Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a naturalist and writer, whose fiction sits on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution and is filled with an imminent sense of nostalgia for the coming transformation of the British countryside.
Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book in Baum's Oz series.
Anne of Green Gables is a best-selling novel and Canadian classic. It was originally intended for all audiences, but is now commonly considered a children's book.
First published in 1899, The Amateur Cracksman was the first collection of stories detailing the exploits and intrigues of gentleman thief A. J. Raffles in late Victorian England.
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。
《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。
From Robert Ervin Howard, the author of Conan the Barbarian series, comes the last of the stories about Conan. This is the full e-book of "Red Nails".
"It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction." - Wikipedia
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