The Half-Hearted
Category: Author:John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category: Author:John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category: Author:novel
A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady.
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Category: Author:Charles Reade
It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned priest, and Margaret Brandt, the daughter of a poor scholar, and reflects the conflict between family and church which overshadowed the lives of so many in medieval times.
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Category: Author:Reginald Horsley
Reginald Horsley《The Blue Balloon》:A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley
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Category: Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I CALL it an old town, but it is only relatively old.
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Category: Author:Levi Parker Wyman
“I’ll have it in a jiffy, Bob. The wire’s come unsoldered and I’ve got to fix it but it won’t take but a minute.”
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Category: Author:Reginald Horsley
Reginald Horsley《The Blue Balloon》:A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
There is a dividing ridge in the great northern wilderness of America, whereon lies a lakelet of not more than twenty yards in diameter. It is of crystal clearness and profound depth, and on the still evenings of the Indian summer its surface forms a perfect mirror, which might serve as a toilet-glass for a Redskin princess.
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Category: Author:novel
Though it is said that the South "robbed the 6 cradle and the grave" to recruit the armies of the Confederacy, it is as true that young and old in the North went forth in their zeal to "Stand by the union," and that many and many a young soldier and sailor who had not yet seen twenty summers endured the h...
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Category: Author:novel
Before embarking upon his later career of infamy, he was, in the beginning, very well known as a reputable merchant in the island of Jamaica. Thence entering, first of all, upon the business of the African trade, he presently, by regular degrees, became a pirate, and finally ended his career as one of the most renowned freebooters of h...
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