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When A Mans A Man
Harold Bell Wright 试读
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Daisy
Susan Warner 试读
"You are a foolish boy " said Aunt Gary. "Of course if you fill Daisy's head with notions, she will not get them out again. If you have anything of that sort to say, you had better say it where she will not hear.""Daisy has eyes -- and a head," said Preston.As soon as I was able for it Preston took me out for short walks and as I grew stronger he made the walks longer. The city was a strange place to me very unlike New York there was much to see and many a story to hear and Preston and I enjoyed ourselves. Aunt Gary was busy making visits, I think. There was a beautiful walk by the sea which I liked best of all and when it was not too cold my greatest pleasure was to sit there looking over the dark waters and sending my whole soul across them to that unknown spot where my father and mother were. "Home," that spot was to me. Preston did not know what I liked the Esplanade for he sometimes laughed at me for being poetic and meditative when I was only sending my heart over the water. But he was glad to please me in all that he could and whenever it was not too cold, our walks always took me there.
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Cab and Caboose The Story of a Railroad Boy
Kirk Munroe 试读
Kirk Munroe (1850-1930) was an American author. His works include: Wakulla: A Story of Adventure in Florida (1886), The Flamingo Feather (1887), Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines (1888), Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy (1892), Raftmates: A Story of the Great River (1893), Campmates: A Story of the Plains (1893), The Fur Seal's Tooth (1894), At War with Pontiac or, The Totem of the Bear (1895), The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines (1898), "Forward, March" A Tale of the Spanish-American War (1899) and Under the Great Bear (1900).
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A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco
King of England James IEdmund Goldsmid 试读
James VI and I (James Stuart) (1566-1625) was King of Scots, King of England, and King of Ireland. He was the first to style himself King of Great Britain. He was a talented scholar, writing works such as Daemonologie (1597), The True Law of Free Monarchies (1598), Basilikon Doron (1599), and A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco (1604). King James was known by the epithet "the wisest fool in Christendom."
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National Epics
Kate Milner RabbHarrison Fisher 试读
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Jack Mason, the Old Sailor
Francis C 试读
Francis Channing Woodworth (1812-1859), who wrote under the pseudonyms Uncle Frank and Theodore Thinker, was the author of Stories About Animals (1850), Stories About Birds (1851), Woodworth's Cabinet of Curious Things (1852), The Holiday Book (1853), Balloon (1854), Young American's Life of Fremont (1856), Jack Mason, The Old Sailor, Uncle Reuben and his Budget of Stories, Wreaths of Friendship, The Diving Bell or, Pearls to be Sought for, A Peep at our Neighbors and Willow Lane Stories. "Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him, and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to, he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen, until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well as anybody. "
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Macaria
Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans 试读
The town-clock was on the last stroke of twelve, the solitary candle measured but two inches from its socket, and as the summer wind rushed through the half-closed shutters, the melted tallow dripped slowly into the brightly-burnished brazen candlestick. The flickering light fell upon the pages of a ledger, and flashed fitfully in the face of the accountant, as he bent over his work. Sixteen years growth had given him unusual height and remarkable breadth of chest, and it was difficult to realize that the stature of manhood had been attained by a mere boy in years.
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A Beautiful Possibility
Black,Edith Ferguson 试读
In one of the fairest of the West Indian islands a simple but elegant villa lifted its gabled roofs amidst a bewildering wealth of tropical beauty. Brilliant birds flitted among the foliage gold and silver fishes darted to and fro in a large stone basin of a fountain which threw its glittering spray over the lawn in front of the house and on the vine-shaded veranda hammocks hung temptingly and low wicker chairs invited to repose.
