense is new,Replete with monstrous fictions, yet half true;And, if you'll follow till the story's done,I promise much instruction, and some fun.
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Madam How and Lady Why
Charles Kingsley 试读
Though there is nothing left for you to pick and all the flowers are dead and brown except here and there a poor half-withered scrap of bottle-heath and nothing left for you to catch either for the butterflies and insects are all dead too except one poor old Daddy-long-legs who sits upon that piece of turf boring a hole with her tail to lay her eggs in before the frost catches her and ends her like the rest...'
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Earths Enigmas A Volume of Stories
Charles George Douglas Roberts 试读
One side of the ravine was in darkness. The darkness was soft and rich, suggesting thick foliage. Along the crest of the slope tree-tops came into view—great pines and hemlocks of the ancient unviolated forest—revealed against the orange disk of a full moon just rising. The low rays slanting through the moveless tops lit strangely the upper portion of the opposite steep,—the western wall of the ravine, barren, unlike its fellow, bossed with great rocky projections, and harsh with stunted junipers. Out of the sluggish dark that lay along the ravine as in a trough, rose the brawl of a swollen, obstructed stream.
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Salomy Jane
Bret Harte 试读
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a prolific American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. The spirit of Dickens breathes through the poems and stories of Bret Harte just as the spirit of Bret Harte breathes through the poems and stories of Kipling.
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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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Cabin Fever
B. M. Bower 试读
In the fourth installment of this fun, girl-power series, Zoe Richards is spending her spring break at superhero camp, where she'll perfect her Super skills. As usual, though, things don't quite go as planned. Will Kid Zoom be called on to save the day-- or will she be crowded out by 500 other superhero campers?
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Obiter Dicta
Augustine Birrell 试读
Augustine Birrell, KC (1850-1933) was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. After unsuccessfully contesting parliamentary seats in Liverpool, Walton in 1885 and Widnes in 1886, Birrell was elected to parliament for West Fife at a by-election in 1889, as a Liberal. He was not really in favour of votes for women and like many of his political colleagues and members of the general public he strongly disapproved of the militancy and violence the suffragettes were increasingly espousing. His works include: Obiter Dicta (1884), Obiter Dicta: Second Series (1887), Copyright in Books (1899), In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays (1905), Andrew Marvell (1905) and Frederick Locker Lampson (1920).
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Sacred and Profane Love
Arnold Bennett 试读
THE NOVELIST FOR WHOM MAN AND NATURE ARE INSEPARABLE WITH PROFOUND RESPECT FOR THE CLASSICAL DIGNITY OF HIS AIM AND EQUAL ADMIRATION FOR THE AUSTERE SPLENDOUR OF HIS PERFORMANCE。
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Ralph the Heir
Anthony Trollope 试读
There are men who cannot communicate themselves to others, as there are also men who not only can do so, but cannot do otherwise. And it is hard to say which is the better man of the two. We do not specially respect him who wears his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at, who carries a crystal window to his bosom so that all can see the work that is going on within it, who cannot keep any affair of his own private, who gushes out in love and friendship to every chance acquaintance; but then, again, there is but little love given to him who is always wary, always silent as to his own belongings, who buttons himself in a suit of close reserve which he never loosens.
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Half a Hero A Novel
Anthony Hope 试读
In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on—and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that—then Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in.
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Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch
Annie Roe Carr 试读
It was a terrible shock to the railroad magnate's daughter—this. The defection of her chief henchman and ally would rather break up the little group which Laura Polk had unkindly dubbed "the School of Snobs". With all her wealth Linda had but few retainers. In the van of the newcomers were a rather comely, brown-eyed girl with a bright and cheerful expression of countenance, a dark beauty with curls and flashing eyes, and a demure but pretty girl to whom Lillie Nevins ran with exclamations of joy. This last was Grace Mason, the flaxen-haired girl's chum.
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X Y Z A Detective Story
Anna Katharine Green 试读
Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected or with attendant circumstances of greater interest than in the instance I am now about to relate.
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Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
Alice Turner 试读
Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening of the Civil War. She had become deeply attached to her new friends, and their chivalrous kindness toward the little northern girl, as well as Sylvia's perilous adventure in Charleston Harbor, and the amusing efforts of the faithful negro girl to become like her young mistress, all tend to make this story one that every little girl will enjoy reading, and from which she will learn of far-off days and of the high ideals of southern honor and northern courage.
