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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns
Robert Burns 试读
Robert Burns (1759-1796) (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard), was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the bestknown of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic Movement and after his death became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. Burns also worked to collect and preserve Scottish folk songs, sometimes revising, expanding, and adapting them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay (New Year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well-known across the world today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for A' That, To a Louse, To a Mouse, The Battle of Sherramuir, and Ae Fond Kiss.
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Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Horatio Alger 试读
Part of a series of rags to riches stories of boys achieving the American dream of wealth through hard work, these works can also be seen as helpful in understanding the development of American cultural and social ideals.
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Sons and Lovers
David Herbert Lawrence 试读
Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. Using the first edition text, which Lawrence approved, this edition also offers a fresh and stimulating introduction - particularly in its treatment of Lawrence's language and imagery.
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The Adventures of Unc Billy Possum
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
When Unc' Billy Possum learns how easy it is to get into trouble, it takes some doin' to get himself out of his predicament. Master storyteller Thornton Burgess beguiles young readers and nature lovers with another tale about the delightful creatures of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows.
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The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
Once upon a time there lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry anyone, because she was under an enchantment. So the King set out to seek a fairy, and asked what he could do to win the Princess's love .The Blue Fairy Book is the first in a series of fairy-tale anthologies beloved of children in the last century. Each fairy book is a veritable treasure trove of stories for children and adults alike, spellbinding and special. Hesperus is very proud to present the first anthology, The Blue Fairy Book, which includes wonderful renditions of the old favourites such as Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel, as well as some intriguing fairy tales that modern audiences have yet to discover such as Why the Sea is Salt, Prince Hyacinth and The Dear Little Princess.
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe(1808)
Daniel Defoe 试读
Daniel Defoe (1659 1661-1731) was an English writer, journalist and spy, who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest practitioners of the novel and helped popularise the genre in Britain. In some texts he is even referred to as one of the founders, if not the founder, of the English novel. A prolific and versatile writer, he wrote over five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics (including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural). He is also a pioneer of economic journalism. His most famous novel, Robinson Crusoe (1719), tells of a man's shipwreck on a desert island and his subsequent adventures. He also wrote Captain Singleton (1720), which portrays the redemptive power of one man's love for another and Moll Flanders (1722), a picaresque first-person narration of the fall and eventual redemption of a lone woman in 17th century England.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy 试读
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in whichdrunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passingsailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveriesat its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique placeamong Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in earlynineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesomeSophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willfulHenchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer amost bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to hisown destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’sLord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroesin all fiction.
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The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Immanuel Kant 试读
Work from the German philosopher,one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment.
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The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot 试读
If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother Tom, their fates are played out on an epic scale. George Eliot drew on her own frustrated rural upbringing to create one of the great novels of childhood, and one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.
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The Mystery
Samuel Hopkins Adams 试读
The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence. On the ocean's wide expanse a hulk wallowed sluggishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave and sightly ship, possibly the Sphinx of some untold ocean tragedy, she lay black and forbidding in the ordered procession of waves. Half a mile to the east of the derelict hovered a ship's cutter, the turn of her crew's heads speaking expectancy. As far again beyond, the United States cruiser Wolverine outlined her severe and trim silhouette against the horizon. In all the spread of wave and sky no other thing was visible. For this was one of the desert parts of the Pacific, three hundred miles north of the steamship route from Yokohama to Honolulu, five hundred miles from the nearest land, Gardner Island, and more than seven hundred northwest of the Hawaiian group.
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The Princess of Cleves
Madame de La Fayette 试读
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of Thomas Sargent Perry's 1892 translation, indisputably the translation that has best served readers in English. Reprinted repeatedly over the last one hundred years, the Perry translation is a classic in its own right. After careful review, the editor has corrected minor infelicities of translation (necessary to remain true to Lafayette's text) and updated vocabulary. To experience the innovation of Lafayette's writing, it is necessary to understand the critical resistance it met with in seventeenth-century France. "Contemporary Reactions" includes five assessments of The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette herself, Roger de Bussy-Rabutin and Marie de Sevigne, Jean-Baptiste-Henry du Trousset de Valincour, Jean-Antoine de Charnes, and Du Plaisir following its controversial publication. John Lyons's translations for this Norton Critical Edition make these reactions available in English for the first time. "Criticism" includes eleven modern studies of the novel, five of which appear here in English for the first time, by Jean Fabre, Michel Butor, Jean Rousset, Helen Karen Kaps, Gerard Genette, Roger Francillon, Kurt Weinberg, Peggy Kamuf, Erica Harth, Joan DeJean, and Laurence Gregario. A Glossary of Characters and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne 试读
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
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The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
The story of an unhappy little girl, her invalid cousin, andthe healing power of friendship and love.
