Set in Renaissance England, The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of Tom Canty, a ragged pauper, and young Edward VI, only son of Henry VIII, who miraculously look exactly alike. Almost by accident, the boys exchange places a few days before Henrys death and Edwards coronation, leaving Tom to the role of future king and Edward to the mercy of the beggars underworld of London. A rousing tale of mistaken identity, The Prince and the Pauper reveals a side ofMark Twain seldom seen.
Eve's Diary[夏娃的日记][插图版]
夏娃的日记
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
A Double Barrelled Detective Story
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
SynopsisMark Twain was certainly Americas greatest writer. His genius enabled him to make entertaining reading, even great literature, out of almost anything. Therefore all his collections of miscellaneous shorter works are treasure-troves of short stories, essays, autobiography, and journalistic sketches, ranging, as this one does, from a story told from the point of view of a dog, an article about the first typewriters, to the beginnings of Twains late, fantastic work, Biblical or religious fa
Adventures of Tom Sawyer[Illustrated插图版]
SynopsisThe tale of a boys life in a small town on the banks of the Mississippi River. Tom skips school and with his friends, Huck Finn and Jim, spends his days on mad adventures - some real, some imagined.
A Tramp Abroad[Illustrated插图版]
SynopsisCast in the form of a burlesque walking tour through Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy, this travel book is a send-up of travel writing, Europeans, Americans abroad and Art with a capital A. The authors adventures include an ascent of Mont Blanc by telescope.
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court[Illustrated插图版]
SynopsisThe ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other civilizations of far later times, it is safe to consider that it is no libel upon the sixth century to suppose them to have been in practice in that day also. One is quite justifi
Nostromo[诺斯特罗莫]
Nostromo, first published in 1904, is arguably Conrads greatest and most complex novel. A compelling adventure story, it is also a novel of profound psychological insight and of powerful political implications.Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution.20世纪百大英文小说第47位
Magic Seeds[魔种]
Half A Life (2001) might have been better been left without this sequel, which ruffles reviewers’ feathers as only a grand old man of literature can. Though his trophy shelf holds a Nobel Prize, his past accomplishments buy him little sympathy. In fact, it’s often difficult to tell if critics are more put off by Magic Seeds or their appraisal of Willie Chandran as a mouthpiece for Naipaul’s politics. For an author whose greatest works have a heavy dose of autobiography, this reaction is not surp
On looking down at her kid shoes, made, it was evident, by the veriest cobbler, a stranger would have hesitated to recognize Cousin Betty as a member of the family, for she looked exactly like a journeywoman sempstress. But she did not leave the room without bestowing a little friendly nod on Monsieur Crevel, to which that gentleman responded by a look of mutual understanding. 贝姨是巴尔扎克笔下相当特殊的一个形象。小说以其命名，可见作家对她的重视。她为某种情欲所左右，但色调构成却十分复杂。 集“丑”与“恶”于一身，是这个人物给读者的第一印象。作家为她勾画了一幅令人生厌、令人生畏的漫画像，又赋予她同
Lost Illusions（幻灭）
Balzac [was] the master unequalled in the art of painting humanity as it exists in modern society, wrote George Sand. He searched and dared everything.Written between 1837 and 1843, Lost Illusions reveals, perhaps better than any other of Balzacs ninety-two novels, the nature and scope of his genius. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoulême who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and
Eugenie Grandet（欧叶妮·格朗台）
Many people among them Henry James) have considered Balzac to be the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare, classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her fathers hysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. One of the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-century French provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whom nothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of the human animal to understand and illuminate its o
Father Goriot（高老头）
Eugene stared at his neighbor in dumb and dazed bewilderment. He thought of Vautrin, of that duel to be fought to-morrow morning, and of this realization of his dearest hopes, and the violent contrast between the two sets of ideas gave him all the sensations of nightmare. He went to the chimney-piece, saw the little square case, opened it, and found a watch of Breguets make wrapped in paper, on which these words were written. 1891年冬，在巴黎拉丁区有一个叫伏盖公寓包饭客房，是一个叫伏盖的美国老妇人开的。这里住着各种各样的人：有穷大学生拉斯蒂涅；歇业的面粉商人
A Man of Business（商人）
A Man of Business
Lord Jim（吉姆爷）
Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman--as unflinching as a hero in a book--who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying proportions. But, then he is befriended by an older man named Marlow who helps to establish him in exotic Patusan, a remote Malay settlement where his courage is put to the test once more. Lord Jim is a
Typhoon（台风）
Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate reader friendly type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords. Many chronicles have been written about life at sea, but few, if any, can compare with Joseph Conrads masterpiece. It is the stor
The Nigger of the "Narcissus"（白水仙号上的黑家伙）
JOSEPH CONRAD (1857-1924) was one of the most remarkable figures in English literature. Born in Poland, and originally named Josef Teodor Konrad Walecz Korzeniowski, he went to sea at the age of seventeen and eventually joined the crew of an English vessel, becoming a British citizen in the process. He retired from the sea in 1894 and took up the pen, writing all his works in English, a language he had only learned as an adult. Despite this, he was a master stylist, both lush and precise. His ou
An Outcast of the Islands（海岛上的无家可归者）
The only annotated edition available, An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Conrads second novel, is a tale of intrigue in an eastern setting. Peter Willems, a clerk in Macassar, granted a second chance at a remote river trading post, falls ever more hopelessly into traps set by himself and others. A parable of human frailty, with love and death the major players, this is a story of a man unable to understand others and fated never to possess his own soul.
