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Personality Plus
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简介： When men began to build cities vertically instead of horizontally there passed from our......
One Basket
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简介： Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very bad womanso bad that she could trail......
Half Portions
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简介： Called upon to describe Aunt Sophy you would have to coin a term or fall back on the......
Gigolo
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简介： Though he rarely heeded its summonscagy boy that he wasthe telephone rang oftenest for Nick.......
Fanny Herself
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简介： It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their......
Emma McChesney & Co.
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简介： The door marked MRS. MCCHESNEY was closed. T. A. Buck, president of the Buck Featherloom......
Bessy Rane
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简介： It was an intensely dark night. What with the mist that hung around from below, and the......
The Candle and the Cat
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简介： At the entrance to the driveway leading to the residence occupied by the President of the......
Blue Jackets
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简介： The most cruel and ignominious punishment man can inflict upon his fellow men, is still......
A Description of Greenland
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简介： THE regions in the neighbourhood of the North Pole have lately become the objects of......
An Artist in Egypt
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简介： I ENDEAVOURED, in a former book on Egypt, to give my first impressions while the glamour of......
Slavery in History
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简介： For the first time in the annals of humanity, domestic slavery, or the system of chattelhood......
Within the Maze
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简介： The house was ugly and old-fashioned, with some added modern improvements, and was......
History of Geography
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简介： This is not a history of geographical exploration, though the leading episodes in the......
The Military Adventures of Charles O'Neil
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简介： The history of times and events, of men and their characters, must ever be replete with......
Through One Administration
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简介： Eight years before the Administration rendered important by the series of events and......
Captain John's Adventures
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简介： RICHARD LEDDAM was a poor man, who obtained a subsistence by toiling in all weathers in......
The Three Brothers
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简介： The reason why Mr. Rentons sons were sent out into the world in the humble manner, and with......
Connecticut Boys in the Western Reserve
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简介： A dismally wet and cold September day had come early to a close and thick darkness had......
Roast Beef, Medium
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简介： Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the Menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit......
The American Senator
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简介： I never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why......
Battling the Bighorn
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简介： Flash the light on the compass again, Frank. Lets have another look!Instantly the ray of an......
Sea Scouts up-Channel
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简介： It's going to be a dirty night, remarked Mr. Graham, Scoutmaster of the 9th Southend-on-Sea......
The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi
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简介： The first chapter of these Volumes discloses the reasons which induced me to undertake the......
Sketches of Indian Character
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简介： The history of nations fully establishes the fact, that the character of man results from......
Tuen, Slave and Empress
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简介： This story is founded upon facts in the life of the Empress-dowager of China, the mother of......
The Dune Country
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简介： THE text and illustrations in this book are intended to depict a strange and picturesque......
The Three Brothers Complete
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简介： The reason why Mr. Rentons sons were sent out into the world in the humble manner, and with......
The Passing of Empire
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简介： Most people when they talk of India, most books when they treat of India, are concerned with......
Tarr
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简介： This book was begun eight years ago; so I have not produced this disagreeable German for the......
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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简介： Illustration can never bring myself to believe it, John, said Mary Walker, the pretty......
The Prime Minister
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简介： It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his......
The Duke's Children
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简介： No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend, the......
The Billiard Room Mystery
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简介： Seeing Bathurst this evening, after a lapse of eight years, has given me a most insistent......
The River of Life and Other Stories
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简介： Alexander Kuprin was born in 1870. He attended the Cadet School and the Military College at......
Henry the Fifth
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简介： Henry was born in the castle of Monmouth on August 9th, 1387. He was the eldest of the six......
Death to the Inquisitive
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简介： A piercing shriek echoed throughout the entire length and breadth of the gloomy passage,......
In Pursuit of Spring
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简介： This is the record of a journey from London to the Quantock Hillsto Nether Stowey, Kilve,......
Bill Bolton and the Winged Cartwheels
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简介： You and I, Bill, said Osceola, are on top of the world and throwing rocks at rainbows! The......
Gibraltar and its Sieges
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简介： THE year 1704 was the year of Blenheim, that wonderful victory of Marlboroughs which......
Lord Palmerston
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简介： IN looking for material on which to base this short memoir of Lord Palmerston I have of......
Linda Tressel
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简介： The troubles and sorrows of Linda Tressel, who is the heroine of the little story now about......
Lady Anna
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简介： Women have often been hardly used by men, but perhaps no harder usage, no fiercer cruelty......
La Mere Bauche
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简介： The Pyreneean valley in which the baths of Vernet are situated is not much known to English,......
Kept in the Dark
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简介： There came an episode in the life of Cecilia Holt which it is essential should first be......
Cousin Henry
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简介： I have a conscience, my dear, on this matter, said an old gentleman to a young lady, as the......
Clergymen of the Church of England
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简介： The old English archbishop was always a prince in the old times, but the English archbishop......
Grania, The Story of an Island
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简介： This story was always intended to be dedicated to you. It could hardly, in fact, have been......
Castle Richmond
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简介： Castle Richmond was written in 1861, long after Trollope had left Ireland. The......
An Old Man's Love
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简介： Mr William Whittlestaff was strolling very slowly up and down the long walk at his country......
Why Frau Frohmann Raised her Prices and other stories
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简介： IF ever there was a Tory upon earth, the Frau Frohmann was a Tory; for I hold that landed......
Ralph the Heir
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简介： There are men who cannot communicate themselves to others, as there are also men who not......
The Landleaguers
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简介： In the year 1850 the two estates of Ballintubber and Morony were sold to Mr. Philip Jones,......
The Commentaries of Caesar
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简介： It may perhaps be fairly said that the Commentaries of C?sar are the beginning of modern......
The West Indies and the Spanish Main
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简介： I am beginning to write this book on board the brig , trading between Kingston, in Jamaica,......
The Bertrams
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简介： This is undoubtedly the age of humanityas far, at least, as England is concerned. A man who......
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
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简介： Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite was a mighty person in Cumberland, and one who well......
Thackeray
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简介： In the foregoing volumes of this series of English Men of Letters, and in other works of a......
Lotta Schmidt and other stories
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简介： AS all the world knows, the old fortifications of Vienna have been pulled down,the......
Marion Fay
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简介： When Mr. Lionel Trafford went into Parliament for the Borough of Wednesbury as an advanced......
Orley Farm
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简介： It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should......
Miss Mackenzie
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简介： I fear I must trouble my reader with some few details as to the early life of Miss......
Mr. Scarborough's Family
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简介： It will be necessary, for the purpose of my story, that I shall go back more than once from......
The Claverings
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简介： The gardens of Clavering Park were removed some three hundred yards from the large, square,......
Life of Cicero
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简介： I am conscious of a certain audacity in thus attempting to give a further life of Cicero......
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
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简介： It will be observed by the literary and commercial world that, in this transaction, the name......
The Small House at Allington
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简介： Illustration f course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have......
The Happy Prince and Other Tales 快乐王子和其他故事
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简介： High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded......
The Soul of Man
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简介： The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly,......
The Three Clerks
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简介： There is the proper mood and the just environment for the reading as well as for the writing......
Lodrix the Little Lake Dweller
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简介： Many years ago, there lived in the high regions of Switzerland and France a people called......
