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2010-06-11

The Valley of the Moon

月亮谷

Jack London杰克·伦敦

How was Life in the San Francisco Bay Area 100 years ago?? Jack London describes the difficulties for the working man growing up in urban California, as the labor unions struggled with strike-breakers and management. To escape this class st...

2010-06-09

The Greene Murder Case

格林杀人事件

S. S. Van DineS·S·范·丁

IT has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers-men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton-have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy;...

2010-06-08

Can You Forgive Her

你能原谅她吗？

Anthony Trollope安东尼·特罗洛普

With Can You Forgive Her? Trollope begins his masterful series of Parliamentary novels, but here he is concerned with the politics of love and the demands of society. Alice Vavasor, lovely, intelligent and just a bit prudish, is torn betwee...

2010-06-08

Burn Witch Burn

魔鬼玩偶

Abraham Merritt亚伯拉罕·梅里特

Burn Witch Burn is a very unusual book for Abraham Merritt, who's best known for his gloriously weird, surreal adventure stories (think Jules Verne/H. Rider Haggard on acid). But in this book, he took a brilliant left turn into the earliest...

2010-06-07

Whirligigs

生命的陀螺

O. Henry欧·亨利

1923. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Ano...

2010-06-06

Benita, an African Romance

贝妮塔的非洲爱情故事

Henry Rider Haggard亨利·赖德·哈格德

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2010-06-06

The Man In Lower Ten

下层人

Mary Roberts Rinehart玛丽·罗伯茨·莱因哈特

Since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and...

2010-06-05

Five Thousand Miles Underground

地下五千里

Roy Rockwood罗伊·罗克伍德

Throughout a big shed filled for the most part with huge pieces of machinery echoed the voice of Professor Amos Henderson. He did not look up from a small engine over which he was bending....

2010-06-04

Finished

已完成

Henry Rider Haggard亨利·赖德·哈格德

Finished comprises the third book in H. Rider Haggard's so-called Zulu trilogy, the first two novels being Marie and Child of Storm. This is a magnificent set of books that deals with the downfall of the Zulu people, as personally witnessed...

2010-06-04

Heu Heu

恶魔

Henry Rider Haggard亨利·赖德·哈格德

Heu-Heu, or the Monster is one of the 14 novels that the great H. Rider Haggard wrote that deals with the life of Allan Quatermain, an English hunter in South Africa. This is a stand-alone novel. Unlike the first two novels in the series, K...