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A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body. A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, "Strait is the Gate" is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions

Mark Twain's humorous account of his six years in Nevada, San Francisco, and the Sandwich Islands is a patchwork of personal anecdotes and tall tales, many of them told in the "vigorous new vernacular" of the West. Selling seventy five thousand copies within a year of its publication in 1872, Roughing It was greeted as a work of "wild, preposterous invention and sublime exaggeration" whose satiric humor made "pretension and false dignity ridiculous." Meticulously restored from a variety of original sources, the text is the first to adhere to the author's wishes in thousands of details of wording, spelling, and punctuation, and includes all of the 304 first-edition illustrations. With its comprehensive and illuminating notes and supplementary materials, which include detailed maps tracing Mark Twain's western travels, this Mark Twain Library Roughing It must be considered the standard edition for readers and students of Mark Twain.

1916. Rohmer (Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward) was a prolific English mystery writer, best known for the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu and his opponents Denis Nayland Smith, Dr. Petrie, named after the Egyptologist Flinders Petrie, and the beautiful Karamaneh, the source of Petrie's daydreams. He also wrote under the name Michael Furey. This is the second volume of the 14 Fu Manchu books written by Rohmer. In this action-packed installment the reader will encounter a number of insidious doings including kidnappings, poisonous cats, snake murders, albino peacocks, killer apes, quicksand, a haunted house, rat torture, mummy attacks and more. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Timeless fable tells of an overconfident little fox who steals a plump pet hen and is hotly pursued by Farmer Brown’s boy and Bowser the Hound. Children will delight in Reddy’s risky antics and the commotion his behavior causes among the other woodland creatures. First published in 1913 by the author of Old Mother West Wind and many other children’s classics. 6 black-and-white line illustrations. New preface.

 Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.” Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. “To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.” It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry—dignified, solid, and reassuring.

Wake Robin is the first of Burroughs' published essays.

谢丽尔·桑德伯格作为全球最成功的女性之一，她在这本超级畅销书《LEAN IN》中，深刻地剖析了男女不平等这类社会现象的根本原因。她认为，女性之所以没有勇气跻身领导层，不敢放开脚步追求自己的梦想，更多是出于内在的恐惧与不自信。她在书中鼓励所有女性，要大胆地“往桌前坐”，主动参与对话与讨论。同时，她还为女性提出了如下成功密码，激励女性寻求挑战，敢于冒险，满怀热情地去追求自己的人生目标。

格雷和安娜分手了。安娜在出版业有了一份新工作，看上去很开心，但无法拒绝格雷强烈的追求，在他保证有所改变之后，两人迅速和好了。出于不知名的原因偷到了她的银行账户信息，而且禁止她出差。安娜的老板杰克没安好心，对她欲行不轨。格雷的嫉妒倾向压倒了一切，他买下了她工作的公司，杰克丢了工作。格雷生日在家里举办了晚会并向女主求婚成功，俩人高兴的抱在一起，而之前被撤职的男上司杰克站在格雷家墙外，用烟头把格雷在全家福照片上的的头给烧没了，最后杰克被格雷弄得身败名裂，然后杰克抓走了格雷的小姑子，安娜独自营救。格雷不放心，也去救人了，然后小姑子被救出来了，杰克得到了应有的惩罚。

《源氏物语》是日本的一部古典文学名著，对于日本文学的发展产生过巨大的影响，被誉为日本古典文学的高峰，在日本开启了“物哀”的时代。作品的成书年代一般认为是在1001年至1008年间，因此可以说，《源氏物语》是世界上最早的长篇写实小说，小说描写了平安京时期日本的风貌，揭露人性，宫中的斗争，反映了当时妇女的无权地位和苦难生活。