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Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin, naively unaware of their unlawful
...Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens. It was first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It has been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times. Great Expectations is written in the first person from the point of view of the orphan Pip. The novel, like much of Dickens's work, draws on his experiences of life and people.
作者狄更斯在经历了丰富的社会生活后，对人，对周围的环境以及对自己的经历都有了深刻的认识，而所有他成熟的思想都汇总在《远大前程》一书中。这部作品原题名是Great
...23) Circe: a novel
《水浒传》是一部长篇英雄传奇，是中国古代长篇小说的代表作之一，是以宋江起义故事为线索创作出来的。《水浒传》是我国人民最喜爱的古典长篇白话小说之一。它产生于明代，是在宋、元以来有关水浒的故事、话本、戏曲的基础上，由作者加工整理、创作而成的。全书以宋江领导的农民起义为主要题材，艺术地再现了中国古代人民反抗压迫、英勇斗争的悲壮画卷。作品充分暴露了封建统治阶级的腐朽和残暴，揭露了当时尖锐对立的社会矛盾和"官逼民反"的残酷现实，成功地塑造了鲁智深、李逵、武松、林冲、阮小七等一批英雄人物。Outlaws
...This immortal tale concerns the doomed love between a knight and a princess — one of the great romances of medieval literature, along with that of Lancelot and Guinevere. The heroic Tristan, nephew and champion of King Mark of Cornwall, journeys to Ireland to bring home his uncle's betrothed, the fair Iseult. Their shipboard voyage takes a tumultuous turn with a misunderstanding and a magic potion, and the lovers quickly find that there's
...After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over old times. His memory is long, and every old embarrassment still rankles—no matter how ridiculous....
28) Pellucidar
SEVERAL YEARS had elapsed since I had found the op- portunity to do any big-game hunting; for at last I had my plans almost perfected for a return to my old stamping-grounds in northern Africa, where in other days I had had excellent sport in pursuit of the king of beasts.
寫明武宗正德（1506-1521）年間，賽孟嘗徐鶴（字鳴臯）等十二英雄聚義，各仗俠肝義膽、超群武藝，劫富濟貧，除暴安良，後在七子（七位以『子』命名的劍仙，即玄貞子、壹塵子、飛雲子、霓裳子、默存子、山中子、海鷗子）及十三生（十三位以『生』命名的劍仙，即淩雲生、禦風生、雲陽生、傀儡生、獨孤生、臥雲生、羅浮生、壹瓢生、夢覺生、漱石生、鹪寄生、河海生、自全生）的幫助下，隨右都禦史楊壹清平定甘肅安化王朱寘鐇叛亂、隨佥都禦史王守仁平定江西甯王朱辰豪叛亂，結果七子十三生與十二英雄各受封賞。
...《水滸全传》的故事源起於北宋宣和年间，出现了话本《大宋宣和遗事》描述了宋江、吴加亮（吴用）、晁盖等36人起义造反的故事，初步具有了《水滸传》的故事梗概，目前流传下来的根据说书人编成的话本中就有"青面兽"，"花和尚"，"武行者"等。而从南宋之史籍《东都事略》以后，已成為了民间文学的主要题材，到了元朝，元杂剧中出现了有关水滸故事的剧本，流传后世的有高文秀的《黑旋风双献功》，李文蔚的《燕青博鱼》和康进之的《李逵负荆》等。《水滸全传》全书是到了明朝，经许多作者不断增添情节乃至定型。也有观点认為，《水滸全传》中梁山好汉的生活原型是与作者施耐庵关系甚密的张士诚领导的盐民起义。
全书可分為三段：第一至第四十回讲述的是各个好汉的故事，它们既有独立性又有关联性；第四十一至第八十回讲述的是好汉们在梁山集合，形成了以宋江為寨主的梁山山寨，并发动一系列对官僚恶霸及附近城池的战争，直到接受北宋朝廷的招安；第八十一回至第一百二十回讲述的是梁山好汉归顺朝廷后，镇压田虎、王庆、方腊等的战争，到最后鸟尽弓藏，悲壮死亡的故事。
...First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in the fictional midlands mill-town of Coketown, the narrative centers on the industrialist, Mr Thomas Gradgrind, whose belief in scientific utilitarianism skews his world view and is a motive force, carrying the narrative towards farce
...The novel is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It describes the tragical love among Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai and provides detailed record of the life in the Rongguo House and the Ningguo House. The decline of the Four Families indicates the inevitable trend of the federal society to perish.
《红楼梦》是一部具有高度思想性和高度艺术性的伟大作品，从《红楼梦》反映的思想倾向来看，作者具有初步的民主主义思想，他对现实社会包括宫廷及官场的黑暗，封建贵族阶级及其家庭的腐朽，封建的科举制度、婚姻制度、奴婢制度、等级制度，以及与此相适应的社会统治思想即孔孟之道和程朱理学、社会道德观念等等，都进行了深刻的批判并且提出了朦胧的带有初步民主主义性质的理想和主张。这些理想和主张正是当时正在滋长的资本主义经济萌芽因素的曲折反映。
...Get set for rollicking adventure with this volume from Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. If your only exposure to the King of the Jungle has been the watered-down cartoon versions, you'll be pleasantly surprised by the depth and nuance that Burroughs conveys in the character.
The man's become inhuman ... He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.' One night in the depths of winter, a bizarre and sinister stranger wrapped in bandages and eccentric clothing arrives in a remote English village. His peculiar, secretive activities in the room he rents spook the locals. Speculation about his identity becomes horror and disbelief when the villagers discover that, beneath his disguise, he is invisible.
...War, the bringer of tears...' War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army and its mightiest warrior, Achilles, is played out between mortals and gods, with devastating human consequences. It is a story of many truths, speaking of awesome emotions,
...37) Summer
Can't you see that I don't care what anybody says?' Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Royall and lives with him as his ward. Never allowed to forget her disreputable origins Charity despises North Dormer and rebels against the stifling dullness of the tight-knit community surrounding her. Her boring job in the local library is interrupted
...Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell. A cripple for most of her life, Sewell developed an early love of horses, and the story intended to teach her readers about treating horses (and allegorically all living things) with kindness, patience and sympathy. The story is narrated first-person by Black Beauty, recounting his journey from a farm to the hard life pulling cabs in London to his eventual
...Children’s New Books: ebooks and eaudiobooks December 2020
Elmer needs no further encouragement to stow away aboard a ship to the island, where he matches wits with hungry tigers, an irate...
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