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Category： Author：阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
This is Bennett's first novel, the story of a young man from the north of England who arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has aspirations of becoming a writer. This young man is easily distracted though and one wonders if he will ever write that first novel.
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Category： Author：novel
Hiram could not believe that Pete's father would now countenance any of his son's meannesses; yet when the young farmer went along the line fence, he saw fresh tracks across the Dickerson fields, and discovered where the person had stood, on the Dickerson side.
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Category： Author：Helen Hunt Jackson海伦·亨特·杰克逊
They were written when I was a very little girl, and was away from home with my father on a journey.
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Category： Author：Fergus Hume
"S' y' want t' merry m' gel, Bella!" remarked Captain Huxham, rubbing his stout knees slowly, and repeating the exact words of the clerical suitor. "S' thet she may be yer handmaiden, an' yer spouse, and yer sealed fountain, es y' put it in yer flowery pulpit lingo.
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Category： Author：Burton Egbert Stevenson
The book was originally published under the title of Little Comrade. It has been changed to The Girl from Alsace, as the publishers considered that name as better descriptive of the character of the story.
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Category： Author：Herbert Winslow Collingwood
Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week and covering a period of about 20 years. Many readers of that magazine have expressed the desire to have a collection of them in permanent form. It has been no easy task to make a selection, and I wish to acknowledge here the great help which I have ...
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Category： Author：Samuel Leech
Were it not that the most common of all inquiries, respecting every man who comes before the public, is, “who is he? whence did he proceed? who were his parents?” &c., I would not detain the reader with any account of my humble ancestors and their circumstances. But, since men naturally expect this information, and would hence conside...
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Category： Author：Clarence S. Darrow
I begin this story with the personal pronoun. To begin it in any other way would be only a commonplace assumption of a modesty that I do not really have. It is most natural that the personal pronoun should stand as the first word of this tale, for I cannot remember a time when my chief thoughts and emotions did not concern myself, or w...
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Category： Author：Clara Dillingham Pierson
I want to introduce the farmyard people to you, and to have you call upon them and become better acquainted as soon as you can. Some of them are working for us, and we surely should know them.
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Category： Author：novel
As I looked at these things there passed through the desolate sanctuaries, and down an aisle past pillars pitted with shrapnel, a sad old woman, sad even for a woman of North-East France. She seemed to be looking after the mounds and stones that had once been the cathedral; perhaps she had once been the Bishop's servant, or the w...
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