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Eugénie Grandet

欧也妮·葛朗台

Honore de Balzac巴尔扎克

'Who is going to marry Eugnie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eugnie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comdie humaine . The Grandet house...

The Three Strangers

三个陌生人

Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代

Thomas Hardy was a poet and novelist of the naturalist movement. He trained as an architect. He was a religious man who was also deeply influenced by Darwin and fascinated by ghosts and spirits.During his lifetime, he was best known for his...

The Girl from Farris’s

法罗斯家的女孩

Edgar Rice Burroughs埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯

The Girl From Farris's was a member of the oldest profession in the world and the hero was foreman of the grand jury. Mystery and murder follow them....

The Double Traitor

双面叛徒

Edward Phillips Oppenheim爱德华·菲利普斯·奥本海姆

an excerpt from CHAPTER I: The woman leaned across the table towards her companion. My friend, she said, when we first met--I am ashamed, considering that I dine alone with you to-night, to reflect how short a time ago--you spoke of your re...

The Marriage Contract

婚约

Honore de Balzac巴尔扎克

My first Honore de Balzac read, fascinating tale in flamboyant prose rings true in 2009 as it did three hundred years ago. Tale of a mediocre student whose family money allows him a life of indolence and excess. I loved the way he and his f...

Black Jack

布兰克·杰克

Max Brand马克思·布朗德

An American Western Classic! Black Jack Hollis had been killed as Elizabeth Cornish watched. Recklessly, joyously, his black hair flying, Jack had ridden into town to see his infant son. Then a shotgun, fired from a window, had blasted him...

Aaron’s Rod

亚伦魔杖

D.H. Lawrence劳伦斯

Lawrence's 1921 novel of protagonist Aaron Sisson also depicts the decline of civilization following World War I. The original manuscript was heavily edited to meet the morals of the time, but this edition restores the text to its pristine...

Taras Bulba

烽火霸王

Nikolai Gogol果戈里

Taras Bulba is the story of its title character, Taras Bulba, an old Ukrainian Cossack and his two sons, Andriy and Ostap, who journey to Zaporizhian Sich located in Ukraine to fight Polish nobles with fellow Cossacks. A romanticized histor...

Victory: An Island Tale

胜利

Joseph Conrad约瑟夫·康拉德

Axel Heyst, a disenchanted Swede, becomes involved in the operation of a coal company on a remote island in the Malay archipelago. When that fails, he turns his back on humanity until, once again, he is drawn into contact with the world by...

The Lad And The Lion

小伙子和狮子

Edgar Rice Burroughs埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯

Not since the days of the Jungle Books has any one succeeded in bringing humans and brutes together with the success of Edgar Rice Burroughs. You all know his Tarzan stories and have reveled in the glamour of that ape-man's friendships and...