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Little HOUSE in the BIG WOODS 连载
作者：劳拉·英格尔斯·怀德 | 字数：68023
《大森林里的小木屋》是美国女作家劳拉·怀尔德(1867-1957)九部 小木屋系列小说中的第一部。本书讲述了小姑娘劳拉和家人一起生活在大森林深处的小木屋里的经历。作家用细腻的笔触描绘了拓荒者生活的点点滴滴：大自然一年四季的变化之美；收获季节的欢乐和温馨；恶...
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Snow White 连载
作者：唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 | 字数：62735
白雪公主是家喻户晓的童话故事，本书中的白雪公主完全摆脱了童话的模式，成了一个普通的现代女性，有烦恼，有心事。会压抑，也会有妒忌心，还充满了女权意识。此书充满了一种黑色幽默，堪称荒诞派文学的经典之作。《白雪公主后传》是美国文学大师巴塞尔姆最重要的...
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作者：唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 | 字数：117916
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marke...
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Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts 连载
作者：唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 | 字数：73088
唐纳德·巴塞尔姆Donald Barthelme（1931年4月7日—1989年7月23日）是美国后现代主义小说家，代表作是《白雪公主》。他一生写了大量的短篇小说，并曾从事新闻记者、杂志编辑等工作，并曾在纽约城市大学任教。虽然以短篇小说文明，巴塞尔姆一生中亦著有四部中长篇...
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Great Days 连载
作者：唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 | 字数：86314
Donald Barthelme's new book of stories, Great Days, is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days, whic...
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作者：唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 | 字数：105957
Experimentation with the absurd, both in theme and technique, is by no means a totally new development in literature, especially for those readers familiar with the works of Camus, Kafka, Beckett, Genêt, and Robbe-Grillet. Like these writers,...
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Overnight to Many Different Cities 连载
作者：唐纳德·巴塞尔姆 | 字数：77933
Kaleidoscopically mesmerizing... Powerfully illuminating -- Village VoiceFrom New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, this sophisticated and surreal collection of short stories and brief visionary texts takes us on...
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作者：Jack London | 字数：56605
JACK LONDON WAS born on January12,1876,in san Francisco,California,as John Griffith Chaney.His mother,Flora Wellman,was a teacher and spiritualist,and his father,Willian left them not long after,and Jack took his stepfather''s last name ,Londo...
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作者：Josann McGibbon | 字数：232229
This songbook features 14 songs from the hit movie starring Richard Gere and Julia Roberts, including: Before I Fall in Love (Coco Lee) * Blue Eyes Blue (Eric Clapton) * I Love You (Martina McBride) * I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For...
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作者：尼克·霍恩比 | 字数：215305
在元旦新年的守岁夜，伦敦有四个失意绝望的人：因为跟一个15岁少女上床而声败名裂的电视名人马丁；除了照顾自己严重残疾的成年儿子没有自己生活的中年妇女莫莲；因为姐姐几年前神秘失踪而一直走不出心理阴影的少女杰丝；和乐队解散、女友分手的美国摇滚歌手JJ。他...
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作者：弗朗西丝·霍奇森·伯内特 | 字数：133556
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were lighted and the shop windows blazed with gas as they do at night, an odd- looking little girl sat in a cab with her father an...
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作者：叶芝 | 字数：65167
本书是叶芝的代表作之一，这是一部特殊的作品。之所以说它特殊，原因有二：第一，这是诗人叶芝以诗歌的笔法写出，却又并非诗集的作品。第二，这是诗人用来表达他对爱尔兰永恒的热爱的一部重要作品。实际上，这是一部叶芝饱含着诗人的激情整理出的一部优美的爱尔兰...
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A Short History of Nearly Everything 连载
作者：比尔·布莱森 | 字数：443906
这是一部有关现代科学发展史的既通俗易懂又引人入胜的书，作者用清晰明了、幽默风趣的笔法，将宇宙大爆炸到人类文明发展进程中所发生的繁多妙趣横生的故事一一收入笔下。惊奇和感叹组成了本书，历历在目的天下万物组成了本书，益于人们了解大千世界的无穷奥妙，掌...
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作者：菲利普·普尔曼 | 字数：216369
Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, Come on, come on...But his mother hung back. She was still afraid. Will looked up and down the narrow street in the evening light, along the little terrace of houses, each behind its tiny garden and i...
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作者：菲利普·普尔曼 | 字数：273040
Into this wild abyss, The womb of nature and perhaps her grave, Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire, But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight, Unless the almighty maker them ordain His da...
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作者：菲利普·普尔曼 | 字数：331642
The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations; The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up; The bones of death, the cov'ring clay, the sinews shrunk & dry'd Reviving shake, inspiring move, breathing, awak...
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The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt(Excerpt) 连载
作者：威廉·格纳齐诺 | 字数：11955
This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazin...
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作者：吉卜林 | 字数：66917
A just-so story, also called the ad hoc fallacy, is a term used in academic anthropology, biological sciences, and social sciences. It describes an unverifiable and unfalsifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice or a biological tr...