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Category： Author：Irving Washington华盛顿·欧文
Bracebridge Hall is a series of intimate character sketches that complete an idealized portrait of rural life in the 19th century. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall follows the events leading to the marriage of a young couple, detouring to explore the personalities of the residents in the histor...
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Category： Author：Ellen Wood
寡居的哈里伯顿夫人，靠不懈的劳动养活自己的孩子。哈里伯顿夫人钢铁般的意志与哈里伯顿的表兄弟们生活方式形成了鲜明的对比，他们经历了一个又一个丑闻和耻辱。哈里伯顿夫人的戏剧性考验和胆小鬼的丑行使哈里伯顿夫人的烦恼成为1862年最畅销的小说之一。
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Category： Author：Emile Erckmann
It has often been remarked, with perfect justice, that the eminent French writers, a translation of one of whose works is here attempted, are singularly faithful in their adherence to historic truth.
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Category： Author：novel
Big Pine, tiny human outpost set well within the rim of the great southwestern wilderness country, was, like other aloof mountain settlements of its type, a place of infinite and monotonous quiet during most days of most years. Infrequently, however, for one reason or another, and at times seemingly for no reason whatever, came days o...
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Category： Author：novel
In the present volume I have endeavoured to give the details of the principal events in a struggle whose importance can hardly be overrated. At its commencement the English occupied a mere patch of land on the eastern seaboard of America, hemmed in on all sides by the French, who occupied not only Canada in the north and Louisian...
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Category： Author：novel
An immense gallery, five hundred feet long, occupied the upper floor of the main factory-building. Looking down the gallery, a perspective of iron girders spanned the roof, gaunt skeletons of architecture, uncompromising, inexorably utilitarian, inflexible, remorseless. A drone of machinery filled the air, neither very loud nor v...
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Category： Author：novel
Before relating to my young friends the incidents which follow, I think a few words of explanation will help them.
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Category： Author：novel
The original form of this book was a lecture on the William Vaughn Moody foundation at the University of Chicago, delivered on the sixth of February, 1918. A portion of it was subsequently printed in the North American Review. It now appears considerably revised and enlarged.
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Category： Author：novel
The keynote of Hall Caine’s character, both as a man and as a novelist, is sincerity, and the deepest thing in him is love of humanity. He is dominated by the ambition to get out of the realm of thought all that is best and wisest, and from his heart a stream of love for suffering, tortured humanity is constantly flowing. Heart and bra...
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