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Hardings luck
Edith Nesbit 试读
Dickie lived at New Cross. At least the address was New Cross, but really the house where he lived was one of a row of horrid little houses built on the slope where once green fields ran down the hill to the river, and the old houses of the Deptford merchants stood stately in their pleasant gardens and fruitful orchards.
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Ten Girls from Dickens
Kate Dickinson Sweetser 试读
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The Surgeons Daughter
Walter Scott 试读
The tale of the Surgeon's Daughter formed part of the second series of Chronicles of the Canongate, published in 1827; but has been separated from the stories of the Highland Widow, &c., which it originally accompanied, and deferred to the close of this collection, for reasons which printers and publishers will understand, and which would hardly interest the general reader.
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The Fortune Hunter
Louis Joseph Vance 试读
Receiver at ear, Spaulding, of Messrs. Atwater & Spaulding, importers of motoring garments and accessories, listened to the switchboard operator's announcement with grave attention, acknowledging it with a toneless: "All right. Send him in."
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On Compromise
John Morley 试读
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838 -1923) was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. He quarreled with his father over religion and left Oxford early without a degree. His father had wanted him to become a clergyman. Morley alluded to this rift in On Compromise (1874). Morley was a follower of John Stuart Mill. In On Compromise Morley speaks of his own search for truth and contemplates modern issues of compromise and conformity. He believes in tolerating dissent and speaking freely. The author says man has "the right of thinking freely and acting independently, using our minds without excessive awe of authority, and shaping our lives without unquestioning obedience to custom."
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Studies of Trees
Jacob Joshua Levison 试读
In presenting this volume, the author is aware that there are several excellent books, dealing with one phase or another of tree life, already before the public. It is believed, however, that there is still need for an all-round book, adapted to the beginner, which gives in a brief and not too technical way the most important facts concerning the identification.....
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A Daughter of To-Day
Sara Jeannette Duncan 试读
Sara Jeannette Duncan, later Cotes (1861-1922), was a Canadian author and journalist. She first worked as a schoolteacher before taking up journalism as a full-time occupation. Various freelancing work led to her taking her first position at the Washington Post in 1885. In 1886, she made history as the first woman to be hired as a professional journalist in Canada, taking a regular position at the Toronto Globe, now the Globe and Mail. She later moved to the Montreal Star, where she was the paper s Parliamentary correspondent. She published 22 books, including two volumes of personal sketches and a collection of short stories. Her first book, A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Around the World by Ourselves (1890) documented an around-the-world trip, but she is best known today for her 1904 novel The Imperialist. Amongst her other works are: A Daughter of Today (1894), The Story of Sonny Sahib (1894), A Voyage of Consolation (1898), The Path of a Star (1898), Hilda: A Story of Calcutta (1898), The Crow s Nest (1901), The Pool in the Desert (1903), Set in Authority (1906) and Cousin Cinderella: A Canadian Girl in London (1908).
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A Fair Barbarian
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
1901. Burnett, began as a novelist, but she is now best remembered for her children's books including The Secret Garden and Sara Crewe (which was later rewritten to become The Little Princess). Her romance novels were also quite popular during her lifetime. A Fair Barbarian begins: Slowbridge had been shaken to its foundations. It may as well be explained, however, at the outse...
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A Lost Leader
Edward Phillips Oppenheim 试读
The two men stood upon the top of a bank bordering the rough road which led to the sea. They were listening to the lark, which had risen fluttering from their feet a moment or so ago, and was circling now above their heads. Mannering, with a quiet smile, pointed upwards. "There, my friend " he exclaimed. "You can listen now to arguments more eloquent than any which I could ever frame. That little creature is singing the true, uncorrupted song of life. He sings of the sunshine, the buoyant air the pure and simple joy of existence is beating in his little heart. The things which lie behind the hills will never sadden him. His kingdom is here, and he is content."
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Ayesha, the Return of She
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
Ayesha is back in H. Rider Haggard's thrilling sequel to 'She', bursting with adventure, desire and revenge.
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Blix
Frank Norris 试读
It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning's paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time.
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Little Fuzzy
H. Beam Piper 试读
The planet Zarathustra is listed as uninhabited -- which means that the entire planet can be owned by a corporation. That owner is the Zarathustra Company, rich and happy -- until a prospector named Jack Holloway comes across undocumented species, a tiny, golden-furred little biped who he dubs "Little Fuzzy." Not only are the Little Fuzzies cute, they're bright too -- in fact they may be sapient as people are. . . and that means everything the Zarathustra company owns on this world is at stake. . . .
