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The Outsiders
S. E. Hinton 试读
The Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are at war on the Tulsa streets. Ponyboy, a fourteen-year-old brawler, chainsmoker and dreamer, is a fiercely loyal greaser. But a single, murderous catastrophe is to wrench him from his old life and overturn everything he thinks he knows.
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Dune
Frank Herbert 试读
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting.
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Flush
Carl Hiaasen 试读
Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally . . . somehow. His allies may not add up to much–his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter; Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene; Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned; and a mysterious pirate–but Noah's got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all.
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Sam Walton
Sam Walton 试读
Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque 试读
Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other--if only he can come out of the war alive.
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Mastery
Robert Greene 试读
The bestseller author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, and The 33 Strategies of War, Robert Greene has spent a lifetime studying the laws of power. Now, he shares the secret path to greatness. With this seminal text as a guide, readers will learn how to unlock the passion within and become masters.
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Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow 试读
From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.
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Holes
Louis Sachar 试读
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys “build character” by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake.
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2001：A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke 试读
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves.From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of our solar system,2001: A Space Odyssey;is a journey unlike any other.
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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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Parent Effectiveness Training
Dr. Thomas Gordon 试读
P.E.T., or Parent Effectiveness Training, began in 1962 as the first national parent-training program to teach parents how to communicate more effectively with kids and offer step-by-step advice to resolve family conflicts so everybody wins. This beloved classic is the most studied, highly praised, and proven parenting program in the world—and it will work for you.
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller 试读
Based on historical people and real events, Arthur Miller's play uses the destructive power of socially sanctioned violence unleashed by the rumors of witchcraft as a powerful parable about McCarthyism.
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Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney 试读
Her best friend is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a local poetry performance one night, they meet a well-known photographer, and as the girls are then gradually drawn into her world, Frances is reluctantly impressed by the older woman’s sophisticated home and handsome husband, Nick. But however amusing Frances and Nick’s flirtation seems at first, it begins to give way to a strange—and then painful—intimacy.
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King of Capital
David Carey 试读
The story by two insiders with access: Insightful and hard-hitting, filled with never-before-revealed details about the workings of a heretofore secretive company that was the personal fiefdom of Schwarzman and Peter Peterson.
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The Courtship of Princess Leia： Star Wars Legends
Dave Wolverton 试读
Seeking rich, powerful allies to bring into the Rebel Alliance and a new home planet for the refugees from her native Alderaan, Princess Leia considers a proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire. The Hapes Consortium of 63 worlds is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder.
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Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt 试读
A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others.
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Napoleon
Andrew Roberts 试读
Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest in history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was far more than a military genius and astute leader of men. Like George Washington and his own hero Julius Caesar, he was one of the greatest soldier-statesmen of all times.
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The Story of King Arthur and His Knights
Howard Pyle 试读
In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enchanting world of King Arthur and his Round Table. The book chronicles the adventures of Arthur as he draws the sword Excalibur from the anvil, proving his right to the throne, and as he courts and wins the heart of Guinevere. Later he suffers the treachery of the wicked Morgana le Fay and witnesses the tragic fate of the Enchanter Merlin.
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How to Decide
Annie Duke 试读
What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people's opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut.
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A Game of Thrones
乔治·R.R.马丁 试读
There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season.
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Main Street 大街（英文版）
辛克莱·路易斯 试读
《大街》是美国诺贝尔文学奖得主辛克莱·路易斯的代表作，问世后迅速风靡欧美国家，一年内重印28次，被誉为“发现美国的一个里程碑”，是“20世纪美国出版史上轰动的事件”。此书还成了当时堪萨斯州各级学校学生的必读教材。此电子书为全英文版。
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Of Human Bondage 人性的枷锁（英文版）
威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆 试读
《人性的枷锁》是毛姆具有自传性质的经典作品，也被认为是首屈一指、流传甚广的重要代表作。和《月亮和六便士》《面纱》《刀锋》一道，奠定毛姆“故事圣手”基础和文学史独特地位。故事以毛姆亲身经历为蓝本，描述了身有残疾的主人公菲利普从孤儿到长大的完整过程，亲情、爱情、友情，校园、艺术、理想，在重重枷锁中，苦寻自由而难得，最终发现这都是人性的本来面目。是否能摆脱这人性的枷锁？什么是长大，什么是成熟？答案在风中飘，带着笑和泪。此电子书为全英文版。
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The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday 试读
Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy 试读
“The greatest of all novelists...what else can we call the author of War and Peace?” asked Virginia Woolf rhetorically—and literary luminaries the world over have agreed with her. The saga stands alone in its vast scope and minute detail, its immense diversity and final unity.