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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens 试读
The tale begins on Christmas Eve seven years after the death of Ebenezer Scrooge's business partner Jacob Marley. Scrooge is established within the first stave (chapter) as a greedy and stingy businessman who has no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity, or benevolence. After being warned by Marley's ghost to change his ways, Scrooge is visited by three additional ghosts "each in its turn" who accompany him to various scenes with the hope of achieving his transformation. The first of the spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, takes Scrooge to the scenes of his boyhood and youth which stir the old miser's gentle and tender side by reminding him of a time when he was more innocent. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to several radically differing scenes (a joy-filled market of people buying the makings of Christmas dinner, the family feast of Scrooge's near-impoverished clerk Bob Cratchit, a miner's cottage, and a lighthouse among other sites) in order to evince from the miser a sense of responsibility for his fellow man. The third spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, harrows Scrooge with dire visions of the future if he does not learn and act upon what he has witnessed. Scrooge's own neglected and untended grave is revealed, prompting the miser to aver that he will change his ways in hopes of changing these "shadows of what may be." In the fifth and final stave, Scrooge awakens Christmas morning with joy and love in his heart, then spends the day with his nephew's family after anonymously sending a prize turkey to the Crachit home for Christmas dinner. Scrooge has become a different man overnight, and now treats his fellow men with kindness, generosity, and compassion, gaining a reputation as a man who embodies the spirit of Christmas. The story closes with the narrator confirming the validity, completeness, and permanence of Scrooge's transformation.
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Tales and Novels Volume 10
Maria Edgeworth 试读
Helen was the only daughter of colonel and Lady Anne Stanley; her parents had both died when she was too young to know her loss nor had she ever felt till now that she was an orphan for she had been adopted and brought up with the greatest tenderness by her uncle Dean Stanley a man of genius learning and sincere piety with the most affectionate heart and a highly cultivated understanding.
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Wagner the Wehr-Wolf
Reynolds,George W. M. 试读
Having bound Flora Francatelli to the chair, in the manner just described, the three nuns fell back a few paces, and the wretched girl felt the floor giving way under her. A dreadful scream burst from her lips as slowly, slowly the chair sank down while the working of hidden machinery in the roof, and the steady, monotonous revolution of wheels, sounded with ominous din upon her ears. An ice-stream seemed to pour over her soul.
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Idolatry A Romance
Julian Hawthorne 试读
Manetho's devotion to Helen seems unwavering; yet sometimes it is hard not to suspect a secret understanding between him and Salome. He has ceased to wear his diamond ring, and once we caught a diamond-sparkle from beneath the thick folds of lace which cover Helen's bosom; but, on the other hand, we fear his arm has been round the gypsy's graceful waist, and that she has learnt the secret of the private chamber. Is demure Manetho a flirt, or do his affections and his ambition run counter to each other? Helen would bring him the riches of this world, --but what should a clergyman care for such vanities?--while Salome is far the prettier, livelier, and more attractive woman of the two. Brother Hiero, whimsical and preoccupied, sees nothing of what is going on. He is an antiquary -- an Egyptologist -- and thereto his soul is wedded. He has no eyes nor ears for the loves of other people for one another.
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A Honeymoon in Space
George Chetwynd Griffith 试读
About eight o'clock on the morning of the 5th of November, 1900, those of the passengers and crew of the American liner St. Louis who happened, whether from causes of duty or of their own pleasure, to be on deck, had a very strange-in fact a quite unprece ...
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Nature and Human Nature
Thomas Chandler Haliburton 试读
In his latest work, the dean of religion and science tackles some of the thorniest issues posed by contemporary thought. Thoroughly conversant with current developments, Barbour offers astute analyses of the shape and import of evolutionary theory, indeterminacy, neuroscience, information theory, and artificial intelligence. He also addresses deeper philosophical issues and the idea of nature itself. Then with characteristic clarity and verve, Barbour advances to the interconnected religious questions at the core of contemporary debate: Are humans free? Does religion itself evolve? Are we immortal? Is God omnipotent? How does God act in nature? Barbour's creative and constructive work offers hope that newer religious insights and imperatives occasioned by deep interaction with science can address the environmental and global challenges posed by science's relentless advance.
