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Robinson Crusoe

鲁宾逊漂流记

Daniel Defoe丹尼尔·笛福

One of the first novels ever written, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719), the classic adventure story of a man marooned on an island for nearly 30 years, is part of our culture. From Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960) to th...

The Winter’s Tale

冬天的故事

William Shakespeare威廉·莎士比亚

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most fully realized tragicomedy, noted for the richness and complexity of its poetry. Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realistic psycholog...

Men’s Wives

妻室

William Makepeace Thackeray威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷

In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of the retired village of London - perhaps in the neighbourhood of Berkeley Square, or at any rate somewhere near Burlington Gardens--there was once a house of entertainment called the "Bootjack Hotel....

My Lady’s Money

我的女士的钱

Wilkie Collins威尔基·柯林斯

And here I am unknown and unemployed a helpless artist lost in London?with a sick wife and hungry children and bankruptcy staring me in the face?...

Love’s Labour’s Lost

爱的徒劳

William Shakespeare威廉·莎士比亚

Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage and in critical esteem only during the 1930s and 1940s--after nearly three hundred years of neg...

Island Nights’ Entertainments

岛上夜间的娱乐

Robert Louis Stevenson罗伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森

Island Nights' Entertainments is a set of three of Stevenson's most distinctive and compelling short stories, written out of his own experience living in the South Seas. The Misadventures of John Nicholson is a late contribution to the mid-n...

All’s Well That Ends Well

终成眷属

William Shakespeare威廉·莎士比亚

The classic struggle between Bertram a court bachelor trying to keep his lifestyle and Helena, the lady set on making him her own. miracle- cures, flights to Tuscany, scenes in the King's Court are all a part of this loved play....

Billy Baxter’s Letters

比利巴克斯特书信

William J. Kountz威兼·J·库兹

In presenting a new edition of Billy Baxter s Letters we need only refer the reader to the original preface, which sets forth the circumstances surrounding the initial publication. Billy Baxter claimed, for his slang, that it was up to date,...

A Rogue’s Life

一个无赖的一生

Wilkie Collins威尔基·柯林斯

"A neglected gem: one of Collins's most enticing fictions, and one of Hesperus Press's happiest rediscoveries." —Kirkus Reviews...

Alexander’s Bridge

亚力山大的桥

Willa Cather维拉·凯瑟

Alexander's Bridge is a novel written by popular American author Willa Cather. Originally published in 1912, and is the story of a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges, Bartley Alexander, who is going through a mid-lif...