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A Modest Proposal

一个小小的建议

Jonathan Swift乔纳森·斯威夫特

If you read this in high school (as many of us did), it may have shocked you--not bad for a tract written in 1729. It wouldn't be fair to those of you who haven't come across A Modest Proposal to reveal the particulars of the piece; suffice...

Speaking of Operations

说起手术

Irvin S. Cobb欧文·S·科伯

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Tartuffe or the Hypocrite

塔突弗

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere莫里哀

The new Steiner Tartuffe offers welcome relief from all the rhymed translations that make Moli猫re sound like a third-rate Restoration poet while creating the (false) impression that verbal dexterity and wit trump all other values in the gr...

Mazelli and Other Poems

马兹里

George W. Sands乔治·W·桑斯

A collection of poems compiled by George W. Sands, who stated that it was his first offering, at the shrine of his country's fame....

The Lifted Veil

揭起的面纱

George Eliot乔治·艾略特

The Lifted Veil is the story of Latimer, a mindreader with psychic powers. His brother's fiancée, Bertha, is the one person whose mind remains closed to him, arousing an undeniable curiosity, until his brother dies and he and Bertha marry-w...

The Diary of a Nobody

小人物日记

George and Weedon Grossmith乔治和威登·格罗史密斯

"The Diary Of A Nobody" began as a serial in "Punch" and the book which followed in 1892 has never been out of print. The Grossmith brothers not only created an immortal comic character but produced a clever satire of their society. Mr Poote...

Adam Bede

亚当.比德

George Eliot乔治·艾略特

George Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change f...

Animal Heroes

动物英雄

Ernest Thompson Seton欧内斯特·汤普森·西顿

A hero is an individuals gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them. In this volume every one of the s...

Beowulf

贝奥武夫

Seamus Heaney谢默斯·希尼

In Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literatu...

Twenty-Two Goblins

二十二只小女妖

Arthur W. Ryder阿瑟·W·赖德

"There is a city called Benares where Shiva lives. It is loved by pious people like the soil of Mount Kailasa. The river of heaven shines there like a pearl necklace. And in the city lived a king called Valour who burned up all his enemies b...