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本套书包括《艾格妮丝·格雷3册》和《威尔德菲尔庄园的房客6册》共9册。《艾格妮丝·格雷》Agnes Grey is the debut novel of English author Anne Bront? (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Bront? suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Bront?'s own experiences as a governess for five years. Agnes, her sister Mary, and their mother all try to keep expenses low and bring in extra money, but Agnes is frustrated that everyone treats her like a child. To prove herself and to earn money, she is determined to get a position as a governess. Eventually, she obtains a recommendation from a well-placed acquaintance, is offered a position, and secures her parents' permission. With some misgivings, she travels to Wellwood house to work for the Bloomfield family. The choice of central character allows Anne to deal with issues of oppression and abuse of women and governesses, isolation and ideas of empathy. An additional theme is the fair treatment of animals. Agnes Grey also mimics some of the stylistic approaches of bildungsromans, employing ideas of personal growth and coming to age, but representing a character who in fact does not gain in virtue.《威尔德菲尔庄园的房客》This work is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Bront?. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Bront?s' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication. Most critics now consider The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to be one of the first feminist novels. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events connected with the meeting of his wife. A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and a servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert befriends Helen and discovers her past. In her diary, Helen depicts her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and her desperate attempts to save their son from his influence in the dissipated aristocratic society from which she ultimately flees. The depiction of marital strife and women's professional identification has also a strong moral message mitigated by the authors's belief in universal salvation.

Antonina, or the Fall of Rome (1850) is an novel by Wilkie Collins. A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' are reset to suit the purpose of the author.

In the early 1800s, John Astor made the fateful decision to make good on his long-held dream of establishing a fur-trading company in the Northwest United States. Astor later convinced Washington Irving, one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century American literature, to create a non-fiction account of the operation's origins. The result, Astoria, is a fascinating work of history. Astoria is a history book published in 1836 by Washington Irving. The full title being "Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains". The book was commissioned by John Jacob Astor as an official history of his company's expedition to Oregon in 1810–1812. The book became a bestseller in 1836 and at the time was required reading in some schools. Astoria has been read as a vivid and fascinating history, comparable indeed to the finest of romances, but rooted in the rough and hardy life of trapping, hunting, and exploration.

“Knickerbocker's History of New York” is the book by Washington Irving, an American writer who was born in New York City on April 3, 1783. It is published in December, 1809, with which Washington living, at the age of twenty-six, first won wide credit and influence. Knickerbocker's History of New York is a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics. Prior to its publication, Irving started a hoax akin to today's viral marketing campaigns; he placed a series of missing person adverts in New York newspapers seeking information on Diedrich Knickerbocker, a crusty Dutch historian who had allegedly gone missing from his hotel in New York City. Today, author Washington Irving is best remembered for the iconic tales "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle." However, Irving also produced a number of well-regarded works of history and biography. This brilliant volume combines fact and fiction, offering a satirical history of New York from the perspective of make-believe Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker.

Thomas Hardy’s final novel “Jude the Obscure” began as a serial publication on December 1894 before being published in book form the following year. It is the story of its titular character Jude Fawley, a young lower-class man with dreams of being a scholar, and his relationships with his wife, Arabella, and his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. The novel follows the life of Jude from his youth living in a village in southern England where he works in a bakery and studies Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time with hopes of one day becoming a scholar at Christminster, a fictional city modeled after Oxford. His dreams are dashed however when he becomes ensnared by deceit into marriage with Arabella Donn, a coarse and superficial girl. What follows is a classic and tragic tale that plays upon many themes, principally of which is the idea that one’s ruinous downfall is the product of having lived a sinful life. Having been harshly criticized in its day for its scandalous portrayals, “Jude the Obscure” has since been recognized as one of Hardy’s finest and most intricate works.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus. It was inspired by a model of the French submarine Plongeur (launched in 1863) was displayed at the 1867 University Expo, where it was studied by Jules Verne. The description of Nemo's ship, the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels. The book was highly acclaimed when it was released and still is. It is regarded as one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth.

本套书包括《木偶奇遇记3册》、《一个孩子的星星梦》、《圣诞颂歌小气财神3册》和《圣诞树》共8册。《木偶奇遇记》The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi in 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. The lonely woodcarver Geppetto carves himself a son—a mischievous puppet he names Pinocchio who learns that he can become a real boy by doing good deeds. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a dogfish, before he gains real happiness. A narration is presented that has moral lessons and provokes to think in the right direction. An universal icon and a metaphor of the human condition, the book is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has had great impact on world culture.《圣诞颂歌小气财神》A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. After their visits Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.In his "Ghostly little book," Charles Dickens invents the modern concept of Christmas Spirit and offers one of the world’s most adapted and imitated stories. We know Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, not only as fictional characters, but also as icons of the true meaning of Christmas in a world still plagued with avarice and cynicism.

