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Category： Author：Theodore Winthrop
The author did not live to revise the original draft of “Mr. Waddy’s Return,” and therefore, when his other novels were published, shortly after his death, this one was not included. On looking it over again, after the lapse of years, it seemed to his sister, Miss Elizabeth W. Winthrop, too good to let die; and it was placed in the ha...
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Category： Author：novel
I placed a whisky and soda before the Rev. J. D. Eltham, also sliding the tobacco jar nearer to his hand. The refined and sensitive face of the clergy-man offered no indication of the truculent character of the man. His scanty fair hair, already gray over the temples, was silken and soft-looking; in appearance he was indeed a typ...
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As I was sitting on the verandah of John Bard's bungalow, glancing through a two-month old copy of The Sketch, I heard the clang of the iron gate below where I sat. I raised my eyes from the paper and looked down the gardens. At my feet was stretched a dark tangle of palms and luxuriant tropical verdure, beyond them in the distan...
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A limitless expanse of opal sea, calm and unruffled, reflecting the crimson and gold of the sky, as the sun went down behind pine woods and moors. A clear-cut line of cliffs, rising sheer from the stretch of golden sands.
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ZEKE TISDALE was the father of Company F. Not that this title had ever been formally conferred upon him, or even recognized in terms, but everybody understood about it. Sometimes Company F was for whole days together exceedingly proud of the relation—but alas! more often it viewed its parent with impatient levity, not to say contempt. ...
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\"Stephen K. Lepper, Pork-Packing Prince, from Chicago, U. S. A., by White Star Line, for Liverpool.\" Such was the announcement with which the Chicago Central Advertiser made beautiful its list of arrivals and departures.
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Category： Author：novel
It is generally supposed that people who live at home,—good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever warm,—it is generally supposed that these are the people who value home the most, and best appreciate all the comforts of that cherished institution. I am inclined to doubt this. It...
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\"Oh, nothing at all, my dear,\" replied the countess, a slight flush momentarily coloring her already pink cheek. \"I was but recalling with admiration those stupendous skyscrapers, as they call them, of New York,\" and the fair countess settled herself more comfortably in her steamer chair, and resumed the magazine which \"nothing a...
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This book was written through the inspirational spirit of the well-known writer, Samuel L. Clemens—“Mark Twain.” As I have never before written a book, the reader will see that I have had help from an unseen force—from the Spirit World.
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Category： Author：Arthur Conan Doyle
"The spring of 1894, the London for the honorable Ronald idel is very unusual and mysterious murder extremely concerned, upper-class people more so lose heart. The general public have been informed by the police investigation results the characteristics of the crime, but there are still many content at the time the truth hidden and not...
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