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Literary and Social Essays
George William Curtis 试读
The village of Concord Massachusetts lies an hour's ride from Boston upon the Great Northern Railway. It is one of those quiet New England towns whose few white houses grouped upon the plain make but a slight impression upon the mind of the busy traveller hurrying to or from the city.
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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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Little Bear at Work and at Play
Frances Margaret Fox 试读
One rainy day the three bears were sitting by the fire in their comfortable house in the woods, telling stories. First Father Bear would tell a story, and then Mother Bear would tell a story, and then Father Bear would have a turn again. Between times Little Bear asked questions(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
"In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim" by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a melodramatic American Novel about a group of people whose lives intertwine.
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The Man Next Door
Emerson Hough 试读
It is a story aout the man and his daughter living next door. Is is worth raeding.
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You Never Can Tell
George Bernard Shaw 试读
You Never Can Tell, by Shaw, George Bernard - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - One of Shaw, George Bernard's sunniest plays, You Never Can Tell is a comedy of love and mistaken identity. Mrs. Clandon has returned to England with her three children after an extended stay abroad. Having abandoned her husband long ago, she finds herself unexpectedly dining with him at a family lunch in a remarkable series of coincidences. Can these two strong wills be reunited with the help of an extraordinary waiter? And will Mrs. Clandon's independent-minded daughter fall for the charms of a handsome dentist? First produced in 1897, You Never Can Tell combines Shaw's characteristic lively dialogue with a charmingly absurd story.
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Hugh Memoirs of a Brother
Arthur Christopher Benson 试读
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) was a British essayist, poet and author. He was one of six children of Edward White Benson, a late nineteenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury. The Benson family were exceptionally literate and accomplished, but their history was somewhat tragic. A son and daughter died young, and another daughter, as well as Benson himself, suffered badly from a mental condition that was probably manic-depressive psychosis. Despite his illness, Benson was a distinguished academic and a most prolific author. He was associated with Eton College, and was Master of Magdalene College of Cambridge University. His poems and volumes of essays, such as From a College Window (1906), were famous in his day, and he left one of the longest diaries ever written, some four million words.
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The Green Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
The Green Fairy Book collects more fairy tales from around the world, including "The Blue Bird," The Three Little Pigs," "The Golden Mermaid," "The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife," and many more.
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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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Along the Shore
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 试读
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1851-1926) was an American Roman Catholic nun and social worker. Born in Lenox, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia, she was educated in London, Paris, Rome and Florence. She married author George Parsons Lathrop in 1883 the two of them converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop was well known for her service near and within New York City, caring for impoverished cancer patients by founding St. Rose's Free Home for Incurable Cancer in the Lower East Side. After the death of her husband (from whom she had separated before moving to New York City) in 1898, she became a nun, and as Mother Mary Alphonsa, she founded a community of Dominican nuns, now known as the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. She was awarded an honorary A.M. from Bowdoin College in 1925. Among her famous works are: Along the Shore (1888), A Story of Courage (with George Parsons Lathrop) (1895), and Memories of Hawthorne (1897).
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Not Like Other Girls
Rosa Nouchette Carey 试读
Five-o’clock tea was a great institution in Oldfield.It was a form of refreshment to which the female inhabitants of that delightful place were strongly addicted. In vain did Dr. Weatherby, the great authority in all that concerned the health of the neighborhood...
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Old and New Masters
Robert Lynd 试读
Robert Wilson Lynd (1879-1949) was an Irish writer, an urbane literary essayist and strong Irish nationalist. He was born and educated in Belfast, studying at Queen's University. His background was Protestant, his father being a Presbyterian Church Moderator. He began as a journalist on The Northern Whig in Belfast. He moved to London in 1901. Firstly he wrote drama criticism, for Today, edited by Jerome K. Jerome. He also wrote for the Daily News, being its literary editor 1912 to 1947. The Lynds were well known as literary hosts, in the group including J. B. Priestley. Lynd was a founding committee member of the Book Society. Irish guests included James Joyce and James Stephens. He used the pseudonym Y. Y. (Ys, or wise, you see) in writing for the New Statesman. According to C. H. Rolph's Kingsley (1973), Lynd's weekly essay, which ran from 1913 to 1945, was 'irreplaceable'. Amongst his other works are Old and New Masters (1919), The Art of Letters (1920), The Pleasures of Ignorance (1921) and Essays on Life and Literature (1951).
