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Lady Mary and her Nurse
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 试读
The nurse smiled, and said, "It is not a fish at all, my dear;it is a dried beaver's tail. I brought it from the back lakes whenI was at home, that you might see it. See, my lady, how curiouslythe beaver's tail is covered with scales; it looks like some sortof black leather, stamped in a diaper pattern. Before it is dried,it is very heavy, weighing three or four pounds. I have heard mybrothers and some of the Indian trappers say, that the animal makesuse of its tail to beat the sides of the dams and smoothe the mudand clay, as a plasterer uses a trowel.
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Mrs. Warrens Profession
George Bernard Shaw 试读
Written in 1893, Mrs. Warren's Profession skewers the hypocrisy of British society. The wealthy, respectable title character's "profession" is the world's oldest, but Mrs. Warren is unprepared for the reaction of her daughter Vivie when she discovers her mother's occupation. Shaw brings new life to the woman-with-a-past theme with wit and a defense of his heroine.
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The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas 试读
A deceptively simple story and the shortest of Dumas's most famous novels, The Black Tulip (1850) weaves historical events surrounding a brutal murder into a tale of romantic love. Set in Holland in 1672, this timeless political allegory draws on the violence and crimes of history, making a case against tyranny and creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.
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Romola
Edward Dicey 试读
George Eliot, the pen named used by Mary Anne Evans, wrote popular works that mirrored the settings and ideology of contemporary Victorian England. She was brought up in the Church of England, where she developed strong moral convictions that carried over into her fiction. During a visit to Florence in 1860 it was suggested to Eliot that the historical Fra Girolamo Savonarola would make a good subject for a novel, so Eliot spent her visit, and many months after, exhaustively researching Florentine history and culture. Her effort is undeniably evident within the pages of "Romola," however Eliot has been criticized for using a 15th Century setting to deal with the 19th Century issues of Victorian England. Romola is the female protagonist through which the story is rendered; her intellectual and religious growth, often painful, reflects the religious and cultural transitions of the Italian Renaissance in Florence.
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On the Choice of Books
Thomas Carlyle 试读
ADDRESS DELIVERED TO THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. Gentlemen, I have accepted the office you have elected me to, and have now the duty to return thanks for the great honour done me. Your enthusiasm towards me, I admit, is very beautiful in itself, however undeserved it may be in regard to the object of it. It is a feeling honourable to all men, and one well known to myself when I was in a position analogous to your own. I can only hope that it may endure to the end? that noble desire to honour those whom you think worthy of honour, and come to be more and more select and discriminate in the choice of the object of it; for I can well understand that you will modify your opinions of me and many things else as you go on. (Laughter and cheers.) There are now fifty-six years gone last November since I first entered your city, a boy of not quite fourteen?fifty-six years ago? to attend classes here and gain knowledge of allkinds, I know not what, with feelings of wonder and awe-struck expectation; and now, after a long, long course, this is what we have come to. (Cheers.) There is something touching and tragic, and yet at the same time beautiful, to see the third generation, as it were, of my dear old native land, rising up and saying, " Well, you are not altogether an unworthy labourer in the vineyard: you have toiled through a great variety of fortunes, and have had many judges." As the old proverb says, " He that builds by the wayside has many masters." We must expect a variety of judges; but the voice of young Scotland, through you, is really of some value to me, and I return you many thanks for it, though I cannot describe my emotions to, you, and perhaps they will be much more conceivable if expressed in silence. (Cheers.) When this office was first p...
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Guns of the Gods
Talbot Mundy 试读
Talbot Mundy was an early 20th century English writer who often wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt. At age 19 he left London to travel to India and parts of the Near and Far East. Most of Mundy's novels are set in India under British Occupation in which the loyal British officers encounter ancient Indian mysticism. Guns of the Gods is the story of the youth of Yasmini. It begins, "She never made any secret of the scorn with which she regards those who singe wings at her flame. Rather she boasts of it with limit-overreaching epithets. Her respect is reserved for those rare men and women who can meet her in unfair fight and, if not defeat her, then come close to it. She asks no concessions on account of sex. Men's passions are but weapons forged for her necessity; and as for genuine love-affairs, like Cleopatra, she had but two, and the second ended in disaster to herself. This tale is of the first one that succeeded, although fraught with discontent for certain others."
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Sally of Missouri
Rose E. Rose Emmet) Young 试读
"Hoo-ee-ow-ohme!"It was half a sob, half a laugh, and, half sobbing, half laughing, the young man stopped his horse on the crest of the Tigmore Hills, in the Ozark Uplift, raised in his stirrups, and looked the country through and through, as though he must see into its very heart.