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The Light That Lures
Percy James Brebner 试读
Seated on a green hummock, his knees drawn up, his elbows resting on his knees and his head supported in his open hands, a boy sat very still and preoccupied, gazing straight into the world before him, yet conscious of little beyond the visions conjured up by his young mind. His were dim visions begot of the strenuous times in which he lived, and which were the staple subject of conversation of all those with whom he came in contact, yet his shadowy dreams had something of the past in them, and more, far more, of that future which to youth must ever be all important. But this young dreamer was not as dreamers often are, with muscle subservient to brain, the physical less highly developed than the mental powers; on the contrary, he was a lad well knit together, his limbs strong and supple, endurance and health unmistakable, a lad who must excel in every manly exercise and game. Perhaps it was this very superiority over his fellows which, for the time being, at any rate, had made him a dreamer. While other boys, reproducing in their games that which was happening about them, fought mimic battles, inflicted and suffered mimic death, experienced terrible siege in some small copse which to their imagination stood for a beleaguered city, or carried some hillock by desperate and impetuous assault, this boy, their master in running, in swimming, in wrestling, in sitting a horse as he galloped freely, was not content with mimicry, but dreamed of real deeds in a real future.
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The Ragged Edge
Harold MacGrath 试读
The Master is inordinately fond of young fools. That is why they are permitted to rush in where angels fear to tread—and survive their daring! This supreme protection, this unwritten warranty to disregard all laws, occult or apparent, divine or earthly, may be attributed to the fact that none but young fools dream gloriously. For such of us as pretend to be wise—and we are but fools in a lesser degree—we know that humanity moves onward only by the impellant of fine dreams. Sometimes these dreams are simple and tender; sometimes they are magnificent.
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The Trumpeter Swan
Temple Bailey 试读
It had rained all night, one of the summer rains that, beginning in a thunder-storm in Washington, had continued in a steaming drizzle until morning. There were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of them-two in adjoining sections in the middle of the car, a third in the drawing-room, a fourth an intermittent occupant of a berth at the end. They had gone to bed unaware of the estate or circumstance of their fellow-travellers, and had waked to find the train delayed by washouts, and side-tracked until more could be learned of the condition of the road. The man in the drawing-room shone, in the few glimpses that the others had of him, with an effulgence which was dazzling. His valet, the intermittent sleeper in the end berth, was a smug little soul, with a small nose which pointed to the stars. When the door of the compartment opened to admit breakfast there was the radiance of a brocade dressing-gown, the shine of a sleek head, the staccato of an imperious voice.
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The Two Vanrevels
Booth Tarkington 试读
It was long ago in the days when men sighed when they fell in love when people danced by candle and lamp, and did dance, too, instead of solemnly gliding about in that mellow time so long ago, when the young were romantic and summer was roses and wine, old Carewe brought his lovely daughter home from the convent to wreck the hearts of the youth of Rouen. That was not a far journey only an afternoon's drive through the woods and by the river, in an April, long ago Miss Betty's harp carefully strapped behind the great lumbering carriage, her guitar on the front seat, half-buried under a mound of bouquets and oddly shaped little bundles, farewell gifts of her comrades and the good Sisters. In her left hand she clutched a small lace handkerchief, with which she now and then touched her eyes, brimmed with the parting from Sister Cecilia, Sister Mary Bazilede, the old stone steps and all the girls: but for every time that she lifted the dainty kerchief to brush away the edge of a tear, she took a deep breath of the Western woodland air and smiled at least twice
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Voyage au Centre de la Terre(French Edition)
Jules Verne 试读
Un professeur découvre un ancien parchemin sur lequel est indiqué le moyen de se rendre au centre de la terre, par le biais d'un cratère de volcan éteint. Enthousiaste, il tente lui même l'aventure, en compagnie de son neveu (narrateur de l'histoire) et d'un guide.Le début est un peu lent et on se perd un peu dans les considérations minéralogiques, la descripton des paysages et les physionomies de personnages secondaires.
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The Lights of the Church and the Light of Science
Thomas Henry Huxley 试读
“The narrative may be exactly true. That is to say, the words, taken in their natural sense, and interpreted according to the rules of grammar, may convey to the mind of the hearer, or of the reader an idea precisely correspondent with one which would have remained in the mind of a witness. For example, the statement that King Charles the First was beheaded at Whitehall on the 30th day of January 1649, is as exactly true as any proposition in mathematics or physics...”
