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哈姆雷特:莎士比亚漫画版
威廉·莎士比亚 试读
2024-02-07上架请欣赏莎士比亚四大悲剧之一《哈姆雷特》!丹麦老国王离奇死亡,灵魂萦绕在城堡的高墙之上,忧郁的王子决心一探究竟,为父报仇,命运的齿轮被复仇推着转动……纸上舞台,即刻开演! “生存还是毁灭”,为什么会是个问题? 看完漫画才明白,原来哈姆雷特纠结的是这些事!!
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麦克白:莎士比亚漫画版
威廉·莎士比亚 试读
2024-02-06上架请欣赏莎士比亚四大悲剧之一《麦克白》!苏格兰的旷野上,三女巫高声预言:“麦克白,未来的国王!”从此之后,英勇的将军被野心驱使、掌控,一步步走向命运的深渊……纸上舞台,即刻开演!“麦克白,未来的国王!”,谁能遏制麦克白的疯狂? 看完漫画才明白,原来麦克白的悲剧早已注定!!
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这才是孩子看得懂的莎士比亚:四大喜剧卷(名家插图版全4册)
安德鲁·马修斯 试读
2024-01-31上架由经典莎翁故事四大喜剧《皆大欢喜》《仲夏夜之梦》《威尼斯商人》《第十二夜》组成的儿童文系列丛书。经过莎翁之乡知名儿童文学作家改编,为孩子们开敲开的自主阅读习惯与文学启蒙之门。故事用押韵对句写成,读起来朗朗上口,适合5-14岁的孩子阅读。中文部分保留原著精华,每个故事仅用60页、5000字左右就讲清来龙去脉,让孩子在短时间内轻松读完经典,高质高效。
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爱伦·坡传
约翰·特雷什 试读
2023-11-28上架埃德加·爱伦·坡至今仍然是最受欢迎的美国作家之一,因其开创性的侦探小说、恐怖故事和非凡诗歌而受到全世界的喜爱。他的生活是神秘和想象力的代名词,他塑造了现代文学的进程——而你是否知道,这位文坛惊悚大师,其实也是不折不扣的科学狂人? 在这本传记中,作者约翰·特雷什探究了爱伦·坡艰难而辉煌的一生,描绘了一幅令人着迷又充满矛盾性的人物肖像。在那个娱乐、思考与科学界限模糊的时代,爱伦·坡有着对科学的痴迷以及毕生推进和质疑人类知识的雄心。他除了在文学界发表文章并四处奔走,也追求着非凡的科学猜想与独特的美学视野,点亮了 19 世纪美国科学体系的暗夜灯塔。
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The Westing Game (Puffin Modern Classics)
Ellen Raskin 试读
2023-09-05上架A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing’s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger—and a possible murderer—to inherit his vast fortune, on things for sure: Sam Westing may be dead…but that won’t stop him from playing one last game!
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A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles 试读
2023-08-27上架Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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The Code Book
Simon Singh 试读
2023-08-27上架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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His Dark Materials:The Golden Compass(Book 1)
Philip Pullman 试读
2023-08-27上架The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an "All-Time Greatest Novel" and Newsweek hailed as a "00 Book of All Time." Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal--including her friend Roger.
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking 试读
2023-08-27上架A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon 试读
2023-08-27上架The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as “a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties” living in Swindon, Wiltshire.
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The Fault in Our Stars
John Green 试读
2023-08-27上架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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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown 试读
2023-08-27上架Dan Brown's mega-bestseller is now available for a new generation of readers. This young adult adaptation is the perfect way to get ready for Origin, the latest novel featuring the character Robert Langdon. It will remind fans everywhere why the New York Times calls The Da Vinci Code "blockbuster perfection."
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin 试读
2023-08-27上架Baldwin's classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster 试读
2023-08-27上架With almost 5 million copies sold in the 60 years since it was published, generations of readers have journeyed with Milo to the Lands Beyond in this beloved classic.
