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李叔同格言谒语题词(无注释版)
李叔同 试读
李叔同(1880-1942),“佛门三子”之一,法号弘一。初名文涛,更名岸,字息霜或惜霜。祖籍浙江平湖。父世珍字筱楼,清同治四年进士(1865),吏部主事,娶一妻三妾,叔同出自第三妾王氏,叔同5岁丧父,26岁丧母,39岁决定入寺出家,法号弘一。弘一大师是我国近代新文化运动早期的活动家,出家后成为佛教律宗有名的高僧。大师幼年攻读中国文学经典,诗词歌赋样样精通,奠定了深厚的文学基础。天赋加上后天努力,他的文学才华展现光芒。本书内容包括格言别录、佩玉编、晚晴集、寒笳集、偈语。
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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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经学通论(无注释版)
皮锡瑞 试读
清代皮锡瑞著的经学通论,从今文经学家的立场出发,对易经、尚书、诗经、三礼(周礼、仪礼、礼让)及春秋等儒家经典的撰著流传、内容要义,以及历代考订注疏的得失、读者治学研究的门径等问题,作了扼要的阐述。 《经学通论》与经学历史同为皮锡瑞的代表性著作,无论对学者和专门研究者都有参考价值。
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图画见闻志(无注释版)
郭若虚 试读
“图画见闻志”是一部画史著作,全书共有六卷。“图画见闻志”为继张彦远“历代名画记”而作。卷一“叙论”十六篇,仿张氏前三卷之作,其中“论制作楷模”、“论衣冠异制”、“论气韵非师”、“论用笔三病”、“论曹吴体法”、“论三家山水”、“论黄徐体异”、“论古今优劣”等,均为专题论文,多有独到之处。
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大集大虚空藏菩萨所问经(无注释版)
不空 试读
尔时世尊。告尊者大伽叶波具寿阿难陀言。我以此经付嘱汝等。汝当受持此经为他广说。大伽叶波言。世尊我当随力于如来无上菩提之法。勤加守护为他宣说。阿难陀言唯然世尊。我已受持如是法要。于当来世以佛威力。广宣流布令不断绝。尔时福庄严菩萨摩诃萨。从座而起叉手合掌。白佛言世尊如是之经。如来所说甚深希有。断诸疑网最胜了义难见难悟。
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王阳明全集(无注释版)
王守仁 试读
20王阳明:原名王守仁(1472-1529),字伯安,浙江余姚人,因被贬贵州时曾于阳明洞(今贵阳市修文县)学习,世称阳明先生、王阳明。是我国明代著名的文学家、哲学家、思想家、政治家和军事家,是二程、朱、陆后的另一位大儒,“心学”流派的重要代表人物。
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沧浪诗话(无注释版)
严羽 试读
本书是宋代最负盛名、对后世影响最大的一部诗话,也是中国著名的诗歌理论著作。作者严羽是南宋末年著名的诗文批评家,全书分为诗辨、诗体、诗法、诗评、考证五部分,并附录“答出继叔临安吴景仙书”,系统性、理论性较强,对诗歌的形象思维特征和艺术性方面的探讨,论诗标榜盛唐,主张“诗有别裁、诗有别趣”之说,重视诗歌的艺术特点,批评了当时经文字、才学、议论为诗的弊病,对江西诗派尤表不满。
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汉武故事(无注释版)
佚名 试读
《汉武故事》,又名《汉武帝故事》,共一卷。此书是一篇杂史杂传类志怪小说,“多与《史记》、《汉书》相出入,而杂以妖妄之语”。书中记载了汉武帝从出生到死葬茂陵的传闻佚事,属于汉武帝传说系统中的一部传记小说。其主要内容是武帝为求长生不老而求仙问道,同时也写了当时一些历史人物的逸闻逸事,如“金屋藏娇”“相如论赋”等。其行文简雅拙质,不事雕琢,然能注意渲染气氛,人物对话亦有个性,对后代传奇小说产生一定影响。
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陶庵梦忆(无注释版)
张岱 试读
“陶庵梦忆”是记述关于明末散文家张岱所亲身经历过的杂事的著作,它详细描述了明代江浙地区的社会生活,如茶楼酒肆、说书演戏、斗鸡养鸟、放灯迎神以及山水风景、工艺书画等等。其中不乏有对贵族子弟的闲情逸致、浪漫生活的描写,但更多的是对社会生活和风俗人情的反映。同时本书中含有大量关于明代日常生活、娱乐、戏曲、古董等方面的纪录,因此它也是研究明代物质文化的重要参考文献。
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黄帝内经(无注释版)
太古真人 试读
234“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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幼学琼林(无注释版)
程登吉 试读
11“幼学琼林”是中国古代儿童的启蒙读物。“幼学琼林”最初叫“幼学须知”,又称“成语考”、“故事寻源”。一般认为,最初的编著者是明末的西昌人程登吉(字允升),也有的意见认为是明景泰年间的进士邱睿。在清朝的嘉庆年间由邹圣脉作了一些补充,并且更名为“幼学故事琼林”。后来民国时人费有容、叶浦荪和蔡东藩等又进行了增补。
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风俗通义(无注释版)
应劭 试读
“风俗通义”,汉唐人多引作“风俗通”,东汉泰山太守应劭著。汉代汉族民俗著作。原书三十卷、附录一卷,今仅存十卷。该书考论典礼类“白虎通”,纠正流俗类“论衡”,记录了大量的神话异闻,但作者加上了自己的评议,从而成为研究古代汉民族风俗和鬼神崇拜的重要文献。
