I'his edition brings together Shakespeare’S incomparable sonnetsand his major long poems,Venus and Adonis,The Rape of Lucrece,and The Phoenix and the ......
Set on the eve of the Sino-Japanese war, "Fortress Besieged" recounts the exuberant misadventures of the hapless hero Fang Hung-chien, who after aimle......
Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the mo......
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not com......
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human--probes society's unwillingness to recogni......
the shadows of sherlock holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of......
Jane Austen chronicles the subtleties and nuances of- and the aspirations and machinations at work in - her own social milieu. Through the stories of ......
In this thoughtful and moving novel, four men find themselves inextricably bound together by their past histories. The aged Judge Clane dreams of resu......
Six new chapters have been added to this sixth edition, which include cutting edge material...
Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodi......
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在线阅读本书 Set during the French Revolution, this classic novel of swashbuckling adventure and sweeping romance is also a thoughtprovoking commentary on c......
First published in book form in 1885, William Dean Howells's timeless epic of a self-made man, The Rise of Silas Lapham was the first important novel ......
Book Description The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win the hand of plain Catherine Sloper--even if it means pretending that he loves......
The debut of an American original. Here is the accomplished first novel that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary fame-at the age of 23. It fo......
This 19th-century author created "some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century" (Kirkus Reviews). And with his special blend of comed......
在线阅读本书 Wrongfully imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold-and a......
在线阅读本书 Book Description To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Broadway premiere of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe's "My Fair Lady," this speci......
Stories of terror and suspense. Master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe brings his nightmare visions to vivid, dramatic life in this definitive collect......
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