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Rowling, J.K.;Moss, Olly 试读
"'There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways … their magical prowess - their daring - their powers of deduction - and, of course, their ability to cope with danger.'" The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter - but that doesn't stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe'en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through - alive!
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
J.K.罗琳 试读
《神奇动物在哪里》是一个与《哈利•波特》系列截然不同的新次元,故事发生在比《哈利•波特》早了70年的美国纽约,讲述了神奇动物学家纽特•斯卡曼德离开霍格沃兹魔法学校后为寻找和保护神奇动物所发生的一段奇异冒险…… When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone…Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. A feat of imagination and featuring a cast of remarkable characters and magical creatures, this is epic adventure-packed storytelling at its very best. Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition for any film lover or reader's bookshelf.The film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will have its theatrical release on 18th November 2016.
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The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 试读
I ask the indulgence of the children who may read this book for dedicating it to a grown-up. I have a serious reason:he is the best friend I have in the world. I have another reason: this grown-up understands everything, even books about children. I have a third reason: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs cheering up. If all these reasons are not enough, I will dedicate the book to the child from whom this grown-up grew.All grown-ups were once children-- although few of them remember it.
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A Little Princess 小公主(英文原版)
F.H.伯内特 试读
父亲去世和破产的消息让萨拉顷刻之间从令人羡慕的小公主沦为寄宿学校的女佣。她饱尝人情冷暖,但始终保持着善良、高贵的心,因为她相信: “就算穿着破衣服,我也可以在心里像一位公主。”
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Lean In for Graduates
谢丽尔·桑德伯格 试读
Expanded and updated exclusively for graduates just entering the workforce, this extraordinary edition of Lean In includes a letter to graduates from Sheryl Sandberg and six additional chapters from experts offering advice on finding and getting the most out of a first job; résumé writing; best interviewing practices; negotiating your salary; listening to your inner voice; owning who you are; and leaning in for millennial men.
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The Science of Getting Rich
Wallace D. Wattles 试读
Wallace D. Wattles spent a lifetime considering the laws of success as he found them in the work of the world's great philosophers. He then turned his life effort into this simple, slender book - a volume that he vowed could replace libraries of philosophy, spirituality, and self-help for the purpose of attaining one definite goal: a life of prosperity.
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SH.T 3163-2011石油化工静设备分类标准(英文版)
中国石油化工集团公司 试读
本书是《石油化工静设备分类标准》SH/T3163-2011的英文版,由中国石油化工集团公司组织编译。本规范是根据国家发展和改革委员会办公厅《2006年行业标准项目计划》(发改办工业【2006】1093号)的要求,规范编制组经广泛调查研究,认真总结实践经验,参考有关国际标准,并在广泛征求意见的基础上制定的。
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伊索寓言:THE AESOP FOR CHILDREN(英文朗读版)
伊索 试读
伊索,被誉为“希腊寓言之父”、“西方寓言的开山鼻祖”。大约出生于公元前620-560年,他的寓言至今仍成为全球孩子道德教材的经典读本。其中许多故事,如《狐狸和葡萄》、《龟兔赛跑》、《北风和太阳》等成为世界儿童皆知的故事,并被选入中国小学语文课本。 《伊索寓言》脍炙人口,对欧洲的寓言文学影响很大,拉封丹著名的《寓言诗》即以《伊索寓言》为主要素材。著名哲学家阿波罗尼如此评价道:“我十分享用伊索寓言是世界上最古老、影响最大的寓言,由于形象生动、寓意深刻、富于哲理,在全世界流传两千五百余年而经久不衰。阅读伊索寓言使人趋向聪明、理智、沉稳。这些用简单的盘子端上的一道道美食,他讲述最朴实明了的事情,却教给人们最伟大的真理。比起诗歌来,这些故事更接近真理。每个故事之后,他还附上一则建议与忠告,告诫人们应该做或不该做什么。”古希腊历史学家希罗多德、作家阿里斯多芬尼斯、著名哲学家柏拉图等,都对伊索讲述的这些故事予以盛赞。
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Diary of a Chambermaid :女仆日记(英文版)
奥克塔夫·米尔博 试读
故事发生在1900年左右的法国。时髦少女塞莱丝汀从动荡不安的巴黎来到诺曼底当家庭女仆,她是一个很有魅力、聪明美丽的女孩。身为女仆多年,她在各个不同的主人家遭遇了很多不顺。在兰莱尔一家人的别墅里,她面对的是好色的男主人和他那性冷淡、专横和嫉妒心强的妻子。不甘示弱的塞莱丝汀不愿像家中前一任女仆那样,因为被男主人搞大肚子而被扫地出门,她知道如何巧妙地运用自己的魅力掌控命运。在忍受女主人变态般的挑剔折磨之时,塞莱丝汀渐渐看上了家中沉默寡言的园丁约瑟夫。约瑟夫有着反犹太人思想,以及残害犹太小女孩的丑恶形象。尽管如此,塞莱丝汀还是愿意跟随着他一起,实行偷盗兰莱尔家银器并逃走的计划。他们打算逃到瑟堡,开一家妓院酒吧,而塞莱丝汀可以向那些光顾的士兵提供性服务。
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风吹白杨的安妮(英文原版)Anne of Windy Poplars
露西·莫德·蒙哥玛利 试读
本书描述了安妮当上校长后的生活,有和她做对的普尔格林家族,又有善解人意的新朋友,还有依然陪伴她的吉尔伯特,故事没有了安妮和吉尔伯特的爱情主线 (因为他们已经订婚了),但是却也处处体现了安妮对生活的无限憧憬,对困难不服输的精神。
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe 试读
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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Oil!
Upton Sinclair 试读