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Ballad of Reading Gaol
王尔德 试读
Large format for easy reading. Perhaps the most famous poem from the famous dramatist, novelist and poet of the Victorian Era. A celebr ity of his time and still renowned for his barbed wit.The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.During his imprisonment, on Saturday 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge (ca. 1866 – 7 July 1896) had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged only 30 when executed. This had a profound effect on Wilde, inspiring the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".
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The Forge in the Forest
Charles George Douglas Roberts 试读
If you love travel stories and this is one of the best. It has magic and it pervades the very fabric of this world. a fierce young hero, and here is one who will never take the easy way out.
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A Popular Schoolgirl
Angela Brazil 试读
Ingred Ingred, old girl I say, Ingred Wherever have you taken yourself off to? shouted a boyish voice, as its owner, jumping an obstructing gooseberry bush, tore around the corner of the house from the kitchen garden on to the strip of rough lawn that
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Lovey Mary
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 试读
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Twenty Years After
Alexandre Dumas 试读
This titleincludes an introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kentat Canterbury. A year after the publication of "The ThreeMusketeers", Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in everyrespect of the original. In "Twenty Years After" the much belovedD'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to fight the forcesof evil. In the original novel they defeated Milady, a formidablefoe; now they need to face her vengeful son Mordaunt, as well ascountering the machinations of the sinister Cardinal Mazarin. Theiradventures also take them to England, where Cromwell is about totopple Charles I. Meanwhile, they must overcome the obstacles whichthe passing of time has placed between them. Rediscovering strengthin unity, they fight for Queen and country. "The Musketeer" novelswere a huge success in Dumas' own lifetime, and have lost none oftheir original appeal. Translated into many languages and adaptedfor cinema and television, they have helped to make Dumas arguablythe most successful exporter of French culture to the widerworld.
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The Red Romance Book
Andrew Lang 试读
Originally published in 1921. Contents include: How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf - The Disenchantment of the Werwolf - The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands - The Death of Gunnar - Njal's Burning - The Lady of Solace - Una and the Lion - How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon - Amys and Amyle - The Tale of the Cid - The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance - The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep - The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights - The Helmet of Mambrino - How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle - Don Quixote's Home-coming - The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies - How Oberon saved Huon - Havelok and Goldborough - Cupid and Psyche - Sir Bevis the Strong - Ogier the Dane - How the Ass became a Man again - Guy of Warwick - How Bradamante conquered the Wizard - The Ring of Bradamante - The Fulfilling of the Prophecy - The Knight of the Sun - How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father. Author: Andrew Lang Language: English Keywords: Literature (Novel) / Fairy Stories / High Adventure Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Is He Popenjoy
Anthony Trollope 试读
In mid-19th century England, an era full of celebrated novelists, Anthony Trollope was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed of them all. Even today, his Chronicles of Barsetshire series is widely read, as are his other novels, many of which deal with criticisms of English culture at the time, from its politics to its customs and norms.
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Rome in 1860
Edward Dicey 试读
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Helping Himself
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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Joan of Arc of the North Woods
Holman Day 试读
Holman Francis Day (1865-1935) was an American author, born at Vassalboro, Me., and a graduate of Colby College (class of 1887). In 1889-90 he was managing editor of the publications of the Union Publishing Company, Bangor, Me. He was also editor and proprietor of the Dexter Eastern Gazette, a special writer for the Lewiston (Me. ) Journal, Maine representative of the Boston Herald, and managing editor of the Lewiston Daily Sun. In 1901-04 he was military secretary to Gov. John F. Hill of Maine. His works include Up in Maine (1901), Pine Tree Ballads (1902), Kin O'Ktaadn (1904), Rainy Day Railroad War (1906), The Eagle Badge (1908), King Spruce (1908), The Ramrodders (1910), The Skipper and the Skipped (1911), The Red Lane: A Romance of the Border (1912), The Landloper (1915), Blow the Man Down (1916), Kavanagh's Clare (1917), The Rider of the King Log (1919), All-Wool Morrison (1920), When Egypt Went Broke (1921), and Joan of Arc of the North Woods (1922).
