Rick and Ruddy Out West
Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
Chot Benson called to his chum Rick Dalton who was racing down the Belemere street with every appearance of being in great haste.
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Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
Chot Benson called to his chum Rick Dalton who was racing down the Belemere street with every appearance of being in great haste.
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Category: Author:Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代
A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters
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Category: Author:John Breck
You’d have thought every wing and paw in the Woods and Fields (except the Bad Little Owls, of course) would have been glad to know that Silvertip the Fox was caught.
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Category: Author:Johanna Spyri
Years ago, in a little country called Switzerland, there lived a little girl who was the daughter of a doctor. This doctor sometimes had to climb up high mountains and sometimes he had to descend slowly to the deep valleys
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Category: Author:novel
Talk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in Ecuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare, in the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake which diurnally and hourly shocked little Gertie’s dwelling, quivered the white dimity curtains of little Gertie’s bed and ...
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Category: Author:novel
The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II—weak, wicked, and treacherous—had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting but for a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a me...
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Category: Author:novel
The story grew after the title had been (hastily) given, and so many other incidents gathered round the incident of the purchase of the flat iron as to make it no longer important enough to appear upon the title page.
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Category: Author:novel
The substance of this little work was first published as a series of articles in the British Clayworker, in 1895–96, and I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietor of that Journal for permission to reproduce them.
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Category: Author:novel
It was early in 1756 that a Scottish trader, from Edinburgh, entered the port of Stettin. Among the few passengers was a tall young Scotch lad, Fergus Drummond by name. Though scarcely sixteen, he stood five feet ten in height; and it was evident, from his broad shoulders and sinewy appearance, that his strength was in full propo...
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Category: Author:Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
货运工约翰的妻子、善良的主妇多特相信,壁炉边的蟋蟀是捍卫自家家宅的小小神灵。这是一桩不被看好的婚姻,靠运货为生的约翰比多特要年长许多,他粗壮笨拙,多特则娇小可爱,朋友们围绕在多特身边,大家虽皆不富足,却因为拥有多特这样特殊的朋友,在团聚时充满欢声笑语、气氛其乐融融。然而,就在这时,一位不速之客的到来打破了这对夫妻看似平静的普通人...
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