Rose, a shy orphan, blossoms in the company of her spirited relatives when she takes up residence at "The Aunt Hill." This captivating novel by the author of Little Women offers readers of all ages endearing, inspiring stories about growing up, making friends, and facing life with kindness and courage.
The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, already employs two scriveners to copy legal documents by hand, Nippers and Turkey. An increase in business leads him to advertise for a third, and he hires the forlorn-looking Bartleby in the hope that his calmness will soothe the irascible temperaments of the other two.At first, Bartleby produces a large volume of high-quality work. But one day, when asked to help proofread a document, Bartleby answers with what soon becomes his perpetual response to every request: "I would prefer not to." To the dismay of the lawyer and to the irritation of the other employees, Bartleby performs fewer and fewer tasks, and eventually none. The narrator makes several futile attempts to reason with him and to learn something about him; and when he stops by the office unexpectedly, he discovers that Bartleby has started living there.Tension builds as business associates wonder why Bartleby is always there. Sensing the threat to his reputation but emotionally unable to evict Bartleby, the narrator moves his business out. Soon the new tenants come to ask for help: Bartleby still will not leave—he now sits on the stairs all day and sleeps in the building’s doorway. The narrator visits him and attempts to reason with him, and surprises even himself by inviting Bartleby to come live with him. But Bartleby "would prefer not to". Later the narrator returns to find that Bartleby has been forcibly removed and imprisoned in the Tombs. The narrator visits him. Finding Bartleby glummer than usual, he bribes a turnkey to make sure Bartleby gets enough food. But when he returns a few days later Bartleby has died of starvation, having preferred not to eat.Some time afterward, the narrator hears a rumor that Bartleby had worked in a dead letter office, and reflects that dead letters would have made anyone of Bartleby’s temperament sink into an even darker gloom. The story closes with the narrator’s resigned and pained sigh, "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!"
Hardy’s novel tells the story of how John and Joan Durbeyfield became convinced that they are descended from the ancient family of d’Ubervilles. They encourage their daughter Tess to cement a connection with the Stoke-d’Uberville family of local gentry (who it turns out are themselves not entitled to the illustrious name) and she is raped by their son, the unprincipled Alec. It is a connection that returns to haunt her after she has married the pure parson’s son Angel Clare. Tess first appeared in a serialized—and bowdlerized—form in The Graphic in 1891. A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented , as Hardy subtitled the work, represented a direct challenge to conventional notions of sexuality and femininity—and, though conventions have radically changed in the past century, the character of Tess has remained a challenging one. In her introduction Maier argues that we should not see Tess merely as a passive victim; she suggests that a combination of sexual vigour and moral rigour makes Tess not just one of the greatest but also one of the strongest women in the canon of English literature. This edition also includes contemproary reviews; the ’bowdlerized’ as well as the author’s original versions of passages censored by the early years of the novel’s life; excerpts from Hardy’s autobiography; and a wealth of other documents that shed light on the context from which this text emerged -- highlighting in particular gender-related issues that lie at the heart of the text.
The new and expanded edition of this short skills text elucidates key techniques and best practice for ensuring a cohesive, rigorous and convincing argument can be presented within an academic context. Appropriate for students across the disciplines, the author first deconstructs the basic principles that make good argument, and then - using appropriate examples and case studies to illustrate develops practical skills and techniques for students to apply in their academic career and beyond. Practical exercises encourage self-learning and application of the techniques.
First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith\\\'s "Wealth of Nations" sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to monetary, tax, trade, and other government policies that affect economic behavior. Throughout he offers seminal arguments for free trade, free markets, and limited government. Criticising mercantilists who sought to use the state to increase their nations\\\' supply of precious metals, Smith points out that a nation\\\'s wealth should be measured by the well-being of its people.Prosperity in turn requires voluntary exchange of goods in a peaceful, well-ordered market. How to establish and maintain such markets? For Smith the answer lay in man\\\'s social instincts, which government may encourage by upholding social standards of decency, honesty, and virtue, but which government undermines when it unduly interferes with the intrinsically private functions of production and exchange. Social and economic order arise from the natural desires to better one\\\'s (and one\\\'s family\\\'s) lot and to gain the praise and avoid the censure of one\\\'s neighbors and business associates. Individuals behave decently and honestly because it gives them a clear conscience as well as the good reputation necessary for public approbation and sustained, profitable business relations.
There once was a king of Persia who at the beginning of his reign had distinguished himself by many glorious and successful conquests and had afterwards enjoyed such profound peace and tranquillity as rendered him the happiest of monarchs.
