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Category: Author:Victor Appleton
Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure
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Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure
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Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
This is Bennett's first novel, the story of a young man from the north of England who arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has aspirations of becoming a writer. This young man is easily distracted though and one wonders if he will ever write that first novel.
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Category: Author:Booth Tarkington布思·塔金顿
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation.
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Category: Author:Helen Hunt Jackson海伦·亨特·杰克逊
They were written when I was a very little girl, and was away from home with my father on a journey.
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Category: Author:Burton Egbert Stevenson
The book was originally published under the title of Little Comrade. It has been changed to The Girl from Alsace, as the publishers considered that name as better descriptive of the character of the story.
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Category: Author:Samuel Leech
Were it not that the most common of all inquiries, respecting every man who comes before the public, is, “who is he? whence did he proceed? who were his parents?” &c., I would not detain the reader with any account of my humble ancestors and their circumstances. But, since men naturally expect this information, and would hence conside...
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Category: Author:J. M. Barrie
One still Saturday afternoon some years ago a child pulled herself through a small window into a kitchen in the kirk-wynd of Thrums. She came from the old graveyard, whose only outlet, when the parish church gate is locked, is the windows of the wynd houses that hoop it round.
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Category: Author:novel
The narratives composing this book are literally true stories of crime. In a majority of the cases the author conducted the prosecutions himself, and therefore may claim to have a personal knowledge of that whereof he speaks. While no confidence has been abused, no essential facts have been omitted, distorted, or colored, and the...
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Once, when I was making an official visit to the South of Spain with my brother (who was then King), we were told of a gentleman of the Province of Sevilla who had had a talking parrot sent to him from South America; and this parrot had been taught to say “Viva la Reina!”—that is, “Long live the Queen!” But soon after its arrival in S...
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Up until the moment when he first looked into Hippolyte Adolphe Taine's History of English Literature, Herbert Quidley's penchant for old books had netted him nothing in the way of romance and intrigue. Not that he was a stranger to either.
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