Sinclair's 1927 novel did for California's oil industry what "The Jungle" did for Chicago's meat-packing factories. In "Oil!" Upton Sinclair fashioned a novel out of the oil scandals of the Harding administration, providing in the process a detailed picture of the development of the oil industry in Southern California. Bribery of public officials, class warfare, and international rivalry over oil production are the context for Sinclair's story of a genial independent oil developer and his son.
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The Music Lesson
Victor L. Wooten 试读
The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside.
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The Martian
安迪·威尔 试读
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
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Empire of Cotton
Sven Beckert 试读
The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today.
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn 试读
The 1 "New York Times" Bestseller On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge.
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Inferno
Dan Brown 试读
1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee.
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How to Become a Straight-A Student
Cal Newport 试读
Looking to jumpstart your GPA? Most college students believe that straight A’s can be achieved only through cramming and painful all-nighters at the library. But Cal Newport knows that real straight-A students don’t study harder—they study smarter.
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Cosmos
Carl Sagan 试读
RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOX;Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.
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Never Let Me Go
石黑一雄 试读
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime!
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Born a Crime
Trevor Noah 试读
Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away.
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The Code Book
Simon Singh 试读
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives.
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Titan
Ron Chernow 试读
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers.
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The Shining
Stephen King 试读
Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.
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The Fault in Our Stars
John Green 试读
Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
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A Human‘s Guide to Machine Intelligence
Kartik Hosanagar 试读
Through the technology embedded in almost every major tech platform and every web-enabled device, algorithms and the artificial intelligence that underlies them make a staggering number of everyday decisions for us, from what products we buy, to where we decide to eat, to how we consume our news, to whom we date, and how we find a job. We've even delegated life-and-death decisions to algorithms--decisions once made by doctors, pilots, and judges.
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Start with Why
Simon Sinek 试读
Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and moer profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over?
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac 试读
On the Roadswings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero. Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, and the narrative goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberance, poignancy and autobiographical passion.
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A Time for Love
Lynn Kurland 试读
Another Chance to Dream, Rhys, a knight with neither land nor title, cannot win the hand of Gwennelyn of Segrave, but he will always have her heart. Then Gwen is betrothed to another man, and Rhys fears he will lose her forever. Until a surprise offer comes his way-bringing Rhys and Gwen a second chance.
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Popular
Mitch Prinstein 试读
No matter how old you are, there's a good chance that the word popular immediately transports you back to your teenage years. Most of us can easily recall the adolescent social cliques, the high school pecking order, and which of our peers stood out as the most or the least popular teens we knew. Even as adults we all still remember exactly where we stood in the high school social hierarchy, and the powerful emotions associated with our status persist decades later. This may be for good reason.