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If Any Man Sin
Hiram Alfred Cody 试读
The author of the book is Hiram Alfred Cody,there are 32 chapters, is a book worth reading.
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A Crime of the Under-seas
Guy Newell Boothby 试读
This collection is named for Guy Boothby's "A Crime of the Underseas" but there are other tales in this book as well -- "The Phantom Stockman," "The Treasure of Sacramento Nick," "Into the Outer Darkness," "The Story of Tommy Dodd and 'The Rooster'," "Quod Erat Demonstrandum," "Cupid and Psyche," "Misplaced Affections," "In Great Waters," "Mr. Aristocrat," and finally "This Man and This Woman." Boothby was and still is a delightful writer. See for yourself"Callingway was tracking an absconding Argentine Bank Manager, and, as it afterwards transpired, was, when we came in contact with him, on the point of getting possession of the money with which the other had left the country. Needless to say he was not a Government servant, nor were the Banking Company in question aware of his endeavors. Lastly there was myself, Christopher Collon, aged thirty-six, whose walk in life was even stranger, if such a thing were possible, than those of the two men I have just described. Had I been the possessor of a smart London office, a private secretary, and half a dozen corresponding clerks, I should probably have called myself a private detective . . ."
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The Mystery of Mary
Grace Livingston Hill 试读
On a dark New York night, a chance encounter with a mysterious woman changes the course of Tyron Dunham's life forever. Lost and alone, Tyron cannot help but long to protect her from the unknown danger that stalks her at every turn. When the beautiful and mysterious "Mary" suddenly disappears and with only a few clues to lead him, Tyron vows to find the woman who has occupied his mind and stolen his heart. Can he save her from the diabolical schemes of her unknown enemy or will she be forced to disappear from his life forever Lamp Post is proud to present it's Fiction:Inspired series - timeless, inspirational books for all lovers of fiction who want to feel good about the books they read. Enjoy historical and contemporary stories of Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi, Mystery, and more
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Ezra Pound 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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Little Susys Little Servants
Elizabeth Prentiss 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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Rays Daughter A Story of Manila
Charles King 试读
Charles King wrote this historical novel in a captivating, informative manner. It reminds you every day of the significance of the locations you previously took for granted. Things may have changed, but the names are still here and the ways and mores of the people are still apparent.
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Holy Bible(KJV)
King James 试读
The Bible is a collection of texts sacred in Judaism and Christianity. It is an example of a collection of scriptures written at different times by different authors in different locations. Jews and Christians consider the Bible to be a product of divine inspiration or an authoritative record of the relationship between God and humans.
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A Woman Named Smith
Marie Conway Oemler 试读
When Sophy Smith inherits a house from her Great-Aunt Sophronisba Scarlett, there is one condition. She must live in it. If she tried to sell it or rent it, she would forfeit all rights to the entire estate. So with great trepidation, Sophy Smith, along with her dear friend, Alicia, moves from the busy New York life to the slow drawn out days of South Carolina. Despite hearing music when there was no musician and suggestions that the house was haunted, they were both determined to stay at the Hyndes House. But when the house servants find an old statue buried beneath a tree, the mysterious life of the old witchy Sophronisba Scarlett begins to unfold.
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Sky Island
Lyman Frank Baum 试读
"Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies" by Lyman Frank Baum is a classic children's fairy tale! Button-Bright finds a magical umbrella that can fly him anywhere in the world.