Pioneer Colored Christians
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简介： In the busy rush of life, the virtues of single individuals too often escape notice, or make......
The Prisoner at the Bar
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简介： The favorable reception accorded to the Prisoner at the Bar, not only in the United States......
When Polly was Eighteen
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简介： The young man, stretched on the grass among the waving shadows, was gazing across the valley......
Reminiscences of Peace and War
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简介： It will be obvious to the reader that this book affects neither the dignity of history nor......
Kissing the Rod.
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简介： There was no name on the doorposts, nothing beyond the number--48--to serve as a guide; and......
The Human Interest
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简介： One dull afternoonand it was in summera London authoress of some repute, whose nom-de-guerre......
Forge of Foxenby
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简介： But, until the ball is seen resting in the back of the net, it is as unwise to count a goal......
La Vendée An Historical Romance
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简介： The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave......
Mary Gresley and an Editor's Tales
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简介： WE have known many prettier girls than Mary Gresley, and many handsomer womenbut we never......
Hiking Westward
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简介： HIKING WESTWARD is really a chapter taken out of the lives of two wide-awake American boys......
The Meredith Mystery
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简介： Anne Meredith looked at her mother, appalled. Marry David Curtis! she exclaimed. Marry a man......
With Edged Tools
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简介： Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain.My dearMadamwhat you call heart does not come......
Barlasch of the Guard
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简介： Il faut devoir lever les yeux pour regarder ce qu'on aime.A few children had congregated on......
What I Remember
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简介： I have no intention of writing an autobiography. There has been nothing in my life which......
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny
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简介： In the little village of Como, in that province of Northern Italy called by the Romans......
The Thirteen Names of the First Patriarchs
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简介： Agreeable to your request I have endeavoured to recollect the parts of the Sermons, and......
Brave Belgians
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简介： I am glad to hear that you have now completed the work you undertook of collecting, from our......
Fifty Years a Detective
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简介： This book was not published for the purpose of displaying any literary ability I may......
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither
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简介： Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many......
Board-Work
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简介： The following work, which is the result of much anxious study and labour, is designed to......
Sailor and beachcomber
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简介： In the following chapters, wherein I have endeavoured to write down my experiences at sea,......
Watermelon Mystery at Sugar Creek
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简介： IF I hadnt been so proud of the prize watermelon I had grown from the packet of special seed......
The Magic Makers and the Bramble Bush Man
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简介： Madeline Moffet stood on the corner beside the big sign that said USE DRAGON MOTOR OIL. She......
Cavalry - A Popular Edition of "Cavalry in War and Peace"
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简介： General von Bernhardi is best known in England as a writer of the Jingo School which has......
Bob Steele In Strange Waters or, Aboard a Strange Craft
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简介： We are in St. Georges Bay, ten miles from the port of Belize, British Honduras. Two days......
The Briary Bush
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简介： Felix Fay saw with his minds eye the map on the wall of the railway stationthe map with a......
An Irish Cousin
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简介： There had been several days of thick, murky weatherdull, uncomplaining days that bore their......
The Sowers
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简介： The speaker finished his remark with a short laugh. He was a big, stout man; his name was......
Another Brownie Book
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简介： When snowdrifts blocked the country roads,And trees were bending with their loads,The wind......
Riceyman Steps
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简介： On an autumn afternoon of 1919 a hatless man with a slight limp might have been observed......
The psycho-analytic study of the family
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简介： The circumstances that have led to the production of this little book are, I think,......
The Housekeeper's Valuable Present
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简介： DURING the course of my apprenticeship with Messrs. Negri and Gunter, in Berkeley Square,......
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft
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简介： During the year 1875 I published under title of The Native Races of the Pacific States what......
A Little Colored Boy and Other Stories
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简介： I think it more likely that God put an angels voice in Neddys throat to give us a taste of......
Tales from the Gesta Romanorum
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简介： You have here, my good friends, sundry moral and entertaining stories, invented by the monks......
The Child in Human Progress
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简介： THIS is a new sort of book, and unique. That is why I look upon the permission to write a......
Gloves Past and Present
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简介： Most men, apparently, take their gloves for granted. In these days the little refinements of......
Rogue's Haven
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简介： But for the coach and pair carrying Mr. Bradbury to Chelton, Tony Vining and I would not......
Welcome Martians
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简介： The only sound was the swish of the jets against the sand as the big ship came down. Slowly,......
Considerations on Representative Government
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简介： Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no......
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive
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简介： This book makes no pretence of giving to the world a new theory of the intellectual......
Dross
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简介： La clbrit est comme le feu, qui br?le de prs et illumine de loin.Under a glorious sky, in......
American Institutions and Their Influence
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简介： The American publishers of M. De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, have been frequently......
The Land of Darkness
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简介： I found myself standing on my feet, with the tingling sensation of having come down rapidly......
When Scout Meets Scout
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简介： When Arthur Trevor caught the flying machine fever and organized the Young Aviators, neither......
Highland Legends
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简介： The scenery of the less cultivated parts of our native Scotland may, generally speaking, be......
A Wreath of Indian Stories
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简介： The following stories have been written by A. L. O. E. since her arrival in India, for the......
The Land of Content
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简介： It was earliest spring, and almost the close of a day whose sunshine and warmth had coaxed......
Three Great Epoch-Makers in Music
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简介： Bearing in mind Emerson's saying that every action admits of being outdone, and around every......
The Piazza Tales
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简介： When I removed into the country, it was to occupy an old-fashioned farm-house, which had no......
The Confidence-Man
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简介： His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long......
Redburn. His First Voyage
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简介： Wellingborough, as you are going to sea, suppose you take this shooting-jacket of mine......
White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War
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简介： When our frigate lay in Callao, on the coast of Peruher last harbour in the PacificI found......
The Ambiguities
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简介： IN old times authors were proud of the privilege of dedicating their works to Majesty. A......
Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas
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简介： IT WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay.......
Utilitarianism
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简介： There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human......
The Subjection of Women
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简介： The object of this Essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion......
Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy
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简介： Of these Essays, which were written in 1829 and 1830, the fifth alone has been previously......
August Comte and Positivism
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简介： For some time much has been said, in England and on the Continent, concerning Positivism and......
The Oregon Trail
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简介： Last spring, 1846, was a busy season in the City of St. Louis. Not only were emigrants from......
The Gray Angels
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简介： The younger generation of Birges Corners insisted that nothing exciting had happened since......
The North Devon Coast
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简介： No one can, with advantage, explore the rugged coast of North Devon by progressing direct......
The Life of Bismarck, Private and Political
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简介： The life of Count Bismarck has been so much misinterpreted, by interested and disinterested......
Beryl of the Biplane
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简介： His companion, George Bellingham, who was in the uniform of the Royal Flying Corps, wearing......
The North Devon Coast
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简介： No one can, with advantage, explore the rugged coast of North Devon by progressing direct......
I and My Chimney
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简介： I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old......
Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street
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简介： I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the lastthirty years has brought......
Israel Potter
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简介： Biography, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held......
The Apple-Tree Table and Other Sketches
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简介： When I first saw the table, dingy and dusty, in the furthest corner of the old hopper-shaped......
