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春秋谷梁传(无注释版)
榖梁俶 试读
本书乃儒家经典之一,与《左传》、《公羊传》同为解说《春秋》的三传之一。所记载的时间起于鲁隐公元年,终于鲁哀公十四年。其作者相传是子夏的弟子,战国时鲁人谷梁赤(赤或作喜、嘉、俶、寘)。起初也为口头传授,至西汉时才成书。
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二十四孝(无注释版)
郭居敬 试读
“孝”是儒家伦理思想的核心,是千百年来中国社会维系家庭关系的道德准则,是中华民族的传统美德。元代郭居敬编成《二十四孝》。《二十四孝》全名《全相二十四孝诗选》,由历代二十四个孝子从不同角度、不同环境、不同遭遇行孝的故事辑录而成。
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容斋随笔(无注释版)
洪迈 试读
“容斋随笔”共“五笔”,74卷,1220则。其中,“容斋随笔”16卷,329则;“容斋续笔”16卷,249则;“容斋三笔”16卷,248则;“容斋四笔”16卷,259则;“容斋五笔”10卷,135则。据作者自述,该书写作时问历经近三十年。可以说“容斋随笔”是作者数十年博览群书、经世致用的智慧和汗水的结晶。 “容斋随笔”内容繁富,议论精当,是一部涉及领域极为广泛的著作,自经史诸子百家、诗词文翰以及历代典章制度、医卜、星历等,无不有所论说,而且其考证辨析之确切,议论评价之精当,皆倍受称道。其最重要的价值和贡献是考证了前朝的一些史实,如政治制度、事件、年代、人物等,对历代经史典籍进行了重评、辨伪与订误,提出了许多颇有见地的观点,更正了许多流传已久的谬误,不仅在中国历史文献上有着重要的地位和影响,而且对于中国文化的发展亦意义重大。
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洛阳伽蓝记(无注释版)
杨衒之 试读
本书主要讲了:永宁寺、建中寺、长秋寺、瑶光寺、景乐寺、昭仪尼寺、胡统寺、修梵寺、景林寺、洛阳伽蓝记卷二城东、明悬尼寺、龙华寺、璎珞寺、宗圣寺、崇真寺、魏昌尼寺、景兴尼寺、庄严寺、秦太上君寺、正始寺、平等寺、景宁寺等内容。
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霍小玉传(无注释版)
蒋防 试读
“霍小玉传”,唐代汉族传奇小说,略晚于“李娃传”、“莺莺传”,代表唐传奇发展的又一高峰。小说叙述的是陇西书生李益和长安名妓霍小玉凄楚动人的爱情悲剧。此书约作于元和四年(809)前后,作者蒋防,字子徵,义兴(今江苏宜兴)人,生卒年不详。
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黄帝内经素问(无注释版)
王冰次 试读
37《黄帝内经素问》简称《素问》,(英文意译),是现存最早的中医理论著作,相传为黄帝创作,实际非出自一时一人之手,大约成书于春秋战国时期。原来9卷,古书早已亡佚,后经唐王冰订补,改编为24卷,计81篇,定名为《黄帝内经素问》,所论内容十分丰富。
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南国哀歌(无注释版)
赖和 试读
赖和,台湾省彰化县人。台湾新文学奠基者,现代作家,诗人,原名赖河,字懒云,人称和仔仙。他的一生,首先是“俯首甘为孺子牛”的一生,是一位治病救人、为民服务的光辉榜样,同时,他的一生,又是“横眉冷对千夫指”的一生,是一位爱国反帝,以文学为武器,致力于民族解放运动的忠诚战士。他的爱国进步的社会观、文学观,都体现在他的创作实践中。他的文学活动的基本成就是在小说和诗歌的创作上。本书是他的诗歌集。他的诗作更为鲜明地体现了他的文学主张,充满了革命精神和牺牲精神,洋溢着宁死不屈的民族精神,是刺向日本殖民统治的尖锐投枪。他的作品也倾注了对台湾农民的深切同情和真挚关怀。
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剪灯馀话(无注释版)
李昌祺 试读
本书是李昌祺仿瞿佑“剪灯新话”而作,借以抒写胸臆。全书4卷20篇(另附《还魂记》1篇),董氏诵芬室刻本。成书于永乐十八年(1420),有永乐庚子夏自叙。其书大都取材于元末明初事,以婚姻爱情故事为主,又多幽冥灵异人物,作者以此表达他“善可法,恶可戒,表节义,砺风俗”之义。
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南柯太守传(无注释版)
李公佐 试读
《南柯太守传》,唐代传奇小说,出自《太平广记》卷四百七十五〈昆虫三〉,唐代李公佐著。 《南柯太守传》约作于德宗贞元末。传中述游侠之士淳于棼,家住广陵郡(今江苏扬州)东,宅南有大古槐一株,常与朋辈豪饮槐下。一日大醉,由二友人扶归家中,昏然入睡。忽见二紫衣使者,称奉槐安国王之命相邀。遂出门登车,向古槐穴而去。及驰入洞中,见山川道路,别有天地。入大槐安国,拜见国王,招为驸马,又拜为南柯郡太守。守郡二十载,甚有政绩,大受宠任。 后有檀萝国军来侵,淳于棼遣将迎敌,大败。不久公主病死,棼遂护丧归至国都。因广为交游,威福日盛,国王颇为疑忌,夺其侍卫,禁其交游。棼郁郁不乐,王即命紫衣使者将他送归故里。还入家门,乃矍然梦觉,见二友人尚在,斜阳犹未西落。遂与二友寻槐下洞穴,但见群蚁隐聚其中,积土为城郭台殿之状——与梦中所见相符,于是感人生之虚幻,遂栖心道门,弃绝酒色。本篇意在讽刺窃据高位者,言其贵宠荣盛,乃是傥来之物,不可恃以傲物凌人,同时也宣扬了浮生若梦的思想。它的构思立意与沈既济《枕中记》相类,而描摹尤为尽致,文辞亦较华丽。篇末“假实证幻,余韵悠然”,为《枕中记》所不及(鲁迅《中国小说史略》)。《南柯太守传》流传甚广,李肇曾为之作赞,唐人诗文中也用为典实。后世甚至附会扬州有南柯太守之墓(王象之《舆地纪胜》卷三十七引《广陵行录》)。明代汤显祖《南柯记》,即取材于本篇。
