The Power-House
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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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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Category: Author:Albert Keim and Louis
At Balzac’s funeral, the glorious yet bitter seal upon his destiny, Victor Hugo delivered a magnificent address, and in his capacity as poet and seer proclaimed with assurance the judgment of posterity: “His life has been brief yet full, and richer in works than in days.
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Category: Author:Frederick Lawton
The condition of French society in the early half of the nineteenth century — the period covered by Balzac’s novels — may be compared to that of a people endeavouring to recover themselves after an earthquake. Everything had been overthrown, or at least loosened from its base — religion, laws, customs, traditions, castes. Nothing had w...
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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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