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Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome(VI) 安东尼娜 罗马的沦落(英文版)
Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome(VI) 安东尼娜 罗马的沦落(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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The novel is full of action, vivid in color, and sufficiently close to history."The novel is full of action, vivid in color, and sufficiently close to history.Ancient Rome, Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths in AD 408.
A Changed Man and Other Tales(III) 短篇小说集 一个变了的人(英文版)
A Changed Man and Other Tales(III) 短篇小说集 一个变了的人(英文版)
Thomas Hardy
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The book Supper and Other Tales concluding with The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. This is the first collected edition of these 12 shorter novels, which had previously only appeared in magazines and journal.
Basil(IV) 贝锡尔(英文版)
Basil(IV) 贝锡尔(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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The story explains a young naive man of a noble family who falls in love at first sight with a poor but beautiful young lady. After falling head-over-heels in love with this mysterious young woman, Basil decides he must have her at all costs, despite the fact that the decision may bring ruin to his high-society family.
Collected Stories of William Faulkner(IX) 福克纳短篇小说集(英文版)
Collected Stories of William Faulkner(IX) 福克纳短篇小说集(英文版)
William Faulkner
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This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. The Collected Stories of William Faulkner won the National Book Award in 1951.
No Name(III) 无名氏(英文版)
No Name(III) 无名氏(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. Norah and Magdalen Vanstone have an idyllic life. With loving parents, a caring governess, and an expansive estate to roam, the girls desire nothing else.
Armadale(I) 阿马达尔(英文版)
Armadale(I) 阿马达尔(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. The novel is a 19th-century semi-epistolary one. Some linking passages consist of letters between the various characters, or of extracts from Lydia's journal, but the great majority of the text narrates the events as they occur.
The History of Pendennis(V) 潘丹尼斯(英文版)
The History of Pendennis(V) 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 presents a partially fictionalised autobiography of the title characterCountry-born gentleman Arthur Pendennis travels to London in quest of town life and society.
Catherine A Story(I) 凯瑟琳(英文版)
Catherine A Story(I) 凯瑟琳(英文版)
W.M. Thackeray
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This work first appeared in serialized installments in Fraser's Magazine between May 1839 and February 1840. Thackeray's original intention in writing it was to criticize the Newgate school of crime fiction, exemplified by Bulwer-Lytton and Harrison Ainsworth, whose works Thackeray felt glorified criminals. Thackeray even included Dickens in this criticism for his portrayal of the good-hearted streetwalker Nancy and the charming pickpocket, the Artful Dodger, in Oliver Twist.
Selected Short Stories(I) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Selected Short Stories(I) 短篇小说集(英文版)
Rabindranath Tagore
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Written during the 1890s, 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.
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.
The Book of Snobs(II) 庸人之书(英文版)
The Book of Snobs(II) 庸人之书(英文版)
W.M. Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray is known for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. While the word 'snob' had been in use since the end of the 18th century Thackeray's adoption of the term to refer to people who look down on others who are "socially inferior" quickly gained popularity. The Book of Snobs is a collection of satirical works by William Makepeace Thackeray published in book form in 1848, the same year as his more famous Vanity Fair.
Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome(IV) 安东尼娜 罗马的沦落(英文版)
Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome(IV) 安东尼娜 罗马的沦落(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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The novel is full of action, vivid in color, and sufficiently close to history.Ancient Rome, Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths in AD 408.
Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome(II) 安东尼娜 罗马的沦落(英文版)
Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome(II) 安东尼娜 罗马的沦落(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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The novel is full of action, vivid in color, and sufficiently close to history.Ancient Rome, Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths in AD 408.
Armadale(III) 阿马达尔(英文版)
Armadale(III) 阿马达尔(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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The novel is a 19th-century semi-epistolary one. Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. It is the third of Wilkie Collins’s four 'great novels' of the 1860s: after The Woman in White (1859–60) and No Name (1862), and before The Moonstone (1868). Some linking passages consist of letters between the various characters, or of extracts from Lydia's journal, but the great majority of the text narrates the events as they occur.
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.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 沉睡谷传奇(英文版)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 沉睡谷传奇(英文版)
Washington Irving
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Armadale(II) 阿马达尔(英文版)
Armadale(II) 阿马达尔(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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The novel is a 19th-century semi-epistolary one. Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864–66. Some linking passages consist of letters between the various characters, or of extracts from Lydia's journal, but the great majority of the text narrates the events as they occur.
No Name(I) 无名氏(英文版)
No Name(I) 无名氏(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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No Name is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1862. Illegitimacy is a major theme of the novel. It was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round before book publication. The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somerset, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family.
Astoria(VI) 阿斯托里亚(英文版)
Astoria(VI) 阿斯托里亚(英文版)
Washington Irving
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Astoria by Washington Irving is a history book published in 1836. The full title being "Astoria: Or, Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains". 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.
Basil(II) 贝锡尔(英文版)
Basil(II) 贝锡尔(英文版)
Wilkie Collins
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Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. This classic novel is a domestic drama packed with enough twists and turns to satisfy even the most jaded reader. The story explains a young naive man of a noble family who falls in love at first sight with a poor but beautiful young lady.
Knickerbocker's History of New York(VI) 纽约外史(英文版)
Knickerbocker's History of New York(VI) 纽约外史(英文版)
Washington Irving
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“Knickerbocker's History of New York” 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.