The Corsican Brothers
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Two competitive twin brothers in the latter part of their lives. In an attempt to resolve one of their wagers, they participate in a horse race to decide the winner.
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Two competitive twin brothers in the latter part of their lives. In an attempt to resolve one of their wagers, they participate in a horse race to decide the winner.
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Category: Author:G. K. Chesterton
The Flying Inn is the most rambunctious of Chesterton's novels, a rollicking ramble through the heart of merry England.
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Category: Author:Laura Lee Hope
"There! It's all done, so I guess we can get on and start off! All aboard! Toot! Toot!" Russ Bunker made a noise like a steamboat whistle.
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Category: Author:Willa Cather 薇拉·凯瑟
It is the second part of a thematic trilogy by Cather which tells stories of women in the emerging prairies of the American West. The trilogy is considered to be some of Cather’s finest work, celebrated for bringing to life the rural West and its people in a way that had never been done before.
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Category: Author:Fergus Hume
This book have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.
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Category: Author:Edith Lavell
It was spring vacation for the girls of Miss Allen’s school. Easter was late this year, so the holiday had been long in coming; but now it was here—ten delicious, lazy days in the very heart of April—and Daisy Gravers meant to enjoy them.
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In a poor part of London, but not in the very poorest part—two children sat on a certain autumn evening, side by side on a doorstep. The eldest might have been ten, the youngest eight. The eldest was a girl, the youngest a boy. Drawn up in front of these children, looking into their little faces with hungry, loving, patheti...
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There was good cause for these exclamations upon the part of the Yankee and Irishman, as they stood on the margin of Wolf Ravine, and gazed off over the prairie. Several miles to the north, something like a gigantic man could be seen approaching, apparently at a rapid gait for a few seconds, when it slackened its speed, until it scarce...
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
A blizzard was blowing wildly over the American prairies one winter day in the earlier part of the present century.
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In Continental periodicals not more than a dozen articles in all would seem to have given accounts or partial translations of the Jurgen legends. No thorough investigation of this epos can be said to have appeared in print, anywhere, prior to the publication, in 1913, of the monumental Synopses of Aryan Mythology by Angelo de Rui...
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