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Category: Author:Edward Payson Roe
一位父亲对公寓的生活普遍感到失望,尤其是对孩子的负面影响,他决定将家人搬到农村,在那里他们靠土地生活,呼吸新鲜空气。
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一位父亲对公寓的生活普遍感到失望,尤其是对孩子的负面影响,他决定将家人搬到农村,在那里他们靠土地生活,呼吸新鲜空气。
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Category: Author:杰罗米·K·杰罗米 Jerome Klapka Jerome
All Roads Lead to Calvery, by Jerome K. Jerome, is a humorous tale set against one of the most important events in modern history. Published in 1919.
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The principal excuse for this attempt to bring the reminiscences of a very unimportant member of the community to the notice of the public is that, owing to the series of accidents which make up what is commonly called life, I can claim to have had rather exceptional opportunities as a spectator from a great many points of view. ...
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It was with this apparently simple question that Arthur Blathwayte rang up the curtain on the drama of my life.
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FOUR roads in Sussex mark out a patch of country that from the wooded, sea-viewing hills behind Dallington slips down over fields and ponds and spinneys to the marshes of Hailsham and Horse Eye. The North Road, slatting the heights with its pale, hard streak, runs from far Rye to further Lewes, a road of adventures and distances, passi...
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It was approaching half-past five on a June afternoon, and in consequence Colonel Raymond was approaching the Wroxton County Club. He was a man of method, and a retired Colonel of Volunteers, and thus he left his house (christened Lammermoor by his wife) with great regularity at a quarter past five in summer, and a quarter past four in...
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It all started just before school was out. One afternoon when I got home mother showed me a letter from Uncle Hieronymous, who lives in the woods back of Baldwin, on the Middle Branch of the Père Marquette River. I never had seen him, but he and mother wrote to each other quite often, and I guess she’d been telling him a good deal abou...
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Three children stood in front of a rough log-cabin in a small clearing won from the surrounding forest. The country round about was wild and desolate. Not far away was a vast expanse of forest, including oaks, beeches, walnuts and the usual variety of forest trees.
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Category: Author:George MacDonald
There was once a little boy named Diamond and he slept in a low room over a coach house. In fact, his room was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses. Little Diamond’s father was a coachman and he had named his boy after a favorite horse. Diamond’s father had built him a bed in the loft with boards all aroun...
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Category: Author:Edith Wharton
In his Introduction, Louis Auchincloss calls the writing in A Backward Glance "as firm and crisp and lucid as in the best of her novels". Written in 1934, three years before her death, A Backward Glance is a vivid account of Wharton's public and private life. With richness and delicacy, Wharton describes the sophisticated New York soc...
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