Le Rouge et le Noir, roman central de Stendhal, porte un titre qui symbolise la table de jeu. Une fois une couleur amen il n\'est plus temps de revenir en arri . Mais le jeu comporte une direction ou un dessous des cartes qui est l\' rgie. La pr nce, le degr u l\'absence de l\' rgie, voil e qui fait une destin Le Rouge et le Noir, c\'est le roman de l\' rgie, celle d\'un jeune homme ardent, exigeant et pauvre dans la soci de la Restauration. Il a pour sous-titre : Chronique de 1830, cela signifie la France, toute la France, la Province et Paris. Julien est le d gu l\' rgie provinciale, le d gu u talent a carri , des classes pauvres a conqu du monde.L\' rgie de Julien ne va pas sans une violence de temp ament, une intensit e chauffe qui le conduit \' afaud.Cette peinture, pleine, puissante, normale de l\' rgie d\'un homme, d\'un pays, d\'une que, compose une oeuvre immense que son temps ne comprit pas mais dont la vivante influence n\'est pas encore is Albert ThibaudetEdition de Michel Crouzet.
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《青鸟》是一个用心灵寻找幸福的哲理童话故事，为中英对照版。本书主要讲述的内容是：圣诞节前夜，泰泰尔和麦泰尔的家里非常安静，因为他们家很贫穷，没钱给他们买礼物。突然，仙女贝丽露娜走了进来，她说自己的女儿病得厉害，只有找到青鸟，她的女儿才会好起来。她送给孩子们一顶有魔法钻石的帽子，打发他们去寻找青鸟，于是兄妹俩在猫、狗，以及各种物品和元素的灵魂的陪伴下，在光女神的指引下去往回忆之地、夜神的宫殿、光的庙宇、未来国度、墓地和森林里寻找青鸟。可是，在规定的日期到来的时候，兄妹俩最终没能找到青鸟，他们难过失望地回家，却惊喜地发现，代表幸福的青鸟并不在远方，而一直就在他们身边。
小说一开始就开门见山。聚斯金德在三言两语后，立即点出了要为气味王国的天才怪杰让-巴蒂斯特·格雷诺耶立传的意图。随后，作家花费点笔墨交代了18世纪世界上最臭的城市巴黎，立即把本书的主人公“请”了出来——他于1738年7月17日（这年最炎热的一天）生在巴黎最臭的市区内一个臭鱼摊旁的宰鱼台下。接着，作家描述了格雷诺耶一系列的人生经历：婴幼儿时期举目无亲；八岁起被加拉尔夫人卖给制革匠格里马并在那里像牛马一样干活；第一次杀害一名少女并摄取其香味；为香水制造商巴尔迪尼重振香水业，徒步到南方去，在荒山里穴居七年；在蒙彼利埃的经历；在生产香水的名城格拉斯当伙计，其间杀害了二十五名少女，取得她们的香味制作香水；1766年被判处死刑却又死里逃生；1767年6月25日晨（这一天又是这年最热的一天）返回巴黎时被人分尸吃掉。
Emily Jane Bront? (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) was a British novelist and poet, now best remembered for her only novel Wuthering Heights, a classic of English literature. Emily was the second oldest of the three Bront? sisters, being younger than Charlotte and older than Anne. She published under the masculine pen name Ellis Bell. Source: Wikipedia Note: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks.
