Cate： Classical Novels Author：George Gissing 乔治·吉辛
The Nether World (1889) is a novel written by the English author George Gissing. The plot concerns several poor families living in the slums of 19th century London. Rich in naturalistic detail, the novel concentrates on the individual problems and hardships which result from the typical shortages experienced by the lower classes — want...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：H.G. Wells
In this small book I want to set down as compactly, clearly and usefully as possible the gist of what I have learnt about war and peace in the course of my life. I am not going to write peace propaganda here.
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Cate： Short Stories Author：威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
THE place is France.The time is autumn, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy--the year of the war between France and Germany.The persons are, Captain Arnault, of the French army; Surgeon Surville, of the French ambulance; Surgeon Wetzel, of the German army; Mercy Merrick, attached as nurse to the French ambulance; and Grace Roseber...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：达尔文 Charles Darwin
This Essay first appeared in the ninth volume of the ‘Journal of the Linnean Society,’ published in 1865. It is here reproduced in a corrected and, I hope, clearer form, with some additional facts.
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：William Makepeace Thackeray威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷
The Newcomes is Thackeray's most "Victorian" novel, generous in its proportions, sharp in its criticism of the morality of the age, and encyclopedic in its reference. Set in the 1830s and 1840s, a period of rapid change and of political and economic development, the novel considers thefortunes and misfortunes of a respectable extended ...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：novel
The Nibelungenlied is based on pre-Christian Germanic heroic motifs (the "Nibelungensaga"), which include oral traditions and reports based on historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries. Old Norse parallels of the legend survive in the Völsunga saga, the Prose Edda, the Poetic Edda, the Legend of Norna-Gest, and the Þ...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
New black sailor Whitman a boat is ill in bed, for the whole voyage had no power, but everywhere to show the "grumpy and cowardice. Finally, she died in the boat. The sailors as he held the water cremation, Whitman body just a drop in the ocean, sea, revealed a strange wind, then everything is normal, "narcissus" arrived in the UK, the...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
It was the Joy of the Sunset that brought us to speech. I was gone a long way from my house walking lonely-wise and stopping often that I view the piling upward of the Battlements of Evening and to feel the dear and strange gathering of the Dusk come over all the world about me.
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Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
ON 25 March an unusually strange event occurred in St. Petersburg. For that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch, a dweller on the Vozkresensky Prospekt (his name is lost now — it no longer figures on a signboard bearing a portrait of a gentleman with a soaped cheek, and the words: “Also, Blood Let Here”)— for that morning Barber Ivan Yako...
Cate： Classical Novels Author：George Gissing 乔治·吉辛
Large Format for easy reading. Deals with the difficulties faced by well-educated single middle-class women in Victorian society, the lack of viable opportunities for them and addresses the perception that an unmarried woman is seen as 'odd'.
