Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
Category: Author:Stephen Leacock
A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe,The Wizard of Finance,The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson
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Category: Author:Stephen Leacock
A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe,The Wizard of Finance,The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson
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Category: Author:Gustave Flaubert居斯塔夫·福楼拜
1877年短篇小说集《三故事》一篇,作者通过日常生活细节,塑造了一个朴实动人的劳动妇女形象,展现了她美好善良的心灵和勇敢机智的品质。
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Category: Author:Robert Ames Bennet罗伯特·艾姆斯·班纳特
The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois
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Category: Author:Johanna Spyri
OLD MARY ANN,AT THE GRANDMOTHER’S,ANOTHER LIFE,HARD TIMES,THE BIRDS ARE STILL SINGING,SAMI SINGS TOO
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Category: Author:Walter Noble Burns
When the brig Alexander sailed out of San Francisco on a whaling voyage a few years ago, I was a member of her forecastle crew. Once outside the Golden Gate, I felt the swing of blue water under me for the first time in my life. I was not shanghaied. Let's have that settled at the start. I had shipped as a green hand before the mast f...
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
It ought to be known to all English boys that there is a terrible and costly war in which the British nation is at all times engaged. No intervals of peace mark the course of this war. Cessations of hostilities there are for brief periods, but no treaties of peace. “War to the knife” is its character. Quarter is neith...
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Category: Author:novel
Do I know why Tom Donahue is called “Lucky Tom”? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can say. I have knocked about a deal in my time, and seen some strange sights, but none stranger than the way in which Tom gained that sobriquet, and his fortune with it. For I was with him at the time. Tell...
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Category: Author:novel
And then she opened the piano, and struck a few notes. There was something caressing in the way in which she touched the keys; whoever she was, she knew how to make sweet music; sad music, too, full of that undefinable longing, like the holding out of one’s arms to one’s friends in the hopeless distance.
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Category: Author:novel
Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted c...
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