Jean-Christophe
Category: Author:Romain Rolland罗曼·罗兰
"Jean-Christophe" is the history of the development of a musician of genius.
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Category: Author:Romain Rolland罗曼·罗兰
"Jean-Christophe" is the history of the development of a musician of genius.
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Category: Author:novel
The lord and king thereof was a stark man, and so great a warrior that in his youth he took no delight in aught else save battle and tourneys. But when he was hard on forty years old, he came across a daughter of a certain lord, whom he had vanquished, and his eyes bewrayed him into longing, so that he gave back to the said lord ...
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Category: Author:novel
The two boats fastened to the little pier that jutted out from the garden lay rocking in its shadow. Here and there lighted windows showed through the thick mist on the margins of the lake. The Enghien Casino opposite blazed with light, though it was late in the season, the end of September. A few stars appeared through the cloud...
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Category: Author:novel
A wet Sunday--dreary, dismal, and infinitely sloppy. Even the bells ringing the people into evening service seemed to feel the depressing influence of the weather, and their brazen voices sounded hoarse and grumbling, as if they rang under protest. Cold, too!--not a brisk sharp frost--for here in Melbourne frost and snow are unknown; b...
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Category: Author:Edward Everett Hale
This book contains a life of Columbus, written with the hope ofinteresting all classes of readers. His life has often been written, and it has sometimes been well written. The great book of our countryman, Washington Irving, is a noble model ofdiligent work given to a very difficult subject. And I think every personwho ha...
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