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The Enchanted Island of Yew
Lyman Frank Baum 试读
Yew is a land with knights and castles and fairies located in the middle of the sea. In the east of Yew lies the land of Dawna; in the west, "tinted rose and purple by the setting sun," is Auriel. In the south lies the kingdom of Plenta, "where fruits and flowers abounded;" and in the north is Heg and in the center lies Spor a bandit land, ruled by the mysterious King Terribus, and populated by "giants with huge clubs, and dwarfs who threw flaming darts, and the stern Gray Men of Spor, who were the most frightful of all." L. Frank Baum was an author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote 55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and more.
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A Flock of Girls and Boys
Nora Perry 试读
"Who are the Pelhams?" Miss Agnes Brendon gave a little upward lift to her small pert nose as she exclaimed: "Tilly Morris, you don't mean to say that you don't know who the Pelhams are?" Tilly, thus addressed, lifted up her nose as she replied,—(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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A House-Boat on the Styx
John Kendrick Bangs 试读
When a house-boat arrives in Hades, Charon, ferryman of the River Styx is startled -- and annoyed Eleven more stories follow. Each features various souls from history and mythology. A classic fantasy.
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A Kidnapped Santa Claus
Lyman Frank Baum 试读
Try as they might, the Daemons of the Caves could not tempt old Santa Claus in any way. Quite the contrary, his cheery laughter disconcerted the evil ones and showed to them the folly of their undertaking.It's well known that no harm can come to Santa Claus while he is in the Laughing Valley, for the fairies, and ryls, and knooks all protect him. But on Christmas Eve he drives his reindeer out into the big world, carrying a sleighload of toys and pretty gifts to the children. Christmas Eve is the one time when his enemies have a chance to injure him. So the Daemons made their plans and awaited the arrival of Christmas Eve.Santa bridled his reindeer to the sleigh, and took to the air -- when suddenly a strange thing happened: a rope shot through the moonlight and a big noose that was in the end of it settled over the arms and body of Santa Claus and drew tight. Before he could resist or even cry out he was jerked from the seat of the sleigh and tumbled head foremost into a snowbank, while the reindeer rushed onward with the load of toys and carried it quickly out of sight and sound.Such a surprising experience confused old Santa for a moment, and when he had collected his senses he found that the wicked Daemons had pulled him from the snowdrift and bound him tightly with many coils of the stout rope. And then they carried the kidnapped Santa Claus away to their mountain, where they thrust the prisoner into a secret cave and chained him to the rocky wall so that he could not escape.
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Gone with the Wind 飘(英文原版)
玛格丽特·米切尔 试读
美国南北战争爆发,塔拉庄园的干金斯嘉丽一夜之间告别快乐无忧的生活,困苦、伤痛、颠沛流离的日子席卷而来。面对残酷的现实,斯嘉丽变得成熟、坚强,想尽一切办法挣扎求存。然而,她的固执也让她错失了爱人…遥望瑞德离去的背影,她仍未放弃希望:“毕竟,明天又是新的一天。”
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Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Herman Melville 试读
IN old times authors were proud of the privilege of dedicating their works to Majesty. A right noble custom, which we of Berkshire must revive. For whether we will or no, Majesty is all around us here in Berkshire, sitting as in a grand Congress of Vienna of majestical hill-tops, and eternally challenging our homage. But since the majestic mountain, Greylock—my own more immediate sovereign lord and king—hath now, for innumerable ages, been the one grand dedicatee of the earliest rays of all the Berkshire mornings, I know not how his Imperial Purple Majesty (royal-born: Porphyrogenitus) will receive the dedication of my own poor solitary ray. Nevertheless, forasmuch as I, dwelling with my loyal neighbors, the Maples and the Beeches, in the amphitheater over which his central majesty presides, have received his most bounteous and unstinted fertilizations, it is but meet, that I here devoutly kneel, and render up my gratitude, whether, thereto, The Most Excellent Purple Majesty of Greylock benignantly incline his hoary crown or no.