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Drive
Daniel H. Pink 试读
2023-08-27上架Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
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The House of Rothschild
Niall Ferguson 试读
2023-08-27上架Niall Ferguson's House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets 1798-1848 was hailed as a "great biography" by Time magazine and named one of the best books of the year by Business Week. Now, with all the depth, clarity and drama with which he traced their ascent, Ferguson - the first historian with access to the long-lost Rothschild family archives - concludes his myth-breaking portrait of once of the most fascinating and power families of all time.
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The Tools
Phil Stutz 试读
2023-08-27上架With The Tools, Stutz and Michels allow you to realize the full range of your potential. Their goal is nothing less than for your life to become exceptional—exceptional in its resiliency, in its experience of real happiness, and in its understanding of the human spirit.
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Cytonic
Brandon Sanderson 试读
2023-08-27上架Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell—the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. What’s more, she traveled light-years from home as an undercover spy to infiltrate the Superiority, where she learned of the galaxy beyond her small, desolate planet home.
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The Plantagenets
Dan Jones 试读
2023-08-27上架he first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors.
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Learning How to Learn
Barbara Oakley PhD 试读
2023-08-27上架A Mind for Numbers and its wildly popular online companion course "Learning How to Learn" have empowered more than two million learners of all ages from around the world to master subjects that they once struggled with. Fans often wish they'd discovered these learning strategies earlier and ask how they can help their kids master these skills as well. Now in this new book for kids and teens, the authors reveal how to make the most of time spent studying.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz 试读
2023-08-27上架One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more...
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101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School
Matthew Frederick 试读
2023-08-26上架Students of urban design often find themselves lost between books that are either highly academic or overly formulaic, leaving them with few tangible tools to use in their design projects. 101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School fills this void with provocative, practical lessons on urban space, street types, pedestrian experience, managing the design process, the psychological, social, cultural, and economic ramifications of physical design decisions, and more.
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The Body
Bill Bryson 试读
2023-08-26上架NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A must-read owner’s manual for every body. Take a head-to-toe tour of the marvel that is the human body in this “delightful, anecdote-propelled read” (The Boston Globe) from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything. With a new Afterword.
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison 试读
2023-08-26上架He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," before retreating amid violence and confusion.
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls 试读
2023-08-26上架Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the Ozarks.
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The Knight at Dawn
Mary Pope Osborne 试读
2023-08-26上架这一回,神奇树屋把杰克与安妮带到中古世纪去了!跟着黑马骑士,兄妹俩闯进正在举行宴会的城堡,这对不受欢迎的小兄妹,被守卫关进了地牢,他们要如何逃脱?路上又会遇到什么危险呢?还有,在这一集里,杰克发现了夹在书中的书签上,竟然也刻着和徽章上一模一样的M字,这两者间又有什么关联?
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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene 试读
2023-08-26上架From Brian Greene one of the world s leading physicists comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts Is space an entity Why does time have a direction Could the universe exist without space and time Can we travel to the past Greene uses these questions to guide us toward modern science s new and deeper understanding of the universe From Newton.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1
Julia Child 试读
2023-08-26上架Featuring 524 delicious recipes and over 100 instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking offers something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine.
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Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down
Gina McIntyre 试读
2023-08-21上架When the first season of Stranger Things debuted on Netflix in the summer of 2016, the show struck a nerve with millions of viewers worldwide and received broad critical acclaim. The series has gone on to win six Emmy Awards, but its success was driven more than anything by word of mouth, resonating across generations. Viewers feel personal connections to the characters.
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
H. P. Lovecraft 试读
2023-08-17上架Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu."
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Someone We Know
Shari Lapena 试读
2023-08-17上架In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses - and into the owners' computers as well - learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too.
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Native Speaker
Chang-rae Lee 试读
2023-08-17上架Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy.
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Call for the Dead
John le Carré 试读
2023-08-17上架The heart-stopping tale of intrigue that launched both novelist and spy, Call for the Dead is an essential introduction to le Carré's chillingly amoral universe.
