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Master and Maid

Cate: Classical Novels  Author:novel 

On the second Friday of term Anthony Bevan, whom all his world called "Bruiser Bevan," Housemaster of "B. House" in Hamchester College, sat at dessert with three of his prefects. They had exhaustively discussed the prospects of the coming football season, had mutually exchanged their holiday experiences, and now, when it was really tim...


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Motor Matt's Make Up

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

The scene was the side-show tent of the "Big Consolidated," Boss Burton's "Tented Aggregation of the World's Marvels." The show had raised its "tops" at Reid's Lake, near the city of Grand Rapids. A high wind had prevented Motor Matt from giving his outdoor exhibition of a?roplane flying, and the disappointed crowds were besieging the ...


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Metamorphosis

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to ...


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Misery

Cate: Children's Novel  Author:novel 

The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1988, and was later made into a Hollywood film and an Off-Broadway play.


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Myth, Ritual and Religion

Cate: Short Stories  Author:Andrew Lang 安德鲁·朗格 

The word “Religion” may be, and has been, employed in many different senses, and with a perplexing width of significance. No attempt to define the word is likely to be quite satisfactory, but almost any definition may serve the purpose of an argument, if the writer who employs it states his meaning frankly and adheres to it steadily.


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Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology

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FEW mediaeval heroes are so widely known as William Tell. His exploits have been celebrated by one of the greatest poets and one of the most popular musicians of modern times. They are doubtless familiar to many who have never heard of Stauffacher or Winkelried, who are quite ignorant of the prowess of Roland, and to whom Arthur and La...


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More Ghost Stories

Cate: Short Stories  Author:Montague Rhodes James 

The first six of the seven tales were Christmas productions, the very first (‘A School Story’) having been made up for the benefit of King’s College Choir School. ‘The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral’ was printed in Contemporary Review; ‘Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance’ was written to fill up the volume. In ‘A School Story’ I had Templ...


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Milly Darrell

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

I was just nineteen years of age when I began my career as articled pupil with the Miss Bagshots of Albury Lodge, Fendale, Yorkshire. My father was a country curate, with a delicate wife and four children, of whom I was the eldest; and I had known from my childhood that the day must come in which I should have to get my own living in a...


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Mimicry, and Other Protective Resemblances Among Animals

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A lengthy and celebrated subject review printed anonymously in the 1 July 1867 number of Volume 88 of the Westminster Review (London edition). According to his autobiography My Life, Wallace began writing this essay in 1865 but did not finish it until early 1867.


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Miscellaneous Papers

Cate: Short Stories  Author:Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯 

The present Government, having shown itself to be particularly clever in its management of Indictments for Conspiracy, cannot do better, we think (keeping in its administrative eye the pacification of some of its most influential and most unruly supporters), than indict the whole manufacturing interest of the country for a conspiracy a...


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