Cate： Classical Novels Author：Wilkie Collins
The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is — dancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port. The ships of the expedition are two in number — the W...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：novel
On the evening of the 17th March 1859, Captain Craventy gave a fête at Fort Reliance. Our readers must not at once imagine a grand entertainment, such as a court ball, or a musical soirée with a fine orchestra. Captain Craventy’s reception was a very simple affair, yet he had spared no pains to give it éclat.
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Cate： Short Stories Author：Algernon Blackwood
IT will surprise and at the same time possibly amuse you to know that I had the instinct to tell what follows to a Priest, and might have done so had not the Man of the World in me whispered that from professional Believers I should get little sympathy, and probably less credence still. For to have my experience disbelieved, or attribu...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
1922. Mansfield is New Zealand's most famous writer. She was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf. Mansfield's creative years were burdened with loneliness, illness, jealousy, alienation, all this reflected in her work with the bitter depiction of marital and family relationships of her middl...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Murasaki Shikibu
"Genji" is a classical literature in Japan, had a great influence in the development of Japanese literature, is regarded as a peak, Japanese classic literature in Japan started the era of "cry". Works of book s is thought to be in between 1001 and 1008, therefore, to say the tale of genji "is one of the world the first realistic novel,...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Anthony Trollope
The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, "The Eustace Diamonds" concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Sir Florian Eustace and quickly becomes a widow. Despite the brevity of their marriage, Lizzie still inherits according to the generous t...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Wilkie Collins
Published in 1886, Wilkie Collins The Evil Genius is a dramatic novel about the life of Sydney, who struggles to support herself as a governess. She disrupts the Linsley household by falling in love with the father of the child she is hired to teach. The Linsleys divorce, and Mrs. Linsley is compelled to leave the home. The plot thicke...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：Henry James
A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall. If, while the air i...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：Arthur Conan Doyle
You do very well, my friends, to treat me with some little reverence, for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old, grey-moustached officer whom you see eating his omelette or draining his glass, but it is a fragment of history. In me you see one of the last of those wonderful men, the men w...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：瓦尔特.司各特 S
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