Category： Short Stories Author：Nikolai Gogol
The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property on ...
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Category： Short Stories Author：Herman Melville
Melville in 1891 died, YiZuo sailor Billy budd hiding in a iron box. Thirty years later was a scholar found. The tin box after editing manuscripts published after finishing in the reader intermediate quickly get to the high praise, represented his, E.M. foster praised classics, is known as "American literature masterpieces" 。 Kn...
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Category： Short Stories Author：Sir Walter Scott
Sir Edward Mauley is "The Black Dwarf," a character based on a very real man of Scott's acquaintance. Mauley becomes involved in the quarrel of a friend -- and, when imprisoned for his actions in that quarrel, finds himself betrayed by the very man in whose cause he lost his liberty. When free, he goes to Mucklestane Moor, where his ex...
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Category： Short Stories Author：John Buchan
Peter Pentecost, from his eyrie among the hazels, looked down on the King’s highway as it dipped from Stowood through the narrow pass to the Wood Eaton meadows. It was a King’s highway beyond question, for it was the main road from London to Worcester and the west for those who did not wish to make Oxford a halting-place; but it was a ...
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Category： Short Stories Author：novel
With each turn of the page in The Petting Zoo, children are introduced to a different animal and are invited to ruffle the flamingo's pretty feathers; to feel the giraffe's velvety horn; to pat the baby penguin's soft, fuzzy belly; to slide a finger along the tiger's rough, sandpapery tongue, and to investigate the look and feel of...
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