Cate： Short Stories Author：Wilkie Collins
"Oh, my God! to think of that kind-hearted, lovely young woman, who brings happiness with her wherever she goes, bringing terror to me! Terror when her pitying eyes look at me; terror when her kind voice speaks to me; terror when her tender hand touches mind!" Porthgenna Tower on the remote western Cornish coast. Moments before her dea...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Russian: Смерть Ивана Ильича, Smert' Ivana Ilyicha), first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his conversion to Christianity. The novel tells the story of the life and death, at the age of 45, of a high court judge in 19th...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：James Fenimore Cooper
The deadly crack of a long rifle and the piercing cries of Indians on the warpath shatter the serenity of beautiful Lake Glimmerglass. Danger has invaded the vast forests of upper New York State as Deerslayer and his loyal Mohican friend Chingachgook attempt the daring rescue of an Indian maiden imprisoned in a Huron camp. Soon they ar...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：Sir Walter Scott
Sir Edward Mauley is "The Black Dwarf," a character based on a very real man of Scott's acquaintance. Mauley becomes involved in the quarrel of a friend -- and, when imprisoned for his actions in that quarrel, finds himself betrayed by the very man in whose cause he lost his liberty. When free, he goes to Mucklestane Moor, where his ex...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Wilkie Collins
It may be that women have no positive appreciation of what is beautiful in form and color--or it may be that they have no opinions of their own when the laws of fashion have spoken. This at least is certain, that not one of them in a thousand sees anything objectionable in the gloomy and hideous evening costume of a gentleman in the ni...
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Cate： Comprehensive Novel Author：novel
"grandchildren strategics" also called "sun wu Art of War", "wu The Art of War", "The grandson of War", "sun wu of War" and so on, English called "The Art of War", it is classical Chinese military cultural heritage treasures The bright, is China's outstanding traditional culture is an important part of The world one of three big charac...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：John Buchan
Peter Pentecost, from his eyrie among the hazels, looked down on the King’s highway as it dipped from Stowood through the narrow pass to the Wood Eaton meadows. It was a King’s highway beyond question, for it was the main road from London to Worcester and the west for those who did not wish to make Oxford a halting-place; but it was a ...
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Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
With each turn of the page in The Petting Zoo, children are introduced to a different animal and are invited to ruffle the flamingo's pretty feathers; to feel the giraffe's velvety horn; to pat the baby penguin's soft, fuzzy belly; to slide a finger along the tiger's rough, sandpapery tongue, and to investigate the look and feel of...
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Cate： Classical Novels Author：Andrew Lang
kind, good and evil will have their karmic, is a lot of fairy tale story strive to show another topic. Person's life to the honest good, and evil struggle against. When you're good to others others will also to how are you, If you don't walk the way, and to sinfulness, do to person to social bad things, you will reap as one has sown.
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Cate： Short Stories Author：William Hope Hodgson
In a little, we crept both of us so close to the door as the chests would allow, and there we crouched, listening; but could not tell what manner of thing it might be which produced so strange a noise. For it was neither shuffling, nor treading of any kind, nor yet was it the whirr of a bat's wings, the which had first occurred to me, ...
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