Children of the Cliff
Category: Author:Belle Wiley
Little Teni and Mavo lived in a dry sandy country far away from here.They lived with their father and mother high up on a rocky cliff.
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Category: Author:Belle Wiley
Little Teni and Mavo lived in a dry sandy country far away from here.They lived with their father and mother high up on a rocky cliff.
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
From the earliest records of history we learn that man has ever been envious of the birds, and of all other winged creatures. He has longed and striven to fly. He has also signally failed to do so.
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Category: Author:novel
Who has not heard of the Himalayas—those Titanic masses of mountains that interpose themselves between the hot plains of India and the cold table-lands of Thibet—a worthy barrier between the two greatest empires in the world, the Mogul and the Celestial? The veriest tyro in geography can tell you that they are the tallest mountains on ...
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Category: Author:novel
Widow of a village merchant, mistress of an unpretending house in the little town of Plainton, Maine, and, by strange vicissitudes of fortune, the possessor of great wealth, she was on her way from Paris to the scene of that quiet domestic life to which for nearly thirty years she had been accustomed.
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Category: Author:novel
Paul Clifford tells the story of a chivalrous highwayman in the time of the French Revolution. Brought up not knowing his origins and living an evil life, Paul Clifford is arrested for theft. The love of his life is Lucy Brandon. Brought before her uncle Judge Brandon, for the robbery, it is unexpectedly revealed that Clifford is Brand...
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