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Personality Isn‘t Permanent
Benjamin Hardy 试读
In Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our “true selves” are to be discovered, and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead.
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Cam Jansen: Cam Jansen and the Mystery Writer Mystery #27
David A. Adler 试读
Cam Jansen, her friends, and their parents are at school for a book fair. Everyone?s favorite mystery writer, Jim E. Winter, is also there signing books. During the signing, Danny?s parents discover their car is missing. Was it stolen? Jim E. Winter thinks he can solve the mystery. But will super sleuth Cam click her way to the thief first? Perfect for beginning chapter book readers, Cam Jansen continues to win new fans.
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Fashion Illustration Art
Jennifer Lilya 试读
Create fabulous fashion moments! Drawing on 20+ years of fashion illustrating experience, Jennifer Lilya uses acrylic paint and black ink to show you how to draw the clothes, poses and attitudes behind runway-worthy art. Follow her expert tips, techniques and step-by-step illustrations to draw girls that rock the look, from flirty and fun to strong and sexy.
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The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King
Max Brallier 试读
Told in a mixture of text and black-and-white illustration, this is the perfect series for any kid who's ever dreamed of starring in their own comic book or video game.
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Dead Voices
Katherine Arden 试读
Having survived sinister scarecrows and the malevolent smiling man in Small Spaces, newly minted best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready to spend a relaxing winter break skiing together with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. But when a snowstorm sets in, causing the power to flicker out and the cold to creep closer and closer, the three are forced to settle for hot chocolate and board games by the fire.
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The Zoologist‘s Guide to the Galaxy
Arik Kershenbaum 试读
From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space.Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction.
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Tales From Shakespeare
Charles Lamb 试读
A great way to enjoy twenty of Shakespeare’s timeless plays, this volume is a retelling of the stories in prose by the famous nineteenth-century brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb. Keeping Shakespeare’s own words whenever possible but making the plots and language easily accessible, this entertaining and readable collection has enthralled both children and adults ever since it first appeared in 1807.
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Dark Fires
Brenda Joyce 试读
"He murdered his wife," they whispered. Nicholas Bragg, Earl of Dragmore, was notorious--even after a British court found him innocent. Now they called him Lord of Darkness, as much for his rakish good looks as for his black reputation.She was an innocent at passion's gate. Arriving uninvited at the massive stone manor, she shivered with terror--and excitement. Jane Barclay was his ward. Her sunny, innocent nature was in violent contrast to his hot temper.
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Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer 试读
McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention.
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On Writing
Eudora Welty 试读
Eudora Welty was one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary figures. For as long as students have been studying her fiction as literature, writers have been looking to her to answer the profound questions of what makes a story good, a novel successful, a writer an artist. On Writing presents the answers in seven concise chapters discussing the subjects most important to the narrative craft, and which every fiction writer should know, such as place, voice, memory, and language.
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The Autobiography and Other Writings
Benjamin Franklin 试读
Here are selections from Franklin newspaper articles, from the sage wisdom of Poor Richard Almanac, from his entertaining letters, from his scientific essays, from his political and revolutionary writings, plus a generous sampling of his famous aphorisms, poems, and humor. And, most important, here is a newly edited text of one of the most vital and important works of American literature, the Autobiography.
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The Pelican Brief
John Grisham 试读
To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder—a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust—an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate—to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered.
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Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood 试读
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time).A Netflix original miniseries.It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress.
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The Mother Tongue
Teri Holbrook 试读
Gale Grayson has come back to Statlers Cross, Georgia, to write, hoping to find in her quiet hometown the strength to confront the memories and mysteries of her husband's life and death. But the delicate balance in the rural community has been altered by outsiders: a family of immigrants and a visiting professor who hopes to study the area's most isolated residents -- families with a dialect and rules of their own.
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Patron Saints of Nothing
Randy Ribay 试读
Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story.
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What Is the Story of The Wizard of Oz?
Kirsten Anderson 试读
When L. Frank Baum wrote about the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy and her pet dog in the magical Land of Oz in 1900, he wanted to create a beautiful story based on the America he knew and treasured. But he had no idea his book would become a bestseller and grow into the cultural phenomenon that it is today.
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The Once and Future King
T. H. White 试读
Once upon a time, a young boy called Wart” was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn possibly imagine. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values.
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte 试读
Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of Thornfield Hall. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.