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La Clique doree
Emile Gaboriau 试读
Mademoiselle Henriette, fille du comte de la Ville-Handry, est sauvée in extremis du suicide par le père Ravinet, brocanteur de son état. "Trop fière pour se plaindre, isolée par les pudeurs de la pauvreté, la malheureuse qui gisait là, avait dû subir bien des angoisses. Ainsi pensait le père Ravinet, quand une feuille de papier attira ses regards. Il la prit. C'était comme le testament de la pauvre fille. Qu'on n'accuse personne. Je meurs volontairement. Je prie Madame Chevassat de porter à leur adresse les lettres jointes. Henriette". Touché par son malheur, le vieux brocanteur l'aidera à châtier les escrocs qui cherchent à la dépouiller. Parviendra-t-il à lui faire retrouver fortune, honneur et amour ?
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La maison de Claudine
Colette 试读
Colette se propose, d'abord, au lecteur, comme la souveraine d'un royaume sensible, la reine des choses prochaines, un écrivain de la nature. Pourtant, (elle) n'est pas orientée vers la campagne à la manière des romanciers paysans. La campagne de Colette est une campagne pour citadines, une campagne dont les baumes cicatrisent les plaies du cœur. Rien ne viendra à bout d'une certitude solidement appuyée sur la terre, d'une confiance animale dans la vie qui assurera toujours, en fin de compte, le ressaisissement et la reconquête de soi. Colette connaît la souffrance, et la fin inexorable de toutes choses heureuses ; elle les accepte l'une et l'autre, sûre d'une complicité secrète du monde, du chat qui dort près du feu, les pattes en manchon, de l'acidité des fruits sauvages dans les souvenirs d'enfance. Accepter est déjà la source d'une satisfaction mystérieuse.
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La Princesse Flora
Alexandre Dumas 试读
Résumé La jeune et jolie Flora, épouse du prince Pierre, vit à Saint-Pétersbourg. Un jour, à bord de la frégate L'Espérance, elle rencontre le capitaine du vaisseau, Pravdine, et tombe sous son charme. Le capitaine, alors, devient fou, selon les commentaires de son second et ami Nil-Pavlovitch: il est amoureux et néglige sa frégate. Il préfère assiéger la princesse. Celle-ci repousse de son mieux, bien que fort coquettement, les avances du capitaine.
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Bab:a Sub-Deb
Mary Roberts Rinehart 试读
Bab, only twenty months younger than her sister, the officialdebutante, rebels against her treatment by her family. Set duringthe pre-World War I era, when women's roles were rapidly changing,Bab determines to assert her independence through this series ofmisadventures and mysteries. . . . "I am writing all of this astruthfully as I can. I am not defending myself. What I did I wasdriven to, as any one can see. It takes a real shock to make theaverage Familey wake up to the fact that the youngest daughter isnot the Familey baby at seventeen. All I was doing was furnishingthe shock. If things turned out badly, as they did, it was becauseI rather overdid the thing. That is all. My motives were perfectlyireproachible." - Bab And this Bab feels through all of herhilarious and at times dangerous adventures to prove she is notjust a Sub-Deb. Written by that master of mystery and humor, MaryRoberts Rinehart, Bab is a delightful combination of both.
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Calvert of Strathore
Goodloe,Carter 试读
Across the courtyard covered with snow fallen during the might which glittered and sparkled in the brilliant wintry sunshine grooms and stable-boys hurried between ecuries and remises currying Mr. Jefferson's horses and sponging off Mr. Jefferson's handsome carriage with which he had provided himself on setting up his establishment as minister of the infant federation of States to the court of the sixteenth Louis.
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Eben Holden, a tale of the north country
Bacheller,Irving 试读
Large Format for easy reading. 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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La Mare au diable
George Sand 试读
Écrit en plein cœur du XIXe siècle, La Mare au diable est un roman champêtre et social par l'intermédiaire duquel George Sand exalte l'amour de son Berry natal et son idéal de réconciliation des classes à travers la peinture du milieu paysan dont elle décrit la noblesse et les valeurs, face à une société capitaliste pervertie.
