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2010-07-17

The Way of All Flesh

众生之道

Samuel Butler塞缪尔·巴特勒

Autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler, published posthumously in 1903 though written almost two decades earlier. Beginning with the life of John Pontifex, a carpenter, the novel traces four generations of the Pontifex family, each of whic...

2010-06-26

Samuel Johnson

塞缪尔·约翰逊

Leslie Stephen莱斯利·斯蒂芬

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2010-06-21

The History of Henry Esmond

亨利·埃斯蒙德

William Makepeace Thackeray威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷

Out of modesty, one supposes, the impossibly virtuous (and fictional) Henry Esmond narrates his adventures in the third person. Raised to believe himself a nobleman's love-child, he eventually discovers he is a legitimate heir. This knowled...

2010-05-23

The Diary of a U-Boat Commander

德国潜艇舰长日记

Karl von Schenk卡尔·冯·申克

The diary (translated into English) of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involved - on both s...

2010-04-29

Life on the Mississippi

密西西比河上的生活

Mark Twain马克·吐温

Memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541. Chapters 4-22 describe Tw...

2010-04-28

Roughing It

艰苦岁月

Mark Twain马克·吐温

Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the vigorous new vernacular of the West. Selling seventy five thousa...

2010-04-13

Cross Creek

十字溪流

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings玛·金·罗琳斯

Originally published in 1942, Cross Creek has become a classic in modern American literature. For the millions of readers raised on The Yearling, here is the story of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cr...

2010-04-03

Urbain Grandier

杜德里·沙顿神父

Alexandre Dumas père大仲马

Urbain Grandier (1590 in Boure, Mayenne 18 August 1634 in Loudun) was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, specifically the events of the Loudun Possessions....

2010-03-30

Fanny Herself

范妮的故事

Edna Ferber艾德娜·费勃

Fanny Herself is the intensely personal chronicle of a young girl growing up Jewish in a small midwestern town. Packed with the warmth and the wry, sidelong wit that made Ferber one of the best-loved writers of her time. Edna Ferber has bee...

2010-03-23

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

一个非洲黑奴的自传

Olaudah Equiano奥拉达·艾奎亚诺

An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at...