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百年哈佛经典第31卷:契里尼自传(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W. ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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百年哈佛经典第43卷:美国历史文件·1000-1904(英文原版)
CHARLES W.ELIOT 试读
百年哈佛经典(全套50册)(英文原版)登陆中国,哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特倾心主编。全套50卷,共精选400多位人类史上优秀思想家的136本专著,是国内首套权威的人类文明传世之作。 哈佛大学第二任校长查尔斯·爱略特(CHARLES W.ELIOT)任主编,哈佛大学及其他名校100多位享誉全球的教授任分册编辑,历时数年完成。自1901年问世至今,畅销100多年,成为西方家庭的必备藏书,西方学生接受古代和近代文明教育的读物。引领中国思想家胡适先生进入西方文明殿堂的一块敲门砖。 万卷出版公司与北京神鸟文化发展有限公司倾心5年时间精心打造。
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安德鲁·朗世界童话经典(英文朗读版·全12册)
Andrew Lang 试读
《安德鲁·朗世界童话经典》,为英文版电子书,赠送配套的英文朗读音频收听,全套书收录了英国作家安德鲁·朗的12本彩色童话,近200个童话故事。安德鲁整理了世界各地的民间传说和童话故事,加以编写,其中包括安徒生、格林兄弟、豪夫、贝洛、多诺夫人等人的童话故事,同时也收罗了《一千零一夜》、挪威、英格兰、苏格兰以及亚洲、非洲、美洲各地的民间童话。经过安德鲁的改编,比原作更加优美可读,风格凸显。安德鲁童话在对孩子们进行道德和人生教育的同时,也给他们带来了美好的梦想和无穷的欢乐,从而成为经久不衰的畅销童话书。 发明家爱因斯坦说道:“想让孩子变得聪明,那就给他们多读童话;想让孩子变得更聪明,那就读更多的童话。”在孩子成长和阅读的早期阶段,童话故事,带给他们丰富的想象力、欢快与悲伤的真实情感,以及对于真假、善恶的辨别力。
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The Golden Bowl 金碗(英文版)
亨利·詹姆斯 试读
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo.The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism.
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Nostromo 诺斯特罗莫(英文版)
约瑟夫·康拉德 试读
小说虚构了一个南美国家科斯塔瓦那,这个国家长期处于暴政、革命和战争之中。查尔斯·古尔德拥有一座藏量丰富的银矿,他对这个国家的动荡与无处不在的腐败深恶痛绝,决定用他的财富支持当时的独裁政府,认为此举能给这个国家带来稳定。但是开采银矿将带来的巨额财富招致各种势力的觊觎,引发了新一轮的革命和自我割据的军阀战争,将这个国家带入更大的混乱之中。腐败与贪婪侵入了每一个人的生活,小说的主角“不被腐蚀”的诺斯特罗莫面临着巨大的考验。
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Parade‘s End 队列之末(英文版)
福特·马多克斯·福特 试读
A masterly novel of destruction and regeneration,Parade's End follows the story of aristocrat Christopher Tietjens as his world is shattered by the First World War. Tracing the psychological damage inflicted by battle,the collapse of England's secure Edwardian values-embodied in Christopher's wife,the beautiful,cruel socialite Sylvia - and the beginning of a new age,epitomized by the suffragette Valentine Wannop,Parade's End is an elegy for both the war dead and the passing of a way of life.
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Scoop 独家新闻(英文版)
伊夫林·沃 试读
本书的创作灵感来源于伊夫林·沃在阿尔巴尼亚担任战地记者时的工作经历。小说的男主人公威廉·布特是《野兽日报》的一名专栏作家,远离伦敦,隐居乡间,过着与世无争的平静生活。报纸的老板科珀勋爵将威廉·布特误当成了急于逃离伦敦生活的当红小说家约翰·布特,威廉在阴差阳错之下被派往了虚构的东非国家以实马利亚,以战地记者的身份去报道那里一触即发的内战。
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Tess of the d‘Urbervilles 德伯家的苔丝(英文版)
托马斯·哈代 试读
《德伯家的苔丝》是哈代小说代表作,奠定了哈代在英国乃至世界文学的地位。小说描写的是社会如何把一个纯洁、善良、质朴、美丽的农村姑娘逼得走投无路,最终拿起武器向仇人复仇的故事。小说对主人公苔丝不幸命运的描述,表现了人的命运、人与社会的关系、社会的等级差异和贫富不公等丰富深刻的内容,给人以众多的认知、启迪和警示。女主人公苔丝早已成为世界文学画廊之中的不朽形象。此电子书版本为全英文版。