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Rabbi and Priest A Story
Milton Goldsmith 试读
On the high road from Tscherkask to Togarog, and not far from the latter village, there stood, in the year 1850, a large and inhospitable-looking inn. Its shingled walls, whose rough surface no paint-brush had touched for long generations, seemed decaying from sheer old age.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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Everyday Foods in War Time
Mary Swartz Rose 试读
The patriotic housewife finds her little domestic boat sailing in uncharted waters. The above message of the Food Administration disturbs her ordinary household routine, upsets her menus and puts her recipes out of commission. It also renders inoperative some of her usual methods of economy at a time when rising food prices make economy more imperative than ever. To be patriotic and still live on one’s income is a complex problem. This little book was started in response to a request for “a war message about food.” It seemed to the author that a simple explanation of the part which some of our common foods play in our diet might be both helpful and reassuring. To change one’s menu is often trying; to be uncertain whether the substituted foods will preserve one’s health and strength makes adjustment doubly difficult. It is hoped that the brief chapters which follow will make it easier to “save wheat, meat, sugars and fats” and to make out an acceptable bill of fare without excessive cost.
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Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods
Isabel Hornibrook 试读
Now, Neal Farrar, you've got to be as still as the night itself, remember. If you bounce, or turn, or draw a long breath, you won't have a rag of reputation as a deer-hunter to take back to England. Sneeze once, and we're done for. That means more diet of flapjacks and pork, instead of venison steaks. And I guess your city appetite won't rally to pork much longer, even in the wilds. Neal Farrar sighed as if there was something in that. "But, you know, it's just when an unlucky fellow would give his life not to sneeze that he's sure to bring out a thumping big one," he said plaintively.
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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
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Cat and Mouse
Ralph Williams 试读
The Harn first came to the Warden's attention through its effect on the game population of an area in World 7 of the Warden's sector. A natural ecology was being maintained on World 7 as a control for experimental seedings of intelligent life-forms in other similar worlds. How the Harn got there, the Warden never knew. In its free-moving larval state, the Harn was a ticklike creature which might have sifted through a natural inter-dimensional rift; or it might have come through as a hitchhiker on some legitimate traveler, possibly even the Warden himself.
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Charles Rex
Ethel May Dell 试读
I shall go to sea to-morrow, said Saltash, with sudden decision. "I'm tired of this place, Larpent, - fed up on repletion." "Then by all means let us go, my lord " said Larpent, with the faint glimmer of a smile behind his beard, which was the only expression of humour he ever permitted himself. "Believe you're fed up too," said Saltash, flashing a critical look upon him. Captain Larpent said nothing, deeming speech unnecessary. All time spent ashore was wasted in his opinion. Saltash turned and surveyed the sky-line over the yacht's rail with obvious discontent on his ugly face. His eyes were odd, one black, one grey, giving a curiously unstable appearance to a countenance which otherwise might have claimed to possess some strength. His brows were black and deeply marked. He had a trick of moving them in conjunction with his thoughts so that his face was seldom in absolute repose. It was said that there was a strain of royal blood in Saltash, and in the days before he had succeeded to the title when he had been merely Charles Burchester, he had borne the nickname of "the merry monarch."
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Comedies of Courtship
Anthony Hope 试读
"The Wheel of Love," published in Scribner's Magazine during the past year, and "The Lady of the Pool," both protected by American copyright, are here printed for the first time in book form. The four other stories appeared without their author's consent or knowledge, with their titles changed beyond recognition, and combined with other unauthorized material, in a small volume printed by an American firm. They are here given for the first time in their proper form and by my authority.