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 试读
The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries, the narrator a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has to hide her journal entries from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll 试读
"I wish I could get through into looking-glass house,"Alice said. "Let's pretend that the glass has gone soft and . . . Why, I do believe it has! It's turning into a kind of cloud!" A moment later Alice is inside the looking-glass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks. The chess pieces talk and argue with her, give orders and repeat poems . . . It is the strangest dream that anyone ever had......
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中国名菜(西班牙文)
郦悦 试读
中国烹饪以技艺精湛、风味多样、食疗结合、畅神悦情著称于世,是中国乃至全世界文化的宝贵财富。中国各地由于气候、地形、历史、物产及饮食风俗的不同,经过漫长的历史演变形成了各具特色的饮食流派,其中最有影响和代表性的有八大菜系,即鲁、川、粤、闽、苏、浙、湘、徽。本书主要介绍了这八大菜系的起源和代表性名菜,可以让更多的国际友人了解中国餐饮,加深对中国美食文化,尤其是对中国名菜的认识。书中每道菜均配有详细的文字和图片介绍,步骤清晰,解说到位。本书采用西班牙语的方式呈现,可以让更多的国际友人了解中国餐饮,有利于弘扬和传播中国传统饮食文化。
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Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare 试读
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, producing plays, such as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies and collaborated with other playwrights.
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau 试读
By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanity's place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
American Indian, Russian, German, Icelandic, French, and other stories -- 48 in all -- among them "The Tinder-box," "The Nightingale," and "How to Tell a True Princess." 104 illustrations.
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS呼啸山庄
Emily Bronte 试读
"My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature.
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
William Shakespeare 试读
"A Midsummer Nights Dream", which is the most mature British dramatist William Shakespeare youth comedy, is also one of the most famous comedy by William Shakespeare, tells the story of a love story, jack shall have Jill.
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Alexanders Bridge
Willa Sibert Cather 试读
The story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between his duties to his career and his wife Winifred, and his passion for the Irish actress Hilda Burgoyne. It traces a mid-life crisis of self-doubt and disappointment that ends in a spectacular catastrophe.
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Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini 试读
This autobiography is full of pain,I wrote it to thank god.He brought me to the life of the soul,and I look forward to build achievement success.Is God for my bad luck to conquer,make life more caring honest glory;he let me show such virtue,and I than everyone in a tight.When I realized the time lost,will not firm couldn't help lies lure,just feel infinite sorrow.I know the regret is It doesn't help the situation,in the beautiful Tuscany,and you are welcome to one's heart's content.
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Bleak House
Charles Dickens 试读
The death of Pietro di Donato's immigrant father sent Pietroto work at twelve as a bricklayer. His acclaimed,semi-autobiographical bestseller, Christ in Concrete (1939), was aseminal novel that influenced a generation of writers. --This textrefers to the Paperback edition.
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Common Sense
Thomas Paine 试读
Without Thomas Paine, the United States of America would not be the strong and independent country it is today. In 1776 Paine insightfully argued that it would only be a short time before the colonies would break with England. Within the first three months of its publication, Common Sense sold 120,000 copies and became the foundation for American political literature. Paine's vision and quotable slogans defined the United States at its most critical point in history and remains relevant for today's citizens.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy 试读
Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 试读
Mary Shelly's classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.
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Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln 试读
The words of President Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address are as relevant and meaningful today as they were in 1863. This magnificent book is a stunning exploration of some of the most powerful words ever spoken in American history.
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte 试读
Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step into Classics(TM) adaptations feature easy-to-read texts, big type, and short chapters that are ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle original classics.
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Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes 试读
The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes' answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry: he argues from first principles to human nature to politics. This book's appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather...
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Mansfield Park
简·奥斯汀 试读
"Mansfield Park"encompasses not only Jane Austen's great comedic gifts and her genius as a historian of the human animal,but her personal credo as well--her faith in a social order that combats chaos through civil grace, decency,and wit.At the novel's center is Fanny Price,the classic"poor cousin,"brought as a child to Mansfield Park by the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife as an act of charity. Over time, Fanny comes to demonstrate forcibly those virtues Austen most admired: modesty, firm principles, and a loving heart. As Fanny watches her cousins Maria and Julia cast aside their scruples in dangerous flirtations (and worse),and as she herself resolutely resists the advantages of marriage to the fascinating but morally unsteady Henry Crawford,her seeming austerity grows in appeal and makes clear to us why she was Austen's own favorite among her heroines.
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Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser 试读
The novel describes the rural girl Jia Li came to the big city of Chicago looking for happiness, to get rid of poverty, selling their virginity, met with a salesman and hotel manager cohabitation, and then with the beautiful voice to become a singer's story.
