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Ruth
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 试读
"If you want to whip me, uncle, you may do it. I don't much mind." Put in this form, it was impossible to carry out his intentions and so Mr. Benson told the lad he might go-that he would speak to him another time. Leonard went away, more subdued in spirit than if he had been whipped. Sally lingered for a moment. She stopped to add: "I think it's for them without sin to throw stones at a poor child, and cut up good laburnum branches to whip him. I only do as my betters do, when I call Leonard's mother Mrs. Denbigh." The moment she had said this she was sorry it was an ungenerous advantage after the enemy had acknowledged himself defeated. Mr. Benson dropped his head upon his hands, and hid his face, and sighed deeply. -Chapter XIX: "After Five Years" As interest in 19th-century English literature by women has been reinvigorated by a resurgence in popularity of the works of Jane Austen, readers are rediscovering a writer whose fiction, once widely beloved, fell by the wayside. British novelist ELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELL (1810-1865)-whose books were sometimes initially credited to, simply, "Mrs. Gaskell"-is now recognized as having created some of the most complex and progressive depictions of women in the literature of the age, and is today justly celebrated for her precocious use of the regional dialect and slang of England's industrial North. Ruth-Gaskell's third novel, first published in three volumes in 1853-is notable as one of the rare instances in the fiction of the era of a positive portrayal of unwed motherhood and for its thematic condemnation of the social stigma of illegitimacy. The tale of a young woman seduced and abandoned by her lover, then taken in and protected by a kindly minister and his sister, it is remarkably progressive for the period. Friend and literary companion to the likes of Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bront-the latter of whom Gaskell wrote an acclaimed 1857 biography-Gaskell is today being restored to her rightful place alongside them
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The Chimes
Charles Dickens 试读
Here are not many people -- and as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again -- there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don't mean at sermon-time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, once or twice), but in the night, and alone. A great multitude of persons will be violently astonished, I know, by this position, in the broad bold Day. But it applies to Night. It must be argued by night, and I will undertake to maintain it successfully on any gusty winter's night appointed for the purpose, with any one opponent chosen from the rest, who will meet me singly in an old churchyard, before an old church-door and will previously empower me to lock him in, if needful to his satisfaction, until morning. For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors . . .
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The Pink Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
41 Japanese, Scandinavian, and Sicilian tales: The Snow-Queen, The Cunning Shoemaker, The Two Brothers, The Merry Wives, The Man without a Heart, and more. 69 illustrations.
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The Song of Roland
Anonymous 试读
One of the crowning achievements of medieval artistic genius, The Song of Roland tells the story of the battle of Roncesvals in 778.At the center of this heroic epic is Roland, the supreme embodiment of the chivalric ideal who leads his men into combat and fights valiantly to the death.As Robert Harrison, the translator of this acclaimed edition, explains, "The carefully balanced structure of The Song of Roland is designed like a folding mirror to reflect the battle between Good and Evil at all levels of meaning."
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The Soul of Man under Socialism
王尔德 试读
The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes. Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin a great poet, like Keats a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand 'under the shelter of the wall, ' as Plato puts it, and so to realise the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world.
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The Yellow Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
American Indian, Russian, German, Icelandic, French, and other stories -- 48 in all -- among them "The Tinder-box," "The Nightingale," and "How to Tell a True Princess." 104 illustrations.
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson 试读
Following the demise of bloodthirsty buccaneer Captain Flint, youngJim Hawkins finds himself with the key to a fortune. For he hasdiscovered a map that will lead him to the fabled Treasure Island.But a host of villains, wild beasts and deadly savages standbetween him and the stash of gold. Not to mention the most infamouspirate ever to sail the high seas...With a wonderfully funnyintroduction by award-winning author Eoin Colfer, "Treasure Island"is one of the twelve brilliant classic stories being relaunched in"Puffin Classics" in March 2008.
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Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll 试读
It tells the story of a girl named Alice into a fantasy world from rabbit dry, encountered many can speak like organisms and are generally activities cards, finally found is a dream……
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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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As You Like It
William Shakespeare 试读
Includes the unabridged text of Shakespeare's classic play plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes scene-by-scene summaries, explanations and discussions of the plot, question-and-answer sections, author biography, analytical paper topics, list of characters, bibliography, and more.