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书画传习录(节录·无注释版)
王绂 试读
前二卷分别为论书、论画,卷三为书事丛谈,共列六门:第一为道德门,主要是“采道德之言”以资艺事,而篇中所列全为两宋理学人物,有周濂溪、程明道、程伊川、张横渠、邵康节、司马温公、杨龟山、朱子、张南轩、蔡元定、陆象山、陆九龄等十二人,一一叙其行迹、录其出处大节、摄提其理学主旨,以为“临池者观感而兴起焉”。该书所强调的“涵泳经史”,实际上就是由理学入手而把握儒家思想,从而陶染性情、发为画艺。这是一部最典型的以读经书来助画学的著作。
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閤皂山志(无注释版)
俞策 试读
张道陵曾立于山之挂壁峰;丁令威亦有坛于仙峰顶;“南洲高士”徐稚 曾隐居于山间玉女峰北麓。汉方土葛玄于建安七年 (202)入山于东峰之下结庐筑坛,修道炼丹,采药行医,搜集古籍,编撰道书,并广收门徒,大宣道义;仙逝之后被后世道徒尊称为“太极仙翁”、“葛仙翁”。
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承晋斋积闻录(无注释版)
梁巘 试读
梁巘对于书法研究方面的著作,成于乾隆时期,但至民国年间始有刊本,裴景福为序;民间流传有手抄本,以光绪年间王荷亭抄本最著。近年则有洪丕谟氏整理本问世。今参照上述诸本,重行校点刊行,并列裴序、王记于前,以飨读者。
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春秋公羊经何氏释例(无注释版)
刘逢禄 试读
“春秋公羊经何氏释例”十卷,凡何氏所谓非常异义可怪之论,次第发明,共总结有例二十六,表四。罗列举证“春秋”经传及何休解诂条文於前 ,後赘以释阐其主旨要义,复以表纵横比对相关内容,因以明晰义例。阐述主旨之文字则移於每表之首,名为“序”。
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Across China on Foot
Edwin John Dingle 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Bartleby the Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
Herman Melville 试读
Bartleby is a kind of clerk, a copyist,who obstinately refuses to go on doing the sort of writing demanded of him; During the spring of 1851, Melville felt similarly about his work on Moby Dick. Thus, Bartleby can be seen to represent Melville's frustration with his own situation as a writer, and the story itself is about a writer who forsakes conventional modes because of an irresistible preoccupation with the most baffling philosophical questions Bartleby can also be seen to represent Melville's relation to his commercial, democratic society.
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell 试读
One of the best loved animal stories ever written, the dramatic and heartwarming Black Beauty is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his idyllic days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. No one can ever forget the gallant Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead and a heart of unyielding courage.
