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古今诗选小传(无注释版)
朱自清 试读
朱自清(1898-1948),原名自华、号秋实,改名自清、字佩弦;原籍浙江绍兴,生于江苏东海;现代著名散文家、诗人、学者、民主战士。本集所收入的,并非作者本人的著作,而是作者为帮助学生了解和研究中国古典文学所编著的,曾是清华大学中文系的教材或教学参考材料。本书选取从汉到宋代我国著名的诗篇或诗人,把古人与近人对他们的介说、诠释、评论或研究心得摘编在一起,分别列出。使读者能对这些诗篇或诗人有精要的了解,并对它们迄于当年的研究概况一目了然。
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恨海沉冤录(无注释版)
向恺然 试读
平江不肖生(1889-1957),名向恺然、向逵,笔名又署不肖生,湖南平江人。现代著名武侠小说家,为20年代侠坛首座,领导南方武侠潮流。1922年开始专心从事武侠创作,武侠处女作《江湖奇侠传》和《近代侠义英雄传》,奠定了他在现代武侠中的地位。他一生著有武侠小说十二部,内容多为江湖武侠传奇或民间传说怪异故事。他的武侠小说基本上挣脱了传统模式的链索,因此被誉为“民国武侠小说开山祖”。《恨海沉冤录》收录其短篇小说八篇:《无名之英雄》、《孙禄堂》、《快婿断指》、《无锡老二》、《鬎福生》、《黑猫与奇案》、《岳麓书院之狐异》、《恨海沉冤录》。
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日本访书志(无注释版)
杨守敬 试读
光绪庚辰之夏,守敬应大埔何公使如璋之召,赴日本充当随员。于其书肆颇得旧本。旋交篡国医员森立之,见所着经籍访古志,遂按录肃之。会遵义黎公使庶昌接任,议刻古逸丛书;嘱守敬极力搜访。
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廿二史劄记(无注释版)
赵翼 试读
《廿二史札记》为清代史学家赵翼的名著(清代三大史学名著之一)。为作者读史之笔记。采用以史证史的方法,对历代正史(实涉及二十四部正史)作整体考察,对史著和历史现象、史实、事件、人物进行客观评价。其书注重经世致用,旨在探究“治乱兴衰”。内容充实,条理清晰,题目大多标新立异,有考有论,非一般读书笔记所能比拟。
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居易录(无注释版)
王士禛 试读
国朝王士祯撰。士祯有古懽录,已著录。是书乃其康熙己巳官左副都御史以後,至辛巳官刑部尚书以前,十三年中所记。前有自序,称取顾况长安米贵居大不易之意,末。又以居易俟命为说,其义两岐,莫知何取也。中多论诗之语,标举名备,自其所长。其记所见诸古书,考据源流,论断得失,亦最为详悉。其他辨证之处,可取者尤多。惟三卷以後,忽记时事。九卷以後,兼及差遣迁除,全以日历起居注体编年纪月,参错於杂说之中。其法虽本於庞元英文昌杂录,究为有乖义例。又喜自录其平反之狱辞,伉直之廷议,以表所长。夫邺侯家传乃自子孙,魏公遗事亦由僚属,自为之而自书之,自书之而自誉之,节言言实录,抑亦浅矣。是则所见之狭也。
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剪灯馀话(无注释版)
李昌祺 试读
本书是李昌祺仿瞿佑“剪灯新话”而作,借以抒写胸臆。全书4卷20篇(另附《还魂记》1篇),董氏诵芬室刻本。成书于永乐十八年(1420),有永乐庚子夏自叙。其书大都取材于元末明初事,以婚姻爱情故事为主,又多幽冥灵异人物,作者以此表达他“善可法,恶可戒,表节义,砺风俗”之义。
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南柯太守传(无注释版)
李公佐 试读
《南柯太守传》,唐代传奇小说,出自《太平广记》卷四百七十五〈昆虫三〉,唐代李公佐著。 《南柯太守传》约作于德宗贞元末。传中述游侠之士淳于棼,家住广陵郡(今江苏扬州)东,宅南有大古槐一株,常与朋辈豪饮槐下。一日大醉,由二友人扶归家中,昏然入睡。忽见二紫衣使者,称奉槐安国王之命相邀。遂出门登车,向古槐穴而去。及驰入洞中,见山川道路,别有天地。入大槐安国,拜见国王,招为驸马,又拜为南柯郡太守。守郡二十载,甚有政绩,大受宠任。 后有檀萝国军来侵,淳于棼遣将迎敌,大败。不久公主病死,棼遂护丧归至国都。因广为交游,威福日盛,国王颇为疑忌,夺其侍卫,禁其交游。棼郁郁不乐,王即命紫衣使者将他送归故里。还入家门,乃矍然梦觉,见二友人尚在,斜阳犹未西落。遂与二友寻槐下洞穴,但见群蚁隐聚其中,积土为城郭台殿之状——与梦中所见相符,于是感人生之虚幻,遂栖心道门,弃绝酒色。本篇意在讽刺窃据高位者,言其贵宠荣盛,乃是傥来之物,不可恃以傲物凌人,同时也宣扬了浮生若梦的思想。它的构思立意与沈既济《枕中记》相类,而描摹尤为尽致,文辞亦较华丽。篇末“假实证幻,余韵悠然”,为《枕中记》所不及(鲁迅《中国小说史略》)。《南柯太守传》流传甚广,李肇曾为之作赞,唐人诗文中也用为典实。后世甚至附会扬州有南柯太守之墓(王象之《舆地纪胜》卷三十七引《广陵行录》)。明代汤显祖《南柯记》,即取材于本篇。
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书画传习录(节录·无注释版)
王绂 试读
前二卷分别为论书、论画,卷三为书事丛谈,共列六门:第一为道德门,主要是“采道德之言”以资艺事,而篇中所列全为两宋理学人物,有周濂溪、程明道、程伊川、张横渠、邵康节、司马温公、杨龟山、朱子、张南轩、蔡元定、陆象山、陆九龄等十二人,一一叙其行迹、录其出处大节、摄提其理学主旨,以为“临池者观感而兴起焉”。该书所强调的“涵泳经史”,实际上就是由理学入手而把握儒家思想,从而陶染性情、发为画艺。这是一部最典型的以读经书来助画学的著作。
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閤皂山志(无注释版)
俞策 试读