The Daughter of Virginia Dare
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简介： The sunbeams were playing hide and seek with the ripples around the prows of three small......
Memoir of a Brother
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简介： This Memoir was written for, and at the request of, the near relatives, and intimate......
David Crockett
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简介： The story of David Crockett stands apart from all others in our historya nebulous collection......
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
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简介： This small book is mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the......
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
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简介： I chose the subject of this book as affording better opportunities than any other portion of......
The Elements of Child-protection
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简介： During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the importance of child-protection gained......
The Book of Roses
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简介： IT IS needless to eulogize the Rose. Poets from Anacreon and Sappho, and earlier than they,......
And Gone Tomorrow
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简介： Here is the best story submitted in answer to the theme question: What Will Life in America......
Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour
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简介： This beautiful lake owes its name to Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec. In 1609,......
From One Generation to Another
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简介： Il faut se garder des premiers mouvements, parce qu'ils sont presque toujours......
Democracy In America
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简介： In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States......
The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
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简介： There is an island in the Indian Ocean, so unfortunate as not yet to have been visited......
The Rise of Iskander
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简介： The sun had set behind the mountains, and the rich plain of Athens was suffused with the......
The Infernal Marriage
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简介： IT WAS clearly a runaway matchnever indeed was such a sublime elopement. The four horses......
Sybil or the Two Nations
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简介： I would inscribe these volumes to one whose noble spirit and gentle nature ever prompt her......
Ixion In Heaven
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简介： THE thunder groaned, the wind howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable......
Coningsby
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简介： As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. Vivian......
Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
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简介： Being at Jerusalem in the year 1831, and visiting the traditionary tombs of the Kings of......
Through the Wheat
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简介： Dusk, like soft blue smoke, fell with the dying spring air and settled upon the northern......
Harmonies of Political Economy
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简介： The favour with which the English public has received the First Edition of this translation......
Essays on Political Economy
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简介： My object in this treatise is to examine into the real nature of the Interest of Capital,......
Economic Sophisms
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简介： My design in this little volume is to refute some of the arguments which are urged against......
Fortune and Ot
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简介： It does not matter where it was. I do not want other peoplethat is to say, those who were......
The Vultures
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简介： Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most......
The Slave Of The Lamp
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简介： Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, Young Mistley, in 1888, when he was......
The Last Hope
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简介： There; that's it. That's where they buried Frenchman, said Andrewknown as River Andrew. For......
The Isle of Unrest
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简介： The afternoon sun was lowering towards a heavy bank of clouds hanging still and sullen over......
Roden's Corner
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简介： It is the Professor von Holzen, said a stout woman who still keeps the egg and butter shop......
In Kedar's Tents
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简介： It is in the staging of her comedies that fate shows herself superior to mere human......
The River War
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简介： The north-eastern quarter of the continent of Africa is drained and watered by the Nile.......
Savrola A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania
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简介： There had been a heavy shower of rain, but the sun was already shining through the breaks in......
My African Journey
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简介： In so far as the collection of information is concerned, the advantages of travel may often......
Liberalism and the Social Problem
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简介： These are the principal speeches I have made within the last four years. They have been......
Ian Hamilton's March
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简介： This book is a continuation of those letters to the Morning Post newspaper on the South......
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789
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简介： An interval of about seventeen years has elapsed since the first publication of this book in......
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
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简介： of his talent. He threw himself into the struggle, resolving to devote himself to the......
What Is Free Trade?
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简介： Years ago I could not rid my mind of the notion that Free Trade meant some cunning policy of......
Sophisms of the Pro
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简介： A previous edition of this work has been published under the title of Essays on Political......
Protection and Communism
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简介： This translation will not, it is hoped, be unacceptable to the English reader, particularly......
The Courtship of Susan Bell
Short Story
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简介： John Munroe Bell had been a lawyer in Albany, State of New York, and as such had thriven......
The House of Heine Brothers, in Munich
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简介： The house of Heine Brothers, in Munich, was of good repute at the time of which I am about......
The Man who kept his Money in a Box
Short Story
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简介： I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine of the Via Mala.......
The Mistletoe Bough
Short Story
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简介： The point in dispute was one very delicate in its nature, hardly to be discussed in all its......
The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne
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简介： The prettiest scenery in all Englandand if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say......
Christmas at Thompson Hall
Short Story
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简介： Every one remembers the severity of the Christmas of 187-. I will not designate the year......
Travelling Sketches.
Short Story
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简介： That men and women should leave their homes at the end of summer and go somewhere,though it......
The O'Conors of Castle Conor
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简介： I shall never forget my first introduction to country life in Ireland, my first days hunting......
John Bull on the Guadalquivir
Short Story
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简介： I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not,......
The Story of the Malakand
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简介： On general grounds I deprecate prefaces. I have always thought that if an author cannot make......
Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Short Story
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简介： Upon a massive bench of polished ersite beneath the gorgeous blooms of a giant pimalia a......
A View of Society and Manners in Italy
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简介： Having left Vienna, we proceeded through the Duchies of Stiria, Carinthia, and Carniola, to......
The master of St. Benedict's
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简介： The success and the distinction had come early in life, and the love had come late. In the......
A Ride across Palestine
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简介： Circumstances took me to the Holy Land without a companion, and compelled me to visit......
An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids
Short Story
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简介： In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of......
George Walker at Suez
Short Story
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简介： Of all the spots on the worlds surface that I, George Walker, of Friday Street, London, have......
Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica
Short Story
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简介： There is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their......
Mrs. General Talboys
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简介： Why Mrs. General Talboys first made up her mind to pass the winter of 1859 at Rome I never......
Returning Home
Short Story
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简介： It is generally supposed that people who live at home,good domestic people, who love tea and......
The Chateau of Prince Polignac
Short Story
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简介： Few Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It......
The Living Mummy
Short Story
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简介： I was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small......
The Somerset Coast
Short Story
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简介： On confiding to personal friends, journalistic paragraphists, and other Doubting Thomases,......
A Vagabond in the Caucasus
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简介： I BROUGHT myself up on Carlyle and found him the dearest, gentlest, bravest, noblest man.......
The Wolf Demon or, The Queen of the Kanawha
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简介： The great, round moon looked down in a flood of silver light upon the virgin forest by the......
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office
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简介： Nearly all of the history of Doctor Dolittle's post office took place when he was returning......
The Enchanted Burro
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简介： The Truly Clever know enough to make books of a country by a few days of Pullman and hotelor......
In the Dozy Hours and other papers
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简介： Montaigne and Howells letters, says Thackeray, are my bedside books. If I wake at night, I......
Making Home Profitable
Short Story
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简介： IT is just sixteen years since misfortune brought about our emancipation. A disastrous......
The Efficiency Expert
Short Story
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简介： The gymnasium was packed as Jimmy Torrance stepped into the ring for the final event of the......
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Short Story
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简介： Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for......
The Desert Healer
Short Story
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简介： The slanting rays of the afternoon sun, unusually powerful for the time of year, lay warmly......
Broken to Harness
Short Story
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简介： The office of the Statesman daily journal was not popular with the neighbours, although its......