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That Very Mab
May Kendall 试读
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923.This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introducedtypographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may haveoccasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poorpictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the originalartifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believethis work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuingcommitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. Weappreciate your understanding of the imperfections in thepreservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain 试读
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a national icon, celebrated as a distinctively American figure both at home and abroad. Tom Sawyer's bold spirit, winsome smile, and inventive solutions to the problems of everyday life in fictional St Petersburg - whether getting his friends to whitewash a fence for him, or escaping the demands of his vigilant Aunt Polly - have won him the hearts of generations.
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The Devils Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce 试读
The world according to the anatomy of definition or explanation way, similar to the style of essays. The author reveals the human civilization mercilessly defects and weaknesses of human nature, colour rein class feel ashamed, it is difficult to envisage the shadow. The sense of humor, humor, ridicule, spicy, rich in profound philosophy and sharp irony, let people laugh more, can not help but Yanjuan meditation.When you open the "devil dictionary", gosh! Once upon a time seems to have organized the world completely distorted, disorder, everything all seem to be out of shape, upside down! Civilization shine off the scar, life detection, presented in front of in addition to ugly is ridiculous. But do not fear that, compared to the guns, bombs for human slaughter, it much more humane, but also much more interesting.
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The Great Stone Face
Nathaniel Hawthorne 试读
The Great Stone Face (The Old Man of the Mountains) juts outfrom the White Mountains of New Hampshire and looms over a smallvillage. An old prophecy states that "someone will be bornhereabouts who will look just like the Great Stone Face, and hewill be the noblest person of his time." Like many others, youngErnest watches the faces of returning famous men for signs of thegentle wisdom seen in the face. The rich merchant, however, isgrasping, the soldier only stern, and the politician--well, apolitician. Ernest, meanwhile, works hard on his farm and is lookedup to by his neighbors for the thoughtful counsel he offers. As hegrows old, people remark that they fear they will never see theprophecy fulfilled. At length, however, noticing Ernest's face,they discover that it was fulfilled long ago. This thoughtful lookat what it means to live a good life is as relevant today as whenfirst written. This collection also includes The Ambitious Guest,The Great Carbuncle, and Sketches from Memory. Newly designed andtypeset for easy reading by Boomer Books.
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The Red Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
This is a beautiful and bewitching collection of fairy tales that will take you to an enchanted, far-away land where anything can happen.
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The Souls of Black Folk
W. E. B. Du Bois 试读
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before to describe the magnitude of American racism and demand an end to it. He draws on his own life for illustration, from his early experiences teaching in the hills of Tennessee to the death of his infant son and his historic break with the conciliatory position of Booker T. Washington.Far ahead of its time, The Souls Of Black Folk both anticipated and inspired much of the black conciousness and activism of the 1960's and is a classic in the literature of civil rights. The elegance of DuBois's prose and the passion of his message are as crucial today as they were upon the book's first publication.
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The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope 试读
Trollope did not write for posterity,'observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contemporary critics to be Trollope's greatest novel,The Way We Live Now is a satire of the literary world of London in the 1870s and a bold indictment of the new power of specul……
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White Fang
Jack London 试读
With an introduction from award winning K.A. Applegate, White Fang is one of London's classic tales of survival and one of his most popular stories. White Fang is part dog, part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the law of the North--kill or be killed.
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A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats 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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Old Mother West Wind
Thornton Waldo Burgess 试读
It's been a century since readers first ventured into the Green Forest to encounter Reddy Fox, Grandfather Frog, Jimmy Skunk, and other winsome characters. This special edition commemorates the 100th anniversary of Thornton W. Burgess's first published work, Old Mother West Wind, and its 1911 follow-up, Mother West Wind's Children. Replete with the original illustrations, these gentle stories offer children enduring lessons about ecology and respect for wildlife.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart 试读
KCan a person ever really redeem themselves and erase the past? A young woman trains to become a nurse while her mother takes in a tenant to make ends meet. The man has a mysterious past, however, This book is part mystery, part romance.The Breaking PointA doctor is suffering from amnesia and the suspicion he is involved in something criminal. He decides to investigate before going ahead with his wedding day.About The AuthorAmerican writer Mary Robert’ Rinehart —— considered to be the source of the phrase "The butler did it" —— was sometimes called the "American Agatha Christie" although her first mystery was published more than a decade before the British author.