夏洛蒂和传记作者告诉我们，爱米丽生性独立、豁达、纯真、刚毅、热情而又内向。她颇有男儿气概，酷爱自己生长其间的荒原，平素在离群索居中，除去手足情谊，最喜与大自然为友，从她的诗和一生行为，都可见她天人合一宇宙观与人生观的表现，有人因此而将她视为神秘主义者。其实人与自然的关系，从来就是人类文明史上重要的命题，爱米丽不过是步历代哲人、隐者、科学家、艺术家后尘，通过生活和创作，身体力行地探寻人与自然的关系。 由于爱米丽一生经历简短，她既未受完整系统教育，又没有爱情婚姻实际体验，人们对于她能写出《呼啸山庄》这样深刻独特的爱情绝唱也曾疑惑不解。对这一问题，早有人以“天才说”做出解释，而经过百余年的研考据，传记作者和评论家又提出了更加令人信服的凭据。爱米丽以及她的姐妹，虽然生长在苦寒单调的约克郡，她们的父亲帕特里克·勃朗特却来自北爱尔兰，母亲玛丽亚·勃兰威尔是威尔士人。这一对父母所属民族的祖先，同属具有冲动浪漫气质的凯尔特人，而且二人都不乏写诗为文的天分：帕特里克又一向怀有文学抱负，曾自费出版诗集；玛丽亚出嫁前写给帕特里克的情书，也是文采斐然。继承了父母的遗传基因，又受到荒原精神的陶冶哺育，爱米丽的艺术天才无疑并非无源之水；而且她家那座荒原边缘上的牧师住宅，外观虽然冷落寒酸，内里却因几个才智过人的子女相亲相携而温馨宜人。他们自幼相互鼓励、切磋，以读书写作为乐。这一方面大大冲淡了物质匮乏之苦；同时也培养锻炼了他们的写作功力。 爱米丽的写作，从诗开始，她在着手创作《呼啸山庄》之前十六七年间，陆续写出习作诗文《贡代尔传奇》和短诗，如今所见，仅近二百首诗。姑且不论它们本身的艺术价值，这些文字起码也是创作《呼啸山庄》这部不朽之作的有益准备。换言之，她写《呼啸山庄》，是她写诗的继续。她的诗，真挚、雄劲、粗犷、深沉、高朗，这也是《呼啸山庄》的格调。
He shows Trump’s relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, mislead, or manipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soul—a man who courts evangelicals and then trashes them, panders to the common man, but then rips off small business owners, a con man who will do or say absolutely anything to win, regardless of the cost to his family, his associates, or his country. At the heart of Disloyal, we see how Cohen came under the spell of his charismatic "Boss" and, as a result, lost all sense of his moral compass. The real "real" Donald Trump who permeates these pages—the racist, sexist, homophobic, lying, cheating President—will be discussed, written about, and analyzed for years to come.
In Gulliver’s Travels, the narrator represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just experienced. But how far can we rely on a narrator who has been impersonated by someone else? The work purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver’s encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. An extraordinarily skillful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver’s Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift’s alter ego plays tricks on us, and our gullibility uncovers one of the world’s most disturbing satires of the human condition.The fullest, most up-to-date paperback of Gulliver’s Travels currently available, this new edition contains an astute analysis of the nature of Swift’s satire. It includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions and whose subtle changes contribute to the reader’s uncertainty about the veracity of the author. A new introduction by Claude Rawson draws on the latest scholarship and considers Swift’s role-playing and the relationship of the author to Gulliver.
本书是俄罗斯作家陀思妥耶夫斯基创作的最后一部长篇小说，通常也被认为是他一生文学创作的巅峰之作。这部鸿篇巨制在经历了《俄国导报》上两年的连载后，于1880年完成。陀氏曾构想将其作为他的一部更宏大的作品“The Life of a Great Sinner”的第一部分，然而未能如愿，他在《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》完成后仅四个月就辞世了。整部小说有两个层次：从表面上看这是一起弑父案，而受害人的几个儿子在某种程度上有串谋之嫌；但深层次上，这是一幕关于人精神的戏剧，讲述了一个信仰、猜忌、理智与自由意志间的道德角斗。这部小说写作于俄罗斯的斯塔拉亚罗萨，而整个故事也发生于这座小镇。 自出版以来，这部作品曾被西格蒙德·弗洛伊德、阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦、教宗本笃十六世以及Andrew R. MacAndrew、Konstantin Mochulsky等各色在不同领域的大家都评价其在文学史上有极高的成就。
Stephen Hawking’s worldwide bestseller, "A Brief History of Time", has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author’s engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding some of the book’s most important concepts. This is the origin of and the reason for "A Briefer History of Time": its author’s wish to make its content accessible to readers - as well as to bring it up-to-date with the latest scientific observations and findings. Although this book is literally somewhat’ briefer’, it actually expands on the great subjects of the original. Purely technical concepts, such as the mathematics of chaotic boundary conditions, are gone. Conversely, subjects of wide interest that were difficult to follow because they were interspersed throughout the book have now been given entire chapters of their own, including relativity, curved space, and quantum theory. This reorganization has allowed the authors to expand areas of special interest and recent progress, from the latest developments in string theory to exciting developments in the search for a complete, unified theory of all the forces of physics. Like prior editions of the book - but even more so - "A Briefer History of Time" will guide non scientists everywhere in the ongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space. Thirty-eight full-color illustrations enhance the text and make "A Briefer History of Time" an exhilarating addition in its own right to the literature of science. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Anyone interested in the central question facing mankind will find `The Brothers Karamazov an essential guide. That question--on mans capacity for responsibility and the proper role of the state and religion--is posed throughout the story in dialogue and events, and is framed neatly in a 20-page section where Ivan presents a poem titled `The Grand Inquisitor to his brother Alyosha.
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