The World of Dreams
Short Story
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简介： There are at least four different ways of writing a book on dreams. There is, for instance,......
The Earth's Beginning
Short Story
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简介： Since these lectures were delivered in the Royal Institution of Great Britain there has been......
The Sahara
Short Story
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简介： In your voyage down the west coast of Africa, after passing the southern extremity of......
Memories grave and gay
Short Story
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简介： It has been a pleasure for me to recall, at the kind request of the Messrs. HarperBrothers,......
Life of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Short Story
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简介： JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 28th of August, 1749.His......
Roadtown
Short Story
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简介： This book is dedicated to J. Pierpont Morgan, a straight player of a crooked game, who, it......
Legendary Tales of the Highlands
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简介： There is a long, low, flat-topped, and prettily wooded eminence, that rises out of the......
The Red Chancellor
Short Story
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简介： Of what? It was I who asked the question, curious to hear what penalty attached to the......
The Aspirations of Jean Servien
Short Story
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简介： Jean Servien was born in a back-shop in the _Rue Notre-Damedes Champs_. His father was a......
Putois
Short Story
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简介： This garden of our childhood, said Monsieur Bergeret, this garden that one could pace off in......
Monsieur Bergeret in Paris
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简介： ONSIEUR BERGERET was seated at table taking his frugal evening meal. Riquet lay at his feet......
Marguerite
Short Story
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简介： As I left the Palais-Bourbon at five oclock that afternoon, it rejoiced my heart to breathe......
Honey-Bee
Short Story
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简介： It is an honour, but, also, a great responsibility, to introduce through the dangerous......
Child Life In Town And Country
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简介： FANCHON went early one morning, like Little Red Riding-Hood, to see her grandmother, who......
Balthasar And Other Works - 1909
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简介： In those days Balthasar, whom the Greeks called Saracin, reigned in Ethiopia. He was black,......
A Mummer's Tale
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简介： Flicie Nanteuil, her hair powdered, with blue on her eyelids, rouge on her cheeks and ears,......
The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin
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简介： My father, Andrei Petrovitch Grineff, after having served in his youth under Count Mnich,[1]......
The Seven Conundrums
Short Story
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简介： The wind, storming up from the sea, beat against the frail little wooden building till every......
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short Story
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简介： The simple events of Nathaniel Hawthornes life have long been before the public. From 1835......
A Book of Autographs
Short Story
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简介： We have before us a volume of autograph letters, chiefly of soldiers and statesmen of the......
Pee-Wee Harris in Luck
Short Story
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简介： Whenever Pee-wee Harris was given the choice of two desserts he invariably chose both. This......
The Pacifists
Short Story
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简介： Like a lone sentinel, the house stood apart at the edge of the village, a white cube with no......
Three Good Giants
Short Story
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简介： Long before the day when Fielding and Smollett began to be read on the sly, and before the......
The Inimitable Jeeves
Short Story
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简介： Good morning, sir, said Jeeves. He put the good old cup of tea softly on the table by my......
The Flower Beneath the Foot
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简介： NEITHER her Gaudiness the Mistress of the Robes, or her Dreaminess the Queen were feeling......
The Life of Joan of Arc
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简介： SCHOLARS have been good enough to notice this book; and the majority have treated it very......
The Gods are Athirst
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简介： Initial variste Gamelin, painter, pupil of David, member of the Section du Pont-Neuf,......
The Elm-tree on the Mall
Short Story
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简介： HE salon which the Cardinal-Archbishop used as a reception room had been fitted, in the time......
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys
Short Story
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简介： THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being......
Tanglewood Tales
Short Story
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简介： In the old city of Tr?zene, at the foot of a lofty mountain, there lived, a very long time......
Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life
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简介： The existence of this story, posthumously published, was not known to any one but Hawthorne......
True Stories from History and Biography
Short Story
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简介： In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent......
Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches
Short Story
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简介： I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it......
A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
Short Story
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简介： The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being......
The Revolt of the Angels
Short Story
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简介： ENEATH the shadow of St. Sulpice the ancient mansion of the d'Esparvieu family rears its......
Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short Story
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简介： In Hawthorne and His Wife and Memories of Hawthorne both Julian Hawthorne and his sister,......
Sketches and Studies
Short Story
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简介： The author of this memoirbeing so little of a politician that he scarcely feels entitled to......
The Marble Faun The Romance of Monte Beni
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简介： Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be......
Harold's Bride
Short Story
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简介： Many years ago a huge panorama of a vast extent of country was exhibited in London. Of what......
Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks
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简介： Hotel de Louvre, January 6th, 1858.On Tuesday morning, our dozen trunks and half-dozen......
Passages From the English Notebooks
Short Story
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简介： It seems justly due to Mr. Hawthorne that the occasion of any portion of his private......
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete
Short Story
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简介： The Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted......
Adventures of Martin Hewitt
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简介： IN none of the cases of investigation by Martin Hewitt which I have as yet recorded had I......
Ancient Classics for English Readers
Short Story
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简介： It is proposed to give, in these little volumes, some such introduction to the great writers......
A Vagabond's Odyssey
Short Story
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简介： The path to hell is paved with good intentions.Looking reflectively over this second......
The Pioneers
Short Story
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简介： Gradually he became aware of resilient rubber and plastic supporting him. He lay on his......
The Laboratorians
Short Story
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简介： Yeah, we drop in just three c.c. from this here tube, said Rocco as he expertly twirled the......
Abaft the Funnel
Short Story
共章
简介： THE measure of a man's popularity is not alwaysor indeed seldomthe measure of his intrinsic......
Circe's Daughter
Short Story
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简介： Richards looked carefully over the table with the eye of the well-trained manservant. He......
Kutnar, Son of Pic
Short Story
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简介： Totan, hetman of the northern Spanish cave-folk, sat upon the threshold of Castillo,......
Birthright
Short Story
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简介： Cyril Kirk's first sight of the planet from the spaceship did nothing to abate the anger......
A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
Short Story
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简介： The chief source of illustration for this volume, as in the case of the Napoleon papers in......
Slow Burn
Short Story
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简介： Tell 'em to look sharp, Bert. This pickup's got to be good. Kevin Morrow gulped the last of......
Life on the Congo
Short Story
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简介： Although only four years have elapsed since my colleague penned the accompanying chapters,......
The Yale Literary Magazine
Short Story
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简介： As I am about to have some little converse with thee, I cannot pass this first bright page......
Looking Further Forward
Short Story
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简介： Every seeker after truth and reform is entitled to recognition, even if his ways and methods......
The Motor Boys on Thunder Mountain
Short Story
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简介： What do you think of it, fellows? asked Jerry Hopkins. The tall lad ruffled in his hand some......
The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art
Short Story
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简介： The History of Medicine is a terra incognita to the general reader, and an all but......
The Dragon and the Raven or, The Days of King Alfred
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简介： Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of......
Limbo
Short Story
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简介： THE most sumptuous present that Millicent received on her seventh birthday was a dolls......
St. George for England
Short Story
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简介： It was a bitterly cold night in the month of November, 1330. The rain was pouring heavily,......
Crome Yellow
Short Story
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简介： Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trainsthe few that......
Murder in Black Letter
Short Story
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简介： Steel talked between roses. Kintyre parried Yamamura's slash; his riposte thumped on the......
