英文电子书

World-famous photographer Maude Coffin Pratt has pointed her lens at the beautiful, obscure, and obscene, and at the private places and public parts of the famous, from Gertrude Stein to Graham Greene. When the seventy-year-old Maude rummages through her

A family watches in horror as their patriarch transforms into the singing, wise-cracking lead of an old-timey minstrel show. A renowned art collector relishes publicly destroying his most valuable pieces. Two boys stand by helplessly as their father stage

To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children, she is the selfish, petty tyrant of Mother Land. She excels at playing her offspring against each other. Her favorite, Angela, died

作者：Danielle Henderson

书名：The Ugly Cry《丑陋的哭声》

简介：An uproarious, moving memoir about a grandmother’s ferocious love and redefining what it means

'I once travelled back from Africa on a ship with an Irish captain who did not like animals. This was unfortunate, because most of my luggage consisted of about two hundred odd cages of assorted wildlife . . .'

Gerald Durrell's accounts

Fans of Gerald Durrell’s timeless classic My Family and Other Animals will love this hilarious tale, which finds him as an adult still charmed by his beloved animals. A Zoo in My Luggage begins with an account of Durrell’s third trip to the British Camero

First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell's last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict betwe

In his latest novel, Moore takes on the Great French Masters. A magnificent “Comedy d’Art”, Sacré Bleu is part mystery, part history (sort of), part love story, and wholly hilarious as it follows a young baker-painter who joins the dapper Henri Toulouse-L

New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe in this satiric Venetian gothic that brings back the Pocket of Dog Snogging, the eponymous hero of Fool, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, J

Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, The Parihaka Woman sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s.

作者：Lisa Scottoline

书名：Eternal

简介：#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true

作者：James Suzman

标题：Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots

简介：This book is a tour de force. -- Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling

作者：Natalie Goldberg

标题：Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within《再活一次：用写作来调心》

简介：For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been ch

作者：Ibram X. Kendi

书名：How to Be an Antiracist《如何做一名反种族主义者》

简介：Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversa

作者：Wu Cheng'en, W.J.F. Jenner

书名：Journey to the West(Four Great Classic Novels of China)《西游记》

简介：First published in 1952, The Journey to the West,

作者：Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong

书名：Outlaws of the Marsh(Four Great Classic Novels of China)《水浒传》

简介：China's great classic novel Outlaws of the Ma

作者：Luo Guanzhong

书名：The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(Four Great Classic Novels of China)《三国演义》

简介：A new translation and abridgment of one of the fou

作者： Cao Xueqin, John Minford, Edwin Lowe, H. Joly

书名：The Dream of the Red Chamber(The Story of the Stone #1-5)《红楼梦》

简介：The Dream of the Red Chamber is

作者：Tayeb Salih, Denys Johnson-Davies

书名：Season of Migration to the North《北徙季节》

简介：After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Mig

作者：G.A. Henty

书名：Through Russian Snows《穿过俄罗斯的雪》

简介：Henty gives us two brothers as heroes, Frank and Julian Wyatt from Weymouth. Julian, through so

作者：Montesquieu, C.J. Betts

书名：Persian Letters《波斯人信札》

简介：This richly evocative novel-in-letters tells the story of two Persian noblemen who have left

作者：Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith

书名：Van Gogh: The Life《梵高传》

简介：Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Ja

作者：Scott Rozelle, Natalie Hell

书名：Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise《看不见的中国:城乡二元化如何威胁中国的崛起》

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作者：John Barth

书名：Further Fridays: Essays, Lectures, and Other Nonfiction, 1984 - 1994

简介：Every Friday for many years, John Barth has exchanged his weekday

作者：Giles Tremlett

书名：Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen《阿拉贡的凯瑟琳》

简介：In 1501 a fifteen-year-old Spanish princess, Catherine of Aragon,