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菲利浦.杜：管理者

Edward Mandell House爱德华·曼德尔·豪斯

This book as a work of fiction is weak, and not good in any sense. If I were to rate it as fiction 1 star would be generous. The author himself admitted that he released it without refining it because he felt that he had more pressing needs...

The Secret Sharer

秘密的分享者

Joseph Conrad约瑟夫·康拉德

Great adventures of the sea and of the soul, related by a novelist considered one of the greatest writers in the language...

The Kalevala

卡莱瓦拉

Elias Lonnrot埃利亚斯·伦洛特

民族史诗《卡来瓦拉》渊源于芬兰古代民间诗歌，只不过在古代民间诗歌中，《卡莱瓦拉》中的几个男主角如万奈摩宁，伊尔玛利宁和勒明盖宁均被赋予迥然不同的特征，他们的英雄业...

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...

The Mysterious Rider

神秘骑士

Zane Grey赞恩·格雷

The Shelf2Life Western Fiction Collection is a fascinating set of pre-1923 materials that capture the beauty, mystery and adventure of the old west. From honorable cowboys and spirited pioneer women to questionable sheriffs, notorious gunsl...

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...

The Circular Staircase

环形楼梯

Mary Roberts Rinehart玛丽·罗伯茨·莱因哈特

Perhaps Rachael Innes would not have taken a summer rental on a sprawling mansion by the sea if she had known it was haunted. By the time she had spent the secondmostly sleeplessnight in Sunnyside, the house proved not only haunted but the...

Home of the Gentry

贵族之家

Ivan Turgenev伊凡·屠格涅夫

On one level the novel is about the homecoming of Lavretsky, who, broken and disillusioned by a failed marriage, returns to his estate and finds love again - only to lose it. The sense of loss and of unfulfilled promise, beautifully capture...

The Pioneers

先锋

James Fenimore Cooper詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏

The fourth and last work chronologically in Cooper's Leather-stocking Tales, Pioneers is a historical novel that follows the later life of Natty Bumppo. Already introduced by the previous novels as the archetypal American frontiersman and f...

Skulls in the Stars

星球上的头盖骨

Robert E. Howard罗伯特·E·霍华德

There are two roads to Torkertown. One, the shorter and more direct route, leads across a barren upland moor, and the other, which is much longer, winds its tortuous way in and out among the hummocks and quagmires of the swamps, skirting th...