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon
Peter Christen Asbjornsen 试读
These Scandinavian fairy tales have had many interpretations through the years, but never have they been so beautifully illustrated as in this sumptuous edition. Golden Age artist Kay Nielsen, a master of fantasy, lavished the text with 25 intricately detailed color and numerous black-and-white images that glow with his phantasmagorical style. With 15 stories that include the popular "Billy Goat's Gruff," this is one of the most stunning children's books ever produced.
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Emma
简·奥斯汀 试读
As daughter of the richest, most important man in the small provincial village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is firmly convinced that it is her right--perhaps even her "duty"--to arrange the lives of others. Considered by most critics to be Austen's most technically brilliant achievement, "Emma" sparkles with ironic insights into self-deception, self-discovery, and the interplay of love and power.
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Evelina Or the History of a Young Ladys Entrance into the World
Frances Burney 试读
Leaving the secluded home of her guardian for the first time, beautiful Evelina Anville is captivated by her new surroundings in London's beau monde--and in particular by the handsome, chivalrous Lord Orville. But her enjoyment soon turns to mortification at the hands of her vulgar and capricious grandmother, and the rakish Sir Clement Willoughby, who torments the naive young woman with his unwanted advances. And while her aristocratic father refuses to acknowledge her legitimacy, Evelina can hold no hope of happiness with the man she loves. Published anonymously in 1778, Frances Burney's epistolary novel brought her instant fame when the secret of its authorship was revealed. With its ingenious combination of romance and satire, comedy and melodrama, Evelina is a sparkling depiction of the dangers and delights of fashionable society.
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Gitanjali
泰戈尔 试读
Moving, heart-felt prose poems by the beloved and much admired Bengali poet and mystic who first achieved international fame (and a Nobel Prize) in 1913 with his translation of these moving poems. Reminiscent of Blake and Gibran, they include many works that are almost biblical in their rhythms, phrasing and images. Introduction by William Butler Yeats.
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In Freedoms Cause – a Story of Wallace and Bruce
G.A.Henty 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 Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
The story of an unhappy little girl, her invalid cousin, andthe healing power of friendship and love.
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The Time Machine
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
Two classic science fiction novels in one handsome volume. Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. The Time Machine propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal, Darwinian future. The Invisible Man tells of a brash young scientist who becomes invisible, then insane.
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 试读
The story is written in the first person as a series of journal entries, the narrator a woman whose physician husband has confined her to the upstairs bedroom of a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden from working, and has to hide her journal entries from him, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in that period. The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gate across the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control her access to the rest of the house.
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Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare 试读
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, producing plays, such as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies and collaborated with other playwrights.
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Walden
Henry David Thoreau 试读
By virtue of its casual, off-handedly brilliant wisdom and the easy splendor of its nature writing, Thoreau's account of his adventure in self-reliance on the shores of a pond in Massachusetts is one of the signposts by which the modern mind has located itself in an increasingly bewildering world. Deeply sane, invigorating in its awareness of humanity's place in the moral and natural order, Walden represents the progressive spirit of nineteenth-century America at its eloquent best. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
E.Dixon 试读
There once was a king of Persia who at the beginning of his reign had distinguished himself by many glorious and successful conquests and had afterwards enjoyed such profound peace and tranquillity as rendered him the happiest of monarchs.
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Persuasion
简·奥斯汀 试读
This volume, first published in 2006, is a comprehensive scholarly edition of Jane Austen's innovative final novel.
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Sons and Lovers
David Herbert Lawrence 试读
Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. Using the first edition text, which Lawrence approved, this edition also offers a fresh and stimulating introduction - particularly in its treatment of Lawrence's language and imagery.
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The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang 试读
Once upon a time there lived a king who was deeply in love with a princess, but she could not marry anyone, because she was under an enchantment. So the King set out to seek a fairy, and asked what he could do to win the Princess's love .The Blue Fairy Book is the first in a series of fairy-tale anthologies beloved of children in the last century. Each fairy book is a veritable treasure trove of stories for children and adults alike, spellbinding and special. Hesperus is very proud to present the first anthology, The Blue Fairy Book, which includes wonderful renditions of the old favourites such as Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel, as well as some intriguing fairy tales that modern audiences have yet to discover such as Why the Sea is Salt, Prince Hyacinth and The Dear Little Princess.
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
Thomas Hardy 试读
From its spectacular opening–the astonishing scene in whichdrunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passingsailor at a county fair–to the breathtaking series of discoveriesat its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique placeamong Thomas Hardy’s finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in earlynineteenth-century England, the story build into an awesomeSophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willfulHenchard rises to a position of wealth and power–only to suffer amost bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to hisown destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, “Hardy’sLord Jim…his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroesin all fiction.
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The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Immanuel Kant 试读
Work from the German philosopher,one of the most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment.