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The Sun Also Rises 太阳照常升起（英文版）
欧内斯特·海明威 试读
《太阳照常升起》以1924年至1925年这一历史时段和名城巴黎为背景。围绕一群在感情或爱情上遭受过严重创伤，或者在战争中落下了严重心理或生理机能障碍的英美男女青年放浪形骸的生活，以及发生在他们之间的情感纠葛而展开。反映了这代人意识觉醒后却又感到无路可走的痛苦、悲哀的心境。在《太阳照常升起》之中海明威尽量采用直截了当的抒情、鲜明的对话、简短句式，用简单易懂的词语把事件、景物、人物的语言、心理描写、行动等呈现在读者眼前。作者借此成为“迷惘的一代”的代言人，并以此书开创了海明威式的独特文风。
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欢迎来到实力至上主义的教室：二年级篇番外1
衣笠彰梧 试读
“关于我和清隆的事情，我觉得是时候告诉大家了。” 经历各种事件之后，无人岛测验终于结束。大家期盼已久的、在豪华客船上的假期开始了。但这次测验也留下了一些未解之谜。龙园开始调查袭击小宫的凶手，其他学生也开始有了新的动向。三年级的桐山出现在绫小路面前。 “绫小路，你真是碍事！”南云也突然变脸，并且采取了奇怪的行动，他下令让全体三年级学生对绫小路一人进行“监视”。 另一方面，为了回应一之濑的告白，绫小路前往了约定地点！—— 高人气的学园启示录——第二年的暑假暗流汹涌！
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From the Wizarding Archive（Volume 2）
J.K.Rowling 试读
If you've ever wondered what McGonagall was like before she became the firm but fair Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts (Was she ever in love? How did she form such a strong and trusting friendship with Dumbledore?) or reflected on what Remus Lupin's childhood might have been like - then From the Wizarding Archive (Volume 2) should go straight to the top of your must-read list.
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Tender Is the Night夜色温柔（英文原版）
菲茨杰拉德 试读
《夜色温柔》是美国“迷惘的一代”代表作家菲茨杰拉德的一部具有强烈自传色彩的长篇小说，标题取自济慈的《夜莺颂》——Tenderisthelight,AndhaplytheQueen-Moonisonherthrone,Cluster'daroundbyallherstarryFays;butthereisnolight。小说讲述了年轻有为的心理医生迪克与上流社会的妻子相遇相恋的经历，以及与电影女演员露丝·玛丽的感情纠葛。他不断追求爱情和生活中的梦幻理想，却一次次经历幻灭。故事虽然以欧洲为背景，实则映射了美国“爵士时代”纸醉金迷的物质生活和狂欢掩饰下个人的无助和迷茫。作者简介菲兹杰拉德，F．S．（1896～1940）美国小说家。代表作品有《了不起的盖茨比》《夜色温柔》等，是20年代“爵士时代”的发言人和“迷惘的一代”的代表作家之一。
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Animal Farm 动物农庄（英文版）
乔治·奥威尔 试读
马诺尔农庄一只名叫老梅杰的猪在提出了“人类剥削动物，动物须革命”的理论之后死去，几个月后，农庄里掀起了一场由猪领导的革命，原来的剥削者——主人琼斯先生被赶走，动物们实现了“当家作主”的愿望，尝到了革命果实的甘美，马诺尔农庄被更名为“动物农庄”，还制定了七戒。然而不久，两只领头的猪为了权力而互相倾轧，胜利的一方宣布另一方是叛徒、内奸，猪们逐渐侵占了其他动物的劳动成果，成为新的特权阶级，“所有动物一律平等”的原则被修正为“但有些动物比其他动物更平等”，动物们又恢复到从前的悲惨状况。
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Sister Carrie 嘉利妹妹（英文版）
西奥多·德莱塞 试读
《嘉利妹妹》描述了农村姑娘嘉莉来到大城市芝加哥寻找幸福，为摆脱贫困，出卖自己的贞操，先后与推销员和酒店经理同居，后又凭美貌与歌喉成为演员的故事。作家以嘉莉为代表深刻揭露了美国资本主义制度对贫苦人民压榨的残酷性和资产阶级生活方式对小资产阶级分子的腐蚀性。本电子书为未删减全英文版。
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Sense and Sensibility 理智与情感（英文原版）
简·奥斯汀 试读
《理智与情感》是简·奥斯丁富于幽默情趣的处女作。埃诺莉和玛丽安娜两姐妹生在一个英国乡绅家庭，姐姐善于用理智来控制情感，妹妹的情感却毫无节制，因此面对爱情时，她们作出了不同的反应……小说以这两位女主角曲折复杂的婚事风波为主线，通过“理智与情感”的幽默对比，提出了道德与行为的规范问题。本书和作者的《傲慢与偏见》堪称姐妹篇，同样以细腻的笔触和生动的对白叙述没有富裕嫁妆的少女恋爱结婚的故事。
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius 试读