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Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen 试读
Powerful psychological drama (1881) exposes hypocrisy of social conventions and society's moral codes. Mrs. Helen Alving is haunted by her husband's infidelities and the disease he has passed to their son. Ultimately, she is forced to acknowledge the ghosts that have kept her from living just for the joy of life.
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman 试读
Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855, contained twelve long untitled poems, but Whitman continued to expand it throughout his life.Whitman's poetry was unprecedented in its unapologetic joy in the physical and its inextricable link to the spiritual. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote to him: "I am very happy in reading [Leaves of Grass], as great power makes us happy ... I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be."
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Little Men
Louisa May Alcott 试读
"Little Men" (1871) continues Louisa May Alcott's story of the March family. It picks up from "Little Women" and "Good Wives" to follow tomboy Jo into her married life. Jo and her husband, Prof. Bhaer, have opened a school for boys. Jo takes charge, but she retains a "merry sort of face," and the boys call her jolly. The school takes in troubled cases including homeless "little chap," Nat, and rowdy run-away Dan. Alcott pictures the kind of boyhood that the recent bestseller, "The Dangerous Book for Boys," hopes to rekindle. Alcott's boys climb trees and sneak off to light their first (choke ) cigars, but each lad has the makings of a good man -- qualities that Jo intends to bring out. The language might sound as quaint as "thunder turtles " and "hoydens" (grrrls), but the drama is the same now as always. Jo's concern for her boys is every teacher's -- every right parent's -- hope for every child. The story concludes with "Jo's Boys: And How They Turned Out."
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维摩诘所说经(无注释版)
鸠摩罗什 试读
