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Wake-Robin
John Burroughs 试读
1871. Volume One of Twenty Three, Riverby Edition. John Burroughs emerged from an obscure boyhood in the Catskill Mountains to write more than thirty books, create the genre of the nature essay, and become the preeminent nature writer of his day. Through his essays in books and popular magazines, John Burroughs taught countless Americans to appreciate nature. His first book, Wake-Robin, is mainly a book about about the Birds, or more properly an invitation to the study of Ornithology, and the purpose of the author will be carried out in proportion as it awakens and stimulates the interest of the reader in this branch of Natural History. Contents: The Return of the Birds In the Hemlocks The Adirondacks Birds'-Nests Spring at the Capital Birch Browsings The Bluebird and The Invitation. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca Adapted from the Third Book of the Primary Schools of Athens, Greece
Homer 试读
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Queen Mary and Harold
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 试读
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes. One of Tennyson's most famous works is Idylls of the King (1859), a series of narrative poems based entirely on King Arthur and the Arthurian tales. During his career, Lord Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success even in his lifetime. His first publication entitled Poems by Two Brothers was published in 1827. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. In 1833, Tennyson published his second book of poetry, which included his well-known poem, The Lady of Shalott. In 1842 Tennyson published two volumes of Poems. The Princess, a satire of women's education, which came out in 1847, was also popular. It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, being appointed Poet Laureate until his death. Amongst his other works are Becket and Other Plays (1884) and Lady Clare (1884).
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Baldy of Nome
Esther Birdsall Darling 试读
At all events, Tom had resented the entrance of the Eskimo, Wolf, into the Kennel; and never failed, when "Scotty" was not about, to manifest an enmity that would have told a civilized dog not to attempt any liberties with him. But Wolf was only an ignorant puppy, taken from a native igloo, where all of the dogs and all of the family lived in happy harmony; and so, one day when he was particularly joyous, he nipped, in a spirit of mischief, the end of Tom's wagging stump of a tail. Tom wheeled instantly, his hair bristling and his jaws apart, but the timely arrival of Matt made further demonstration impossible; and Tom's instinctive dislike for Wolf grew into an obsession after that direct and personal insult.
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The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot 试读
If life had no love in it, what else was there for Maggie?Tragic and moving, The Mill on the Floss is a novel of grand passions and tormented lives. As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother Tom, their fates are played out on an epic scale. George Eliot drew on her own frustrated rural upbringing to create one of the great novels of childhood, and one of literature's most unforgettable heroines.
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne 试读
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
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Umbrellas and Their History
William Sangster 试读
In Persia the Parasol is repeatedly found in the carved work of Persepolis, and Sir John Malcolm has an article on the subject in his "History of Persia." In some sculptures--of a very Egyptian character, by the way--the figure of a king appears attended by a slave, who carries over his head an Umbrella, with stretchers and runner complete. In other sculptures on the rock at Takht-i-Bostan, supposed to be not less than twelve centuries old, a deer-hunt is represented, at which a king looks on, seated on a horse, and having an Umbrella borne over his head by an attendant.
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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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The Three Eyes
Maurice Leblanc 试读
Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo: a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts.Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments with truly horrific results.
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Glenloch Girls
Grace M. Remick 试读
You haven’t lost all your money, have you? That would be so romantic and interesting. I think I should go out as a cook, and perhaps you could get a place as butler in the same house.
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Happiness and Marriage
Elizabeth Towne 试读
Elizabeth Towne was one of the most important figures in the New Thought movement. In this book she gives her views of how to have a happy marriage. This book is full of wisdom that any one looking to get married or stay married will appreciate. Chapters include To Be Happy Though Married, To Be Loved, Marriage Contracts, Some Hints and a Kick, The Heart of Woman, The Law of Individuality, Harmony at Home, The Truth about Divorce.
