1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. La...(展开全部)

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word 'leg' was forbidden in polite society, les...(展开全部)

《长腿叔叔》是一部书信体小说，全书以81封书信构成，讲述了一个天性乐观、品学兼优的孤女茱蒂的故事。该书一经推出即获得不同凡响的轰动，长期以来畅销不衰。其语言文字的曼妙可爱、简笔画的趣味勾勒、情节的丰富流畅奠定了此书不可替代的文学成就，一度被媒体称为“一本百年难得一见的好书，内容胜过《小妇人》。”该书陆续以舞台剧、戏曲、卡通和电影的形式展现在世人面前。《长腿叔叔》为精校英文原版，在满足原汁原味英文阅读的同时也尽可能减少出版错误；同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载(扫扉页上二维码即可进入下载页面)，在品读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

《长腿叔叔》是一部书信体小说，全书以81封书信构成，讲述了一个天性乐观、品学兼优的孤女茱蒂的故事。该书一经推出即获得不同凡响的轰动，长期以来畅销不衰。其语言文字的曼妙可爱、简笔画的趣味勾勒、情节的丰富流畅奠定了此书不可替代的文学成就，一度被媒体称为“一本百年难得一见的好书，内容胜过《小妇人》。”该书陆续以舞台剧、戏曲、卡通和电影的形式展现在世人面前。《长腿叔叔》为精校英文原版，在满足原汁原味英文阅读的同时也尽可能减少出版错误；同时提供配套英文朗读免费下载(扫扉页上二维码即可进入下载页面)，在品读精彩故事的同时，亦能提升英语阅读水平。

Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behaviour, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity - personality, language, and childcare - with completely different pathways from our own? What is going on inside the mind of those ants that march ...(展开全部)

Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with...(展开全部)