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Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦
The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his "acorn song" recalls London's play, "The Acorn Planters").
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Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦
The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his "acorn song" recalls London's play, "The Acorn Planters").
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Category: Author:L. T. Meade
It was a beautiful summer’s afternoon, and the girls were seated in a circle on the lawn in front of the house.
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Category: Author:Eleanor H. Porter
The story is mainly a narration of a vacation which these six young girls spend in Texas at the 'Six Star Ranch, ' at the invitation of Mr. Hartley, its owner.
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Category: Author:Beatrix Potter
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter contains nineteen stories written by Beatrix Potter. The most famous story is Peter Rabbit, which features a naughty young rabbit who learns the value of listening to his mother. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great Big Treasury of Beatrix P...
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Category: Author:Victor Appleton
Tom Swift, seated in his laboratory engaged in trying to solve a puzzling question that had arisen over one of his inventions, was startled by a loud knock on the door. So emphatic, in fact, was the summons that the door trembled, and Tom started to his feet in some alarm.
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Category: Author:Hildegarde Hawthorne
Inside this world in which we live there is another world, a very wonderful world, that is ours for the taking. Many things in the world we live in every day are denied to us. Maybe for the reason that we cannot possibly learn how to make use of them all, even though we think we want them very much. Lots of us can never hunt lions in ...
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
My friend Lumley was particularly fond of warmth and of physical ease, yet he often expressed the opinion, with much emphasis, that there was nothing he enjoyed so much as a night in a snow-bed. Jack Lumley was my chum—a fine manly fellow with a vigorous will, a hardy frame, and a kindly heart. We had a natural leaning towa...
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Category: Author:novel
Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the Mayflower Club. A very good name, and the six young girls who were members of it made a very pretty posy when they met together, once a week, to sew, and read well-chosen books. At ...
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Category: Author:novel
Up until the moment when he first looked into Hippolyte Adolphe Taine's History of English Literature, Herbert Quidley's penchant for old books had netted him nothing in the way of romance and intrigue. Not that he was a stranger to either.
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Category: Author:novel
“I don’t know much about your Aunt Emma, Burd, but I am quite certain I shall adore her.” Burd Alling, pudgy and good-natured, looked at Amy Drew and slowly grinned.
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