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柳宗元文集
柳宗元，字子厚，唐代河东（今山西省永济市）人，代宗大历八年（773年）出生于京城长安，宪宗元和十四年（819年）客死于柳州。一代著名文学家、思想家，享年不到50岁。因为他是河东人，终于柳州刺史任上，所以人称柳河东或柳柳州。 柳家与薛、裴两家被并称为“河东三著姓”。柳宗元的八世祖到六世祖... -
The Wealth of Nations (Books 4- - Adam Smith
The Wealth Of Nations was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is th... -
The Secret Life of Ceecee Wilke - Diane Chamberlain
SUMMARY: In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unb... -
The Ninth Daughter - Barbara Hamilton
SUMMARY: 1773: The Massachusetts Colony is torn between patriots who want independence and loyalists who support the King. At the center is the educated and beautiful Abigail Adams... -
The Fort_ A Novel of the Revolu - Bernard Cornwell
SUMMARY: While the major fighting of the war moves to the south in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sa... -
The Complete Poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Willia
One of the major figures of English Romanticism, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) created works of remarkable diversity and imaginative genius. The period of his creative frie... -
The Children of Hurin - J. R. R. Tolkien; Christopher T
SUMMARY: The Children of Húrin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The Silmarillion. Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Midd... -
The American Crisis - Thomas Paine
The American Crisis was a series of pamphlets published from 1776 to 1783 during the American Revolution by eighteenth century Enlightenment philosopher and author Thomas Paine. Th... -
Scarborough Fair - Chris Scott Wilson
When America needed a hero, John Paul Jones stood up. During the War of Independence, at the battle of Flamborough Head in 1779, commanding a converted East Indiaman, he tackled a ... -
Marrying Mozart - Stephanie Cowell
EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Amadeus* meets *Little Women* in this irresistibly delightful historical novel by award- winning author Stephanie Cowell. The year is 1777 and the four Weber sis...