In Gregory Hays’s new translation—the first in thirty-five years—Marcus’s thoughts speak with a new immediacy. In fresh and unencumbered English, Hays vividly conveys the spareness and compression of the original Greek text. Never before have Marcus’s insights been so directly and powerfully presented.
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Four Classic American Novels
Nathaniel Hawthorne 试读
Shining examples of American literature at its best, these four novels explore timeless themes—adventure, war, sex, and morality—through compelling narratives. An adulteress, a runaway boy, a terrified soldier, and a maltreated sailor—the heroes of these novels have become a part of popular culture. This indispensable volume includes…
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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。
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Junie B. Jones #1： Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
Barbara Park 试读
Meet the World's Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! Remember when it was scary to go to school? In the first Junie B. Jones book, it’s Junie B.'s first day and she doesn't know anything. She's so scared of the school bus and the meanies on it that when it's time to go home, she doesn't.
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壁炉山庄的安妮（英文原版）Anne of Ingleside
露西·莫德·蒙哥玛利 试读
童话故事的结局大都是“从此以后他们幸福地生活在一起……”，但是安妮系列后四部的故事，却正要告诉你，他们如何幸福地生活。在本书力，安妮拥有了一问更大的屋子，一个更大的家庭，她养育了六个孩子，当然，安妮总是与双胞胎特别有缘。
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White Fang 白牙（英文原版）
杰克·伦敦 试读
作者以寒冷的加拿大北极地区为背景，采用拟人化的手法，讲述了一只诞生于荒野名叫白牙的狼，从几个月大开始在与人类的交往过程中，历经种种磨难和曲折，在主人的感化下，很终走出荒野，过上驯养生活的故事。作者以自然主义的写作风格阐述了遗传和环境因素对动物生存的双重影响，在揭示野性的力量、残酷的生存法则的同时，很终肯定和礼赞的仍然是人性的力量。
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The Lost World 失落的世界（英文原版）
柯南·道尔 试读
19世纪与20世纪之交，车卓教授带领一个科学考察团，离开烟雾弥漫的伦敦，远赴南美雨林寻找时光停滞的传说之地——那里仍有恐龙漫步大地。同行的有车卓教授的学术劲敌萨马里教授、勇敢的猎人罗斯顿勋爵、年轻记者马龙。考察团将经历种种冒险，在失落的世界挣扎求存……
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寻梦环游记 Coco（迪士尼英文原版）
迪士尼公司 试读
本书为迪士尼年动画收官之作《寻梦环游记》电影同名小说，讲述了一个关于爱与梦想的暖心故事。故事的主人公是来自墨西哥的小男孩米格，他从小热爱音乐，但他的家族却世代禁止族人接触音乐，米格因此陷入梦想和亲情的巨大矛盾之中，冲动之下，他进入了五彩斑斓又光怪陆离的神秘世界，开启了一段震撼心灵、感动非凡、永生难忘的旅程。
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A Room with a View 看得见风景的房间（英文版）
E.M.福斯特 试读
《看得见风景的房间》是福斯特构思最久、尤为钟爱的小说，作者坦言他所获成就是搭了本书的顺风车，入选“现代文库20世纪百大英文小说”。在福斯特精巧的故事结构下，通过鲜明或者隐晦的对比，英国爱德华时代中产阶级的生活画卷被一幕幕拉开：世俗常规和激情、意大利人和英国游客、房间本身和屋外风景；在福斯特清新微妙的笔触里，各色人物纷纷登场，女主人公露西冲破束缚，上演一场震撼心灵的爱情，露西的形象尤其令人难忘，好像我们也被她牵引着穿...
