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Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs
W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert 试读
A book of ballads and songs by W.S.Gilbert, English dramatist and writer of humorous verse, he is best remembered as librettist of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas. I collected the most popular of the songs and ballads which I had written for the series of light operas with which my name is associated, and published them under the title of "Songs of a Savoyard". It recently occurred to me that these songs had so much in common with "The Bab Ballads" that it might be advisable to weld the two books into one. This is, briefly, the history of the present volume. Gilbert wrote a large number of ballads for the magazine Fun using his pen-name Bab. These Bab Ballads became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plots and songs for the Grand Operas. Contains 'The Yarn of The Nancy Bell', 'Captain Reece', 'The Bishop and the Busman' and many others.
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Back to Billabong
Mary Grant Bruce 试读
Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958), also known as Minnie Bruce, was an Australian children's author and journalist. While all her thirty-seven books enjoyed popular success in Australia and overseas, particularly in the United Kingdom, she was most famous for the Billabong series, focussing on the adventures of the Linton family on Billabong Station in Victoria and in England and Ireland during World War I. Her writing was considered influential in forming concepts of Australian national identity, especially in relation to visions of the Bush. It was characterised by fierce patriotism, vivid descriptions of the beauties and dangers of the Australian landscape, and humorous, colloquial dialogue celebrating the art of yarning. Her books were also notable and influential through championing of what Bruce held up as the quintessentially Australian Bush values of independence, hard physical labour (for women and children as well as men), mateship, the ANZAC spirit and Bush hospitality against more decadent, self-centred or stolid urban and British values. Among her most famous works are: A Little Bush Maid (1910), Mates at Billabong (1911) and Back to Billabong (1921).
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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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I, Thou, and the Other One A Love Story
Amelia 试读
Beyond Thirsk and Northallerton, through the Cleveland Hills to the sea eastward, and by Roseberry Topping, northward, there is a lovely, lonely district, very little known even at the present day. The winds stream through its hills, as cool and fresh as living water; and whatever beauty there is of mountain, valley, or moorland, Farndale and Westerdale can show it; while no part of England is so rich in those picturesque manor-houses which have been the homes of the same families for twenty generations.
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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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Gargantua
Francois Rabelais 试读
Biting and bawdy, smart and smutty, lofty and low, Gargantua and Pantagruel is fantasy on the grandest of scales, told with an unquenchable thirst for all of human experience. Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his timesfrom bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desiresis one of the great comic masterpieces of literature.Parts of Gargantua and Pantagruel were banned upon their publication, and the whole of it has suffered in our century at the hands of translators too timid to say in modern English what Rabelais so frankly wrote in Middle French. Master translator Burton Raffel unapologetically brings to life in today's American idiom all the gusto of Rabelais's language. Raffel succeeds in making Gargantua and Pantagruel, so long a great unread classic, accessible and alive to the contemporary reader.
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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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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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Katrine A Novel
Elinor Macartney Lane 试读
Romantic novel first published in 1909. ""The Singing Woman," Katrine; her beauty, her fearlessness, her loyalty, her voice of gold-it seems as if only one lost to caution and heedless of consequence would undertake her history expecting it to be believed."
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The Call of the Cumberlands
Charles Neville Buck 试读
He was not quite certain yet that Jim Asberry had murdered his father, but he knew that Asberry was one of the coterie of "killers" who took their blood hire from Purvy, and he knew that Asberry had sworn to "git" him. To sit in the same car with these men and to force himself to withhold his hand, was a hard bullet for Samson South to chew, but he had bided his time thus far, and he would bide it to the end. When that end came, it would also be the end for Purvy and Asberry.
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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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Richard Vandermarck
Miriam Coles Harris 试读
American novel first published in 1871, by Mrs Sidney S. (Miriam) Harris, nee Coles.
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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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Tales Of Hearsay
Joseph Conrad 试读
Joseph Conrad, born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924) was a Polish-born novelist who spent most of his adult life in Britain. He is regarded as one of the greatest English novelists, which is even more notable because he did not learn to speak English well until he was in his 20s. He is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence and Graham Greene. Writing during the apogee of the British Empire, Conrad drew upon his experiences in the British Merchant Navy to create novels and short stories that reflected aspects of a world-wide empire while also plumbing the depths of the human soul. Amongst his best known works are Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900), Under Western Eyes (1911), Victory (1915) and The Rescue (1920).
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Quality Street A Comedy
James Matthew Barrie 试读
The scene is the blue and white room in the house of the Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street; and in this little country town there is a satisfaction about living in Quality Street which even religion cannot give.
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Andy Grants Pluck
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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The Lure of the Mask
Harold MacGrath 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work
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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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Chess History and Reminiscences
Henry Edward Bird 试读
Of all the claims which have been advanced to the invention and origin of chess, that of the Hindu Game the Chaturanga is the most ancient, and its accounts contain the earliest allusion worthy of serious notice to anything partaking of the principles and form of chess. The description of it is taken from the Sanskrit text, and our first knowledge of it is obtained through the works of Dr. Hyde, 1693, and Sir William Jones, 1784, Professor Duncan Forbes in a History of Chess, dedicated to Sir Frederic Madden and Howard Staunton, published in 1860, further elaborated the researches of his predecessors and claims by the aid of his better acquaintance with chess, and improved knowledge of the Sanskrit to have proved the Chaturanga as the first form of chess beyond a shadow of doubt.
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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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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 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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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 Chosen Few Short Stories
Frank Richard Stockton 试读
The stories contained in this little volume were chosen, by virtue of a sort of literary civil-service examination, in order that they might be grouped together as a representative class of the author's best-known work in this line. Several of these stories have points of peculiar interest to the author. For instance, Negative Gravity was composed in Switzerland when the author was temporarily confined to the house in full view of unreachable Alps. His Wife's Deceased Sister was suggested by an editorial disposition to compare all the author's work with one previous production, and to discard everything which did not accord exactly with the particular story which had been selected as a standard of merit. The Lady, or the Tiger was printed in the hope that the author might receive the cheerful cooperation of some of his readers in a satisfactory solution of the problem contained in the little story but although he has had much valuable assistance in this direction he has also been the recipient of a great deal of scolding. After reading several stories by Clark Russell, the author's mind was led to consider the possibility of inventing some sort of shipwreck which had never yet been made the subject of a story. His efforts in this line resulted in The Remarkable Wreck of the 'Thomas Hyke.' A Piece of Red Calico is a description, with exaggerated points, of an actual experience.
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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
44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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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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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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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。