Ecology on Rollins Island
Short Story
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简介： There's a library in a small town near Charles Neck on Murdock Sound. It's so run down and......
The Almost-Men
Short Story
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简介： Hands shook at his shoulder, dragging him awake. Lanny's foster father was bent over him,......
Through Connemara in a governess cart
Short Story
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简介： MY second cousin and I came to London for ten days in the middle of last June, and we stayed......
Gloria: A Girl and Her Dad
Short Story
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简介： The boy was taller than the girl, this could be noticed from quite a distance, but other......
Running the Gauntlet
Short Story
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简介： Throughout the length and breadth of this London of ours there were few legal firms, no......
The Alfred Jewel An Historical Essay
Short Story
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简介： IT is full fifty years since I began to contemplate the Alfred Jewel with a wonder and......
Mortal Coils
Short Story
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简介： Thank you, said Mr. Hutton, without turning round. Janet Spence's parlourmaid was so......
The Silver Fox
Short Story
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简介： Lady Susan had never been so hungry in her life. So, for the sixth time, she declared......
Friends, though divided
Short Story
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简介： It was a pleasant afternoon in the month of July, 1642, when three young people sat together......
In Freedom's Cause
Short Story
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简介： The village of Glen Cairn was situated in a valley in the broken country lying to the west......
Won by the Sword
Short Story
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简介： A mounted officer, followed by two orderlies, was proceeding at a brisk trot from Paris to......
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
Short Story
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简介： Squire Thorndyke, of the Manor House of Crawley, was, on the 1st of September; 1782, walking......
Rujub, the Juggler
Short Story
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简介： This famous mutiny occurred while the reins of British rule in India were in the hands of......
Beric the Briton
Short Story
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简介： It may be a fair sight in a Roman's eyes, Beric, but nought could be fouler to those of a......
A Knight of the White Cross
Short Story
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简介： A stately lady was looking out of the window of an apartment in the Royal Chateau of......
True to the Old Flag
Short Story
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简介： MY DEAR COUSIN: I am leaving next week with my husband for England, where we intend to pass......
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Short Story
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简介： It was a dull evening in the month of September, 1728. The apprentices had closed and barred......
The Young Carthaginian
Short Story
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简介： When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the......
The Lion of Saint Mark
Short Story
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简介： Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which......
With Wolfe in Canada
Short Story
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简介： In the present volume I have endeavoured to give the details of the principal events in a......
Wulf the Saxon
Short Story
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简介： Although the immediate results of the Battle of Hastings may have been of less importance to......
One of the 28th
Short Story
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简介： Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures......
Juvenile Delinquent
Short Story
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简介： Tick-de-tock, tick-de-tock, whispered the antique clock on the first floor of the......
The Ethicators
Short Story
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简介： The missionaries came out of the planetary system of a star they didn't call Antares. They......
The Patriot
Short Story
共章
简介： The Martianne is heard occasionally these days as a stirring concert or band selection. But......
Through the Fray
Short Story
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简介： It has just struck one, and the boys are streaming out from the schoolroom of Mr. Hathorn's......
Among Malay Pirates
Short Story
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简介： I wish most heartily that something would happen, Harry Parkhurst, a midshipman of some......
In the Reign of Terror
Short Story
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简介： This time only a few words are needed, for the story speaks for itself. My object has been......
The Bravest of the Brave
Short Story
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简介： He is an idle vagabond! the mayor of the good town of Southampton said, in high wratha ne'er......
By Sheer Pluck
Short Story
共章
简介： Now, Hargate, what a fellow you are! I've been looking for you everywhere. Don't you know......
Jack Archer
Short Story
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简介： The first day of term cannot be considered a cheerful occasion. As the boys arrive on the......
The Cornet of Horse
Short Story
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简介： One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four--turn to your lady; one, two, three, four--now......
Nacha Regules
Short Story
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简介： An August night! Hot with the fever of her adolescence as a national capital, Buenos Aires......
The Queen's Cup
Short Story
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简介： A large party were assembled in the drawing room of Greendale, Sir John Greendale's......
The Lion of the North
Short Story
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简介： You are nowadays called upon to acquire so great a mass of learning and information in the......
Redskin and Cow-Boy
Short Story
共章
简介： Cedar Gulch was, in 1851, a flourishing camp. There had been some good finds by the first......
With Roberts to Pretoria
Short Story
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简介： The war in South Africa may be roughly divided into three parts. First, The desperate......
In Greek Waters
Short Story
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简介： HE people of the little fishing village of Seaport were agreed on one subject, however much......
The Dash for Khartoum
Short Story
共章
简介： The story of the Nile Expedition is so recent that no word of introduction is necessary to......
The Tiger of Mysore
Short Story
共章
简介： While some of our wars in India are open to the charge that they were undertaken on slight......
With Kitchener in the Soudan
Short Story
共章
简介： The reconquest of the Soudan will ever be mentioned as one of the most difficult, and at the......
Saint Bartholomew's Eve
Short Story
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简介： In the year 1567 there were few towns in the southern counties of England that did not......
Orange and Green
Short Story
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简介： The subject of Ireland is one which has, for some years, been a very prominent one, and is......
In the Irish Brigade
Short Story
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简介： The evils arising from religious persecution, sectarian hatred, ill government, and......
Tales of Daring and Danger
Short Story
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简介： A merry party were sitting in the verandah of one of the largest and handsomest bungalows of......
The Cat of Bubastes
Short Story
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简介： The sun was blazing down upon a city on the western shore of the Caspian. It was a primitive......
The Treasure of the Incas
Short Story
共章
简介： Two men were sitting in the smoking-room of a London club. The room was almost empty, and as......
Yule Logs
Short Story
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简介： It was a grand success. Every one said so; and moreover, every one who witnessed the......
With Frederick the Great
Short Story
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简介： It was early in 1756 that a Scottish trader, from Edinburgh, entered the port of Stettin.......
Both Sides the Border
Short Story
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简介： A lad was standing on the little lookout turret, on the top of a border fortalice. The place......
By Pike and Dyke
Short Story
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简介： Rotherhithe in the year of 1572 differed very widely from the Rotherhithe of today. It was......
A Girl of the Commune
Short Story
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简介： Jeremiah Brander was one of the most prominent personages in the Cathedral town of......
With Moore at Corunna
Short Story
共章
简介： From the termination of the campaigns of Marlborough--at which time the British army won for......
When London Burned
Short Story
共章
简介： Lad stood looking out of the dormer window in a scantily furnished attic in the high-pitched......
By Right of Conquest
Short Story
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简介： On March 3rd, 1516, the trading vessel the Swan dropped anchor at Plymouth. She would in our......
A Final Reckoning
Short Story
共章
简介： In this tale I have left the battlefields of history, and have written a story of adventure......
Winning His Spurs
Short Story
共章
简介： It was a bright morning in the month of August, when a lad of some fifteen years of age,......
Maori and Settler
Short Story
共章
简介： WELL, mother, one thing is certainsomething has got to be done. It is no use crying over......
The Young Buglers
Short Story
共章
简介： Had any of the boys in the lower forms of Eton in the year 1808, been asked who were the......
