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The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

Category: Author:Charles Kingsley 

 Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley's interest in history spilled over into his writings, which include The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children (1856), a children's book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the b...


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Coningsby

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 As a novelist, Benjamin Disraeli belongs to the early part of the nineteenth century. “Vivian Grey” (1826-27) and “Sybil” (1845) mark the beginning and the end of his truly creative period; for the two productions of his latest years, “Lothair” (1870) and “Endymion” (1880), add nothing to the characteristics of his earlier volumes exc...


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Theory & History of Historiography

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Almost all the writings which compose the present treatise were printed in the proceedings of Italian academies and in Italian reviews between 1912 and 1913. Since they formed part of a general scheme, their collection in book form presented no difficulties. This volume has appeared in German under the title Zur Theorie und Geschichte ...


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The Virginians

Category: Author:William Makepeace Thackeray威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷 

The Virginian (1902) is Owen Wister's classic popular romance, and the most significant shaping influence on cowboy fiction. Its narrator, fresh from the East, encounters in Wyoming cattle country a strange, seductive and often violent land where the handsome figure of the Virginian battles for supremacy with Trampas and other ne'er-do...


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The Rainbow

Category: Author:D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯 

Lawrence (1885-1930) is the twentieth century Britain's most unique and one of the most controversial writers. He was born in Nottingham, a miner family twenty-one years old when studying at the university of Nottingham, lifetime wrote more than forty novels, poetry, travel and works. "Rainbow" (1915) as one of the most famous work, La...


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Philobiblion

Category: Author:novel 

Richard de Bury (1281–1345), so called from being born near Bury St. Edmunds, was the son of Sir Richard Aungerville. He studied at Oxford; and was subsequently chosen to be tutor to Prince Edward of Windsor, afterwards Edward III. His loyalty to the cause of Queen Isabella and the Prince involved him in danger. On the accession of his...


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Of Time and the River

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The River of Time brings together eleven short stories, including "The Crystal Spheres" (WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985), and four new stories published here for the first time. Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place...


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A Modern Utopia

Category: Author:H.G. Wells 

Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia (1905) has been called "not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia." The novel is best known for its notion that a voluntary order of nobility known as the Samurai could effectively rule a "kinetic and not static" world state so as to...


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Mr. Standfast

Category: Author:John Buchan 

It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, to which there are many other referenc...


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The complete Andersen

Category: Author:Hans Christian Anders 

Hans Christian Andersen (Hans Christian Andersen, April 2, 1805 August 4th 1875) Danish writer, poet, because of his fairy tale world famous. His most famous fairy tales, "tin soldier", "the snow queen", "the thumb girl", "the little match girl", "the ugly duckling" and "red" etc.. The creation of the fairy tale called "Andersen's fair...


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