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My Brilliant Career
Miles Franklin 试读
The story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the 16-year-old author.
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Black Jack
Max Brand 试读
It was characteristic of the two that when the uproar broke out Vance Cornish raised his eyes, but went on lighting his pipe. Then his sister Elizabeth ran to the window with a swish of skirts around her long legs. After the first shot there was a lull. The little cattle town was as peaceful as ever with its storm-shaken houses staggering away down the street.A boy was stirring up the dust of the street, enjoying its heat with his bare toes, and the same old man was bunched in his chair in front of the store. During the two days Elizabeth had been in town on her cattle- buying trip, she had never see him alter his position. But she was accustomed to the West, and this advent of sleep in the town did not satisfy her. A drowsy town, like a drowsy-looking cow-puncher, might be capable of unexpected things.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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Chance A Tale in Two Parts
Joseph Conrad 试读
Chance(1914) was the first of Conrad's novels to bring him popular success and it holds a unique place among his works. It tells the story of Flora de Barral, a vulnerable and abandoned young girl who is "like a beggar, without a right to anything but compassion." After her bankrupt father is imprisoned, she learns the harsh fact that a woman in her position "has no resources but in herself." Her only means of action is to be what she is. Flora's long struggle to achieve some dignity and happiness makes her Conrad's most moving female character. Reflecting the contemporary interest in the New Woman and the Suffragette question, Chance also marks the final appearance of Marlow, Conrad's most effective and wise narrator. This revised edition uses the English first edition text and has a new chronology and bibliography. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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A Prisoner in Fairyland
Algernon Blackwood 试读
Minks—Herbert Montmorency—was now something more than secretary, even than private secretary: he was confidential-private-secretary, adviser, friend; and this, more because he was a safe receptacle for his employer's enthusiasms than because his advice or judgment had any exceptional value. So many men need an audience. Herbert Minks was a fine audience, attentive, delicately responsive, sympathetic, understanding, and above all—silent. He did not leak. Also, his applause was wise without being noisy. Another rare quality he possessed was that he was honest as the sun. To prevaricate, even by gesture, or by saying nothing, which is the commonest form of untruth, was impossible to his transparent nature. He might hedge, but he could never lie. And he was 'friend,' so far as this was possible between employer and employed, because a pleasant relationship of years' standing had established a bond of mutual respect under conditions of business intimacy which often tend to destroy it.
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The Penalty
Gouverneur Morris 试读
If I should lose from my life that part of it of which you are a part, there would be but a skeleton left. Yet if you had played a larger part in my life I should have been so spoiled that there would be no living with me. And I'm spoiled enough, God knows!
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The Scarlet Plague
Jack London 试读
The Scarlet Plague (1912) is set in London's hometown of San Francisco, California.ack London’s plague novel, in which the world’s population has been reduced to a few scattered bands of primitive scavengers, has influenced subsequent science-fiction apocalypses and dystopias — from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four to the movies Road Warrior and Idiocracy.Jack London, world-famous adventurer and author of The Call of the Wild, wrote several key works of Radium-Age science fiction (1904-33), including The Iron Heel (1908) and The Star Rover (1914).
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Vanguards of the Plains A Romance of the Old Santa Fe Trail
Margaret Hill McCarter 试读
This story of the old Santa Fé Trail would do honor to the memory of those stalwart men who defied the desert, who walked the prairies boldly, and who died bravely--vanguards in the building of a firm highway for the commerce of a westward-moving Empire.
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Criticism and Fiction
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 Daughter of the Snows
Jack London 试读
"A Daughter of the Snows" by Jack London is the story about a rebellious girl who is not afraid to challenge a traditional society where females are expected to be obedient.
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A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare(1763)
William Shakespeare 试读
Quince, a Carpenter, Mr. Love.Bottom, the Weaver, Mr. Baddely.Snug, the Joiner, Mr. Clough.Flute, the Bellows-mender, Mr. Castle.Snout, the Tinker, Mr. Ackman.Starveling, the Taylor, Mr. Parsons.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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A Hoosier Chronicle
Meredith Nicholson 试读
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling Indiana author, and later a politician. Three of his books were yearly national best sellers: "The House of a Thousand Candles," "The Port of Missing Men," and "A Hoosier Chronicle."
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A Chinese Wonder Book
Norman Hinsdale Pitman 试读
The winter had been a hard one: extreme cold deep snow and violent winds. The Wang house had suffered greatly. The roof had fallen in weighed down by heavy snow. Then a hurricane had blown a wall over and Ming-li the son up all night and exposed to a bitter cold wind had caught pneumonia.