On the Irrawaddy
Short Story
共章
简介： A party was assembled in a room of an hotel in Calcutta, at the end of the year 1822. It......
The Young Franc Tireurs
Short Story
共章
简介： The usually quiet old town of Dijon was in a state of excitement. There were groups of......
A March on London
Short Story
共章
简介： The events that took place during the latter half of the fourteenth century and the first......
All But Lost
Short Story
共章
简介： It is near the end of the Lent term at Cambridge, a raw, damp day. The grey clouds are......
Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
Short Story
共章
简介： CRIPPLE boy was sitting in a box on four low wheels, in a little room in a small street in......
At Aboukir and Acre
Short Story
共章
简介： Two lads were standing in one of the bastions of a fort looking over the sea. There were......
A Soldier's Daughter
Short Story
共章
简介： On the North-West frontier of India stood the little fort of Darlinger. It had been erected......
Dorothy's Double
Short Story
共章
简介： A dark night on the banks of the Thames; the south-west wind, heavily charged with sleet,......
A Chapter of Adventures
Short Story
共章
简介： Of the tens of thousands of excursionists who every summer travel down by rail to Southend,......
Sturdy and Strong
Short Story
共章
简介： hatever may be said as to distinction of classes in England, it is certain that in no......
Facing Death
Short Story
共章
简介： A row of brick-built houses with slate roofs, at the edge of a large mining village in......
The Young Colonists
Short Story
共章
简介： As a rule the minor wars in which this country has been from time to time engaged, have been......
The Young Colonists
Short Story
共章
简介： As a rule the minor wars in which this country has been from time to time engaged, have been......
For Name and Fame
Short Story
共章
简介： In following the hero of this story through the last Afghan war, you will be improving your......
Out on the Pampas
Short Story
共章
简介： Well, my dear, I was thinking of a good many things. In the first place, I think, I began......
The Boy Knight
Short Story
共章
简介： It was a bright morning in the month of August, when a lad of some fifteen years of age,......
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche
Short Story
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简介： The Emperor Charlemagne and his twelve peers, having taken the palmers staff at Saint-Denis,......
The White Stone
Short Story
共章
简介： FEW Frenchmen, united in friendship, who were spending the spring in Rome, were wont to meet......
The Wicker Work Woman
Short Story
共章
简介： M. Bergeret was preparing his lesson on the eighth book of the ?neid, and he ought to have......
Black Rebellion
Short Story
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简介： The Maroons! it was a word of peril once; and terror spread along the skirts of the blue......
Malbone
Short Story
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简介： IT was one of the changing days of our Oldport midsummer. In the morning it had rained in......
Oldport Days
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简介： Our August life rushes by, in Oldport, as if we were all shot from the mouth of a cannon,......
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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简介： The death of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made the first breach in that well-known group of......
Women and the Alphabet
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简介： Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon's mighty projects......
Army Life in a Black Regiment
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简介： These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first......
In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers
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简介： It was late in the evening at San Diego, in the autumn of the year 1832; there was no moon,......
Beyond the Black Waters
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简介： Youll see it, Mr. Lawrence, youll see iteverything will be changed in England now that the......
When Wilderness was King
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简介： S URELY it was no longer ago than yesterday. I had left the scythe lying at the edge of the......
Routine for a Hornet
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简介： Alarm bells filled the wardroom, screaming off the metal walls and filling the room with......
Why Crime Does Not Pay
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简介： The publishers believe that a picture of life sketched by a master handsomebody who stands......
Bygones Worth Remembering
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简介： It was a saying of Dryden that Anything, though ever so little, which a man speaks of......
Shasta of the Wolves
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简介： It was the old she-wolf Nitka that came running lightly along the dusk. Though she had a......
The Limits Of Atheism
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简介： The object of these pages* is not to defend the intellectual accuracy of Atheism (which......
The History of Court Fools
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简介： In the days of old, it happened that all Olympus was dull, and Zeus complained, yawning the......
The Story Of The Duchess Of Cicogne And Of Monsieur De Boulingrin
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简介： THE story of the Sleeping Beauty is well known; we have excellent accounts of it, both in......
The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard
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简介： THE strangest, the most varied, the most erroneous opinions have been expressed with regard......
To Herat and Cabul
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简介： ON the 20th of September, 1837, a lad was standing before Mr. M'Neill, the British minister......
With Buller in Natal
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简介： A group of excited men were gathered in front of the Stock Exchange at Johannesburg. It was......
With Clive in India
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简介： In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a vivid picture of the wonderful events of......
Under Wellington's Command
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简介： As many boys into whose hands the present volume may fall will not have read my last year's......
Held Fast For England
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简介： The Siege of Gibraltar stands almost alone in the annals of warfare, alike in its duration......
A Roving Commission
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简介： drop that, Curtis, you know very well that I won't have it. I can't help having such a beast......
At Agincourt
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简介： The long and bloody feud between the houses of Orleans and Burgundywhich for many years......
For the Temple
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简介： In all history, there is no drama of more terrible interest than that which terminated with......
Through Three Campaigns
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简介： Well, Lisle, my boy, the time is drawing very near when you will have to go home. My brother......
The Lost Heir
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简介： A number of soldiers were standing in the road near the bungalow of Brigadier-General......
The Curse of Carne's Hold
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简介： There was nothing about Carne's Hold that would have suggested to the mind of the passing......
No Surrender!
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简介： Some half a mile back from the sea, near the point where the low line of sandy hill is......
Under Drake's Flag
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简介： It was a Stormy morning in the month of May, 1572; and the fishermen of the little village......
A Search For A Secret
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简介： There are towns over which time seems to exercise but little power, but to have passed them......
Out with Garibaldi
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简介： ON April 29th, 1849, two men were seated in a room whose open windows commanded a view down......
By Conduct and Courage
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简介： A wandering musician was a rarity in the village of Scarcombe. In fact, such a thing had not......
In the Heart of the Rockies
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简介： I can be of no use here, Carry. What am I good for? Why, I could not earn money enough to......
Through Russian Snows
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简介： When Colonel Wyatt died, all Weymouth agreed that it was a most unfortunate thing for his......
With the Allies to Pekin
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简介： The campaign which ended with the relief of the Pekin Legations is unique in its way,......
Condemned as a Nihilist
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简介： HALF a dozen boys were gathered in one of the studies at Shrewsbury. A packed portmanteau......
Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England
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简介： Twenty years ago the Hallelujah Band spread itself far and wide, but soon spent itself like......
Tales From a Rolltop Desk
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简介： LESTER VALIANT came back from Oxford with the degree of B. Litt., some unpaid tailors'......
Pipefuls
Short Story
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简介： Considering that most friendships are made by mere hazard, how is it that men find......
Plum Pudding
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简介： On Christmas Eve, while the Perfect Reader sits in his armchair immersed in a bookso......
Shandygaff
Short Story
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简介： Kenneth Stockton was a man of letters, and correspondingly poor. He was the literary editor......
Mince Pie
Short Story
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简介： Those who buy their ink in little stone jugs may prefer to do so because the pottle reminds......
The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England
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简介： That day is chilled in my memory when I first set out for Cheltenham. It was in December......
