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MOBY DICK
Herman Melville 试读
Herman Melville's peerless allegorical masterpiece is the epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, MOBY-DICK is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession. It is world-renowned as the greatest sea story ever told. MOBY-DICK, widely misunderstood in its own time, has since become an indubitable classic of American literature. Washington Square Press Enriched Classics presents the world's greatest literature in timeless editions designed for modern readers. Special features include a lively introduction with essential biographical and historical background, several critical perspectives, from traditional to contemporary, and a unique visual essay composed of authentic period illustrations and photographs that help bring every word to life.
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A Dolls House
Henrik Ibsen 试读
This epochal drama of marriage and the individual portrays a controlling husband Torvald Helmer and his wife Nora, a submissive young woman who, when their idealized homelife collapses, comes to the realization that she must finally close the door on her husband, children, and life in "a doll's house" in order to find and live as her true self.
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A Woman of No Importance
王尔德 试读
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words.Word,sentence,paragraph counts,and reading time help readers and teachers determine chapter complexity.Co-occurrence graphs depict character-to-character interactions as well character to place interactions.Sentiment indexes identify positive and negative trends in mood within each chapter.Frequency graphs help display the impact this book has had on popular culture since its original date of publication.Use Trajectory analytics to deepen comprehension,to provide a focus for discussions and writing assignments,and to engage new readers with some of the greatest stories ever told. "A Woman of No Importance"by Oscar Wilde is a 19th Century dark comedy play that examines English Upper Class society.Lord Illingworth is known for his ability to seduce women.He is invited to all the parties while the women he seduces hide out in humiliation.
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell 试读
One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead and a heart of unyielding courage.
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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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A Bundle of Letters
Henry James 试读
The fair New Yorker is, sometimes, very amusing; she asks me if every one in Boston talks like me--if every one is as "intellectual" as your poor correspondent. She is for ever throwing Boston up at me; I can't get rid of Boston. The other one rubs it into me too; but in a different way; she seems to feel about it as a good Mahommedan feels toward Mecca, and regards it as a kind of focus of light for the whole human race. Poor little Boston, what nonsense is talked in thy name But this New England maiden is, in her way, a strange type: she is travelling all over Europe alone--"to see it," she says, for herself.
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Old French Fairy Tales
Sophie Segur 试读
A wonderful book by Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse De Segur (1799-1874) of 5 timeless French fairy tales, magnificently illustrated with beautiful and dramatic black-and-white drawings by Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931). De Segur, a French writer of Russian descent, wrote numerous books, the most famous of which was Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophie's Misfortunes). Done when she was only 19 years of age, this was Chicago-born Sterrett's first book. She is often called the "female Kay Nielsen," referring to the renowned Danish fairy tale illustrator.
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Persuasion
简·奥斯汀 试读
This volume, first published in 2006, is a comprehensive scholarly edition of Jane Austen's innovative final novel.
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Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
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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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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Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs 试读
The classic tale of adventure and romance?in a vibrant new package . Adopted as an infant by the she-ape Kala after his parents died and his father was killed by the savage king ape Kerchak, John is named "Tarzan" or, "White Skin" in the ape language. and raised in ignorance of his human heritage until he meets a marooned couple from England, John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton. Known around the world, the story of Tarzan, a man raised by apes, led to 25 such books beginning with Tarzan of the Apes (1914).
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The Devils Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce 试读
The world according to the anatomy of definition or explanation way, similar to the style of essays. The author reveals the human civilization mercilessly defects and weaknesses of human nature, colour rein class feel ashamed, it is difficult to envisage the shadow. The sense of humor, humor, ridicule, spicy, rich in profound philosophy and sharp irony, let people laugh more, can not help but Yanjuan meditation.When you open the "devil dictionary", gosh! Once upon a time seems to have organized the world completely distorted, disorder, everything all seem to be out of shape, upside down! Civilization shine off the scar, life detection, presented in front of in addition to ugly is ridiculous. But do not fear that, compared to the guns, bombs for human slaughter, it much more humane, but also much more interesting.
