Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for ......
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion,profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetratinganalysis of the life of an English pro......
The greatness of George and Weedon Grossmith's masterpiece of comic irony, THE DIARY OF A NOBODY, rests to a large extent on perceptions of class. It ......
The Deerslayer is the first of ]ames Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, and it introduces Natty Bumppo, the Deerslayer of the title, and the Moh......
Thomas Hardys only historical novel The Trumpet-Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of the day m......
'Something greater than the Iliad is being brought to birth', wrote Virgil's contemporary Propertius, in Western literature's most famous flourish of ......
In HEART OF DARKNESS, Marlow, the narrator, undertakes both an outer and an inner journey. The outer journey takes him into the heart of Africa, where......
内容简介Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with......
Aristotle (384-322BC) is the philosopher who has most influence on the development of western culture, writing on a wide variety of subjects including......
Maggie is an astonishing novel of social realism, which parallels many of today's ills. Set in the urban squalor of New York in the 1890s, it follows ......
Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story,This collection reflects Maupassant's remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone......
In 1888 Henry james wrote'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside'the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnigh......
John Bunyan was variously a tinker soldier Baptist minister prisoner and writer of outstanding narrative genius which reached its apotheosis in this h......
《小语种入门系列：法语入门（第2版）》具有以下特点： ◆强化语音练习：在语音和初级阶段，每课均设置有“张张口”（GYMDELABOUCHE）模块，以短小优美的诗歌、绕口令巩固语音知识，培养学生的法语语感和流利的朗读能力。 ◆趣味性与实用性相结合：精心选择文笔优美、饶有趣味......
Rewards and Fairies is a collection of stories and a sequel to Puck of Pook's Hill and, as Kipling wrote, 'The tales had to be read by children, befor......
Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is ......
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内容简介Book DescriptionThe Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-known poets. Each......
Dickens's first historical novel is set against the infamous ‘No Popery' riots that were instigated by lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised Lond......
