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Category： Author：John Buchan
It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916.
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Category： Author：John Buchan
It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916.
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Category： Author：达尔文 Charles Darwin
THE chief object of the present work is to describe and connect together several large classes of movement, common to almost all plants. The most widely prevalent movement is essentially of the same nature as that of the stem of a climbing plant, which bends successively to all points of the compass, so that the tip revolves. Thi...
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Category： Author：novel
America since the days of Captain John Smith has been the land of hope for multitudes in Europe. In many an humble home, perhaps in some English village, or an Ulster farm, or in the Rhine valley, one might find a family assembled for the reading of a letter from son, or brother, or friend, who had made the great venture of going to t...
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Brackley Hall was a fine old place in the lovely country of Devon and had been in the possession of the Etheridges for centuries.
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The post-office in the middle Georgia village of Hillsborough used to be a queer little place, whatever it is now. It was fitted up in a cellar; and the postmaster, who was an enterprising gentleman from Connecticut, had arranged matters so that those who went after their letters and papers could at the same time get their grocery sup...
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Category： Author：达尔文 Charles Darwin
This Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society,’ published in 1865. It is here reproduced in a corrected and, I hope, clearer form, with some additional facts.
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Category： Author：Richard Hakluyt
The following Discourse, one of the most curious and valuable contributions to the History of early discovery in the New World, has remained practically unknown from the date of its composition to the present time. Written, as appears from the title page, of which I give a copy on page 173, by Hakluyt at the request of Mr. Walter Ralei...
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Category： Author：Edgar Wallace
If a man is not eager for adventure at the age of twenty-two, the enticement of romantic possibilities will never come to him. The chairman of the Ukraine Oil Company looked with a little amusement at the young man who sat on the edge of a chair by the chairman's desk, and noted how the eye of the youth had kindled at every fresh disc...
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Category： Author：novel
A church of the revolution swept through Mexico, affected the remote southern small states. The local parish priest persecuted by the death, leaving only the last one of the priests have a fugitive life. In the process of escaping, he came into contact with different things and people, the heart by the impact of the strong. Finally, he...
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