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I’m a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away

请问这里是美国吗 又名：人在故乡为异客

Bill Bryson比尔·布莱森

“少小离家老大回”。大胡子比尔·布莱森年轻时离开故乡美国，漂到英伦三岛，做编辑写书成家生子，乐不思蜀。一晃二十年过去了，他又举家迁回美国，却发现时移世易，保留在他...

The Art Of Lawn Tennis

网球的艺术

William T. Tilden威廉·T·梯尔登

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original...

Female Suffrage

妇女的选举权

Susan Fenimore Cooper苏珊·费尼莫·库班

Examination of whether gender equality is compatible with Christian teachings and whether universal suffrage can ever resolve social problems. By the American writer and amateur naturalist....

Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

从康希尔到大开罗

William Makepeace Thackeray威廉·梅克皮斯·萨克雷

An excerpt from the book: On the 20th of August, 1844, the writer of this little book went to dine at the--Club, quite unconscious of the wonderful events which Fate had in store for him. Mr. William was there, giving a farewell dinner to hi...

The Book of Tea

茶之书

Kakuzo Okakura冈仓天心

That a nation should construct one of its most resonant national ceremonies round a cup of tea will surely strike a chord of sympathy with at least some readers of this review. To many foreigners, nothing is so quintessentially Japanese as t...

Diary of a Pilgrimage

朝圣路日记

Jerome K Jerome杰罗米·K·杰罗米

"This is a sensible book. I want you to understand that. This is a book to improve your mind. In this book, I tell you all about Germany-at all events, all I know about Germany-and the Oberammergau Passion Play. I also tell you about other t...

Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays

社会卫生讲座

Charles Kingsley查理斯·京士理

Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons....

America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat

东方外交家眼里的亚美利坚

Wu Tingfang伍廷芳

An intriguing account of early twentieth century America through the eyes of an outsider, inverting the "Westerner observing the exotic" stereotype. Wu Tingfang wrote this book at an interesting juncture in history -- airplanes and motion pi...

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms

佛都记录

James Legge理雅各

A recording of the Chinese Buddhist monk's travels to bring Buddhist scriptures to India and Sri Lanka between 399 and 412AD....

Tour Through Eastern Counties Of England

英格兰东部游记

Daniel Defoe丹尼尔·笛福

I began my travels where I purpose to end them, viz, at the city of London, and therefore my account of the city itself will come last, that is to say, at the latter end of my southern progress; and as in the course of this journey I shall h...