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La princesse de Cleves
Madame de La Fayette 试读
Quelque approbation qu'ait eu cette Histoire dans les lectures qu'on en a faites, l'Auteur n'a pû se resoudre à se déclarer, il a craint que son nom ne diminuât le succès de son Livre. Il sait par expérience, que l'on condamne quelquefois les Ouvrages sur la médiocre opinion qu'on a de l'Auteur, et il sait aussi que la réputation de l'Auteur donne souvent du prix aux Ouvrages. Il demeure donc dans l'obscurité où il est, pour laisser les jugements plus libres & plus équitables, & il se montrera néanmoins si cette Histoire est aussi agréable au Public que je l'espère.
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M. or N. Similia similibus curantur.
George John Whyte-Melville 试读
A wild wet night in the Channel, the white waves leaping, lashing, and tumbling together in that confusion of troubled waters, which nautical men call a "cross-sea." A dreary, dismal night on Calais sands: faint moonshine struggling through a low driving scud, the harbour-lights quenched and blurred in mist.
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Madame Bovary-Flaubert,Gustave、 Aveling,Eleanor Marx
Gustave Flaubert 试读
To Marie-Antoine-Jules Senard Member of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly, and Former Minister of the Interior Dear and Illustrious Friend, Permit me to inscribe your name at the head of this book, and above its dedication; for it is to you, before all, that I owe its publication. Reading over your magnificent defence, my work has acquired for myself, as it were, an unexpected authority.
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Rachel Ray
Anthony Trollope 试读
Oh, Dolly, do not speak with that terrible voice, as though the world were coming to an end,'' she said, in answer to the first note of objurgation that was uttered; but the notes that came afterwards were so much more terrible, so much more severe, that Rachel found herself quite unable to stop them by any would-be joking tone.
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Vanitas Polite Stories
Lee,Vernon 试读
My Dear Elena, We had a conversation once, walking on your terrace, with the wind-rippled olives above and the quietly nodding cypress tufts below -- about such writings as you chose to compare with carved cherry-stones. We disagreed, for it seemed to me that the world needed cherry-stone necklaces as much as anything else and that the only pity was that most of its inhabitants could not afford such toys, and the rest despised them because they were made of such very cheap material. Still, lest you should wonder at my sending such things to you, I write to declare that my three little tales, whatever they be, are not carved cherry-stones. . . .
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Wacousta:a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy Volume 3
John Richardson 试读
The night passed away without further event on board the schooner, yet in all the anxiety that might be supposed incident to men so perilously situated. Habits of long-since acquired superstition, too powerful to be easily shaken off, moreover contributed to the dejection of the mariners, among whom there were not wanting those who believed the silent steersman was in reality what their comrade had represented,—an immaterial being, sent from the world of spirits to warn them of some impending evil.
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Yolanda:Maid of Burgundy
Charles Major 试读
Like the Israelites of old, mankind is prone to worship false gods, and persistently sets up the brazen image of a sham hero, as its idol. I should like to write the history of the world, if for no other reason than to assist several well-established heroes down from their pedestals.
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A Book of Burlesques
Henry Louis Mencken 试读
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A Book of Exposition
Homer Heath Nugent 试读
The articles here presented are modern and unhackneyed. Selected primarily as models for teaching the methods of exposition employed in the explanation of mechanisms processes and ideas they are nevertheless sufficiently representative of certain tendencies in science to be of intrinsic value. Indeed each author is a recognized authority.
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A Book-Lovers Holidays in the Open
Theodore Roosevelt 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 Bundle of Ballads
Henry Morley 试读
Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. These were followed by the minstrels and other tellers of tales written for the people. They frequented fairs and merrymakings, spreading the knowledge not only of tales in prose or ballad form, but of appeals also to public sympathy from social reformers.
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A Bundle of Letters
Henry James 试读
The fair New Yorker is, sometimes, very amusing; she asks me if every one in Boston talks like me--if every one is as "intellectual" as your poor correspondent. She is for ever throwing Boston up at me; I can't get rid of Boston. The other one rubs it into me too; but in a different way; she seems to feel about it as a good Mahommedan feels toward Mecca, and regards it as a kind of focus of light for the whole human race. Poor little Boston, what nonsense is talked in thy name But this New England maiden is, in her way, a strange type: she is travelling all over Europe alone--"to see it," she says, for herself.