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli 试读
2023-08-17上架This playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics briskly explains Einstein's general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world. Carlo Rovelli, a renowned theoretical physicist, is a delightfully poetic and philosophical scientific guide.
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This Is My Life
Meg Wolitzer 试读
2023-08-17上架The third book by New York Times-bestselling author Meg Wolitzer (originally published as This Is Your Life), a smart, witty and perceptive novel about the daughters of a female stand-up comic who watch as their mother struggles to balance her career with the needs of her children.
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller 试读
2023-08-17上架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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A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit 试读
2023-08-17上架Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past 200 years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late 19th-century America (River of Shadows), Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an inventive and original writer whose mind is daring in the connections it makes.
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The Art of Simple Living
Shunmyo Masuno 试读
2023-08-17上架Relax and find happiness amid the swirl of the modern world with this internationally best-selling guide to simplifying your life by a Japanese monk who embodies the wisdom of Zen.
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The Key to Rebecca
Ken Follett 试读
2023-08-17上架A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent is on the loose in Cairo. His mission is to send Rommel’s advancing army the secrets that will unlock the city’s doors. In all of Cairo, only two people can stop him. One is a down-on-his-luck English officer no one will listen to. The other is a vulnerable young Jewish girl....
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The Haunted
Bentley Little 试读
2023-08-17上架The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's seen in the corner of the basement, staring at him and shuffling closer ever so slowly.
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Jackdaws
Ken Follett 试读
2023-08-17上架D-Day is approaching. They don’t know where or when, but the Germans know it’ll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sabotage, Flick has survived to become one of Britain’s most effective operatives in Northern France.
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Days Without End
Sebastian Barry 试读
2023-08-17上架Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars—against the Sioux and the Yurok—and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.
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The Looking Glass War
John le Carré 试读
2023-08-17上架It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger member and its last hope.
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Devotions
Mary Oliver 试读
2023-08-17上架Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as "far and away, this country's best selling poet" by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.
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Parent Effectiveness Training
Dr. Thomas Gordon 试读
2023-08-17上架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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A Time for Love
Lynn Kurland 试读
2023-08-17上架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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Smiley‘s People
John le Carré 试读
2023-08-17上架A very junior agent answers Vladimir’s call, but it could have been the Chief of the Circus himself. No one at the British Secret Service considers the old spy to be anything except a senile has-been who can’t give up the game—until he’s shot in the face at point-blank range. Although George Smiley (code name: Max) is officially retired, he’s summoned to identify the body now bearing Moscow Centre’s bloody imprimatur.
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Color Your Style
David Zyla 试读
2023-08-17上架David Zyla has made women look sensational on the runway, television, and Broadway for twenty years. In Color Your Style ,David shows how every woman can unlock her authentic style based on a combination of her personality, her eight true colors, and one of twenty-four color-palette archetypes-from the Wholesome Flirt to the Romantic Poetess to The Maverick.
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson 试读
2023-08-17上架In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of Black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
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My Life in France
Julia Child 试读
2023-08-17上架Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master chef. Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself.
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The Big Picture
Sean Carroll 试读
2023-08-17上架Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on the Higgs boson and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void?
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Red Sorghum
Mo Yan 试读
2023-08-17上架Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk 试读
2023-08-17上架In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances.
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Take Me With You When You Go
David Levithan 试读
2023-08-17上架Bea Ahern already knew she needed to get as far away from home as possible But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in a new city—without Ez, without a real plan—chasing someone who might not even want to be found.
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Eragon
Christopher Paolini 试读
2023-08-17上架When fifteen-year-old Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.
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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson 试读
2023-08-17上架Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit.
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The Medusa and the Snail
Lewis Thomas 试读
2023-08-17上架The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell.
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The Gatekeepers
Jacques Steinberg 试读
2023-08-17上架In the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University. Over the course of nearly a year, Steinberg accompanied admissions officer Ralph Figueroa on a tour to assess and recruit the most promising students in the country. The Gatekeepers follows a diverse group of prospective students as they compete for places in the nation's most elite colleges.
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The Odyssey
Homer 试读
2023-08-17上架For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.