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Everything Is Figureoutable
Marie Forleo 试读
If you're having trouble solving a problem or reaching a dream, the problem isn't you. It's that you haven't yet installed the one belief that changes everything.Marie's mom once told her, "Nothing in life is that complicated. You can do whatever you set your mind to if you roll up your sleeves. Everything is figureoutable."
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A Columbus of Space
Garrett Putman Serviss 试读
We simply listened in silence for what could we say The facts were more eloquent than any words, and called for no commentary. Here we "were," out in the middle of space and "there" was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud. At least we knew where we were if we didn't quite understand how we had got there. . . .
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THE TIME MACHINE
H. G. Wells 试读
The story that launched Wells's successful career-the classic tale of the Time Traveler and the extraordinary world he discovers in the far distant future. A haunting portrayal of Darwin's evolutionary theory carried to a terrible conclusion.
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Grimm‘s Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm,Wilhelm Grimm 试读
Compact and affordable, this collection of 43 deliciously dark fairy and folk tales features "Rapunzel," "Hänsel and Grethel," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Cinderella," "Little Snow-White," "The Golden Goose," "The Frog-King, or Iron Henry," "The Twelve Brothers," "Little Red-Cap," "The Wolf and Seven Little Kids," and "The Fisherman and His Wife."
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Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire 试读
Voltaire was a colorful figure in Paris in the time just before both France and America began turbulent revolutions for their freedom. Voltaire was a 17th century writer philosopher and supporter of social reform. He spoke openly in defense of civil liberties and freedom of religion. His satires often poked fun at the Catholic Church and other French institutions. Voltaire along with other authors of the Enlightenment period was influential in the American and French Revolutions. Voltaire was a prolific letter writer having written over 21,000 letters. As a young outspoken poet in Paris, Voltaire was often in trouble with the crown. An excerpt from the preface reads, "It is only really by enlightened people that this book can be read the ordinary man is not made for such knowledge philosophy will never be his lot. Those who say that there are truths which must be hidden from the people, need not be alarmed the people do not read they work six days of the week, and on the seventh go to the inn. In a word, philosophical works are made only for philosophers, and every honest man must try to be a philosopher, without pluming himself on being one. This alphabet is extracted from the most estimable works which are not commonly within the reach of the many and if the author does not always mention the sources of his information, as being well enough known to the learned, he must not be suspected of wishing to take the credit for other people's work, because he himself preserves anonymity, according to this word of the Gospel: "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth."
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The Federalist Papers
James Madison,John Jay,Alexander Hamilton 试读
Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.
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Martin Chuzzlewit
Charles Dickens 试读
The distinctive combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from most of Dickens's other works. The storyline alternates between Britain and the United States in ways which highlight the failings of both societies.
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Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain 试读
Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless collection of humorous anecdotes and folktales, and a unique glimpse into Twain's life before he began to write. Written in a prose style that has been hailed as among the greatest in English literature, Life on the Mississippi established Twain as not only the most popular humorist of his time but also America's most profound chronicler of the human comedy.
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott 试读
Timeless, heartwarming tale of the four young March sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — their mother Marmee, and other memorable characters. Generations of readers have enjoyed this story of the joys, heartaches, and triumphs of a warm, close-knit family, poor in material wealth, but rich in love and devotion to one another.
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A Journal of the Plague Year
Daniel Defoe 试读
Classic 1722 account of the epidemic that ravaged England nearly 60 years earlier. Defoe used his considerable talents as a journalist and novelist to reconstruct — historically and fictionally — the Great Plague of London in 1664-65. Written as an eyewitness report, the novel abounds in memorable and realistic details.
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A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain 试读
Cast in the form of a waling tour through Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy, Mark Twain's account of traveling in Europe (1880) sparkles with his shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture. A TRAMP ABROAD showcases Twain's unparalleled ability to integrate humorous sketches, autobiographical tidbits, and historical anecdotes in a consistently entertaining narrative. Illustrated by Twain.
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Every Man in His Humor
Ben Jonson 试读
Renaissance comedy. Complete text, modernized English, critical and explanatory notes and Introduction.From the Yale ben Jonson edition.
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Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift 试读
The book is written in a captain Gulliver monologue mode, mainly describes the captain Gulliver in Lilliput, Brobdingnag strange experiences, flying island and "Hui Si" in china. Through the form of the novel, in the first half of eighteenth Century British Society of satire and criticism of comprehensive, thought characteristic has distinctive democratic.