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The Secret Agent 间谍（英文版）
约瑟夫·康拉德 试读
这部长篇小说是一部与康拉德的航海小说不同的政治小说，被认为是康拉德成名代表作，同时本书也预言了20世纪恐怖主义、无政府主义以及英国军情五处这样的秘密机构的兴起。 《纽约时报》赞誉本书是“对恐怖主义杰出的小说式研究”，本书还入选了美国现代文库20世纪百佳英语小说榜单，以及美国侦探小说家协会有史以来百佳侦探小说榜单。
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傲慢与偏见（Pride and Prejudice·英文原版）
简·奥斯汀 试读
故事围绕贝内特一家几个女儿的婚姻大事展开。从伦敦新搬来的单身汉阔少宾利先生爱上了温柔美貌的大女儿简，他的朋友达西则倾情于二女儿伊丽莎白。由于她听信了年轻军官韦恩的谗言而对达西产生了偏见致使这桩婚姻进行的十分缓慢。经过一连串有趣的周折后，误会终于得以消除。达西克服了傲气，伊丽莎白也克服了对他的偏见，最后两人终成眷属。
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Heart of Darkness 黑暗的心（英文版）
约瑟夫·康拉德 试读
《黑暗的心》被认为是英国文学史上真正意义上的现代主义小说，在这部作品中作者对人类文明以及人性这一主题作了深刻的思考。记录了船长马洛在一艘停靠于伦敦外的海船上所讲的刚果河的故事。马洛的故事除了涉及马洛自己年轻时的非洲经历之外，主要讲述了他在非洲期间所认识的一个叫库尔兹的白人殖民者的故事——一个矢志将“文明进步”带到非洲的理想主义者，后来堕落成贪婪的殖民者的经过。
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Women in Love 恋爱中的女人（英文版）
D·H·劳伦斯 试读
《恋爱中的女人》英国作家D·H·劳伦斯代表作，小说围绕了两对恋人的情感纠葛展开：女教师厄休拉和督学伯基怀着对生命的热爱，冲破重重阻隔，有情人终成眷属；厄休拉的妹妹葛珍和矿业巨头杰拉尔德则由于双方观念上的巨大差异，经历了无数次冲突后最终关系破裂，杰拉尔德最终在荒芜死寂、风雪迷漫的深谷里结束了自己的生命。
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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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A Farewell to Arms 永别了，武器（英文版）
欧内斯特·海明威 试读
《永别了，武器》描写了一场发生在战争年代的爱情故事，海明威在对战争发起控诉的同时，也毫无保留地表达了自己对人生的深沉思考。一对年轻男女，在战火纷飞的时代相爱，不可避免地经历生死别离，他们一直怀抱着希望等待和平，但战争中无法逃避的宿命却给了他们沉重的打击。此电子书版本为全英文版。
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百年哈佛经典第42卷：英文诗集·卷III 从丁尼生到惠特曼（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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Home Again
George MacDonald 试读
WILL THIS YOUNG POET AMOUNT TO NOTHINGHis Aunt Ann certainly thinks so."Walter is a drain on your finances " she states self-righteously.But Richard Colman, a farmer, doesn't think so. He loves his son, Walter Colman the young poet, and supports his ambition. Walter is his link to his dead wife. And besides . . .However Richard Colman's finances fail and the young poet must fend for himself.At first Walter finds some success -- but he meets the seductive Lufa and endures trouble.Should he return to the simple life of father, farmland and childhood friend Molly -- and his love of God HimselfFind out in this heartfelt parable of faith and art by the nineteenth century Scottish Christian master
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Une vie（French Edition）
Guy de Maupassant 试读
Cette uvre ( dition reli ) fait partie de la s rie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d' dition tredition, bas e Hambourg, a publi dans la s rie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux mill naires. Ils taient pour la plupart puis s ou uniquement disponible chez les bouquinistes. La s rie est destin e pr server la litt rature et promouvoir la culture. Avec sa s rie TREDITION CLASSICS, tredition comme but de mettre disposition des milliers de classiques de la litt rature mondiale dans diff rentes langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
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Captivating Mary Carstairs
Henry Sydnor Harrison 试读
This book, representing the writer's first effort at a long story, has something of a story of its own. First planned in 1900 or 1901, it was begun in 1905, and finished at length, in a version, three years later. Through the two years succeeding it underwent various adventures, including, if memory serves, two complete overhauling. Having thus reached by stages something like its present form, it was, in August, 1910, favorably reported on by the publishers; but yet another rewriting preceded its final acceptance, a few weeks later. Meanwhile, I had turned to fresh work; and, as it chanced, "Queed" was both begun and finished in the interval while "Captivating Mary Carstairs" was taking her last journeys abroad. Turned away by two publishers, the newer manuscript shortly found welcome from a third. So it befell that I, as yet more experienced in rejections, suddenly found myself with two books, of widely different sorts and intentions, scheduled for publication by different publishers, almost simultaneously. As this seemed to be more books than society required from an unknown writer, it was decided to put out the present story—which is a "story," as I conceive the terms, and not a novel—over a pen name.