36本书可以说是对中国佛教影响最大的一部佛经,不论是作为中国佛教代表的禅宗,还是成为现、当代佛教主流的人间佛教,“维摩诘经”中的“心净则佛土净”及“亦入世亦出世”、“在入世中出世”的思想,都是其最为重要的思想资源和经典依据。尤其值得一提的是,贯穿于整部“维摩诘经”的一根主线——“不二法门”,更是整个中国佛教的方法论依据。
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百断奇观重订龙图公案(无注释版)
佚名 试读
本书原名《百断奇观重订龙图公案》,今据民间口头通称改为《包公案》。是书收录宋代包拯审案断狱的短篇故事一百则。包拯,字希仁,庐州合肥县(今安徽合肥)人。北宋真宗咸平二年(999)生于宦门之家,官至龙图阁直学士,开封府尹。一生为官近三十年,以为人刚毅、风骨清介、为民做主、不畏权贵、执法如山、铁面无私、断案如神而著称于世,人称“包青天”,是百姓心中正义、正直、廉洁、公明的代表和化身。
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开辟演义(无注释版)
周游 试读
叙述了从盘古开天辟地、三皇五帝、夏商到周武王吊民伐罪,叙事严谨,渲染帝王事迹。《开辟演义》语言并不生动,有些地方甚至可以说是生涩。书中的大神全都成了有德有能的大贤,贤明君主的对立面全是神恶不赦的大奸大恶之徒,事实并非如此,大家阅览时要自己好好斟酌。
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发财秘诀(无注释版)
吴趼人 试读
吴趼人对《发财秘诀》中的“买办”是深恶痛绝的,以致于达到了“怒眦为之先裂”的程度,原因是双重的:一是痛恨他们的崇洋忘本,甘做洋人犬,耻为中国人的“黄奴”嘴脸;二是蔑视他们的重利轻义,乃至弃义唯利的道德堕落。
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云溪友议(无注释版)
范攄 试读
《朝野佥载·云溪友议》由唐·张鷟、范摅撰,恒鹤、阳羡生校点。其中《朝野佥载》记述唐代前期朝野遗事佚闻,尤以武后一朝事迹为多。举凡政治黑暗、吏治腐败、酷吏横暴、民生疾苦等均有反映,暴露了“贿货纵横,赃污狼藉”的现实世相。另有治病医例、星相占卜、神灵怪异、文坛掌故等资料及琐闻碎语,皆有可观。至于谐噱荒怪纤悉胪载而失之于琐杂,则为后世垢病,洪迈《容斋续笔》卷十二就曾说:“《佥载》记事,皆琐尾擿裂,且多媒语。”当然,以唐人记唐事,耳目所接,毕竟较近事实,故其所录亦为《资治通鉴》等史书所引用。 《云溪友议》,共六十五条,大抵记述唐开元以后文坛的逸事琐闻、诗歌本事,性质颇类孟棨所著《本事诗》。此书尤其引起后人注目的是这样几点:一是作者的生活年代与所记之事时间较为切近,“耳目所接,终较后人为近”(《四库全书总目》卷一四o);二是书中较集中地提供了唐代白话诗的资料;三是其中有不少资料被后人改编为戏剧或小说,成为后世其他艺术形式的素材。它的缺点是,所载多有不实之处。关于这一点,《四库全书总目》亦曾指出,并谓此书立论亦多有不当之处,读者可参看。 《朝野佥载·云溪友议》适合古典文学爱好者阅读。
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佛说无量寿经(无注释版)
康僧铠 试读
32净土三经之一。此经说无量寿佛(阿弥陀佛)的因地修行,果满成佛,国土庄严,摄受十方念佛众生往生彼国等事。此经前后有十二译,存五译、失七译,会集、节略本四本。经中介绍了阿弥陀佛(无量寿佛)接引众生的大愿、极乐世界的美好景象,以及娑婆世界的污秽不堪等内容。
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白虎通义(无注释版)
班固 试读
清乾隆三十七年1772年,乾隆皇帝下诏开设四库全书馆,委派纪昀等著名学者160余人,开始编纂“四库全书”。从乾隆三十七年1772年 开馆征书,至乾隆四十三年1778年 ,历时7年,共征集图书12237种;然后由四库馆臣对内府藏书以及从各地征集的图书进行校订,提出应抄、应刻、应存的具体意见。其中,应抄、应刻之书被认为是合格的著作,被收入“四库全书”,而应存之书则不能收入“四库全书”,仅仅是在“四库全书总目”中存目。“四库全书”分为经史子集四部,收入图书3457种,凡79070卷,装订成36000余册,6752函。成为中国历史上卷帙最多的一部丛书“四库全书”的编纂抄写历时10余年,共抄出7部,全书底本藏于翰林院,第一部抄本藏于文渊阁,其他六部分别藏于沈阳文溯阁、圆明园文源阁、热河文津阁,是为北四阁;镇江金山文宗阁、扬州大观堂文汇阁、杭州西湖文澜阁,是为南三阁。
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大清会典事例·兵(无注释版)
不题撰人 试读
