Ein Drama in Mexico(墨西哥的幽灵) 立即阅读
Ein Drama in Mexiko (auch Die Lianenbrücke) ist eine Kurzgeschichte des französischen Autors Jules Verne und sein erstes veröffentlichtes Prosawerk. Die Urfassung dieser Kurzgeschichte hat Jules Verne bis 1851 unter dem französischen Titel L'Amérique du Sud. Études historiques. Les premiers navires de la marine mexicaine geschrieben und wurde erstmals im Juli 1851 im Musée des familles veröffentlicht.
"Mugby Junction" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman for Nowhere," who has spent his life cloistered in the firm Barbox Brothers & Co., makes use of his new-found freedom in retirement to explore the rail lines that connect with Mugby Junction. Dickens's collaborators each contributed an individual story to the collection.
Democracy and Social Ethics(民主与社会伦理) 立即阅读
Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, she was the most prominent reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
England, My England and Other Stories(英格兰,我的英格兰) 立即阅读
England, My England is a collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence. Individual items were originally written between 1913 and 1921, many of them against the background of World War I. Most of these versions were placed in magazines or periodicals. Ten were later selected and extensively revised by Lawrence for the England, My England volume. This was published on 24 October 1922 by Thomas Seltzer in the US. The first UK edition was published by Martin Secker in 1924.