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Jack and Jill
Louisa May Alcott 试读
A children's classic from the author of Little Woman. Two inseparable friends are injured in a sledding accident but resolve to be positive and their friendship becomes closer than ever.
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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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The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
High above the Amazon rainforest lies the hidden dangers of a lost world...Ed Malone, a reporter for the London Journal , is convinced by the larger-than-life Professor Challenger to join him on a scientific expedition to explore a hidden plateau in the depths of the Amazon, that remains frozen in a time when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate, this lost world holds great danger for the expedition team, as they become embroiled in a war between a tribe of Indians and brutal ape-men, and surrounded by terrifying prehistoric creatures.
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The War of the Worlds
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black gas and burning rays, and feast on the warm blood of trapped, still-living human prey. The forces of the Earth, however, may prove harder to beat than they at first appear.
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A Book of Scoundrels
Charles Whibley 试读
Charles Whibley (1859-1930) was an English literary journalist and author. The Introduction to A Book of Scoundrels states, "How shall you contemplate with indifference the career of an artist whom genius or good guidance has compelled to exercise his peculiar skill, to indulge his finer aptitudes A masterly theft rises in its claim to respect high above the reprobation of the moralist. The scoundrel, when once justice is quit of him, has a right to be appraised by his actions, not by their effect and he dies secure in the knowledge that he is commonly more distinguished, if he be less loved, than his virtuous contemporaries." People discussed in the work include Captain Hind, Moll Cutpurse and Jonathan Wild, Ralph Briscoe, Thomas Pureney, Vaux, George Barrington, Deacon Brodie and Charles Peace, The man in the grey suit, and Monsieur L'abbe.
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A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States
Clément Juglar 试读
This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again worldwide.
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A Chance Acquaintance
William Dean Howells 试读
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.
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A Child-World
James Whitcomb Riley 试读
James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American writer and poet, known as the "Hoosier Poet" and the "Children's Poet." He started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal. His verse tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one-thousand poems that Riley published, over half are in dialect. Claiming that "simple sentiments that come from the heart" were the secret of his success. He satisfied the public with down-to-earth verse that was "heart high. " Although he was a bestselling author in the early 1900s and earned a steady income from royalties, he also travelled and gave public readings of his poetry. His favourite authors were Robert Burns and Charles Dickens, and he himself befriended bestselling Indiana authors such as Booth Tarkington, George Ade and Meredith Nicholson. Many of his works were illustrated by the popular illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. His works include: Afterwhiles (1887), Rhymes of Childhood (1890), The Flying Islands of The Night (1892), A Child- World (1897) and Riley Love-Lyrics (1899).
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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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Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens 试读
In this, his final completed novel, Dickens weaves together many stories, uniting them in the symbolism of the wealth which derives from a rubbish tip.
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 试读
Tells the story of Robinson in distress after the sea, then in the island's experience. He is not satisfied with the ordinary life of the father of the hand, then go out sailing, several rounds of distress. Once, he was captured by the moors, slave; fled to Brazil, he became a planter, on their way to Africa buy slaves, he again suffered shipwreck, drifting to a no human habitation on the island, spent a full twenty-eight years. Where, by virtue of his strong will to overcome their own, to overcome the hard natural conditions, with labor and wisdom of reform of the environment around, he is hunting, planting crops, livestock, save the savage "Friday"...... Finally, he helped a captain to quell the rebellion, and finally returned to his hometown, a rich and carefree life.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
This splendid collection of mysteries carries readers back to a gaslit era, when literature's greatest detective team lived on 222B Baker Street, London. The brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson, investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Featured tales include several of the author's personal favourites: The Speckled Band , The Red-Headed League , The Five Orange Pips , and A Scandal in Bohemia . This title is a reprint of the Penguin, New York, 1994 edition.
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The Call of the Wild
Jack London 试读
In this quintessential adventure story, Jack London takes readers on an arduous journey through the forbidding Alaskan landscape during the gold rush of the 1890s. Buck, a rangy mixed breed used to a comfortable, sun-filled life as a family dog, is stolen by a greedy opportunist and sold to dog traffickers. In no time, Buck finds himself on a team of sled dogs run ragged in the harsh winter of the Klondike. In a climate where every day is a savage struggle for survival, the last traces of Buck's soft, pampered existence are erased as his dormant primordial urges -- deeply embedded for generations -- are brutally awakened.