据【钦定大清会典事例】记载:“四子部落札萨克多罗达尔汗卓哩克图郡王游牧,东至什吉冈图山,接苏尼特右翼旗界;南至伊柯塞尔拜山,接察哈尔镶红旗界;西至巴彦鄂博,接归化城界;北至沙巴克图,接喀尔喀后路图什业图汗(即土谢图汗)部左翼中旗界;西南至查甘和硕,接察哈尔镶蓝旗界;东北至额尔柯图鄂博,接喀尔喀后路图什业图汗部左翼中旗界;西北至查尔山,接喀尔喀后路图什业图左翼中旗界。”
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曾文正公全集(无注释版)
曾国藩 试读
曾国藩号称立功、立德、立言三不朽。全书收录了曾国藩一生主要的学问精华,从不同的侧面反映了这位“千古第一完人”修身、齐家、治国、平天下的智慧,语言平实易懂,同时又蕴含着丰富的知识和人生心得。全集由当时数十位学者、名流、官绅编辑而成,在原文的基础之上,也进行的大量的加工和整理工作,力图将对后人最有价值的内容较好地呈现出来,将曾国藩的学问传之后世。
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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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续欢喜冤家(无注释版)
西湖渔隐主人 试读
集中描写了各种曲折奇异的婚姻悲喜剧,生动展示了明代社会形形色色的人情世态既有对青年男女追求爱情自由所表示的同情;有也有对禁欲主义虚伪性的大胆揭露;还有对女性独立人格及聪明才智的充分肯定。在男女情爱描写过程中小说流露出鲜明的文人和市民趣味与时代审美特征,不免落入俗套。曾在清代被多次禁毁。
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花神三妙传(无注释版)
佚名 试读
至正辛西三月暮春,花发名园,一段异香来绣户;鸟啼绿树,数声娇韵入画堂。正是修日良辰,风光雅丽;浴沂佳候,人物繁华。时兵寇荡我郊原,乡人荐居城邑。纷纷雾杂,皆贵显之王孙;济济云从,悉英豪之国士。
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飞花艳想(无注释版)
樵云山人 试读
今传中所载为梅,何花不艳,何想不飞?或阅荪传者,如逮名花,同列艳媚,虽桃秾李白,而清香胜之。为生奇想,天际飞来,虽水穷山尽,而幻景出之,如逢才子佳人,叹有相对。虽才为司马,慧似文君,而风流喜雅却又过之。此《飞花艳想》之所由作也。虽然花飞矣,想艳矣,亦花艳矣,想飞矣,偏于忠孝节义之淡,而心及饮食男女之事,是何爱拾日用山海珍羞,而废家常茶饭也,是何爱拾只阅稗官野史,而废四书五经也。其可乎!若荪传者,权必胸经,邪必悔正。华飞而气自存,想艳而文自正。令人读之犹见河洲窈窕之遗风。则是书一出,谓之阅稗官野史也可,即谓之读四书五经也亦可。
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滂喜斋藏书记(无注释版)
潘祖荫 试读
“滂喜斋藏书记”收录清末藏书家潘祖荫滂喜斋所收宋、元、明以及旧刻本、日本高丽刻本等珍本秘笈130部。“宝礼堂宋本书录”是一部关于民国年间潘宗周宝礼堂所藏宋元善本古籍之解题目录,共收录宋本111种,元本6种。这两部书是我国近代重要的书目题跋著作,对于研治版本目录者和古籍收藏者都极有参考价值。今由我社首次标点整理出版。
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契丹国志(无注释版)
叶隆礼 试读
本书是南宋人所著关于辽朝的纪传体史书,二十七卷。此书所附进书表题“淳熙七年三月秘书丞叶隆礼上”,则应是南宋前期人所作。但历来对此书作者及成书年代颇多怀疑,余嘉锡认为应是宋、元间人钞撮各种记载和传说而成,托名叶隆礼;但“纵属伪作,亦出自元人之手”。
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括地志辑校(无注释版)
李泰 试读
括地志五百五十卷,是唐初魏王李泰主编的一部规模巨大的地理书。它吸收了汉书地理志和顧里王与地志两书编簒上的特点,创立了一种新的地理书体裁,为后来的元和郡体志、太平寰宇记开了先河。
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李师师外传(无注释版)
佚名 试读
李师师,原北宋汴京染匠王寅之女,幼父母亡,由娼家李姥收养。及长,色艺双绝。经内侍官张迪引荐,结交假称乃大商人赵乙的宋徽宗,前后受赐无数。及徽宗退位,师师将所赐献予官府作抗金军饷,并贿请张迪转求徽宗准许出家。不久,汴京沦陷,大汉奸张邦昌为讨好主子,将其献于金主帅闼嬾。师斥之,吞金而死。本书叙述了这样一个传奇女子的故事。
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革命文豪高尔基(无注释版)
邹韬奋 试读
