Cate： Short Stories Author：Thomas Hardy
Hardy described "Desperate Remedies" as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position as lady's maid to the eccentric arch-intriguer Miss Aldclyffe. On discovering that the man she loves, Edward Springrove, is already engaged to his cousin, Cytherea comes under the influence of Miss Aldc...
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Cate： Science Fiction Author：David Hume
The nature of religious dialogues "Hume is one of the important works of philosophy, on behalf of his old age more mature philosophy. Hume himself for this book is very seriously, he died before had left no stone unturned in trying to make this book can be published after his death, not be forbidden. This book is the theme of the refut...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：George Meredith
George Meredith, OM (1828-1909) was an English novelist and poet. He read law and was articled as a solicitor, but abandoned that profession for journalism and poetry shortly after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock, in 1849. He was twenty-one years old; she was thirty. He collected his early writing...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli To Zanobi Buondelmonti And to Cosimo Rucellai GREETINGS. I send you a present which if it is not equal to the obligations that I have toward you, it is one which without doubt the best that Niccolo Machiavelli has been able to offer you. Because in it I have expressed what I know and what I have learned throug...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：Jules Verne
"Dr. Ox's Experiment" ("A Fantasy of Dr Ox") (French: Une fantaisie du docteur Ox) is a short story by the French writer and pioneer of science-fiction, Jules Verne, published in 1872. It describes an experiment by one Dr. Ox and his assistant Gedeon Ygene. A prosperous scientist Dr. Ox offers to build a novel gas lighting system to an...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Anthony Trollope
Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Mary's loving uncl...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Fanny Trollope
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Walter Besant
Conduct so blameless, gravity so singular, wisdom so remarkable, never before seen in a man so young, could not fail to command, before long, the confidence of all. Mr. Forster entrusted his most private affairs to the counsel of Mr. Hilyard; madam carried her complaints to him as to one who would find redress; his pupil, who loved not...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Geor
This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Anna Katherine Green
Still raw from the brutal slayings of his wife and daughter, and the events surrounding the capture of their killer, the travelling man, Charlie Parker retreats to the wintry Maine landscape of his childhood. By following in the steps of his beloved grandfather, Parker hopes to heal his spirit and get through the bitter anniversary of ...
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