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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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The Actress Daughter A Novel
May Agnes Fleming 试读
or! Lor! what a night it is any way. Since I was first born, and that's thirty-five—no, forty-five years come next June, I never heern sich win' as that there, fit to tear the roof off! Well, this is Christmas Eve, and we ginerally do hev a spell o' weather 'bout this time. Here you Fly! Fly!(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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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 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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Jessamine A Novel
Marion Harland 试读
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且介亭杂文附集(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。 《且介亭杂文附集》的文章,收自《海燕》,《作家》,《现实文学》,《中流》等。《半夏小集》,《这也是生活》,《死》,《女吊》四篇,先生另外保存的,但都是这一年的文章,也就附在《末编》一起了。
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汉文学史纲要(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。 《汉文学史纲要》原系鲁迅于1923年厦门大学讲授中国文学史课程时编写的讲义,题为《中国文学史略》;次年在广州中山大学讲授同一课程时又曾使用,改题《古代汉文学史纲要》。在作者生前未正式出版,1938年编入《鲁迅全集》时改用此名。 该书虽然只写到西汉两司马,但在这短短的十节讲义中,无论在选材、体例和观点上,都写出了自己的特色,因此在我国文学史研究领域中具有重要的地位。
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狂人日记(精品公版)
鲁迅 试读
63公源计划之名家鲁迅,本系列书共收录鲁迅28篇著作。 《狂人日记》是鲁迅于1918年发表的第一篇白话短篇小说,当时正值“五四”运动前夕,由于辛亥革命的半途而废,尤其是帝国主义的侵略加剧,使国内种种矛盾更加复杂尖锐。鲁迅以他锐敏的思想与犀利的笔触,对封建制度及其上层建筑表现了彻底的反抗。
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牛天赐传(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。 《牛天赐传》讲述了商户牛老头和其官派的太太年老无子,一天,有人给他们送来了一个孩子,夫妻俩认为这个孩子是老天爷赐予的遂取名牛天赐。天赐从小娇养,加之牛氏夫妇畸形的教育,除了玩和写点小文章什么都不会做。养母病逝,养父的生意破产随后也撒手而去,家中又被不明身份的亲戚抢劫一空,除了曾经的下人和朋友虎爷,天赐一无所有,他的人生面临巨大的困境。怎么办?这时,曾经受过牛老头恩惠的天赐的老师突然出现,给这个“天官赐福”的“孩子”带来了一线生机……
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正红旗下(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。 《正红旗下》是老舍自传体长篇小说。著于1961年至1962年。遗憾的是,因当时的文化大革命运动,老舍并未完成,就被迫停笔。
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出口成章(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。 《出口成章》是老舍先生在1963年编选的集子,书中收录了他在1955年至1963年5月之间写成的22篇文章,其中包括书信和讲稿等各种形式。这是老舍先生自编的第一本标明论著的集子,也是老舍先生一生写作经验中的精华,是他创作心血的结晶,是他为一代又一代的文学创作者留下的宝贵财富。
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朱自清翻译作品集(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。 本书是朱先生的翻译作品集,收入作者的译文与译诗,其中译文十二篇,译诗两首。有些译文,大概作者为了试行直译,标点符号的用法和文笔与作者自己的著作不尽相同。
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丁文江的传记(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。丁文江是胡适先生的好友,胡适当年有二十年不谈政治之说,丁断然不允许胡这样将自己超然世外,拉着胡和其他好友办《努力周刊》和《独立评论》。丁对胡说,不管你做如何的思想改革,文字运动(胡是白话文的发起者与推动者),文艺复兴,但倘是政治是腐败的,则所有这些断然也不能成功。 丁文江因事故逝世后,胡适痛不欲生,决心为他立传。《丁文江传》为胡适所写的最长一部传记。可以说是胡适《四十自述》之外,又一部值得称道的优秀传记。