当下英语已经不只是一门语言专业，更成了一个了解理论和先进知识的工具。 一直以来，在国内的英语学习法中风行着一种速成的论调：7天搞定单词，一个月攻破听力……仿佛学习者吃了一颗大补丸，英语水平就能立刻回血。然而尝试过速成法的学习者，往往发现这些方法都难以坚持下去。 在这本书中，作者刘晓光和伍君仪从自己英语逆袭的亲身经历入手，提供了一套理论清晰、操作性强的英语训练体系，向所有英语学习者传达了这样的理念：语言学习没有捷径，但没有捷径并不意味着学习者要坚持下去一定会十分艰辛。英语是一门人人都可以掌握的技能，并不是一门只停留在卷面上的学科。只要遵循书中阐释的科学的训练体系，在自己现有的水平上小梯度却不间断地前进，持续收获的正反馈会让自己毫不费力地坚持学习下去，在成就感的增长过程中变成一个能流利使用英语的大咖！

《速查速用旅游英语口语》收录了实用、新鲜的语料，囊括了旅行中的行前准备、出发乘机、旅行住宿、出行交通、旅游玩乐、旅行物、旅行美食，以及旅途麻烦等 50 个真正有用的旅游场景，涉及内容全面，切实贴合旅游者的需求。每个部分包含趣味情景对话中的高频词汇、旅游实用表达和知识加油站三个版块，让你循序渐地掌握基本英语口语，提高交际能力。

伊索，被誉为“希腊寓言之父”、“西方寓言的开山鼻祖”。大约出生于公元前620-560年，他的寓言至今仍成为全球孩子道德教材的经典读本。其中许多故事，如《狐狸和葡萄》、《龟兔赛跑》、《北风和太阳》等成为世界儿童皆知的故事，并被选入中国小学语文课本。 《伊索寓言》脍炙人口，对欧洲的寓言文学影响很大，拉封丹著名的《寓言诗》即以《伊索寓言》为主要素材。著名哲学家阿波罗尼如此评价道：“我十分享用伊索寓言是世界上古老、影响的寓言，由于形象生动、寓意深刻、富于哲理，在全世界流传两千五百余年而经久不衰。阅读伊索寓言使人趋向聪明、理智、沉稳。这些用简单的盘子端上的一道道美食，他讲述朴实明了的事情，却教给人们伟大的真理。比起诗歌来，这些故事更接近真理。每个故事之后，他还附上一则建议与忠告，告诫人们应该做或不该做什么。”古希腊历史学家希罗多德、作家阿里斯多芬尼斯、著名哲学家柏拉图等，都对伊索讲述的这些故事予以盛赞。

故事发生在1900年左右的法国。时髦少女塞莱丝汀从动荡不安的巴黎来到诺曼底当家庭女仆，她是一个很有魅力、聪明美丽的女孩。身为女仆多年，她在各个不同的主人家遭遇了很多不顺。在兰莱尔一家人的别墅里，她面对的是好色的男主人和他那性冷淡、专横和嫉妒心强的妻子。不甘示弱的塞莱丝汀不愿像家中前一任女仆那样，因为被男主人搞大肚子而被扫地出门，她知道如何巧妙地运用自己的魅力掌控命运。在忍受女主人变态般的挑剔折磨之时，塞莱丝汀渐渐看上了家中沉默寡言的园丁约瑟夫。约瑟夫有着反犹太人思想，以及残害犹太小女孩的丑恶形象。尽管如此，塞莱丝汀还是愿意跟随着他一起，实行偷盗兰莱尔家银器并逃走的计划。他们打算逃到瑟堡，开一家妓院酒吧，而塞莱丝汀可以向那些光顾的士兵提供性服务。

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?is the?first novel?of Irish writer?James Joyce. It is the semi-autobiographical portrayal of James Joyce’s early upbringing as an Irish Catholic in late 19th century and early 20th century Dublin. In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while exploding its form, thereby inaugurating a literary revolution. The novel begins with the confidence, ease and innocence of a story told to a child and ends with a tone that is hesitant, suspicious, fragmented and estranged. Between the two comes the education of one Stephen Dedalus, as the nets of race, religion and family attempt to ensnare his tender soul and complex imagination. The publication of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the short story collection Dubliners earned Joyce a place at the forefront of literary modernism.