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Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
Sarah Orne Jewett 试读
Sarah Orne Jewett was an acclaimed novelist and short story author, who drew inspiration from her birthplace for the characters and surroundings of her "domestic fiction." This collection, Deephaven and Selected Stories and Sketches, contains the novel Deephaven as well as five additional stories including "An Autumn Holiday," "From a Mournful Villager," and "Tom's Husband." From the author's preface: "This book is not wholly new, several of the chapters having already been published in the Atlantic Monthly. It has so often been asked if Deephaven may not be found on the map of New England under another name, that, to prevent any misunderstanding, I wish to say, while there is a likeness to be traced, few of the sketches are drawn from that town itself, and the characters will in almost every case be looked for there in vain."
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Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret t
Louis Dodge 试读
Everychild encounters the giant Fear and sets forth on a strange journey. And Everychild pities the sorrow of Cinderella and rejoices in her release from bondage; he encounters a dog that looks upon him with favor. On his wanderings Everychild bethinks him of his parents, and discovers that though he has seemed to lose them, he has not really done so.
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Tarrano the Conqueror
Ray Cummings 试读
In year 2430, terror spreads when assassins strike down Earth's three major leaders at once. Were the treacherous Venusians behind the crime? Yet the leader of Venus Central State falls, too -- then the leader of Mars. Who is the Tarrano mentioned in the desperate warning? In this fast-paced pulp classic, Jac Hallen of Inter-Allied News responds to an urgent message from his friend, brilliant scientist Dr. Brende. Hallen and Brende's beautiful daughter Eliza find themselves rushing to the North Pole -- into the clutches of Tarrano himself -- and then into the depths of interplanetary space
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准风月谈(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《准风月谈》是鲁迅的一部杂文集。收录了鲁迅在1933年所写的杂文六十四篇。包括《夜颂》,《“吃白相饭”》,《晨凉漫记》,《秋夜纪游》,《四库全书珍本》,《男人的进化》,《电影的教训》,《关于翻译(上)》,《喝茶》,《外国也有》等。
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华盖集续编(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《华盖集续编》收录作者1926年所作杂文二十五篇。本书继续着与封建主义和洋奴买办文化思想的斗争,锋芒所指,已从广泛的社会批评转到激烈的政治斗争。“苟活者在淡红的血色中,会依稀看见微茫的希望;真的猛士,将更奋然而前行。”语言凝炼,见解精辟,讽刺深刻。
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老张的哲学(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《老张的哲学》描写了20年代前后北京各阶层市民的生活及思想感悟。主人公老张,是旧北京一个无恶不作的无赖恶棍。他身兼兵、学、商三种职业,信仰回、耶、佛三种宗教;他信奉的是“钱本位而三位一体”的人生哲学,“老张哲学”的内涵和实质是赤裸裸的市侩哲学。