张道陵曾立于山之挂壁峰;丁令威亦有坛于仙峰顶;“南洲高士”徐稚 曾隐居于山间玉女峰北麓。汉方土葛玄于建安七年 (202)入山于东峰之下结庐筑坛,修道炼丹,采药行医,搜集古籍,编撰道书,并广收门徒,大宣道义;仙逝之后被后世道徒尊称为“太极仙翁”、“葛仙翁”。
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承晋斋积闻录(无注释版)
梁巘 试读
梁巘对于书法研究方面的著作,成于乾隆时期,但至民国年间始有刊本,裴景福为序;民间流传有手抄本,以光绪年间王荷亭抄本最著。近年则有洪丕谟氏整理本问世。今参照上述诸本,重行校点刊行,并列裴序、王记于前,以飨读者。
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春秋公羊经何氏释例(无注释版)
刘逢禄 试读
“春秋公羊经何氏释例”十卷,凡何氏所谓非常异义可怪之论,次第发明,共总结有例二十六,表四。罗列举证“春秋”经传及何休解诂条文於前 ,後赘以释阐其主旨要义,复以表纵横比对相关内容,因以明晰义例。阐述主旨之文字则移於每表之首,名为“序”。
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红楼梦补(无注释版)
归锄子 试读
“红楼梦补”共四十八回,归锄子撰。作者生平不详。成书于嘉庆二十四年(1819)。据自序后署“嘉庆己卯重阳前三日归锄子序于三时定羌幕斋”。“红楼梦补”第一回有“是年馆塞北”等语,知其嘉庆年间曾在塞外从军作幕。书从“红楼梦”第九十七回“苦绛珠魂归离恨天,薛宝钗出阁成大礼”补起,“凡九十七回以前之事,处处照应,以后则各写各事。”书叙归锄子一日梦中来到山中,在高峰之下,有一巨石,五色晶莹,明霞四照。石头上流出两股清泉,点点滴滴,如洒泪一般。石头忽然说此山是大荒山,峰为青埂峰。这石头是女娲补天时所遗留下的。入世为通灵宝玉,因与绛河仙草有未了情缘,千百年抱恨不平。此石头请求归锄子把“红楼梦”截去后二十回,补其缺陷,使天下后世有情人都成为眷属。说完,只听一声巨响,归锄子从梦中惊醒,忽见窗外落下一块石头,很是惊异。
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近世社会龌龊史(无注释版)
吴趼人 试读
吾人幼而读书,长而入世,而所读之书,终不能达于用,不得已,乃思立言以自表,抑亦大可哀已。况乎所谓言者,于理学则无关于性命,于实学则无补于经济,技仅雕虫,谈恣扪虱,俯仰人前,不自颜汗。呜呼!是岂吾读书识字之初心也哉。
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黄帝内经(无注释版)
太古真人 试读
231“黄帝内经”分“灵枢”、“素问”两部分,是我国最早的典籍之一,我国劳动人民长期与疾病做斗争的经验总结。成书亦非一时,作者也亦非一人。起源于轩辕黄帝,代代口耳相传,经医家、医学理论家联合增补发展创作,一般认为成书于春秋战国时期。在以黄帝、岐伯、雷公对话、问答的形式阐述病机病理的同时,主张不治已病,而治未病,同时主张养生、摄生、益寿、延年。是中国汉族传统医学四大经典著作之一(“黄帝内经”、“难经”、“伤寒杂病论”、“神农本草经”),也是中国医学宝库中现存成书最早的一部医学典籍。是研究人的生理学、病理学、诊断学、治疗原则和药物学的医学巨著。在理论上建立了中医学上的“阴阳五行学说”、“脉象学说”“藏象学说”等。
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春秋谷梁传(无注释版)
榖梁俶 试读
本书乃儒家经典之一,与《左传》、《公羊传》同为解说《春秋》的三传之一。所记载的时间起于鲁隐公元年,终于鲁哀公十四年。其作者相传是子夏的弟子,战国时鲁人谷梁赤(赤或作喜、嘉、俶、寘)。起初也为口头传授,至西汉时才成书。
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二十四孝(无注释版)
郭居敬 试读
“孝”是儒家伦理思想的核心,是千百年来中国社会维系家庭关系的道德准则,是中华民族的传统美德。元代郭居敬编成《二十四孝》。《二十四孝》全名《全相二十四孝诗选》,由历代二十四个孝子从不同角度、不同环境、不同遭遇行孝的故事辑录而成。
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容斋随笔(无注释版)
洪迈 试读
“容斋随笔”共“五笔”,74卷,1220则。其中,“容斋随笔”16卷,329则;“容斋续笔”16卷,249则;“容斋三笔”16卷,248则;“容斋四笔”16卷,259则;“容斋五笔”10卷,135则。据作者自述,该书写作时问历经近三十年。可以说“容斋随笔”是作者数十年博览群书、经世致用的智慧和汗水的结晶。 “容斋随笔”内容繁富,议论精当,是一部涉及领域极为广泛的著作,自经史诸子百家、诗词文翰以及历代典章制度、医卜、星历等,无不有所论说,而且其考证辨析之确切,议论评价之精当,皆倍受称道。其最重要的价值和贡献是考证了前朝的一些史实,如政治制度、事件、年代、人物等,对历代经史典籍进行了重评、辨伪与订误,提出了许多颇有见地的观点,更正了许多流传已久的谬误,不仅在中国历史文献上有着重要的地位和影响,而且对于中国文化的发展亦意义重大。
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洛阳伽蓝记(无注释版)
杨衒之 试读
本书主要讲了:永宁寺、建中寺、长秋寺、瑶光寺、景乐寺、昭仪尼寺、胡统寺、修梵寺、景林寺、洛阳伽蓝记卷二城东、明悬尼寺、龙华寺、璎珞寺、宗圣寺、崇真寺、魏昌尼寺、景兴尼寺、庄严寺、秦太上君寺、正始寺、平等寺、景宁寺等内容。
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霍小玉传(无注释版)
蒋防 试读
“霍小玉传”,唐代汉族传奇小说,略晚于“李娃传”、“莺莺传”,代表唐传奇发展的又一高峰。小说叙述的是陇西书生李益和长安名妓霍小玉凄楚动人的爱情悲剧。此书约作于元和四年(809)前后,作者蒋防,字子徵,义兴(今江苏宜兴)人,生卒年不详。