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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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清平山堂话本(无注释版)
洪楩 试读
小说家话本集﹐明代洪楩编印﹐原名《六十家小说》﹐分为《雨窗》﹑《长灯》﹑《随航》﹑《欹枕》﹑《解闲》﹑《醒梦》6集﹐每集10篇。大约刻印於嘉靖二十年至三十年间。现存《雨窗》﹑《欹枕》两集的残本﹐仅12篇﹔又残本3册﹐书名不详﹐存15篇﹐藏日本内阁文库。共计27篇﹐影印本合为一书﹐题作《清平山堂话本》。另有《翡翠轩》﹑《梅杏争春》两篇﹐只存残页。
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寒山帚谈(无注释版)
赵宧光 试读
【寒山帚谈】,中国古代书法理论著作,明赵宧光撰。 宧光有【说文长笺】,已著录。是编本在所撰【说文长笺】中,亦析出别行。【长笺】穿凿附会,且引据疏舛,颇为小学家所讥。而篆文笔法,则差有偏长,故此编犹为後人所重。上卷四目,曰权舆,论一十五种书也。曰格调,论笔法结构也。曰力学,论字功书法也。曰临仿,则力学之馀绪,析而为篇者也。下卷四目。曰用才,论笔墨砚纸及运用法也。曰评鉴,论辨识之浅深也。曰法书,论古帖也。曰了义,论书家秘谛也。其【拾遗】一卷,阐发未尽之意,各注某条补篇某字。其【附录】则金石林、甲乙表及诸论也。曰帚谈者,取家有敝帚,享之千金意耳。 ——出【四库总目提要】
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思适斋序跋(无注释版)
顾广圻 试读
顾广圻对校勘书籍的看法是,要做到“唯无自欺,亦无书欺。存其真面,以传来兹”,张“凡天下书,皆当以不校校之”。他自号“思适居士气典故出于北齐著名文学家邢邵,邢邵有大量藏书,而不甚雠校,曰:“日思误书,亦是一适。”顾广圻自号“思适居士”亦以“思适斋”来命名自己的文集,即由此引申而来。 顾广圻与黄丕烈有着长时期的深厚友情《思适斋集》中许多书序;书跋都是他以黄丕烈的名义撰写的。两大目录学家的学术成就交相辉映。黄丕烈士礼居藏书题跋,由近代潘祖荫、缪荃孙等搜辑成书。顾广圻所著,除《思适斋集》十八卷外,一九三五年,版本目录翠家王大隆又辑《思适斋书跋》四卷、《思适斋集补遣》二卷问世。本书收入《思适斋书跋》《思适斋序跋》、《思适斋序跋补遣》三种,总名曰《思适斋书跋》。《思适斋书跋》,王大隆辑;《思适斋序跋》、《思适斋序跋补遣》分别选自《思适斋集》《清顾瑞清辑》《思适斋集补贵》《王大隆辑》的序跋部分。需要说明的是《思适斋集》中题跋大部分已收入王氏辑《思适斋书跋》,故《思适斋序跋》祇选其未收部分,以免重复。
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夜谭随录(无注释版)
和邦额 试读
夜谭随录(《夜谭随录》),清代笔记式文言短篇小说集,全书4卷(或作12卷),包括传奇和志怪小说 160篇左右。著者和邦额。《夜谭随录》在形式上极力摹拟《聊斋志异》,以描写平民女子见长,塑造了一些带有“村野”气的少女形象,如碧碧(《碧碧》)、香云(《香云》)、白萍(《白萍》)、收香(《娄方华》)、白氏(《王侃》)、秀姑(《秀姑》)等,她们天真活泼、开朗大方、敢作敢为。有些长篇,情节诡异,叙述婉曲,也尚可观。但多数人物形象面目苍白,失之粗率。
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残唐五代史演义传(无注释版)
罗贯中 试读
11唐僖宗年间,奸佞当道,以钱论官。曹州冤句黄巢中武举状元,因貌丑而见斥,于是反上太行,聚饿夫百万,攻陷长安。唐僖宗避乱西祁州,命李克用平乱。李克用在义子李存孝的帮助下,平安叛乱。后李克用杀退劫驾的朱温,拥唐昭宗即位。朱温知李存孝死,又专权朝廷,后弑帝自立,为后梁太祖。李克用死,其子即帝位,为后唐庄宗。后唐亡,石敬塘即位于洛阳,为后晋高祖。刘知远在后晋亡后,建立北汉。不久郭威又即帝位,建立后周。最终由赵匡胤在陈桥驿为部下拥为天子,为宋太祖,结束了五代局面。
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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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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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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas de Quincey 试读
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life. The Confessions of an English Opium Eater is both a classic of the English autobiographical genre and a hard-nosed study of the effects of drugs on an artistic mind. A close associate of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the brilliant but troubled de Quincey recounts both the pleasures and pain of opium addiction in captivating prose. The result is by turns enlightened, nightmarish and witty – a faithful mirror of the drug itself.
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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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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy 试读
A brooding tragedy which scandalised Hardy's contemporaries on first publication. Jude's story -- his futile desire to better himself through education, his failed marriage and doomed love for the free-spirited Sue Bridehead -- shows with heartbreaking clarity the devastating effects of prejudice and oppression upon innocent minds, and forms a passionate plea for tolerance. It was met with widespread condemnation upon first publication in 1895 and, as a result, was the last novel Hardy ever wrote.
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Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens 试读
A novel in which Dickens launches a ferocious onslaught against England and English society.He draws on the memory of his father in his depiction of the Marshalsea debtors prison and there is also the story of the love between an older man and a younger woman.
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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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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith 试读
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.According, therefore, as this produce, or what is purchased with it, bears a greater or smaller proportion to the number of those who are to consume it, the nation will be better or worse supplied with all the necessaries and conveniencies for which it has occasion. This is a public domain book converted by anonymous volunteers and you may find it for free on the web.This work is respectfully inscribed by the author.
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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
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Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens 试读
This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to its genial predecessor, The Pickwick Papers. Set against London's seedy back street slums, Oliver Twist is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some of Dickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation. In 1838 the publication of Oliver Twist firmly established the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was, according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the world that in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused of the world had a champion."