The Principles Of Secularism
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简介： When persons for the first time look upon the world of politics or religion, all that they......
A Logic Of Facts
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简介： It is a humiliating reflection that mankind never reasoned so ill as when they most......
A Little Knowledge
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简介： Even with modern conveniences, Caesar could never have staged such a triumph, and in the......
Arrows of Freethought
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简介： The Archbishop of York is peculiarly qualified to speak on religion and progress. His form......
Change Signals
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简介： The Banjo and Mandolin Club, huddled together on the right of the platform in Assembly Hall,......
The Book Of God
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简介： During the fierce controversy between the divines of the Protestant Reformation and those of......
But the Patient Lived
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简介： Dr. Needzak motioned the patient to a chair. Stallings sat down, slowly but limberly. He......
Kathleen
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简介： The Scorpions were to meet at eight o'clock and before that hour Kenneth Forbes had to......
Parnassus on Wheels
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简介： I wonder if there isn't a lot of bunkum in higher education? I never found that people who......
Where the Blue Begins
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简介： Gissing lived alone (except for his Japanese butler) in a little house in the country, in......
The Haunted Bookshop
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简介： If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of......
The Golden Bough
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简介： When I originally conceived the idea of the work, of which the first part is now laid before......
A Florida Sketch-Book
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简介： In approaching Jacksonville by rail, the traveler rides hour after hour through seemingly......
They Call Me Carpenter
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简介： The beginning of this strange adventure was my going to see a motion picture which had been......
A Cadet's Honor
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简介： The whole class came to the meeting. There hadn't been such an important meeting at West......
100%: The Story of a Patriot
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简介： Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the......
Flowers of Freethought
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简介： This gentleman is of very ancient descent. His lineage dwarfs that of the proudest nobles......
Gudrun
Short Story
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简介： There once lived in Denmark a mighty King named Hetel, whose fame spread far and wide. His......
Prisoner for Blasphemy
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简介： This little volume tells a strange and painful story; strange, because the experiences of a......
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh
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简介： When I came to London, in January, 1868, I was eighteen years of age. I had plenty of health......
Satires And Profanities
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简介： Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has......
Bible Romances
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简介： The Book of Genesis is generally thought, as Professor Huxley says, to contain the beginning......
Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works
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简介： He would be a bold person who should attempt to say something entirely new on Voltaire. His......
Jimmie Higgins
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简介： And Jimmie set down the saucer of hot coffee which he was in the act of adjusting to his......
King Coal
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简介： The town of Pedro stood on the edge of the mountain country; a straggling assemblage of......
Love's Pilgrimage
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简介： It was the Highway of Lost Men. They shivered, and drew their shoulders together as they......
The Man
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简介： Stephen Norman of Normanstand had remained a bachelor until close on middle age, when the......
The Metropolis
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简介： Montague gazed about him, and found himself trembling just a little with anticipation. It......
The Book of Life
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简介： The writer of this book has been in this world some forty-two years. That may not seem long......
The Moneychangers
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简介： Allan Montague had been in love with Lucy a half a dozen times in his life; it had begun......
The Mystery of the Sea
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简介： I HAD just arrived at Cruden Bay on my annual visit, and after a late breakfast was sitting......
A Captain of Industry
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简介： I purpose in this chronicle to tell the story of A Civilized Man: casting aside all Dreams......
The Profits of Religion
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简介： It is a vision I have seen: upon a vast plain, men and women are gathered in dense throngs,......
Dracula's Guest
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简介： He crossed himself, as he answered laconically: 'Walpurgis nacht.' Then he took out his......
On Guard
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简介： The speaker was a tall, handsome lad, a plebe at the West Point Military Academy. At the......
Samuel the Seeker
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简介： He had written these words upon the little picture of Samuel's mother, which hung in that......
Sylvia's Marriage
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简介： I am telling the story of Sylvia Castleman. I should prefer to tell it without mention of......
Famous Impostors
Short Story
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简介： The subject of imposture is always an interesting one, and impostors in one shape or another......
The Jewel of Seven Stars
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简介： It all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet......
The Life or Legend of Gaudama
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简介： Buddha, being seventy-nine years old, delivers instructions to the RahansPreachings in the......
King Midas
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简介： It was that time of year when all the world belongs to poets, for their harvest of joy; when......
King Coal
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简介： Upton Sinclair is one of the not too many writers who have consecrated their lives to the......
The Plague of the Heart
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简介： Have you heard, Captain Terrington? cried the girl gaily. There's to be a Durbar after all!......
The Footpath Way
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简介： So long as man does not bother about what he is or whence he came or whither he is going,......
With Carson and Frémont
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简介： The trail journals of the first two government exploring expeditions commanded by Lieutenant......
The Dragon in Shallow Waters
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简介： An immense gallery, five hundred feet long, occupied the upper floor of the main......
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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简介： Yet, be it noticed, if you are a stranger, you will not readily [Pg xi] get ghost and fairy......
Bealby; A Holiday
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简介： The cat is the offspring of a cat and the dog of a dog, but butlers and ladys maids do not......
The Black Police
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简介： STAR! Ev-en Star! Full account o the fi-re! echoes shrilly on all sides from the throats of......
Convict B14
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简介： When men shall say, Peace, and all things are safe, then shall sudden destruction come upon......
Damaged Goods
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简介： DAMAGED GOODS was first presented in America at a Friday matinee on March 14th, 1913, in the......
A Prisoner of Morro
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简介： Her commander was Lieutenant Raymond, and her junior officer Naval Cadet Clifford Faraday.......
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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简介： 1. I learned from my grandfather, Verus, to use good manners, and to put restraint on anger.......
Meditations
Short Story
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简介： MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus,......
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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简介： Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road......
Chamber Music
Short Story
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简介： Strings in the earth and airMake music sweet;Strings by the river whereThe willows meet.......
Dubliners
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简介： There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed......
Tacitus on Germany
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简介： The dates of the birth and death of Tacitus are uncertain, but it is probable that he was......
Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians
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简介： I HAVE often wished, says Warburton in a letter to Dr. Forster, October 15, 1749, for a hand......
The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus
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简介： I am going to offer to the publick the Translation of a work, which, for wisdom and force,......
Irish Fairy Tales
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简介： I am often doubted when I say that the Irish peasantry still believe in fairies. People......
The Lake Mystery
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简介： THE Dresden clock on the mantel struck twelve in soft, slow, golden notes. As the gentle......
Our Den
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简介： I was reading, as I generally was in those days, but the word savages made me look up. It......
The Tariff in our Times
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简介： It takes no extended examination of any period in the last fifty yearsthe term covered by......
The String of Pearls
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简介： The Romance of The String of Pearls having excited in the Literary world an almost......
The Executor
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简介： It was the most extraordinary of speeches, considering the circumstances and place in which......
French and German Socialism in Modern Times
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简介： The publication of this volume is due to the friendly counsel of the Hon. Andrew D. White,......
Brainchild
Short Story
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简介： For one thing, the legs he swung off the narrow bed wouldn't touch the floor. And his hands,......
Tom Slade with the Flying Corps
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简介： Tells briefly of the extraordinary episode which ended his service in the Flying Corps, and......