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黄帝内经素问(无注释版)
王冰次 试读
40《黄帝内经素问》简称《素问》,(英文意译),是现存最早的中医理论著作,相传为黄帝创作,实际非出自一时一人之手,大约成书于春秋战国时期。原来9卷,古书早已亡佚,后经唐王冰订补,改编为24卷,计81篇,定名为《黄帝内经素问》,所论内容十分丰富。
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南国哀歌(无注释版)
赖和 试读
赖和,台湾省彰化县人。台湾新文学奠基者,现代作家,诗人,原名赖河,字懒云,人称和仔仙。他的一生,首先是“俯首甘为孺子牛”的一生,是一位治病救人、为民服务的光辉榜样,同时,他的一生,又是“横眉冷对千夫指”的一生,是一位爱国反帝,以文学为武器,致力于民族解放运动的忠诚战士。他的爱国进步的社会观、文学观,都体现在他的创作实践中。他的文学活动的基本成就是在小说和诗歌的创作上。本书是他的诗歌集。他的诗作更为鲜明地体现了他的文学主张,充满了革命精神和牺牲精神,洋溢着宁死不屈的民族精神,是刺向日本殖民统治的尖锐投枪。他的作品也倾注了对台湾农民的深切同情和真挚关怀。
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Peter Christen Asbjornsen 试读
These Scandinavian fairy tales have had many interpretations through the years, but never have they been so beautifully illustrated as in this sumptuous edition. Golden Age artist Kay Nielsen, a master of fantasy, lavished the text with 25 intricately detailed color and numerous black-and-white images that glow with his phantasmagorical style. With 15 stories that include the popular "Billy Goat's Gruff," this is one of the most stunning children's books ever produced.
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Emma
简·奥斯汀 试读
As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--to arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen's most technically brilliant achievement, "Emma" sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power.
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Evelina Or the History of a Young Ladys Entrance into the World
Frances Burney 试读
Leaving the secluded home of her guardian for the first time, beautiful Evelina Anville is captivated by her new surroundings in London's beau monde--and in particular by the handsome, chivalrous Lord Orville. But her enjoyment soon turns to mortification at the hands of her vulgar and capricious grandmother, and the rakish Sir Clement Willoughby, who torments the naive young woman with his unwanted advances. And while her aristocratic father refuses to acknowledge her legitimacy, Evelina can hold no hope of happiness with the man she loves. Published anonymously in 1778, Frances Burney's epistolary novel brought her instant fame when the secret of its authorship was revealed. With its ingenious combination of romance and satire, comedy and melodrama, Evelina is a sparkling depiction of the dangers and delights of fashionable society.
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Gitanjali
泰戈尔 试读
Moving, heart-felt prose poems by the beloved and much admired Bengali poet and mystic who first achieved international fame (and a Nobel Prize) in 1913 with his translation of these moving poems. Reminiscent of Blake and Gibran, they include many works that are almost biblical in their rhythms, phrasing and images. Introduction by William Butler Yeats.
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In Freedoms Cause – a Story of Wallace and Bruce
G.A.Henty 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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Across China on Foot
Edwin John Dingle 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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Bartleby the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
Herman Melville 试读
Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist,who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him; During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville's frustration with his own situation as a writer, and the story itself is about a writer who forsakes conventional modes because of an irresistible preoccupation with the most baffling philosophical questions Bartleby can also be seen to represent Melville's relation to his commercial, democratic society.
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell 试读
One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead and a heart of unyielding courage.
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Grannys Wonderful Chair
Frances Browne 试读
Granny's Wonderful Chair is a book of several wonderful fairy tales, which was very popular when it first came out, and remained so for several decades.The story design is somewhat like that of Arabian Nights, in that the story is one story teller (the chair), who tells several stories. Now, one might think that a chair telling stories is a very strange concept to base a book on, but I assure you that the storyteller (and the author) is one of the best story tellers I've read recently.
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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 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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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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Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
E.Dixon 试读
There once was a king of Persia who at the beginning of his reign had distinguished himself by many glorious and successful conquests and had afterwards enjoyed such profound peace and tranquillity as rendered him the happiest of monarchs.
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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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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.