The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.
In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.
The young orphan Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt in a dour New England town.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.
A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.
Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.
Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.
British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.
George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.
The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.
Abundantly Simple is a brilliantly funny response to the enormously popular and saccharine-sweet bestseller Simple Abundance.
《中文天天读》
是专为汉语学习者编写的一套有声分级读物。既可作为课外读物,也可作为阅读教材。
Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in two parts, each resoundingly popular and receiving critical acclaim.
Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy.
American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.
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Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheiers debut work out.
Kid Rex is the story of one womans struggle to overcome anorexia.
Tug of War is the first book of its kind. Written by a sitting family court judge.
But there is something else, something very strange going on here .