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Otto of the Silver Hand
Howard Pyle 试读
Between the far away past history of the world, and that which lies near to us; in the time when the wisdom of the ancient times was dead and had passed away, and our own days of light had not yet come, there lay a great black gulf in human history, a gulf of ignorance, of superstition, of cruelty, and of wickedness.
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A Voyage of Consolation(being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of An American girl in
Sara Jeannette Duncan 试读
This volume is a sequel to "An American Girl in London."
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花边文学(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《花边文学》是鲁迅的一部杂文集,收录了鲁迅在1934年所写的杂文六十一篇。包括《女人未必多说谎》《北人与南人》《古人并不纯厚》《读几本书》《玩具》《算账》《看书琐记》《汉字和拉丁化》《考场三丑》《略论梅兰芳及其他(上)》等。
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面子问题(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《面子问题》共三幕,创作于1941年,剧中主要人物佟景铭秘书所苦恼的是“不能因为抗战失了身份”、“不能因为一件公事而把自己恼死”。他不务正业,对工作敷衍了事。当他闹了一辈子“面子问题”终于丢尽面子被免职以后,他所考虑的是向医生讨要一个“体面”的自杀办法,保住他的“面子”。剧中其他人物的“面子问题”又各不相同。老舍对这些人物的讽刺,不仅是对国民劣根性的又一次批判,也是对抗战时期国民党官僚机构的腐败作风的鞭挞。
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谁先到了重庆(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《谁先到了重庆》共四幕,内容为主人公吴凤鸣帮助弟弟凤羽逃出北平沦陷区去重庆参加抗战,自己则留在北平刺杀日本军官和汉奸,最后以身殉国。牺牲前说,“还是我先到了重庆”。在这里,重庆已成为抗战的中心和精神的象征。一颗心先到重庆,就是为抗战献身。
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老牛破车(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《老牛破车》是老舍杂文作品集,主要收录了《我怎样写老张哲学》、《我怎样写赵子曰》、《我怎样写二马》、《我怎样写小坡的生日》、《我怎样写大明湖》、《我怎样写猫城记》、《我怎样写离婚》、《我怎样写短篇小说》、《我怎样写牛天赐传》、《谈幽默》、《景物的描写》、《人物的描写》、《事实的运用》、《言语与风格》等14篇文章,再现了一代大师的心路历程。
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幽默小品集(精品公版)
老舍 试读
公源计划之名家老舍,本系列书共收录老舍55篇著作。 《幽默小品集》是老舍的幽默小品集,收录老舍先生谈生活、谈时事、谈理想、谈友人等六十余篇小文,写于二十世纪三十年代至六十年代,都是老舍对当时社会时事、人事和自己处境的有感而发,写出真实生活中的幽默,写出老舍和平常人一样的可笑心态,使人感受到大文学家朴实亲切、可乐可爱的另一面。并有几位画家所绘插画,颇具民族与时代风格,构图简练却独具匠心,既写实传神,又夸张好笑,与文字相映成趣、相得益彰。
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国文教学(精品公版)
朱自清 试读
公源计划之名家朱自清,本系列书共收录朱自清27篇著作。 《国文教学》是作者将他写的关于国文教学的论文和随笔编辑而成。内容以中学国文教学为主,大学的也有几篇论及。内容偏重教学的技术方面,精神方面谈到的很少。
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伦敦杂记(精品公版)
朱自清 试读
公源计划之名家朱自清,本系列书共收录朱自清27篇著作。 伦敦,作为英国的首都、四大世界级城市之一,拥有的是非凡的历史和文化。朱自清在伦敦居住达七个月,一段不算长的时间,却让他看见了多样的人和情。在朱自清细腻、简炼的文字下,伦敦的「人」、「情」、「味」活灵活现了起来,搭配铅笔画风的伦敦风景图片,仿佛可以看见一幅幅的风景在眼前浮动过,这游记不仅仅是物的记载,更看见了英国人道地的生活方式,也体会他们对生活的态度。
