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Selected Short Stories(IV) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Selected Short Stories(IV) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Rabindranath Tagore
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The stories in this selection brilliantly recreate vivid images of Bengali life and landscapes in their depiction of peasantry and gentry, casteism, corrupt officialdom and dehumanizing poverty. Yet Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision.
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories (III)幽灵人力车(英文版)
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories (III)幽灵人力车(英文版)
Rudyard Kipling
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, is a collection of short stories first published in 1888,by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) who was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. It is also known as The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales.
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories (IV)幽灵人力车(英文版)
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories (IV)幽灵人力车(英文版)
Rudyard Kipling
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The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, It is also known as The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales.It is a collection of short stories first published in 1888,by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 - 18 January 1936) who was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. the following short stories are included in the book: The phantom 'rickshaw which is the author’s own true ghost story ;The strange ride of Morrowbie Jukes who would be king - The finest story in the world.
A Changed Man and Other Tales(IV) 短篇小说集 一个变了的人(英文版)
A Changed Man and Other Tales(IV) 短篇小说集 一个变了的人(英文版)
Thomas Hardy
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Known primarily for his novels and poems, Thomas Hardy also wrote a number of short stories, originally published in serial form. The tales in this collection were created over a thirty-year period and embody Hardy's characteristically dark vision of life.
Astoria(IV) 阿斯托里亚(英文版)
Astoria(IV) 阿斯托里亚(英文版)
Washington Irving
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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.
Knickerbocker's History of New York(IV) 纽约外史(英文版)
Knickerbocker's History of New York(IV) 纽约外史(英文版)
Washington Irving
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“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. Knickerbocker's History of New York is a satire on self-important local history and contemporary politics.
Old Christmas 古老的圣诞节(英文版)
Old Christmas 古老的圣诞节(英文版)
Washington Irving
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Written well over a century ago, Washington Irving’s sketches "celebrate the celebration" with heartwarming descriptions of Yuletide events.
The History of Henry Esmond (V)亨利·艾斯蒙(英文版)
The History of Henry Esmond (V)亨利·艾斯蒙(英文版)
W.M. Thackeray
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The History of Henry Esmond (1852) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a historical novel which tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond who is a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. Henry Esmond relates his own history in memoir fashion, mainly in the third person but occasionally dropping into the first person.
The History of Pendennis(I) 潘丹尼斯(英文版)
The History of Pendennis(I) 潘丹尼斯(英文版)
W.M. Thackeray
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The History of Pendennis is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. Set in 19th-century London, Thackeray's The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848-50) presents a partially fictionalised autobiography of the title character. Country-born gentleman Arthur Pendennis travels to London in quest of town life and society.
The History of Pendennis(IV) 潘丹尼斯(英文版)
The History of Pendennis(IV) 潘丹尼斯(英文版)
W.M. Thackeray
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The History of Pendennis is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. Country-born gentleman Arthur Pendennis travels to London in quest of town life and society. The novel portrays his love affairs with the callous Blanche Amory and poor Fanny.
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (II)巴里·林登的回忆(英文版)
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (II)巴里·林登的回忆(英文版)
W.M. Thackeray
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published in serial form in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rakehell and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.. Redmond Barry of Bally Barry, born to a genteel but ruined Irish family, fancies himself a gentleman.
The Coral Island(II) 珊瑚岛(英文版)
The Coral Island(II) 珊瑚岛(英文版)
R. M. Ballantyne
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One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck.
The Coral Island(IV) 珊瑚岛(英文版)
The Coral Island(IV) 珊瑚岛(英文版)
R. M. Ballantyne
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The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. All his novels are, in his own words, "adventure stories for young folks", and The Coral Island is no exception.One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck.
The Norsemen in the West(III) 斯堪的纳维亚的西部传奇(英文版)
The Norsemen in the West(III) 斯堪的纳维亚的西部传奇(英文版)
R. M. Ballantyne
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The Norsemen in the West is a tale by Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) , a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books, an accomplished artist who exhibited some of his water-colours at the Royal Scottish Academy.
Selected Short Stories(II) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Selected Short Stories(II) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Rabindranath Tagore
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In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he remains one of the most important voices of Bengali culture to this day. Tagore is first and foremost India's supreme Romantic poet, and in these stories he can be seen reaching beyond mere documentary realism towards his own profoundly original vision. These short stories, written mostly in the 1890s, vividly portray Bengali life and culture.
Selected Short Stories(III) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Selected Short Stories(III) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Rabindranath Tagore
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Tagore is often seen as a serious writer, dealing with significant issues concerning religion, politics and culture in his work, he also had a lighter side to his personality, which enabled him to laugh at certain inherent human weaknesses, such as excessive piety, sentimentality, affectedness, arrogance and sexual jealousy, in a comic spirit, rather than being derogatory or sarcastic about them.
From the Earth to the Moon(I)地球到月球(英文版)
From the Earth to the Moon(I)地球到月球(英文版)
Jules Verne
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From the Earth to the Moon is a novel by Jules Verne, publishd in 1865. It is one of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.
Boyhood(II) 少年(英文版)
Boyhood(II) 少年(英文版)
Leo Tolstoy
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Boyhood is the second novel in Leo Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy. The novel was first published in the Russian literary journal Sovremennik in 1854. It is the story of the ten-year-old son of a wealthy Russian landowner in the mid-1800s, as told by the child himself.
No Name(IV) 无名氏(英文版)
No Name(IV) 无名氏(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family.
The Cossacks(II) 哥萨克(英文版)
The Cossacks(II) 哥萨克(英文版)
Leo Tolstoy
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The Cossacks is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. The hero in the novel is a young man named Olenin who had never completed his university course, never served anywhere (having only a nominal post in some government office or other), who had squandered half his fortune and had reached the age of twenty-four without having done anything or even chosen a career.
Paradise Lost(I)失乐园(英文版)
Paradise Lost(I)失乐园(英文版)
John Milton
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Paradise Lost is an epic poem by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books; a second edition followed in 1674. The poem concerns the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.