“阿加莎？克里斯蒂经典侦探作品集”丛书，是英国柯林斯出版公司精选的阿加莎？克里斯蒂的经典作品，由英国语言和文学专家专门为世界各地母语非英语的读者改编设计，每篇小说经过适当删减，其中的词汇和语法也做了简化，是适合中等以上英语水平读者学习的英语读物。书中印有二维码可在线听音频，由英国本土人士录制，声情并茂地再现精彩的故事内容。另，本丛书可配点读笔(需单独购买)。《斯泰尔斯庄园奇案》为阿加莎？克里斯蒂的 部侦探小说，奠定了大侦探波洛的人物基础。故事情节：斯泰尔斯庄园的女主人英格尔索普太太掌管着财政大权。某日凌晨，她在自己的房间里毒发身亡，而房间的三个门都是从里面锁上的。侦探波洛在调查此案的过程中发现了一系列疑点，但 的疑犯——英格尔索普太太的丈夫却有不在场的证据。 让波洛感到头痛的是，

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an italian pensione and in a corner on surrey England. A charming young English woman,Lucy Honeychurch,witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza,Attracted to this man,George Emerson-who is entirely unsuitable and whose father just may be a Socialist-Lucy is soon at war with the snobbery of her is courted by a more acceptalble,if stifling,suitor,and soon realizes she must make a starting decision that will decide the course of her future;she is forced to choose between convention and passion. 作者简介： E.M.Forster Edward Morgan Forster was born January 1,1879,in London and was raised from infancy by his mother and paternal aunts after his father's death.Forster's boyhood experiences at the happiness he found at home,and his suffering left him with an abiding dislike of the English public school system.At King's College,Cambridge,however,he was able to pursue freely his varied

Is your age more than 5? Is it less than 10? Eddie's got to guess. And he doesn't want to be wrong! Eddie has a booth at the school fair, guessing people's ages. He hasn't guessed wrong yet, but if he does, he gets dunked. Can Eddie keep guessing right -- and keep from getting wet? Comparing whole numbers and understanding what's more and what's less are a big part of Eddie's strategy, and an important math skill for young readers to learn.

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. As well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new selection places the most popular -- `The Fall of the House of Usher', `The Masque of the Red Death', `The Murders in the Rue Morgue; and `The Purloined Letter' -- alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays and political satires. MS Found in a Bottle; Berenic Morella; Ligeia; The Man That Was Used Up; The Fall of the House of Usher; William Wilson; The Man of the Crowd; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; Eleonora; The Masque of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Mystery of Marie Rogêt; The Tell-Tale Heart; The Gold-Bug; The Black Cat;

Here are some of the greatest stories of all time.The familiar titles,like Snow White,are stories about things that are still important to us today,like families and loyalty,friendship and courage,getting along and making dreams come ture. In this book,you will find stories that are favorites alreaky,and others that will be new to you,but sure to become your favorites as well.

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP "Send Us a Boy -- We'll Send You a Cowboy!" is the slogan of the Box Canyon Boys Camp. But for the nail biters, thumb suckers, and teeth grinders -- the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy travelling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes -- it's just another place to face rejection. Until Cotton. Cotton pulls them together. In a hot-wired pickup, he leads "the Bedwetters" on a fantastic mission to save a heard of buffalo -- and in the process, to save themselves. But as the raw red Arizona sun rises, they will discover the cost of their one grand moment of glory… EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information A chronology of the author's life and work A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretat

Amazon.com Review "'No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them,' is muchmore than the cheap paradox it seems to many. To 'believe,' in thatsense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warmdarkness of the prenatal fluid far below our conscious reason thatthe faculty dwells with which we apprehend ghosts." Edith Wharton,known for her keen observations of an emotionally stiflingupper-class social world, was so afraid of ghosts that for manyyears she couldn't even sleep in a room with a book containing aghost story. As horror scholar Jack Sullivan writes, "It is thissharply felt sensation of supernatural dread filtered through askeptical sensibility that made Wharton a master of the ghoststory." This collection contains 11 of her elegant, chilling tales,including "Afterword," "The Triumph of Night," and "PomegranateSeed," plus Wharton's 1937 preface and an autobiographicalpost*. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailableedition of this title. Product De*ion

This fiercely comic tale stands in marked contrast to itsgenial predecessor, "The Pickwick Papers," Set against London'sseedy back street slums, "Oliver Twist" is the saga of a workhouseorphan captured and thrust into a thieves' den, where some ofDickens's most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible ArtfulDodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, thattreacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to sendthem all to the "ghostly gallows." Yet at the heart of this dramais the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last tosalvation. In 1838 the publication of "Oliver Twist" firmlyestablished the literary eminence of young Dickens. It was,according to Edgar Johnson, "a clarion peal announcing to the worldthat in Charles Dickens the rejected and forgotten and misused ofthe world had a champion."

In the traditional society of Barsetshire,Dr Grantly,who has hoped to succeed his father as bishop,must suffer the indignity of seeing the post go to the "low Church'Dr Proudie at the instigation of the new Whig government.When Mr Quiverful is mand Warden of Hiram's Hopsital contrary to Slope and Grantly's wishes,the battle for social supremacy becomes increasingly heated until it reaches a scandalous conclusion. With its warm humour and cleverly drawn characters,Barchester towers has bencome Anthoy Trollope's most famous novel.First published in 1857,it is the second of the Chronicles of Barsetshire. 作者简介： Anthony Trollope（1815-82）.Most noted for his Barsetshire novels,trollope was a prolific writer whose work offers us an unsurpassed portrait of the professinal and landed classes of Victorian england. Barchester Towers,the second of the Barsetshire series,was published in 1857 to great acclaim,with one critic announcing it as the "cleversest novel of the season."