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The Princess of Cleves
Madame de La Fayette 试读
The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of Thomas Sargent Perry's 1892 translation, indisputably the translation that has best served readers in English. Reprinted repeatedly over the last one hundred years, the Perry translation is a classic in its own right. After careful review, the editor has corrected minor infelicities of translation (necessary to remain true to Lafayette's text) and updated vocabulary. To experience the innovation of Lafayette's writing, it is necessary to understand the critical resistance it met with in seventeenth-century France. "Contemporary Reactions" includes five assessments of The Princess of Cleves by Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette herself, Roger de Bussy-Rabutin and Marie de Sevigne, Jean-Baptiste-Henry du Trousset de Valincour, Jean-Antoine de Charnes, and Du Plaisir following its controversial publication. John Lyons's translations for this Norton Critical Edition make these reactions available in English for the first time. "Criticism" includes eleven modern studies of the novel, five of which appear here in English for the first time, by Jean Fabre, Michel Butor, Jean Rousset, Helen Karen Kaps, Gerard Genette, Roger Francillon, Kurt Weinberg, Peggy Kamuf, Erica Harth, Joan DeJean, and Laurence Gregario. A Glossary of Characters and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne 试读
Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.
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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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Queen Mary and Harold
Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 试读
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809-1892) was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes. One of Tennyson's most famous works is Idylls of the King (1859), a series of narrative poems based entirely on King Arthur and the Arthurian tales. During his career, Lord Tennyson attempted drama, but his plays enjoyed little success even in his lifetime. His first publication entitled Poems by Two Brothers was published in 1827. He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. In 1833, Tennyson published his second book of poetry, which included his well-known poem, The Lady of Shalott. In 1842 Tennyson published two volumes of Poems. The Princess, a satire of women's education, which came out in 1847, was also popular. It was in 1850 that Tennyson reached the pinnacle of his career, being appointed Poet Laureate until his death. Amongst his other works are Becket and Other Plays (1884) and Lady Clare (1884).
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Baldy of Nome
Esther Birdsall Darling 试读
At all events, Tom had resented the entrance of the Eskimo, Wolf, into the Kennel; and never failed, when "Scotty" was not about, to manifest an enmity that would have told a civilized dog not to attempt any liberties with him. But Wolf was only an ignorant puppy, taken from a native igloo, where all of the dogs and all of the family lived in happy harmony; and so, one day when he was particularly joyous, he nipped, in a spirit of mischief, the end of Tom's wagging stump of a tail. Tom wheeled instantly, his hair bristling and his jaws apart, but the timely arrival of Matt made further demonstration impossible; and Tom's instinctive dislike for Wolf grew into an obsession after that direct and personal insult.
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The Lure of the Mask
Harold MacGrath 试读
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo: a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts.Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments with truly horrific results.
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Glenloch Girls
Grace M. Remick 试读
You haven’t lost all your money, have you? That would be so romantic and interesting. I think I should go out as a cook, and perhaps you could get a place as butler in the same house.
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Happiness and Marriage
Elizabeth Towne 试读
Elizabeth Towne was one of the most important figures in the New Thought movement. In this book she gives her views of how to have a happy marriage. This book is full of wisdom that any one looking to get married or stay married will appreciate. Chapters include To Be Happy Though Married, To Be Loved, Marriage Contracts, Some Hints and a Kick, The Heart of Woman, The Law of Individuality, Harmony at Home, The Truth about Divorce.
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Lady Mary and her Nurse
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 试读
The nurse smiled, and said, "It is not a fish at all, my dear;it is a dried beaver's tail. I brought it from the back lakes whenI was at home, that you might see it. See, my lady, how curiouslythe beaver's tail is covered with scales; it looks like some sortof black leather, stamped in a diaper pattern. Before it is dried,it is very heavy, weighing three or four pounds. I have heard mybrothers and some of the Indian trappers say, that the animal makesuse of its tail to beat the sides of the dams and smoothe the mudand clay, as a plasterer uses a trowel.
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Mrs. Warrens Profession
George Bernard Shaw 试读
Written in 1893, Mrs. Warren's Profession skewers the hypocrisy of British society. The wealthy, respectable title character's "profession" is the world's oldest, but Mrs. Warren is unprepared for the reaction of her daughter Vivie when she discovers her mother's occupation. Shaw brings new life to the woman-with-a-past theme with wit and a defense of his heroine.
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The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas 试读
A deceptively simple story and the shortest of Dumas's most famous novels, The Black Tulip (1850) weaves historical events surrounding a brutal murder into a tale of romantic love. Set in Holland in 1672, this timeless political allegory draws on the violence and crimes of history, making a case against tyranny and creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.