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白话文学史(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。 《白话文学史》为胡适论述的白话文学史,在中国文学史上同样具有开创性的、里程碑的地位。作者以全新的思路与结构框架,揭示中国文学发展的规律和特质,其突破性的成就具体表现在:打破了前人文学史研究的狭隘框限,把视野伸展到了经典作家作品以外的广阔领域,大拓阔了中国文学史的内涵;研究方法上,注重纵向的考查与横向的比较;跳出传统的思维偏见,以全新的审美观和价值观评判中国古代文学。
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淮南王书(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。 本书中的第五章,半个月写成。胡适自认为这是最重要的一章,曾专门抽出来于1931年12月由新月书店单独出版,翌年专门郑重其事送给蒋介石,要他“参考”。1962年临终前还在撰写本书台湾商务印书馆影印手稿本序,连写几遍皆不满意,直至撒手人寰,终成残稿,胡适对《淮南王书》的重视与宝爱可见一斑。
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梁山伯与祝英台(精品公版)
张恨水 试读
18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。 《梁山伯与祝英台》于1953年8月开始动笔,1954年1月1日开始于香港《大公报》连载。 美丽少女祝英台假扮男妆。来到寒山寺。遇到梁山伯,同窗三载,感情挚深。因父亲得病,祝英台要回家。梁山伯十八里相送。英台表露自己女儿身,梁山伯甚为惊讶,互表爱慕之情。英台被嫁给马文才,英台不从,与梁山伯密会,倾诉衷肠。马家迎亲时。英台来到梁山伯坟前,悲痛欲绝,出人意料的事情出现……
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魍魉世界(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。 抗战时期。陪都重庆。黑暗混乱,鬼蜮横行。 区老先生一生读书,也教育四个子女认真读书,用学得的知识谋生。然而,重庆物价飞涨,物资奇缺,民不聊生,靠工资生活实难度日。于是,区老先生的三儿子弃文开车跑运输,发了大财;二儿子弃医经商作买卖,生活小康;长子仍然是机关公务员,穷愁潦倒。其周围的朋友、同事、邻居、亲戚,无不投机钻营,唯利是图,为挣钱发财苦度时光而日夜奔忙,真正是“前方吃紧,后方紧吃”!
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秦淮世家(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。 本书讲述了:南京。泰淮河边。歌妓唐大嫂有两个女儿,一名二春,一名小春,都长得标致可人。小春歌喉出众,成了歌女,唱得正红。上海钱商杨育权看中小春,多次调戏,遭到拒绝后,便怀恨在心,施毒计绑架并奸污了二春之后,又把二春施舍给保镖魏老八。自己不幸中弹身亡。杨育权变本加厉,对唐大嫂和小春施尽淫威,逼得母女苦不堪言。秦淮河畔下层社会的人们气愤已极,联合起来了……小说曾在40年代被改变成电视,引起广泛反响。
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北雁南飞(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。 《北雁南飞》以张恨水少年时在江西三湖镇私塾的读书经历为背景,描写了少女姚春华与少男李小秋的爱情悲剧,以真挚的感情,细腻的笔法,令人掩卷叹息的情节,以及三湖镇民风、民情、民俗的生动勾画,为我们提供了江南小镇的社会情景以及学堂生活实录,从这些描写中不难寻觅到作家张恨水走过的足迹。
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苦口甘口(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 《苦口甘口》收周作人一九四三年九月到一九四四年八月文章二十一篇,风格基本延续《药堂杂文》,是作者对自己思想的梳理。他在自序中说:“鄙人本非文士,与文坛中人全属隔教,平常所欲窥知者,乃在于国家治乱之源,生民根本之计,但所取材亦并不废虫鱼风月,则或由于时代之异也。”书中有谈文学谈思想的“正经文章”,如《文艺复兴之梦》《灯下读书论》,也有怀旧忆往之作,如《武者先生和我》《苏州的回忆》。尤其在《我的杂学》这篇长文中,全面回顾了自己读书的兴趣所在,对绘画、戏剧等艺术的理解,国文、日文、希腊文等中外文的学习及对人类学、心理学、医学各门学科的涉猎,提出了后期思想的核心“伦理之自然化”,“道义之事功化”,是研究周作人绕不之作。
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苦茶随笔(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 本书共收录五十一篇文章,大多为杂文,以苦茶为名,正见周作人心中之苦,笔下之苦。苦而觉爽快,却是大人的可怜处。个中滋味,诸君自知。文章内容强调思想的自由性与独立性,颇有些针对他人批评的反批评,为前此所不多见。本集是周作人散文的代表作,自此,周氏散文创作进入高潮。
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苦竹杂记(精品公版)
周作人 试读
公源计划之名家周作人,影响深远而又备受争议的文化大师,新文化运动杰出代表,读懂周作人必读作品。 《苦竹杂记》收录五十一篇,多为杂文和“抄书”,属于简练淡远的后期文章。其中几篇“说鬼”,是周作人最喜欢谈论的题目之一。作者由此感受到普通人的人生境遇,生存愿望,觉得最是悲哀,又深可怜悯。看似说鬼,实为谈心,既追求真知,又不忘人情。