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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"The Beautiful Lady", is another of the short novels from Booth Tarkington's early career.Nothing could have been more painful to my sensitiveness than to occupy myself, confused with blushes, at the center of the whole world as a living advertisement of the least amusing ballet in Paris.
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Category: Author:Julia Magruder
On the deck of an ocean steamer, homeward bound from Europe, a man and girl were walking to and fro.
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I have been to see my little cousin Alice. She is just three years old, and I love her dearly. She has many things to play with.
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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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I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written, as a rule, at the last mome...
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The baby came in the spring-time, and the soft, velvety touch of the little face, and the sight of the round baby limbs, had made Mrs. Mainwaring smile: had caused her to pluck up heart, and to determine resolutely to take this new blessing, and to begin to live again.
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The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed “the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned.”
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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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The obscure streets of life do not offer the conveniences of the central thoroughfares: no electric light, no gas, not even a kerosene lamp-bracket. There are no pavements: the traveller has to fumble his way in the dark. If he needs a light, he must wait for a thunderbolt, or else, primitive-wise, knock a spark out of a stone. In a gl...
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