Daughters of Destiny
Category: Author:Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the author of the Oz books.
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Category: Author:Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the author of the Oz books.
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Category: Author:novel
Although the immediate results of the Battle of Hastings may have been of less importance to the world than were those of some other great battles, the struggle has, in the long run, had a greater influence upon the destiny of mankind than any other similar event that has ever taken place. That admixture of Saxon, Danish, and Bri...
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And Jimmie set down the saucer of hot coffee which he was in the act of adjusting to his mouth, and stared at his wife. He did not say anything; in three years and a half as a married man he had learned that one does not always say everything that comes into one's mind. But he meditated on the abysses that lie between the masculi...
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Category: Author:novel
Hark, Hark! The giant’s ponderous hammer rings on the anvil of destiny. Enter, thou massive figure, Bismarck, and in deadly earnest take thy place before Time’s forge.
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Category: Author:novel
The springs of American civilization, unlike those of the elder world, lie revealed in the clear light of History. In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full of force. Acting at the sources of life, instruments otherwise weak become mighty for good and evil, and men, lost elsewhere in the crowd, stand forth as agents ...
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Category: Author:novel
This little volume will prove of interest to the general reader and of inestimable value to the student or teacher of history. It contains graphic descriptions of the seventeen great struggles of the historic past—Marathon, Arbela, Zama, Teutobergerwald, Adrianople, Chalons, Tours, Senlac-Hastings, Orleans, Lepanto, Spanish Armada, Nas...
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Category: Author:Leo Tolstoy
I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life and of its aim and relations. The essence of that view lay in the conviction that the destiny of man is to strive for moral improvement, and that such improvement is at once easy, possible, and lasting. Hitherto, however, I had found pleasure only in the...
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Category: Author:Albert Keim and Louis
At Balzac’s funeral, the glorious yet bitter seal upon his destiny, Victor Hugo delivered a magnificent address, and in his capacity as poet and seer proclaimed with assurance the judgment of posterity: “His life has been brief yet full, and richer in works than in days.
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Category: Author:George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several...
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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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