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The Annals and the History of Tacitus are like two houses in ruins: dismantled of their original proportions they perpetuate the splendour of Roman historiography, as the crumbling remnants of the Coliseum preserve from oblivion the magnificence of Roman architecture. Some of the subtlest intellects, keen in criticism and expert in sch...
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The younger generation of Birge’s Corners insisted that nothing exciting had happened since Abigail Clergy’s love affair in 1867, and the older generation retorted that Thurley Precore, who must have been born in Arcadia, was bound to create excitement.
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This is in the long-ago, or, to be exact, in July, 1759. The new brig Friendship, not a fortnight off the stocks, is lying in her home harbor of Whitehaven, being fitted to her first suit of sails. Captain Bennison is restlessly about her decks, overseeing those sea-tailors, the sail-makers, as they go forward with their task, when Mr....
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It was one dark, dank, dreary, dismal night in February, 1888 (I believe that is the way to commence a book, no matter what the subject be), when the present writer might have been seen standing, with other gentlemen, in a sombre dining-room brilliantly illuminated with one ceiling-lamp buried in a deep red shade. We were standing roun...
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Category： Author：Rudyard Kipling
This is the history of a failure; but the woman who failed said that it might be an instructive tale to put into print for the benefit of the younger generation. The younger generation does not want instruction, being perfectly willing to instruct if any one will listen to it. None the less, here begins the story where every right-mind...
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Category： Author：Arthur Conan Doyle
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a detective story full of legend, adventure and wisdom, it is by the famous British detective novelist, "the father of British detective novel" written by Arthur Conan Doyle.In a fog of Baker Street, London, lived a righteous detective Sherlock Holmes.He and his loyal friend doctor Watson has experienced c...
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"Aesop's fables," the original book title is "esso Persian story integration", it is the ancient Greek folk circulates allegory of the story, the processing of later generations, become popular now of Aesop. "Aesop's fables," is a world's first fable stories. At the same time, "Aesop's fables," is the world's most widely circulated in ...
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Category： Author：Ernest Hemingway
Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman à clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center...
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The name of the rose "tells a happened in Italian medieval monastery in the mysterious story. The Franciscan order and William and disciple aduh cable to the mountains to the north of Italy a monastery, executive mediation holy Roman emperor and Pope disputes task. In the famous reasoning to the monastery entrusted by William long, sur...
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