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I originally called this book “What is Wrong,” and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social
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I originally called this book “What is Wrong,” and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social
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Year by year the old black tribes are dying out, and many of their legends and beliefs are dying with them. These legends deal with the world as the blacks knew it; with the Bush animals and birds; the powers of storm, flood, fire, thunder, and magic, and the beings who they thought controlled these powers; with the sun, moon and stars...
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‘There is a pleasure in painting which none but painters know.’ In writing, you have to contend with the world; in painting, you have only to carry on a friendly strife with Nature. You sit down to your task, and are happy. From the moment that you take up the pencil, and look Nature in the face, you are at peace with your own heart. N...
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Category: Author:George Gissing 乔治·吉辛
The Nether World (1889) is a novel written by the English author George Gissing. The plot concerns several poor families living in the slums of 19th century London. Rich in naturalistic detail, the novel concentrates on the individual problems and hardships which result from the typical shortages experienced by the lower classes — want...
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Category: Author:Jules Verne
"To a thinker, a dreamer, or a philosopher, nothing is more affecting than the departure of a ship -- for at the sight, the imagination runs loose and plays round the sails -- it sees her struggles with the sea and the wind in the adventurous journey, which does not always end in port . . ." This, however, was the most "unusual" ship -...
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Category: Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
A heartbreaking, scared of love story, sketched a human nature of fragility and hope to clarify, looking for where the Confucian destiny scenery, and in ordinary unusual between words, present the truth of suspense reasoning amazing pictures...... Haier's appears to be a charming British boarding school, leaving the world and independ...
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