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A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery
Juliet Corson 试读
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Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space
Jules Verne 试读
As Comet Gallia flys by Earth it touches the planet and collects a few small chunks. Along with these pieces there were thirty-six people. At first the people did not realize at what had happened then they noticed weight loss, then Ben Zoof jumped twelve meters high. Zoof with Servadac also soon noticed that the alternation of day and night is shortened to six hours, that east and west changed sides, and that water begins to boil at 66 degrees Celsius If wasn't for a time that they realized that the were Off on a Comet. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. He was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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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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Education as Service
J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti 试读
In long past lives the author of this little book had much to do with educational work, and he seems to have brought over with him an intense interest in education.
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Lovey Mary
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 试读
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English Men of Letters – Crabbe
Alfred Ainger 试读
Part of the English Men of Letters Series, published in 1903, this edition features George Crabbe the English poet and naturalist.
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The Gray Dawn
Stewart Edward White 试读
The novel begins: On the verandah of the Bella Union Hotel, San Francisco, a man sat enjoying his morning pipe. The Bella Union overlooked the Plaza of that day, a dusty, unkempt, open space, later to be swept and graded and dignified into Portsmouth Square. The man was at the younger fringe of middle life. He was dressed neatly and carefully in the fashionable costume of the time, which was the year of grace 1852. As to countenance, he was square and solid as to physique, he was the same as to expression, he inclined toward the quietly humorous in general he would strike the observer as deliberately, philosophically competent.
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The Cycle of Spring
泰戈尔 试读
The stage is on two levels: the higher, at the back, for the Song-preludes alone, concealed by a purple curtain; the lower only being discovered when the drop goes up. Diagonally across the extreme left of the lower stage, is arranged the king's court, with various platforms, for the various dignitaries ascending to the canopied throne.
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Now It Can Be Told
Philip Gibbs 试读
Sir Philip Gibbs (1877-1962) served as one of five official British reporters during the First World War. Born in London the son of a civil servant, Gibbs received a home education and determined at an early age to develop a career as a writer. His debut article was published in 1894 in the Daily Chronicle five years later he published the first of many books, Founders of the Empire. His wartime output was prodigious. He not only produced a stream of newspaper articles but also a series of books: The Soul of the War (1915), The Battle of the Somme (1917), Now It Can Be Told (1920) and The Realities of War (1920).
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The Story Girl
Lucy Maud Montgomery 试读
The Story Girl is fourteen years old, and she can tell a story to lead even adults into faryland, a different world, or whatever else she may be telling a story about. The narriator is Beverly King, the Story Girl's thirteen-year-old cousin from Toronto. The Story Girl has four cousins besides Beverley, thirteen-year-old Dan, twelve-year-old Felicity, eleven-year-old Cecily, and Felix. They have many aunts and uncles. As soon as you start to read this book, it feels like you have just taken a trip to Carlisie, and you are one of the cousins or an aunt or uncle.
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Home Again
George MacDonald 试读
WILL THIS YOUNG POET AMOUNT TO NOTHINGHis Aunt Ann certainly thinks so."Walter is a drain on your finances " she states self-righteously.But Richard Colman, a farmer, doesn't think so. He loves his son, Walter Colman the young poet, and supports his ambition. Walter is his link to his dead wife. And besides . . .However Richard Colman's finances fail and the young poet must fend for himself.At first Walter finds some success -- but he meets the seductive Lufa and endures trouble.Should he return to the simple life of father, farmland and childhood friend Molly -- and his love of God HimselfFind out in this heartfelt parable of faith and art by the nineteenth century Scottish Christian master
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The House of Souls
Arthur Machen 试读
The House of Souls is a collection of supernatural, horror stories that will capture the reader's attention from the first paragraph. Arthur Machen, (1863-1947) was a Welsh novelist, short story writer, journalist and actor. He wrote horror, fantasy and supernatural fiction. His love of Celtic, Roman and medieval history is seen in many of his stories. Stories in this collection include A fragment of Life, The White People, The Great God Pan, and The Inmost Light.
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A Horses Tale
Mark Twain 试读
In Mark Twain's comical satire of the art of telling tall tales in America "A Horse's Tale," there was "night so dark the cats ran against each other he wrote of "a horse so fast the wagon started thirty yards ahead of the cloudburst and made it home without a drop of..." Twain extra ordinary sense of imagination and humor makes this a classic for all ages.
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Cat and Mouse
Ralph Williams 试读
The Harn first came to the Warden's attention through its effect on the game population of an area in World 7 of the Warden's sector. A natural ecology was being maintained on World 7 as a control for experimental seedings of intelligent life-forms in other similar worlds. How the Harn got there, the Warden never knew. In its free-moving larval state, the Harn was a ticklike creature which might have sifted through a natural inter-dimensional rift; or it might have come through as a hitchhiker on some legitimate traveler, possibly even the Warden himself.