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A Busy Year at the Old Squires
Charles Asbury Stephens 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 Cardinal Sin
Eugene Sue 试读
Eugene Sue was a nineteenth-century French novelist regarded, nowadays, as of the second tier -- or lower than that. But we think that there's a brilliance here, and that there's a reason he was most famous for his imaginative and dramatic commentaries on French life. His famous "Arthur" of 1838 represented the fashionable high life, while his 1843 "Les Mysteres de Paris" ("The Mysteries of Paris") showed the life of the poor in France so well that it was partly inspiration for Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables." This same theme is exhibited in a lesser known novel, "A Cardinal Sin," an enchanting and lively tale of the powers of charity and love. This dynamic story follows the lives of two persevering young lovers growing up in the poverty of nineteenth-century France, and how the lives of those around them are affected by their intense devotion. When a tragedy occurs, and the couple finds themselves with a sudden windfall of money, the importance of loyalty as well as charity comes into play. With elegant diction and careful prose, Sue outlines a wise lesson of suspense, insight, and fast-paced plot that will delight readers and leave a general sense of well-being. In "A Cardinal Sin," Sue's mastery of words is once again shown.
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A Castle in Spain A Novel
James De Mille 试读
A Castle in Spain a Novel was written by James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) in 1869. He was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian popular writer who published numberous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s.
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A Cathedral Courtship
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 试读
American born Catherine and her aunt Celia saw its famous cathedral during his visit to britain. In Winchester Cathedral visit, an architect (Jack Copley) fell in love with Catherine two lovely women. Of course, in those days you don't need to introduce yourself. Fortunately, Catherine gave a copy of Jack their trip, he can from the town to Catherine town. This is an amazing length Jack is willing to go to be with her. First published in 1893, this is a wonderful story.
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A Chair on the Boulevard
Leonard Merrick 试读
Why would I have the two trouble? Complain about each other. " You think you are agree to wear? I had a very bad time, I can assure you. If you have experienced it, you wouldn't say so gently day. "The more I think you shameless interference, let me very much. How the dark to light the candle -- it makes me upset.
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A Changed Man; and other tales
Thomas Hardy 试读
1913 short story collection, by the English novelist, short story writer, and poet who was awarded the Order of Merit in 1910.
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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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Doc. Gordon
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 试读
Originally published in 1936, here is a charming novel of a rural doctor's life, trials, and tribulations. Barter, conniving horse traders, and more face "Doc." Gordon on his rural rounds MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and died in Metuchen, New Jersey. Among her published regional short fiction and novels are A Humble Romance and Other Stories, A New England Nun and Other Stories, Jane Field, and The Portion of Labor. In 1926 she received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in fiction. That same year, she and Edith Wharton were among the first women to be elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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He Giveth His Beloved Sleep
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 试读
The book is He Giveth His Beloved Sleep. It has a lyric sound of this poem. It was like a profound lullaby. It is super short so you may not want to get the poem. It is written a poem like as about The Sleep oF all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar Along the Psalmist's music deep Now tell me if that any is For gift or grace surpassing this He giveth His beloved, sleep.
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Jesus Himself
Andrew Murray 试读
Jesus the son of God in obedience to God's will and gave himself as an offering for sin is death to fulfill God's righteousness, and reflects the world God of mercy and love, is the ultimate expression of the love of god. Jesus Christ for our sins and suffering and death, and resurrection that we are justified, the love of God was unparalleled in the glory of the cross of the great.
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McTeague
Frank Norris 试读
McTeague (1899) chronicles the demise of a San Francisco couple at the end of the nineteenth century. Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, it tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague, his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the `American Zola', and this is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. With its compelling portrayal of human nature at its most basic level, McTeague is a gripping and passionate tale of greed, degeneration and death. It is also one of the first major works of literature to set in California, and it provided the story for Erich von Stroheim's classic of the silent screen, Greed.
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Me and Nobbles
Amy Le Feuvre 试读
An enchanting classic story about imaginative Master Bobby and beloved "friend," Nobbles."'My name is Robert Stuart Allonby. ' And he would raise a pair of wonderful brown eyes as he spoke, in anxious doubt as to whether his name would be liked. Bobby showed a good deal of anxiety about different things.His favourite sentence was always, 'I wonder, Nurse --' and very often, noting the impatient frown on his nurse's face, he would stop there, and turn away to his favourite corner in the window-seat, which he shared with 'Nobbles, 'the comfort of his life. Forever striving to find the secret so he can enter the golden gates leading to the splendid golden city.
