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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...

Men Of Iron

铁人

Ernie Howard Pyle尼内·霍华德·派尔

The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard ii-weak, wicked, and treacherous-had been dethroned, and Henry iv declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lastin...

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...

The Golf Course Mystery

高尔夫教程

Chester K. Steele切斯特·W·斯蒂尔

From the book, "There was nothing in that clear, calm day, with its blue sky and its flooding sunshine, to suggest in the slightest degree the awful tragedy so close at hand--that tragedy which so puzzled the authorities and which came so cl...

19th Century Actor Autobiographies

十九世纪男演员自传

George Iles乔治·艾尔斯

from the PREFACE: A good play gives us in miniature a cross-section of life, heightened by plot and characterisation, by witty and compact dialogue. Of course we should honour first the playwright, who has given form to each well knit act an...

The Mirror of Kong Ho

空赫的镜子

Ernest BramahE·布拉玛

Ernest Bramah, of whom in his lifetime Who's Who had so little to say, was born in Manchester. At seventeen he chose farming as a profession, but after three years of losing money gave it up to go into journalism. He started as correspondent...

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...