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The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
Anyone could say of any short story, "A mere anecdote," just as anyone can say "Incoherent " of any novel or of any sonata that isn't studiously monotonous. The recession of enthusiasm for this compact, amusing form is closely associated in my mind with that discouraging imputation. One felt hopelessly open to a paralyzing and unanswerable charge, and one's ease and happiness in the garden of one's fancies was more and more marred by the dread of it. It crept into one's mind, a distress as vague and inexpugnable as a sea fog on a spring morning, and presently one shivered and wanted to go indoors . . . It is the absurd fate of the imaginative writer that he should be thus sensitive to atmospheric conditions. But after one has died as a maker one may still live as a critic, and I will confess I am all for laxness and variety in this as in every field of art. Insistence upon rigid forms and austere unities seems to me the instinctive reaction of the sterile against the fecund. It is the tired man with a headache who values a work of art for what it does not contain. I suppose it is the lot of every critic nowadays to suffer from indigestion and a fatigued appreciation, and to develop a self-protective tendency towards rules that will reject, as it were, automatically the more abundant and irregular forms. But this world is not for the weary, and in the long-run it is the new and variant that matter. -- From Wells's introduction to THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND AND OTHER STORIES.
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The Human Chord
Algernon Blackwood 试读
"WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip Skale." Robert Spinrobin needed the work, and he took the bait. He possessed the necessary qualifications: a thin tenor voice, not unmusical; a smattering of Hebrew which he had picked up at Cambridge because he liked the fine, high-sounding names of deities and angels; and courage and imagination.It was a job he lived to regret. For he was meant to be the final note in a "human chord" designed to call out the true name of God . . . which could prove the greatest blessing or the worst curse in all of creation!
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The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 试读
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically to explore the role of the British government and wider society in the destruction of the Aboriginal Tasmanians.
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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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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce 试读
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original—text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words.Word,sentence,paragraph counts,and reading time help readers and teachers determine chapter complexity.Co—occurrence graphs depict character—to—character interactions as well character to place interactions.Sentiment indexes identify positive and negative trends in mood within each chapter.Frequency graphs help display the impact this book has had on popular culture since its original date of publication.Use Trajectory analytics to deepen comprehension,to provide a focus for discussions and writing assignments,and to engage new readers with some of the greatest stories ever told. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce.It traces the intellectual and religio—philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus,a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus,the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology.Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown,and culminates with his self—exile from Ireland in Europe.
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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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De Profundis
王尔德 试读
While jailed for homosexual offenses, Wilde wrote this long, bitter letter of recrimination to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. It offers fascinating insights into Wilde's life in prison and the background and psychology of a notorious affair, but its eloquence, passion and literary excellence make it a universal statement about love, injustice and suffering.
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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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Jesus Himself
Andrew Murray 试读
Jesus the son of God in obedience to God's will and gave himself as an offering for sin is death to fulfill God's righteousness, and reflects the world God of mercy and love, is the ultimate expression of the love of god. Jesus Christ for our sins and suffering and death, and resurrection that we are justified, the love of God was unparalleled in the glory of the cross of the great.
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Queer Little Folks
H·Stowe 试读
Now she bustled up to the parsonage at the top of the oak-tree, to tell old Parson Too-Whit what she thought he ought to preach for his next sermon, and how dreadful the morals of the parish were becoming. Then, having perfectly bewildered the poor old gentleman, who was always sleepy of a Monday morning, Mother Magpie would take a peep into Mrs. Oriole's nest, sit chattering on a bough above, and pour forth floods of advice, which, poor little Mrs. Oriole used to say to her husband, bewildered her more than a hard north-east storm.