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Clayhanger
Arnold Bennett 试读
In this, the first volume of an ambitious trilogy designed to trace the parallel lives of a man and woman from youth to marriage and from marriage to old age, Bennett introduces the character of Edwin Clayhanger. A sober portrait of a boy growing up under a tyrannical father contrasts with young Edwin's glimpses of the mysterious and tantalizing Hilda Lessways. As the lives of these two characters unfold before us, Bennett uses autobiographical detail to beautifully depict the constraints and spiritual adventures of young life in the Potteries.
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Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret t
Louis Dodge 试读
Everychild encounters the giant Fear and sets forth on a strange journey. And Everychild pities the sorrow of Cinderella and rejoices in her release from bondage; he encounters a dog that looks upon him with favor. On his wanderings Everychild bethinks him of his parents, and discovers that though he has seemed to lose them, he has not really done so.
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The Human Chord
Algernon Blackwood 试读
"WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip Skale." Robert Spinrobin needed the work, and he took the bait. He possessed the necessary qualifications: a thin tenor voice, not unmusical; a smattering of Hebrew which he had picked up at Cambridge because he liked the fine, high-sounding names of deities and angels; and courage and imagination.It was a job he lived to regret. For he was meant to be the final note in a "human chord" designed to call out the true name of God . . . which could prove the greatest blessing or the worst curse in all of creation!
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The Lady Paramount
Henry Harland 试读
Although born in New York Henry Harland began his writing career pretending to be Russian under the pseudonym Sidney Laska. During this first phase of his literary career he produced sensational novels with little literary quality. In 1890 he moved to London and began work under his own name. He was influenced by the Aesthetic movement and began producing quality works. He came into his own as a writer with The Cardinal's Snuffbox and The Lady Paramount. The Lady Paramount is an excellent example of Harland's humorous touch and his picturesque style.
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A First Family of Tasajara
Bret Harte 试读
Bret Harte is best known for his stories about pioneering life in California. Harte moved to California in 1853 where he worked as a miner, journalist, teacher and messenger. The story begins, "It blows," said Joe Wingate. As if to accent the words of the speaker a heavy gust of wind at that moment shook the long light wooden structure which served as the general store of Sidon settlement, in Contra Costa. Even after it had passed a prolonged whistle came through the keyhole, sides, and openings of the closed glass front doors, that served equally for windows, and filled the canvas ceiling which hid the roof above like a bellying sail. A wave of enthusiastic emotion seemed to be communicated to a line of straw hats and sou-westers suspended from a cross-beam, and swung them with every appearance of festive rejoicing, while a few dusters, overcoats, and "hickory" shirts hanging on the side walls exhibited such marked hough idiotic animation that it had the effect of a satirical comment on the lazy, purposeless figures of the four living inmates of the store."
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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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Music Talks with Children
Thomas Tapper 试读
A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a few of the many aspects which music may have even to the mind of a child. If these chapters, or whatever may be logically suggested by them, be actually used as the basis of simple Talks with children, music may become to them more than drill and study.
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