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南游杂忆(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 在游记中有对当时沿途风土人情的描写,但即使在游玩中,胡适所见也不止是"山"和"水",还看见当地的宗教、文化、教育和国家建设,甚至不忘考证庐山上的一个塔,意在引导出一个思想学问的方法:“疑而后信,考而后信,有充分证据而后信。”
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中国中古思想史长编(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 《中国中古思想史长编》由胡适所著,本书共分 7章,分别对齐学、杂家、秦汉之间的思想状态、道家、淮南王、统一帝国的宗教、儒家的有为主义,对中国中古思想史进行研究讨论,在20世纪中国学术史上占有一席之地。《中国中古思想史长编》所创的体例,也成为20世纪学术史的一种范例。为了使读者更好的了解胡适对中国中古思想史的研究和看法,供读者阅读参考。
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中国哲学史大纲(精品公版)
胡适 试读
公源计划之名家胡适,了解胡适生平与思想的必读书。 中国哲学史大纲》,是胡适先生在博士论文《先秦名学史》和此后的北大中国哲学史讲义的基础上修改、扩充而成,是第一部用现代学术方法系统研究中国哲学的专著,是中国哲学史学科的开山之作。胡适先生继承了汉学家对哲学的考究方法和成果,运用西方哲学方法,把中国秦以前的经史研究贯连成一个条理清晰的学术系统。书中按照时代的先后及思想的演变,对每一派哲学进行考证、分析、研究,说明其产生的原因,对后世的影响等,使哲学史不再是流水账式的块状记录,而成为有其内在逻辑的哲学进化史。
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语体文法大纲(精品公版)
许地山 试读
公源计划之名家许地山,本系列书共收录许地山15篇著作。文法是词、短语、句子等语言单位的结构规律。 《语体文法大纲》共12章,讲述句法及名词、代名词、形容词、副词、介词、连词、助词、感叹词等词的种类、构造及其他的相关用法。后附图表法、文法略表等。内容浅显易懂,能使读者在短时间内掌握文法的纲领。定义、举例等都以简单为主,无繁长难读之弊。
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缀网劳蛛(精品公版)
许地山 试读
公源计划之名家许地山,本系列书共收录许地山15篇著作。 本书收《命命鸟》、《商人妇》、《换巢鸾凤》、《黄昏后》、《缀网劳蛛》、《无法投递之邮件》、《海世间》、《海角底孤星》、《天女》、《枯杨生花》、《慕》等12篇小说。
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危巢坠简(精品公版)
许地山 试读
公源计划之名家许地山,本系列书共收录许地山15篇著作。 本书收《在费总理底客厅里》、《三博士》、《街头巷尾之伦理》、《法眼》、《归途》、《解放者》、《无忧花》、《东野先生》、《人非人》、《春桃》、《无法投递之邮件》、《玉官》、《危巢坠简》、《铁鱼底鳃》14篇小说。
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落霞孤鹜(精品公版)
张恨水 试读
公源计划之名家张恨水,现代通俗小说作家、社会言情小说集大成者张恨水经典代表作。 作为20世纪中国优秀的言情小说,张恨水的《落霞孤鹜》被誉为多角恋情描写的经典教材,民国初年,落霞和玉如本是两位苦命的女子,在留养院的相遇,自小与父母失散,被人贩子卖到官宦人家当仆人,不堪富贵人家的百般虐待,一心寻死的落霞,与童年丧母。受尽继母凌辱,被亲戚视为累赘的玉如,一见如故结拜成异性姐妹;可命运的捉弄却让她们爱上了同一个优秀男人江秋鹜,正是这种朴实无华的写法,达到了“浑然天成而真切的”的境界,因此小说出版之后,立即就改编并拍成电影,由著名影后胡蝶主演。
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文学概说(精品公版)
郁达夫 试读
公源计划之名家郁达夫,文艺青年郁达夫经典作品。《文学概说》从生活与艺术、文学在艺术上所占的位置、文学的定义、文学的内在的倾向、文学在表现上的倾向、文学的表现体裁之分类这六个方面,论述了文学。、
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翡冷翠的一夜(精品公版)
徐志摩 试读
公源计划之名家徐志摩,诗人、散文家,新月派代表诗人“徐志摩”经典佳作。 本书分2辑,收《翡冷翠的一夜》、《呻吟语》、《天神似的英雄》、《再不见雷峰》、《梅雪争春》、《图下的老江》、《新婚与旧鬼》等42首著、译诗。
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水浒新传(精品公版)
张恨水 试读
25公源计划之名家张恨水,现代通俗小说作家、社会言情小说集大成者张恨水经典代表作。 本书以《水浒传》作为蓝本,重新改写了梁山好汉被招安及招安后的经过。梁山好汉机缘巧合被张叔夜招安,投诚后致力于报效国家,积极投身于与祸国权臣、金人的斗争中。在惨烈的权力斗争与战争中,好汉们一一死去,故事在靖康之耻之后结尾,梁山好汉大多仍未摆脱惨淡收场的结局,但比起原作《水浒传》,《水浒新传》中的梁山好汉身上多了些死得其所的意味。