The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Category: Author:Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Hiram could not believe that Pete's father would now countenance any of his son's meannesses; yet when the young farmer went along the line fence, he saw fresh tracks across the Dickerson fields, and discovered where the person had stood, on the Dickerson side.
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Category: Author:Marian Keith
Other years, by the time the mid-June days were come, the little brook that sang through John McIntyre's pasture-field had shrunk to a mere jeweled thread of golden pools and silver shallows, with here and there only the bleached pebbles to mark its course.
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Category: Author:乔治.艾略特 George Eliot
Scenes of Clerical Life, the first novel by George Eliot.The stories, noted for their dialogue and characterization, drew upon Eliot’s early experiences with religion in a provincial setting.
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Category: Author:Rex Ellingwood Beach
The Spoilers is a thrilling true-to-life underdog story. Rex Beach delivers a detailed account of a prospector’s life full of uncertainty. Upon its initial release, this was one of the best-selling novels of 1906.
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Category: Author:Irving Washington华盛顿·欧文
Bracebridge Hall is a series of intimate character sketches that complete an idealized portrait of rural life in the 19th century. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall follows the events leading to the marriage of a young couple, detouring to explore the personalities of the residents in the histor...
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Category: Author:Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
The pages of this little book were in type and about to be sent for correction to my sister—who had been for some months in very delicate health—when she suddenly became still more gravely ill. The hand which had traced the words of love and veneration dedicated to our father’s memory grew too feeble to hold a pen, and before the proo...
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Category: Author:H.G. Wells
1950 Marguerite de Angeli 《The Door in the Wall 》
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Category: Author:亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
The Spoils of Poynton traces the shifting relations among three people and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house
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Miss Salome’s face was gently frowning as she wrote.
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