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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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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 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 Moonstone
Wilkie Collins 试读
Praised by T.S. Eliot as the first……and best of modern English detective novels, "The Moonstone" draws the reader into its world of danger, suspense, and foreign menace as Collins unmasks a restrictive society marked by sexual and imperial domination. Revised reissue.
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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 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam 试读
Omar Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. His poetry, which received very little notoriety in its day, achieved classic status when it was discovered and rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald more than 700 years later. Presented here are the traditionally collected first and fifth editions with the original notes and Introduction by Fitzgerald.
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The Voyage of the Beagle
Charles Darwin 试读
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of history's most influential thinkers.
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Lady into Fox
David Garnett 试读
Mrs. Tebrick's maiden name was certainly Fox, and it is possible that such a miracle happening before, the family may have gained their name as a soubriquet on that account. They were an ancient family, and have had their seat at Tangley Hall time out of mind. It is also true that there was a half-tame fox once upon a time chained up at Tangley Hall in the inner yard, and I have heard many speculative wiseacres in the public-houses turn that to great account—though they could not but admit that "there was never one there in Miss Silvia's time."
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Fairy Book
Sophie May 试读
Rebecca Sophia Clarke (1833-1906) was an American author of children's fiction. She wrote under the penname Sophie May and had 45 published works between 1860 and 1903. The most successful were the Little Prudy characters which made their first appearance in short stories for the children's periodicals, The Little Pilgrim and the Congregationalist. The series was later published into books. Her sister Sarah Jones Clarke (1840- 1929) was also an author of children's books. She wrote under the penname Penn Shirley. Rebecca attended a "female academy" in Norridgewock and taught for a while, but she never married. Amongst her works are: Little Prudy (1863), Little Prudy's Sister Susy (1864), Little Prudy's Captain Horace (1864), Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple (1868), Dotty Dimple Out West (1868), Dotty Dimple at Play (1869), Little Folks Astray (1870) and The Twin Cousins (1880).
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Unconscious Comedians
Honoré de Balzac 试读
One morning as he ate his breakfast and cursed his fate, he picked up a newspaper savagely. The following lines, ending an article, struck Gazonal as if the mysterious voice which speaks to gamblers before they win had sounded in his ear: "Our celebrated landscape painter, Leon de Lora, lately returned from Italy, will exhibit several pictures at the Salon; thus the exhibition promises, as we see, to be most brilliant."
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Under Drakes Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main
George Alfred Henty 试读
With 30 pages of additional articles, references, and bibliographies of recommended reading. The high seas adventures of Sir Francis Drake, as he sails The Golden Hind into dangerous encounters with Spanish ships, and privateers. Henty places Ned Hearne, a young Devonshire lad, aboard Drake's ship where they set out to sail around the world. Ned and his newfound companions, join in some wild exploits on the Spanish Main, are washed ashore on an island, and then become embroiled in the first successful insurrection against Spain in the western islands.
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A Collection of Ballads
Andrew Lang 试读
When the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads of their own countryside, or, at most, of Great Britain. Teutonic and Northern parallels to our ballads were then adduced, as by Scott and Jamieson. It was later that the ballads of Europe, from the Faroes to Modern Greece, were compared with our own, with European Märchen, or children’s tales, and with the popular songs, dances, and traditions of classical and savage peoples. The results of this more recent comparison may be briefly stated. Poetry begins, as Aristotle says, in improvisation. Every man is his own poet, and, in moments of stronge motion, expresses himself in song.
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Queen Mary and Harold
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 试读
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes. One of Tennyson's most famous works is Idylls of the King (1859), a series of narrative poems based entirely on King Arthur and the Arthurian tales. During his career, Lord Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success even in his lifetime. His first publication entitled Poems by Two Brothers was published in 1827. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. In 1833, Tennyson published his second book of poetry, which included his well-known poem, The Lady of Shalott. In 1842 Tennyson published two volumes of Poems. The Princess, a satire of women's education, which came out in 1847, was also popular. It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, being appointed Poet Laureate until his death. Amongst his other works are Becket and Other Plays (1884) and Lady Clare (1884).
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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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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.