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一报还一报
William Shakespeare 试读
In the hope of saving her brother's life, should a woman submit to rape? Should the law be respected when its administrator is corrupt? How powerful in the state should religion become? Although Measure for Measure ends like a comedy, with reconciliations, forgiveness and marriages, it has often been regarded as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The drama shows the difficulty of effecting an appropriate balance between judicial severity and mercy, between sexual repression and decadence, and between political vigilance and social manipulation. These problems remain topical, and, in Measure for Measure, they are given immediacy by vivid character-conflicts and memorably intense poetry. This is one of Shakespeare's most probing and powerful works.Measure for Measure is the fouteenth volume in the new Wordsworth Classics'Shakespear Series.
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Mrs. Peter Rabbit
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
Charming story of Peter Rabbit and his bride as they start their new life together in the Old Briar-Patch. Set in large, easy-to-read type, enhanced with 8 new illustrations. Peter Rabbit had lost his appetite. Now when Peter Rabbit loses his appetite, something is very wrong indeed with him. Peter has boasted that he can eat any time and all the time. In fact, the two things that Peter thinks most about are his stomach and satisfying his curiosity, and nearly all of the scrapes that Peter has gotten into have been because of those two things.
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My Antonia
Willa Sibert Cather 试读
This book is a straightforward narrative, written in limpid prose of uncanny descriptive accuracy, about the struggles endured by a family of immigrant pioneers and the small community that surrounds them on the unsettled Nebraska plains.
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass 试读
Frederick Douglass (c.1818 1895) was born into slavery but escaped in 1838, quickly becoming involved in the abolitionist movement. Following publication in 1845 of this autobiography he risked recognition and recapture by his owner, and so fled the United States. This reissue is of the Dublin edition of 1845, with a preface by Douglass explaining his reasons for his journey to Britain. Opening with a touching explanation of how he doesn't know his birthday, Douglass describes his early life and the growing awareness of the injustices he suffered. The beatings he witnessed and received himself are described in painful detail. Later, Douglass highlights the hypocrisy of the 'slaveholding religion of this land', condemning it as 'the grossest of libels'. The eloquence of the writing, with an immediacy and honesty found shocking at the time, make this an invaluable first-hand record of one of humanity's most shameful acts.
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New Atlantis
Francis Bacon 试读
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) wrote New Atlantis around 1632. He wrote of his aspiration for establishing an ideal commonwealth. This section from the introduction gives a summary of Bacon's reasons for writing this short essay. "The generosity and enlightenment, the dignity and splendor, the piety and public spirit, of the inhabitants of Bensalem represent the ideal qualities which Bacon the statesman desired rather than hoped to see characteristic of his own country and in Solomon's House we have Bacon the scientist indulging without restriction his prophetic vision of the future of human knowledge. No reader acquainted in any degree with the processes and results of modern scientific inquiry can fail to be struck by the numerous approximations made by Bacon's imagination to the actual achievements of modern times." Even in Bacon's idealistic viewpoint he still saw science in a practical manner. Science was the way to man's advancement. Bacon's ideals have yet to be achieved, but they do give us goals to reach for.
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Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Dickens 试读
Like many of Dickens's novels, 'Nicholas Nickleby' is characterised by his criticism of cruelty and social injustice, but above all it is one of the greatest comic masterpieces of 19th-century literature.
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Nine Short Essays
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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No Name
Wilkie Collins 试读
After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any inheritance. Norah is forced to become a governess to earn her keep but Magdalen has grander plans and embarks on an elaborate scheme of revenge against her cold-hearted relatives.
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No. 13 Washington Square
LeRoy Scott 试读
Leroy Scott (1875-1929) was an American author.It was a raw, ill-humored afternoon, yet too late in the spring for the ministration of steam heat, so the unseasonable May chill was banished from Mrs. De Peyster s sitting-room by a wood fire that crackled in the grate crackled most decorously, be it added, for Mrs. De Peyster s fire would no more have forgotten itself and shown a boisterous enthusiasm than would one of her admirably trained servants.