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The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 试读
The Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. Embroiled in the intrigues which centre around the ruling classes, he emerges as a combination of the Christian ideal and Dostoevsky's own views. The world created by the ruling classes cannot accommodate the goodness of this idiot.
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Backlog Studies
Charles Dudley Warner 试读
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri studied law at the University of Pennsylvania practiced in Chicago was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870). Amongst his other works are Saunterings (1872), Backlog Studies (1873), Being a Boy (1878), In the Wilderness (1878), Captain John Smith (1881), Washington Irving (1881), A Little Journey in the World (1889), As We Were Saying (1891) and That Fortune (1899).
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Yeast:a Problem
Charles Kingsley 试读
This book was written nearly twelve years ago; and so many things have changed since then, that it is hardly fair to send it into the world afresh, without some notice of the improvement—if such there be—which has taken place meanwhile in those southern counties of England, with which alone this book deals.
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Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary
Henry Sweet 试读
Although the idea of scanning and printing out-of-print books is a noble one, this particular effort is criminal. It takes an important text and turns it into a piece of garbage.
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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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Back Home
Eugene Wood 试读
Shining star Oliver Jeffers is back with this star spangled inter-galactic adventure tale in space! Now available in gorgeous miniature hardback edition.One day a boy finds an aeroplane in his cupboard. Up, up, up and away he flies, high into the sky. Whizzing past clouds, stars and planets until suddenly, he runs out of petrol!Miles from earth, the boy crashes into the moon and waits. Just as he is beginning to get cold and lonely, a friendly martian appears from the darkness, also with a broken aircraft.Together they come up with a super plan to float the boy back down to earth to collect his toolbox.Can the boy find his way back home safely and will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend?
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Kai Lungs Golden Hours
Ernest Bramah 试读
Kai Lung is a wandering storyteller accused of treason—and like Scheherazade of The One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, he must rely upon his silver tongue to escape conviction. With the help of beautiful Hwa Mei, who has the attention of evil Ming Shu, Kai tries to regain his freedom by spinning a series of entertaining tales that intrigue his captor. Laced with romance and adventure, spiced with fantasy and the supernatural, these stories will transport readers to a mandarin's court in ancient China.
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Edmund Dulacs Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
Edmund Dulac 试读
The old wife sang merrily as she sat in the inglenook stirring the soup, for she had never felt so sad. Many, many years had come and gone, leaving the weight of their winters on her shoulders and the touch of snow on her hair without ever bringing her a little child.
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Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
Archibald Forbes 试读
We were a kind of happy family at the Hagen; the tone of the coterie was that of the easiest intimacy into which every newcomer slid quite naturally.
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Lectures on Evolution
Thomas Henry Huxley 试读
The French expedition to Egypt had called the attention of learned men to the wonderful store of antiquities in that country, and there had been brought back to France numerous mummified corpses of the animals which the ancient Egyptians revered and preserved, and which, at a reasonable computation, must have lived not less than three or four thousand years before the time at which they were thus brought to light.
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Oh, You Tex!
William MacLeod Raine 试读
It definately was a fun read for anyone who enjoys stories of the old west and grew up in the era when we read Zane Grey and later Louis LAmour. Tes is an oldfashioned hero, the kind who is self effacing and competent without bragging. There are some laughs in here, and a sweet romance that kinda keeps you guessing for quite a while! Settle in and enjoy "O, You Tex!"
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Love and hatred
Marie Belloc Lowndes 试读
Laura Pavely did not raise her voice, but there was trembling pain, as well as an almost incredulous surprise, in the way she uttered the five words which may mean so much—or so little.
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Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories
John Fox 试读
John Fox, Jr. (1862-1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He graduated in 1883 before becoming a reporter in New York City. After working for both New York Times and the New York Sun, he published a successful serialization of his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in Century magazine in 1892. Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional novel, The Kentuckians in 1898. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders. " Six years later he travelled to the Orient to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works.
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Old Greek Stories
James Baldwin 试读
Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious, beautiful, and grand. They have become so incorporated into our language and thought, and so interwoven with our literature, that we could not do away with them now if we would. They are a portion of our heritage from the distant past, and they form perhaps as important a part of our intellectual life as they did of that of the people among whom they originated.
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Michael, Brother of Jerry
Jack London 试读
Very early in my life, possibly because of the insatiable curiosity that was born in me, I came to dislike the performances of trained animals. It was my curiosity that spoiled for me this form of amusement, for I was led to seek behind the performance in order to learn how the performance was achieved.