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Queen Victoria:维多利亚女王传(英文版)
利顿·斯特雷奇 试读
英国历史上有两个时期被认为是英国的黄金时期,一个是16世纪伊丽莎白女王在位时期,那是资本主义开始发展的时期;另一个就是19世纪维多利亚女王在位时期,那是英国资本主义发展鼎盛时期。后面的这个时期,历史上称之为维多利亚时代,维多利亚女王就成了这个时代的象征。本书为全英文版,记述了女王的一生,反映了女王的精神品质的形成和发展过程,读者不但可以看到一位被称为“欧洲的祖母”、有血有肉的女王,同时也可以看到以她的名字命名的那个时代。维多利亚女王(Alexandrina Victoria 1819年—1901年)英国历史上在位时间最长的君主,在位时间长达64年。她是第一个以“大不列颠和爱尔兰联合王国女王和印度女皇”名号称呼的英国君主。她在位的64年期间(1837-1901年),是英国最强盛的所谓“日不落帝国”时期。女王统治时期,在英国历史上被称为维多利亚时代。她在位的60余年正值英国自由资本主义由方兴未艾到鼎盛、进而过渡到垄断资本主义的转变时期,经济、文化空前繁荣,君主立宪制得到充分发展,使维多利亚女王成了英国和平与繁荣的象征。
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消灭痤疮:知道这些就够了
戴尔·沃勒 试读
痤疮是一种常见的皮肤炎症性疾病,以粉刺、丘疹、脓疱、结节、囊肿及瘢痕为其特征。 本书介绍了痤疮的形成、类型,让读者对此有全面的认识,从而在日常生活细节上防范痤疮的生长,不再被痤疮困扰。
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百年哈佛经典第3卷:培根论说文集及新阿特兰蒂斯(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第33卷:古代和现代著名航海与旅行记(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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Animal Farm 动物农庄(英文版)
乔治·奥威尔 试读
马诺尔农庄一只名叫老梅杰的猪在提出了“人类剥削动物,动物须革命”的理论之后死去,几个月后,农庄里掀起了一场由猪领导的革命,原来的剥削者——主人琼斯先生被赶走,动物们实现了“当家作主”的愿望,尝到了革命果实的甘美,马诺尔农庄被更名为“动物农庄”,还制定了七戒。然而不久,两只领头的猪为了权力而互相倾轧,胜利的一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸,猪们逐渐侵占了其他动物的劳动成果,成为新的特权阶级,“所有动物一律平等”的原则被修正为“但有些动物比其他动物更平等”,动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。
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Death Comes for the Archbishop 大主教之死(英文版)
薇拉·凯瑟 试读
薇拉·凯瑟的代表作《大主教之死》被视为一部历史题材的传奇小说,也是凯瑟“精心构思的作品”。《大主教之死》讲述了兰塔主教与其助手及友人维勇神父在荒蛮的新墨西哥主教教区传教过程中的传奇经历。两人以真诚的友谊、智力上的伙伴关系以及灵魂中的亲密感,写就了一份毕生的生死盟约。此电子书为全英文版。
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Fathers and Children
Ivan Turgenev 试读
Examines the conflict of attitudes in mid-19th-century Russia, as distant pre-echoes of the Revolution continue to rumble through the remote rural landscape. The story follows the Kirsanov family, representatives of the old regime, and the violent character of the anti-hero Bazarov.
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The Iron Game A Tale of the War
Henry Francis Keenan 试读
When expulsion from college, in his junior years, was visited upon Jack Sprague, he straightway became the hero of Acredale. And, though the grave faculty had felt constrained to vindicate college authority, it was well known that they sympathized with the infraction of decorum that obliged them to put this mark of disgrace upon one of the most promising of their students.