本书是根据康恩教授所著的“高尔基和他的俄国”一书编译而成的。康恩教授是美国加利福尼亚大学俄国文学教授,他从俄文的书报及高尔基的原著中搜集许多确切的材料,还亲自与高尔基及其左右的人晤谈,获得不少可贵的材料。本书除撷取康恩教授此书的材料外,并搜集了一些在此书出版后关于高尔基最近的事实加入。
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苏联的民主(无注释版)
邹韬奋 试读
邹韬奋(1895-1944),原名邹恩润,江西余江人,我国著名的新闻记者、政论家、出版家。他的一生,写下了大量的著作和译作,对中国的政治、经济、社会、生活发表了精辟的见解和议论,对世界的状况作了翔实的考察。这些著译,不仅对于研究韬奋战斗的一生具有重要价值,对于研究现代中国历史和文化思潮,提供了丰富的史料,而且对于本世纪以来人们所反复讨论的关于中国的政治经济、社会生活等问题,都有着切实而且深刻的思考。本书以民主精神为中心,全面介绍了苏联的各个方面,并与英国的有关制度作了比较。书后附录1936年通过的《苏联新宪法》。
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诗言志辨(无注释版)
朱自清 试读
书中所论上至春秋战国时的“诗言志”说,下至汉代的“诗教”说,从“比兴”到“正变”,贯穿诗论发展的历史,着重从理据角度阐明了“诗言志”的中国诗学传统。书中引用大量诗作及诗论原著,资料翔实,文字清隽,论证缜密,学界公认为中国现代学术经典之作。
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中国歌谣(无注释版)
朱自清 试读
“中国歌谣”是五四以来研究我国民间文学较早的一部专著,其雏形为朱自清先生在1929-1931年间的大学讲稿,后经整理1957年由作家出版社出版过单行本。作者在此书中从歌谣的释名、起源与发展入手,正本清源,梳理歌谣发展的历史,确立歌谣的分类、结构,研究其修辞,在汲取同时代人成果的基础上,借鉴西方的某些研究方法,为这一领域有开拓性的著作。书中,作者广泛收集和引述我国古代和近代歌谣,保存了大量原始文献。
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朱湘书信集(无注释版)
朱湘 试读
本书辑录诗人朱湘与友人书93封,海外留学时期与妻书94封。与友人书话题遍及诗文、时政、历史、两性情爱、人生理想以及生活感受。与妻书饱含着对爱妻的深情与眷恋,展现出性情孤高的诗人情感与世俗的一面。 观其信,思其人,诗人的天纵才情,人生的泪痕悲色,寒世相依之暖,投情逆水之伤,渐显纸上。
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烟苗季(无注释版)
周文 试读
“左联”以外的进步作家,亦因其坚持人民的立场和现实主义创作道路,同样成就斐然,融会成进步的文学洪流,推动中国现代文学进入成熟阶段,使那时的文学呈现出繁荣、复杂、丰沛的格局。“七七”事变以后,家国危殆的局面更加激发了作家感时忧国的情怀。随着解放区的创立和发展,解放区文艺运动也蓬勃高涨。毛泽东同志在延安文艺座谈会上的讲话制定了革命文艺运动的路线和政策,深刻回答了“五四”以来革命文学发展过程中长期存在的一系列问题。贯彻毛泽东文艺路线的结果,使解放区文学艺术的各个方面都呈现出一片崭新的气象。与此同时,“国统区”的文学,虽然环境和条件均和解放区不同,但进步文艺界在鞭挞黑暗呼唤光明方面同样高潮迭起,奔涌着走向新中国,走向人民文艺的伟大会师。
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公债委员(无注释版)
张资平 试读
张资平(1893-1959),原名张秉声,曾用名伟民,广东梅县人。是二十世纪三十年代初我国红极一时的作家之一。策划筹建了现代文学史上最重要的文学社团之一“创造社”,他是“创造社”中最多产的一位作家。被誉为“中国现代言情小说的开山祖师”。同时他也是个历史复杂和颇有争议的一位作家。他曾在伪日政权任职,是个汉奸。1945年抗战胜利后他在文坛上消失了。张资平有二十几部中长篇小说,除【冲积期化石】和传记小说【脱了轨道的星球】之外,都是描写恋爱的作品。由此,张资平成为公认的“恋爱小说家”。本书属于恋爱小说,主要写的是公债委员陈仲章和阿欢的婚恋生活。
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许啸天说老子(无注释版)
许啸天 试读
许啸天(1886-1946),近现代作家,名家恩,字泽斋,号啸天,浙江上虞人。许啸天一生在小说创作方面,以历史演义为主,著有清宫十三朝演义、明宫十六朝演义、唐宫二十朝演义和民国春秋演义等。中国传统文化主要来源于儒释道三家。晋代的葛洪认为:道者儒之本也,儒者道之末也。孔夫子亦曾向老子请教,称赞老子如龙在天。老子深邃的“道”,贯穿于数千年历史,倾倒无数中外鸿儒大家。全书分三章:老子概论、老子历史、道德经。在给道德经做注时,参考古人的注释,谈自己的理解。