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Category： Author：H. Rider Haggard
The character Quatermain is an English-born professional big game hunter and occasional trader in southern Africa. He supports colonial efforts to spread civilization in the Dark Continent, and he also favours native Africans' having a say in their affairs. Quatermain is an imperial outdoorsman who finds English cities and climate unb...
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Category： Author：novel
Few Englishmen or Englishwomen are intimately acquainted with the little town of Le Puy. It is the capital of the old province of Le Velay, which also is now but little known, even to French ears, for it is in these days called by the imperial name of the Department of the Haute Loire. It is to the south-east of Auvergne, and is nea...
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Category： Author：novel
IN the hope of making the following sketches of more general interest, it will be as well to review as concisely as possible the progress of Monasticism in connection with the Church from the earliest times, and to renew our acquaintance with the history of the early British Church during those years previous to the coming of St August...
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Category： Author：D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯
Lawrence (1885-1930) is the twentieth century Britain's most unique and one of the most controversial writers. He was born in Nottingham, a miner family twenty-one years old when studying at the university of Nottingham, lifetime wrote more than forty novels, poetry, travel and works. "Rainbow" (1915) as one of the most famous work, La...
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Category： Author：novel
Michael Strogoff, a 30-year-old native of Omsk, is a courier for Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The Tartar Khan (prince), Feofar Khan, incites a rebellion and separates the Russian Far East from the mainland, severing telegraph lines. Rebels encircle Irkutsk, where the local governor, a brother of the Tsar, is making a last stand. Strogo...
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Category： Author：Geor
Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair (Eric Arthur Blair), born in 1903 in India. In 1907, he moved back to England. In 1917, he entered the eton. 1921 years later came to Burma joined Indianimperial Police, resigned in 1928. Here in the coming days he was poor and sick, he worked as a teacher, a store clerk, until 1940, he became NewEngli...
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Category： Author：Anthony Trollope
Up among the Vosges mountains in Lorraine, but just outside the old half-German province of Alsace, about thirty miles distant from the new and thoroughly French baths of Plombieres, there lies the village of Granpere. Whatever may be said or thought here in England of the late imperial rule in France, it must at any rate be admitted t...
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Category： Author：novel
Alexander Sergeyevich Poushkin (1799-1837) was a Russian Romantic author who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin pioneered the use of vernacular speech in his poems and plays, creating a style of storytelling-mixing drama, romance, and satire-associated with Russian litera...
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Category： Author：Geor
George Orwell formerly known as Eric Arthur Blair (Eric Arthur Blair), born in 1903 in India. In 1907 he moved with her back to England. In 1917, he entered the eton. 1921 years later came to Burma to join Indianimperial Police, 1928 to resign. In the coming days he poor and sick, during which he worked as a teacher, book store clerk,...
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Category： Author：Harold Bell Wright
While this story is not in any way a history of this part of the Colorado Desert now known as the Imperial Valley, nor a biography of anyone connected with this splendid achievement, I must in honesty admit that this work which in the past ten years has transformed a vast, desolate waste into a beautiful land of homes, cities, and farm...
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