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The Laurel Bush An Old-Fashioned Love Story
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 试读
It was a very ugly bush indeed; that is, so far as any thing in nature can be really ugly. It was lopsided—having on the one hand a stunted stump or two, while on the other a huge heavy branch swept down to the gravel-walk. It had a crooked gnarled trunk or stem, hollow enough to entice any weak-minded bird to build a nest there—only it was so near to the ground, and also to the garden gate. Besides, the owners of the garden, evidently of practical mind, had made use of it to place between a fork in its branches a sort of letter-box—not the government regulation one, for twenty years ago this had not been thought of; but a rough receptacle, where, the house being a good way off, letters might be deposited, instead of; as hitherto, in a hole in the trunk—near the foot of the tree, and under shelter of its mass of evergreen leaves.(Pick from the first paragraph)
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A Woman of Thirty
Honoré de Balzac 试读
By the French author,who,along with Flaubert,is generally regarded as a founding—father of realism in European fiction.His large output of works,collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine),consists of 95 finished works (stories,novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works.His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France.They are placed in a variety of settings,with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
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Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis 试读
Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to re examine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire remains an ever-relevant tale of an individual caught in the machinery of modern life.
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Daisy Miller
Henry James 试读
Famous novella chronicles a young American girl’s willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a narrative rich in psychological and social insight.
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Eureka-A Prose Poem
Edgar Allan Poe 试读
Turning his immense intellect and remarkable artistic flair to the most challenging concepts of all - that of the creation of the world, its continued existence and its ultimate end - Poe has created a truly extraordinary work. In his strange blend of poetry and scientific treaty, fact and frenzied speculation, he displays amazing prescience and foresight, anticipating some of the key scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
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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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The Book of Nonsense
Edward Lear 试读
Edward Lear, the 20th child of a London stockbroker, entered the household of Lord Stanley as little more than a servant, but his sense of humour soon made him welcome above stairs and he began to amuse the children with comic drawings and rhymes. This book was first published in 1846.
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The Golden Bough
James George Frazer 试读
A monumental study of comparative folklore and religion, THE GOLDEN BOUGH was originally published in two volumes in 1890, grew to 12 volumes for the third edition in 1915, then abridged by the author into this one-volume edition in 1922. Drawing on the beliefs and customs of ancient European civilizations and primitive cultures throughout the world, James Frazer's work continues to be an important reference.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories.
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1492
Mary Johnston 试读
1492: The Year Our World Began by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto traces modernity to its roots in the year 1492. It focuses on specific events of 1492 (including the Renaissance and voyages of Columbus) which Fernandez-Armesto views as crucial to the development of modern ways of thinking and the physical state of the world today. Exploring how the creation of the earliest surviving globe showed a world shrinking with advances in cartography as a result of exploration, Fernandez-Armesto shows how people, separated by millions of years of geographical change and evolution in terms culture and ecology, began to set out to chart the places they visited, shifting the balance of global power west and establishing a global trade which prefigured that of today, while China marked time. While civilizations were rediscovering one another, however, further divisions emerged as Granada, the last Muslim-ruled state in Western Europe, fell to Spanish Christians confining Islam to the southern shore of the Mediterranean and the Sahara. Meanwhile, Jews expelled from Spain were making their way to destinations around the Mediterranean and Russia was expanding North. With confessional, sovereign states on the rise and challenging the pluralistic empires of the past, ideological differences were more than ever becoming a pretext for war. Power and economic concerns were at the forefront in Florence and Rome, and science and secular clashed with the supernatural. 1492: The Year Our World Began explores a crucial, yet largely neglected point in history and demonstrates how events during this year and the surrounding period began the globalisation and hegemony of the West and the shaping of power relations which we see today.
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A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2
John Miller Dow Meiklejohn 试读
Immigrants from Denmark and NW Germany arrived in Britain in the 5th and 6th Centuries A.D., speaking in related dialects belonging to the Germanic and Teutonic branches of the Indo-European language family. Today, English is most closely related to Flemish, Dutch, and German, and is somewhat related to Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. Icelandic, unchanged for 1,000 years, is very close to Old English.