英国历史上有两个时期被认为是英国的黄金时期，一个是16世纪伊丽莎白女王在位时期，那是资本主义开始发展的时期；另一个就是19世纪维多利亚女王在位时期，那是英国资本主义发展鼎盛时期。后面的这个时期，历史上称之为维多利亚时代，维多利亚女王就成了这个时代的象征。 本书为全英文版，记述了女王的一生，反映了女王的精神品质的形成和发展过程，读者不但可以看到一位被称为“欧洲的祖母”、有血有肉的女王，同时也可以看到以她的名字命名的那个时代。 维多利亚女王（Alexandrina Victoria 1819年—1901年)英国历史上在位时间长的君主，在位时间长达64年。她是个以“大不列颠和爱尔兰联合王国女王和印度女皇”名号称呼的英国君主。她在位的64年期间（1837-1901年），是英国强盛的所谓“日不落帝国”时期。女王统治时期，在英国历史上被称为维多利亚时代。她在位的60余年正值英国自由资本主义由方兴未艾到鼎盛、进而过渡到垄断资本主义的转变时期，经济、文化空前繁荣，君主立宪制得到充分发展，使维多利亚女王成了英国和平与繁荣的象征。

本套装包含： 自我提升读物：那些感动哈佛的励志故事 汉英对照 自我提升读物：那些启迪牛津的成功故事：英汉对照 时尚休闲读物：老外想和你聊的101个英语话题·时事生活篇 时尚休闲读物：老外想和你聊的101个英语话题·流行文化篇 时尚休闲读物：老外想和你聊的101个英语话题·流行名人篇 读格言，练英语：每天一句英语格言-健康幸福篇 读格言，练英语：每天一句英语格言-人生哲理篇 二十几岁应该会说的1000句英文口语

《晨读夜诵 每天读一英语小故事大道理精华》全书10个主题，共136篇双语小故事，配有生词详解和外教朗读音频。篇末的一句话总结，出小故事中的大道理。寓教于乐，让你既能积累故事素材，又能学习人生道理。诵读本书，有助于提高英语语言的领悟力和鉴赏力，掌握丰富多彩的表达方式，提高英语写作水平。本书可供具有初级以上英语水平的读者使用。

《晨读夜诵.每天读一英语经典短篇小说精华》精选13位英语国家知名作家的34篇经典短篇小说，配有生词详解和外教朗读音频。每一篇小说都是英语大家经久不衰的经典之作，出自世界三大短篇小说巨匠——欧?亨利、莫泊桑和契诃夫，美国文学中的林肯——马克?吐温，美国文学史上首位写作短篇小说的作家——纳撒尼尔?霍桑，1954年诺贝尔文学奖获得者、文坛硬汉——海明威，美国女权主义文学创作的先驱——凯特?肖邦等。读过这些作品，才敢说自己读过短篇小说！

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保罗?塞尚（1839—1906）,法国现代著名画家。他多次参加印象主义画展，后因不满印象主义的艺术追求，而与印象主义者分道扬镳。他的画具有鲜明的特色，他强调绘画的纯粹性，重视绘画的形式构成。本书探索了塞尚从一个在巴黎求学的青年到晚年回归家乡普罗旺斯的经历，还为你展示了其主要作品的创作技法，供感兴趣的读者尝试一二。

米朗琪罗?博那罗蒂于1475年出生于佛罗伦萨近郊，1564年在罗马辞世。米朗琪罗一生创作了无数绝美的作品，他所创作的西斯廷教堂壁画及其雕塑作品，如《大卫》《哀悼基督》等，被视为当今世界的艺术瑰宝。本书介绍了米朗琪罗从学徒到大师的成长历程，勾勒了其主要作品的思想内容及创作背景。当你品鉴本书的绘画和雕塑时，请静心自问，米朗琪罗想要传达什么？然后揣摩一下自己对其作品的感受。

梵高是世界上*著名的画家之一，但他的一生是贫穷的一生，还时常伴随着饥饿和疾病。1890年，当37岁的他去世时，其作品几乎无人问津。本书将深度挖掘梵高的生平，及其主要作品的创作经历，展现他从名不见经传的画师到享誉世界的画家成长之路。本书还将介绍他的绘画技巧，供有兴趣的读者尝试一二。