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On Sense and the Sensible

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HAVING now definitely considered the soul, by itself, and its several faculties, we must next make a survey of animals and all living things, in order to ascertain what functions are peculiar, and what functions are common, to them. What has been already determined respecting the soul [sc. by itself] must be assumed throughout. The rem...


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Our Mutual Friend

Cate: Classical Novels  Author:Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯 

Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with scholarly introductions and notes added to new titles.


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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions

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This book provides an introduction by J. H. Stape, St. Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill.Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris' "Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions" gained almost instant notoriety. Attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions, vigorously defended by George Ber...


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Ormond

Cate: Classical Novels  Author:novel 

“What! no music, no dancing at Castle Hermitage to-night; and all the ladies sitting in a formal circle, petrifying into perfect statues?” cried Sir Ulick O’Shane as he entered the drawing-room, between ten and eleven o’clock at night, accompanied by what he called his rear-guard, veterans of the old school of good fellows, who at thos...


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One of Ours

Cate: Classical Novels  Author:Willa Cather 薇拉·凯瑟 

One of Ours is a novel by Willa Cather which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. It tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a native of Nebraska around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful mid-western farmer and an intensely pious mother, thus guaranteed a comfortable livelihood, Claude Wheeler nonetheless views himsel...


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On youth and old age, on life and death, on breathing

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WE must now treat of youth and old age and life and death. We must  probably also at the same time state the causes of respiration as  well, since in some cases living and the reverse depend on this.


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O Pioneers!

Cate: Short Stories  Author:Willa Cather 薇拉·凯瑟 

A classic novel of the Nebraska prairie, O Pioneers! is the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of Swedish immigrant farmers, whose devotion to the land sustains her against the hardships and suffering of prairie life. A new addition to the Bantam Classic line.


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Of Time and the River

Cate: Science Fiction  Author:novel 

The River of Time brings together eleven short stories, including "The Crystal Spheres" (WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985), and four new stories published here for the first time. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place...


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Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine

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THE BOOK-LOVERS LIBRARY_ was first published in the following styles: No. 1.--Printed on antique paper, in cloth bevelled with rough edges,price 4s. 6d. No. 2.--Printed on hand-made paper, in Roxburgh, half morocco, withgilt top: 250 only are printed, for sale in England, price 7s. 6d. No. 3.--Large paper edition, on hand-made...


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Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch wrote short stories, novels,criticism, and edited anthologies, including the "Oxford Book"series. He was Assistant Editor of the Liberal weekly "TheSpeaker," and from 1912 until his death was Professor of English atCambridge University. Writing under the pen name "Q," Sir Arthurproduced a variety of work...


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