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The Custom of the Country
伊迪丝·华顿 试读
Edith Wharton's satiric anatomy of American society in the first decade of the twentieth century appeared in 1913; it both appalled and fascinated its first reviewers, and established her as a major novelist. The Saturday Review wrote that she had 'assembled as many detestable people as it is possible to pack between the covers of a six-hundred page novel', but concluded that the book was 'brilliantly written', and 'should be read as a parable'. It follows the career of Undine Spragg, recently arrived in New York from the Midwest and determined to conquer high society. Glamorous, selfish, mercenary, and manipulative, her principal assets are her striking beauty, her tenacity, and her father's money. With her sights set on an advantageous marriage, Undine pursues her schemes in a world of shifting values, where triumph is swiftly followed by disillusion. Wharton was re-creating an environment she knew intimately, and Undine's education for social success is chronicled in meticulous detail. The novel superbly captures the world of post-Civil War America, as ruthless in its social ambitions as in its business and politics.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux 试读
The novel that inspired the Lon Chaney film and the hit musical. The wildest and most fantastic of tales.
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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 Turn of the Screw
Henry James 试读
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 试读
The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries, the narrator a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has to hide her journal entries from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.
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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.
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Under Fire：the story of a squad
Gustave Flaubert 试读
MONT BLANC, the Dent du Midi, and the Aiguille Verte look across at the bloodless faces that show above the blankets along the gallery of the sanatorium. This roofed-in gallery of rustic wood-work on the first floor of the palatial hospital is isolated in Space and overlooks the world. The blankets of fine wool—red, green, brown, or white—from which those wasted cheeks and shining eyes protrude are quite still. No sound comes from the long couches except when some one coughs, or that of the pages of a book turned over at long and regular intervals, or the undertone of question and quiet answer between neighbors, or now and again the crescendo disturbance of a daring crow, escaped to the balcony from those flocks that seem threaded across the immense transparency like chaplets of black pearls.
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Geoffrey Strong
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 试读
The Captain had sold all his lobsters. They had been particularly fine ones and had gone off "like hot cakes" everyone who passed by the wharf stopping to buy one or two. Now the red dory was empty and the Captain had washed her out with his usual scrupulous care and was making preparations for his homeward voyage when he was hailed by a cheery voice from the street.
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Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl
Edgar Jepson 试读
She heard him come out of his bedroom and at once dished up his bacon and carried it into his sitting-room.
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Echoes of the War（免费公版书）
James Matthew Barrie 试读
A non fiction story line of how it was lived with emotions of becoming a crew member, as a i130 Flight Engineer. To bring together family life and Air Force life, with some joy and some sorrow as it unfolded. Written with hopes of going into high schools to inspire the young and give them the urge to want to be able to fly the planes and travel the world.
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Frank Merriwell Down South
Burt L. Standish 试读
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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Hugh Memoirs of a Brother
Arthur Christopher Benson 试读
Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) was a British essayist, poet and author. He was one of six children of Edward White Benson, a late nineteenth-century Archbishop of Canterbury. The Benson family were exceptionally literate and accomplished, but their history was somewhat tragic. A son and daughter died young, and another daughter, as well as Benson himself, suffered badly from a mental condition that was probably manic-depressive psychosis. Despite his illness, Benson was a distinguished academic and a most prolific author. He was associated with Eton College, and was Master of Magdalene College of Cambridge University. His poems and volumes of essays, such as From a College Window (1906), were famous in his day, and he left one of the longest diaries ever written, some four million words.
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Playing With Fire
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 试读
Glasgow is the city of Human Power. It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility. There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor. But there are no loungers in them. The crowd is a busy, hard-working crowd, whose civic motto is Enterprise and Perseverance.
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Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs
Alfred Ollivant 试读
This is a novel about steeplechase racing and horse training in turn of the century England. It is by the same author who wrote the classic "Bob Son of Battle". This book didn't seem quite as fleshed out as Bob, but provides some interesting insight into the horse racing world at that time, with local characters and dialect. The author was obviously keen on and knew a thing or two about dogs and horses, so his knowledge from the end of the animal age and the beginning of the machine age adds interest to the fairly simple story. Good enough for when you're in the mood for an old fashioned feel good animal story. Also, the e-version of this book is excellent, no weird typos and such.
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The Other Girls
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney 试读
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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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Glengarry School Days – a story of early days in Glengarry
Ralph Connor 试读
The "Twentieth" school was built of logs hewn on two sides. The cracks were chinked and filled with plaster, which had a curious habit of falling out during the summer months, no one knew how; but somehow the holes always appeared on the boys' side, and being there, were found to be most useful,
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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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Saints Progress
John Galsworthy 试读
John Galsworthy OM ( 14 August 1867 - 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. -wikipedia
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Household Papers and Stories
Harriet Beecher Stowe 试读
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