The Half-Hearted
Category： Author：John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category： Author：John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category： Author：Charles Reade
It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned priest, and Margaret Brandt, the daughter of a poor scholar, and reflects the conflict between family and church which overshadowed the lives of so many in medieval times.
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No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another. Mrs. McFarland was attending the weekly card party held by the Women's Anti-Gambling League. Sister Nell's young man had called quite unexpectedly to take her for a long drive. Papa was at the office, as...
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Category： Author：novel
The aim of this book is best exhibited by describing its origin. I am, and have been since early manhood, an editor of newspapers, magazines and books, and a critic of the last named. These occupations have forced me into a pretty wide familiarity with current literature, both periodical and within covers, and in particular into a fam...
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“This old Greek powerboat seems to be making pretty fair time, isn’t it, Amos?”
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When the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., went into the wholesale raising of silver foxes for a world market, its two partners brought to the enterprise a comfortable working capital and an uncomfortable ignorance of the brain-reactions of a fox.
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"I can be of no use here, Carry. What am I good for? Why, I could not earn money enough to pay for my own food, even if we knew anyone who would help me to get a clerkship. I am too young for it yet. I would rather go before the mast than take a place in a shop. I am too young even to enlist. I know just about as much as oth...
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"Have you heard, Captain Terrington?" cried the girl gaily. "There's to be a Durbar after all! So you were wrong. It's to be in the Palace too, that you were so set against, and Lewis and Mr. Langford are going with Sir Colvin, and just the littlest guard of honour for the look of the thing. Sir Colvin says the gre...
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Category： Author：novel
“She always says she will come, and sometimes she comes and sometimes she doesn’t come. I was so surprised when I first came out here to find that Indians were like that,” the wife of the Presbyterian Missionary in an Indian town in New Mexico was speaking, as you readily infer, on her servant question. “...
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Category： Author：Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
货运工约翰的妻子、善良的主妇多特相信，壁炉边的蟋蟀是捍卫自家家宅的小小神灵。这是一桩不被看好的婚姻，靠运货为生的约翰比多特要年长许多，他粗壮笨拙，多特则娇小可爱，朋友们围绕在多特身边，大家虽皆不富足，却因为拥有多特这样特殊的朋友，在团聚时充满欢声笑语、气氛其乐融融。然而，就在这时，一位不速之客的到来打破了这对夫妻看似平静的普通人...
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