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Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
Jules Verne 试读
As Comet Gallia flys by Earth it touches the planet and collects a few small chunks. Along with these pieces there were thirty-six people. At first the people did not realize at what had happened then they noticed weight loss, then Ben Zoof jumped twelve meters high. Zoof with Servadac also soon noticed that the alternation of day and night is shortened to six hours, that east and west changed sides, and that water begins to boil at 66 degrees Celsius If wasn't for a time that they realized that the were Off on a Comet. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. He was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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Vandover and the Brute
Frank Norris 试读
It was always a matter of wonder to Vandover that he was able to recall so little of his past life. With the exception of the most recent events he could remember nothing connectedly. What he at first imagined to be the story of his life, on closer inspection turned out to be but a few disconnected incidents that his memory had preserved with the greatest capriciousness, absolutely independent of their importance. One of these incidents might be a great sorrow, a tragedy, a death in his family; and another, recalled with the same vividness, the same accuracy of detail, might be a matter of the least moment.
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East and West Poems
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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Sabbath in Puritan New England
Alice Morse 试读
As soon as each successive outlying settlement was located and established, the new community built a house for the purpose of assembling therein for the public worship of God; this house was called a meeting-house. Cotton Mather said distinctly that he "found no just ground in Scripture to apply such a trope as church to a house for public assembly." The church, in the Puritan's way of thinking, worshipped in the meeting-house, and he was as bitterly opposed to calling this edifice a church as he was to calling the Sabbath Sunday. His favorite term for that day was the Lord's Day.
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La Maison Tellier
Guy de Maupassant 试读
"Fermé pour cause de première communion" : un tel avis, sur laporte d'une maison close, n'est pas chose courante, et les habituésde la maison Tellier, de Fécamp, n'en reviennent pas. Pendant cetemps, Madame et ses cinq pensionnaires vont retrouver à lacampagne, le temps d'une fête, leurs émois et leur innocence depetites filles... A c?té de ce chef-d'?uvre, huit autres nouvellesdéploient ici l'éventail du génie de Maupassant. Petits employésparisiens, paysans timides, noceurs désabusés, filles rouées ouna?ves : toute une humanité, où des surprenantes candeurs se mêlentà la violence des appétits et des intérêts, est dépeinte avec lacouleur éclatante et le réalisme vigoureux des toiles de Renoir, deManet ou de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Un coeur simple
Gustave Flaubert 试读
Pendant un demi-siècle, les bourgeoises de Pont-l'?vêqueenvièrent à Mme Aubain sa servante Félicité. Pour cent francs paran, elle faisait la cuisine et le ménage, cousait, lavait,repassait, savait brider un cheval, engraisser les volailles,battre le beurre, et resta fidèle à sa ma?tresse, qui cependantn'était pas une personne agréable... " Le dossier de l'éditionpropose des exercices pour étudier les personnages et le cadrespatio-temporel du récit. Il présente également un groupement detextes autour de la figure de la servante (Eugénie Grandet deBalzac, Madame Bovary de Flaubert, Du c?té de chez Swann deProust).
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Oh, You Tex!
William MacLeod Raine 试读
It definately was a fun read for anyone who enjoys stories of the old west and grew up in the era when we read Zane Grey and later Louis LAmour. Tes is an oldfashioned hero, the kind who is self effacing and competent without bragging. There are some laughs in here, and a sweet romance that kinda keeps you guessing for quite awhile! Settle in and enjoy "O, You Tex!"
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Is Life Worth Living
William Hurrell Mallock 试读
To avoid any chance of confusion or misconception, it will be well to say that these words as used by me have no special reference to the system of Comte or his disciples, but are applied to the common views and position of the whole scientific school, one of the most eminent members of which—I mean Professor Huxley—has been the most trenchant and contemptuous critic that 'positivism' in its narrower sense has met with.
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Keats – Poems Published in 1820
John Keats 试读
Although John Keats poems were not generally well received by critics during his lifetime, his reputation grew after his death, and by the end of the 19th century, he had become one of the most beloved of all English poets. He had a significant influence on a diverse range of poets and writers. Jorge Luis Borges stated that his first encounter with Keats was the most significant literary experience of his life.
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions ¿ Volume 1
Charles Mackay 试读
In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities; their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do.
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Who Goes There
Blackwood Ketcham Benson 试读
From early childhood I had been subject to a peculiar malady. I say malady for want of a better and truer word for my condition had never been one of physical or mental suffering. According to my father's opinion an attack of brain fever had caused me when five years old to lose my memory for a time-not indeed my memory entirely but my ability to recall the events and the mental impressions of a recent period.
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A Daughter of the Middle Border
Hamlin Garland 试读
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The Story of Germ Life
Herbert William Conn 试读
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Burr Junior
George Manville Fenn 试读
Novel from the Victorian British author George Manville Fenn. Most of his work consists of adventure stories for young readers, featuring Explorers, Smugglers, young Adventurers and Seamen. His adult novels offer critical social commentary on Victorian England, especially reconsidering economic questions.
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