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语文零拾(精品公版)
朱自清 试读
公源计划之名家朱自清,本系列书共收录朱自清27篇著作。 《语文零拾》是作者的书评和译稿合集,共14篇。摘要书评和译稿合集。收《修辞学的比兴观》、《中国语的特征在那里》(序王力中国现代语法)、《评黎锦熙修辞比兴篇》等有关中国语言学及文学的批评文章8篇和有关日本、苏联语言文学批评文章、读书笔记等译文5篇。本书关涉语文教育,尤其在文学鉴赏教学方面,对读者具有重要的启发意义。
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论雅俗共赏(精品公版)
朱自清 试读
公源计划之名家朱自清,本系列书共收录朱自清27篇著作。 《论雅俗共赏》共收关于文艺的论文十四篇,各篇论文的排列,按性质的异同,不按写作的先后;最近的写作是《论老实话》。
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萍踪寄语:第一集(精品公版)
邹韬奋 试读
公源计划之名家邹韬奋,近现代史上杰出的新闻记者、出版家,他的书写既是个人的历史,也是一段耀眼的新闻出版记事。1933年,邹韬奋先生他踏上前往欧洲的旅程。他先后游历了意大利、法国、英国、德国和苏联,翔实地记录了旅途中的所见、所闻、及所感。 《萍踪寄语》分为一集、二集和三集三个部分,其中一集共收录文章51篇,二集14篇,三集66篇。书中所记录的内容包罗万象,不仅有作者游历期间所到之处的政治、经济、文化以及本国人的物质和精神状况,还有在当地生活的中国人的遭遇,最重要的是他一直在思考“世界的大势怎样”和“中华民族的出路怎样”。读者从书中不仅能看到20世纪30年代真实的欧洲,更能深切体会到老一辈出版人和新闻人为民主抗争、为人民发声的勇气和决心。
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胡适留学日记:全十七卷(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 《胡适留学日记》是胡适在美国留学期间(1910-1917)所写的日记和杂记,共分为17卷,记述了胡适早年的文学主张和其思想演变的轨迹、读书经历,他对当时社会时事的观察分析和思考,以及与朋友间的交往、书信往来存稿等,内容十分丰富,涉及中国近现代的思想学术、文化教育、内政外交、社会变迁等许多方面,不仅是研究胡适个人,也是研究整个近现代中国的珍贵资料。 胡适留美早期的日记多是流水账,但由于具有连贯性,读来并不觉枯燥。后来的札记则真实坦白地记下一个青年人的私人生活、内心生活及思想演变的过程,有很多生活细节的描述,包括年轻人的自喜、夸大、野心、梦想,可以看作是胡适留学时的自传了。
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四十自述(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 胡适先生回顾自己人生前四十年的经历,从他的信仰、母亲的订婚、慈母的教育、三岁入塾、叫局吃花酒到醉酒打巡捕、闭门读书考上庚款留美、至 “逼上梁山”的文学革命,完整地讲述了自己成长、学习与突破的根源与历程。这部自传不仅完整地呈现了他40岁及以前的生活、思想与事业,也再现了他所处时代的社会风貌。他的家乡、他求学的上海、留学的美国、活动最多的北京,在此都有描述,这些成为了解20世纪上半叶中国学术、政治、舆论界的状况,民国时期文人中国梦的思路,当时知识分子寻求进步轨迹的重要内容。
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胡适文选(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 本书是在《胡适文存》的基础上,由胡适先生亲自甄选的二十二篇文章所组成,意在为中国的年轻朋友准备一本略俱启蒙思想的普及读物。全书的篇幅虽然有限,但却囊括了胡适思想的所有精华,表达了他对于当时中国社会代表性问题的深彻思考,诸如文学的革命、国故的整理、中西文化的大讨论等等,无不在此书中得以展现。
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胡适的时论(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 本书分九部分内容,包括“五四”的第二十八周年,眼前“两个世界”的明朗化,青年人的苦闷,两种根本不同的政党,眼前世界文化的趋势,我们必须选择我们的方向,争取学术独立的十年计划,国际形势里的两个问题,自由主义是什么九篇,论述了其对于当下时政等的看法和观点。
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孟加拉民间故事(精品公版)
许地山 试读
公源计划之名家许地山,本系列书共收录许地山15篇著作。 本书为许地山译著,内收印度东孟加拉民间故事《死新郎》、《骊龙珠》、《三宝罐》、《罗刹国》、《鲛人泪》、《吉祥子》、《七母子》、《宝扇缘》等22篇。
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屐痕处处(精品公版)
郁达夫 试读
公源计划之名家郁达夫,文艺青年郁达夫经典作品。 《屐痕处处》是作者1933年至1934年游览苏、浙、皖三省名胜写下的游记集。收《杭江小历纪程》、《浙东景物纪略》、《钓台春昼》、《临平登山记》等11篇。
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她是一个弱女子(精品公版)
郁达夫 试读
公源计划之名家郁达夫,文艺青年郁达夫经典作品。 《她是一个弱女子》是一篇中篇小说,描写三个性情、思想、志趣各不相同的女性及其不同的生活道路 ,尤着力于对主人公郑秀岳的刻画。小说着力突出其 性情的柔弱及命运的悲惨,体现了作者的人道主义思想。
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儿童文学小论(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 《儿童文学小论》是周氏儿童文学研究的集大成者,正文收文十一篇、序一篇,包括《童话略论》《童话研究》《儿歌之研究》《儿童的文学》《神话与传说》《科学小说》《读〈童谣大观〉》等;附录精择了《人的文学》《儿童的世界》《关于儿童的书》《杨柳风》等十六篇相关文章。本书涵盖了周氏儿童文学研究的主要成就,是中小学语文教师提高儿童文学素养的必读书。