Daughters of Destiny
Category: Author:Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the author of the Oz books.
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Category: Author:Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
Daughters of Destiny is a 1906 adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the author of the Oz books.
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Category: Author:Charles Reade
I will frame a work of fiction upon notorious fact, so that anybody shall think he can do the same; shall labor and toil attempting the same, and fail—such is the power of sequence and connection in writing.
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Category: Author:Leo Tolstoy
Again war. Again sufferings, necessary to nobody, utterly uncalled for; again fraud; again the universal stupefaction and brutalization of men.
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Category: Author:novel
THE children’s room of the Library was very still. Once in a while a murmur arose at the delivery desk, or some squeaky-shoed small feet crossed from open shelves to reading table. Occasionally a helpful child leaned across to another and whispered, “That’s a dandy book. Have you read the rest of them?” But all of these minor sounds we...
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Category: Author:novel
\"It\'s ever so much better than my room—twice as big, to begin with. Then, my carpet looks as if it had come down through several generations. I\'ll bet the old lady had it when she was first married. As for a mirror, I\'ve got a seven-by-nine looking-glass that I have to look into twice before I can see my whole face. As for the bed...
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Category: Author:novel
This little volume will prove of interest to the general reader and of inestimable value to the student or teacher of history. It contains graphic descriptions of the seventeen great struggles of the historic past—Marathon, Arbela, Zama, Teutobergerwald, Adrianople, Chalons, Tours, Senlac-Hastings, Orleans, Lepanto, Spanish Armada, Nas...
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Category: Author:novel
“Humph! I wonder where in the name of pulverized pups that young Slick-and-Slippery took himself. He sure knew how to cover his trail up good and pronto.” It wasn’t the unseasonable weather that made Bob Caldwell shiver slightly as he glanced ahead at the deserted ranch which was rolling toward him. It was the recollection of that day,...
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Category: Author:novel
The book here presented is the result of an attempt to correct existing errors relative to the Yosemite Valley. It was originally designed to compress the matter in this volume within the limits of a magazine article, but this was soon found to be impracticable; and, at the suggestion of Gen. C. H. Berry, of Winona, Minnesota, it was d...
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Category: Author:Edward John Eyre
In offering to the public an account of Expeditions of Discovery in Australia, undertaken in the years 1840-1, and completed in July of the latter year, some apology may be deemed necessary for this narrative not having sooner appeared, or perhaps even for its being now published at all.
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