The Markenmore Mystery
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简介： Braxfield, who had been butler to Sir Anthony Markenmore, Baronet, of Markenmore Court, for......
Merrimeg
Short Story
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简介： Sometimes she was good, and sometimes she was naughty. But she was always merry.One morning......
Tacitus: The Histories
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简介： Tacitus held the consulship under Nerva in the year 97. At this point he closed his public......
Charlemagne
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简介： It was at Ingelheim[1] on the Rhine that Charlemagne usually established his court during......
The Evening Post
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简介： This volume took its origin in the writers belief that a history of the Evening Post would......
The Declaration of Independence
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简介： It is a matter of regret to me that other engagements have compelled my absence from your......
Harold the Klansman
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简介： The purpose of the author in writing this story is to furnish the public with reliable......
The Able McLaughlins
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简介： THE prairie lay that afternoon as it had lain for centuries of September afternoons, vast as......
Hunting Reminiscences
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简介： I AM asked to begin with some reminiscences of the Cambridge University Drag and of the......
The Golden Book of Springfield
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简介： In this, our town, we call New Springfield, David Carson, a young minister of the Disciples......
The Silver Arrow
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简介： And so it happened that Sir Walter Raleigh, the graceful, the gracious, the generous, had......
The Sword of the King
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简介： It is matter of no small difficulty and hesitation for a woman to tell a storyin especial,......
Around the End
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简介： Coach Payson sent the call to each end of the field and then, swinging his small blue......
The Four Stragglers
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简介： The crash of guns. A flare across the heavens. Battle. Dismay. Death. A night of chaos.And......
The Story of a Governess
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简介： Janet Summerhayes did not start in life with the feelings usually attributed to the young......
The Little Gods
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简介： For the life of me, as I was sitting here this sunny, late-October morning, I could not......
The Riviera of the Corniche Road
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简介： This book deals with that part of the French Riviera which is commanded by the Great......
The Return of Clubfoot
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简介： As I was sitting on the verandah of John Bard's bungalow, glancing through a two-month old......
The Mudlarks
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简介： When I was young, my parents sent me to a boarding school, not in any hopes of getting me......
Natalie Page
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简介： I think it is strange how the scenes surrounding big events stay in your memory. And......
Changeling and Other Stories
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简介： When it comes to the publishing of books, people are always pessimistic, and, in my case,......
The Cask
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简介： Mr. Avery, managing director of the Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company, had......
A Young Hero
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简介： A fight! A fight! Form a ring! A dozen or more excited boys shouted these words, and,......
Stories of the Cave People
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简介： No man or woman can begin to intelligently interpret the causes of social phenomena and......
The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences
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简介： IN the Mile End Road, opposite to the London Hospital, there was (and possibly still is) a......
Pep: The Story of a Brave Dog
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简介： IT is almost like a stern irony of fate, that mans faithful, gentle friend, the dog, should......
Black Sheep
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简介： The polite porter who had made the inquiry, and the satirical station-master who had......
Operation Boomerang
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简介： Wade Boeman let his eyes wander up the hull of the huge silver ship. He thought; if only......
The Lay of the Nibelung Men
Short Story
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简介： If we accept as our definition of an Epic:(a) A long poem, (b) of an interest not less than......
My Young Master
Short Story
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简介： This is the story of a master, told by his slave. As I sit now, after the flight of so many......
Our union and its Defenders
Short Story
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简介： In the ways of Providence, there is always fitness in the smallest as in the greatest......
Stories of Red Hanrahan
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简介： Hanrahan, the hedge schoolmaster, a tall, strong, red-haired young man, came into the barn......
The Charing Cross Mystery
Short Story
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简介： Hetherwick had dined that evening with friends who lived in Cadogan Gardens, and had stayed......
American Indian life
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简介： She always says she will come, and sometimes she comes and sometimes she doesnt come. I was......
The Whites and the Blues
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简介： In the preface of The Companions of Jehu I told why that romance had been written; and those......
The Yellow Poppy
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简介： I wish I had been taught how to make a bed! complained Roland de Cligny, as he wrestled with......
The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
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简介： In our heart of hearts--which we in England take almost as much pains to hide from ourselves......
The Science of Getting Rich
Short Story
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简介： This book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not a treatise upon......
Looking Back
Short Story
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简介： The principal excuse for this attempt to bring the reminiscences of a very unimportant......
A New Witness for God
Short Story
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简介： Three quarters of a century have passed away since Joseph Smith first declared that he had......
The Science of Getting Rich
Short Story
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简介： This book is pragmatical, not philosophical; a practical manual, not a treatise upon......
The Rock Ahead.
Short Story
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简介： Hot in Brighton, very hot. The August sun reflected off white-chalk cliff and red-brick......
History of the Conquest of Mexico
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简介： WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT was born in Salem, Massachusetts, May 4, 1796. He died in Boston,......
Argentina and Her People of To-day
Short Story
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简介： The Spaniards who first visited the coast of Argentina, and sailed up the broad and imposing......
The Impostor
Short Story
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简介： Martha Stirling came slowly down the steps into the garden, pausing for a moment, on each......
Halfway House
Short Story
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简介： It was when Mr. John Germain, a gentleman of fifty, and of fine landed estate in Berkshead......
The Open Window
Short Story
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简介： When Christmas has passed it is useless to make believe that it is not winter, even if the......
The Truth About Port Arthur
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简介： The siege of Port Arthur was the event of the late war in the Far East which most attracted......
The Old Printer and the Modern Press
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简介： The Weald of KentCaxton's School-daysFrench disusedEnglish taughtVariations in EnglishBooks......
On Angel's Wings
Short Story
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简介： Every one knew little Violet. She sat always in a small window which projected out over the......
Harper's Round Table, November 24, 1896
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简介： The Editor of the Round Table has asked me to relate some incident of my life which may be......
The Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet
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简介： Joseph and Hyrum are now dead; but like the first martyr they yet speak. Their united voice......
Handicaps of Childhood
Short Story
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简介： It is my hope that this book will be read as a companion-volume to Psychology and......
Birds in the Calendar
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简介： AS birds are to be considered throughout these pages from any standpoint but that of sport,......
In Nesting Time
Short Story
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简介： Ears have they, but they hear not, may be said of all the world. Tragedies and comedies go......
Bird Stories
Short Story
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简介： Right in the very heart of Christmas-tree Land there was a forest of firs that pointed to......
The Up Grade
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简介： Stephen Loring sat on the edge of the sidewalk, his feet in the gutter. He was staring......
Textile Fabrics
Short Story
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简介： Under its widest acceptation the word textile means every kind of stuff, no matter its......
Miss Meredith
Short Story
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简介： It was about a week after Christmas, and wemy mother, my two sisters, and myselfwere......
Luck on the Wing
Short Story
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简介： If any one should be interested enough to inquire as to the reason for my becoming a sky......
The Dreadnought Boys' World Cruise
Short Story
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简介： Dont be any thicker than you have to, laughed Ned Strong. The Golden Gate is the poetical......
Cuba and Her People of To-day
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简介： If a line were drawn directly south from Pittsburg it would almost pass through the middle......
The Curious Book of Birds
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简介： There are many books written nowadays which will tell you about birds as folk of the......