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The Moon Maid

Category: Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯 

In The Moon Maid, Julian is the commander of a spaceship that blasts off for Mars, or Barsoom, after contact is made with the famous Virginian John Carter on the Red Planet. 


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Contact and Other Stories

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 Title: Contact and Other Stories "Contact!"--There Was a Lady--Long Distance--Philip the Gay--Green Gardens--Delilah--Her Grace--The Honourable Tony


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A Houseful of Girls

Category: Author:novel 

Is there any sensation equal to that produced by the first lover and the first proposal coming to a girl in a large family of girls? It is delightfully sentimental, comical, complimentary, affronting, rousing, tiresome—all in one. It is a herald of lovers, proposals, and wonderful changes all round. It is the first thrill of real life ...


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Looking Back

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 The principal excuse for this attempt to bring the reminiscences of a very unimportant member of the community to the notice of the public is that, owing to the series of accidents which make up what is commonly called life, I can claim to have had rather exceptional opportunities as a spectator from a great many points of view. ...


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The Contact Point

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 Lieutenant Lloyd spotted the first alien in the ruins of the strange red Martian city on the second day of exploration. His first impulse was to call out to the other men—but then, afraid his voice would startle the creature down at the end of the rubble-strewn street, he silently unholstered his military service pistol and...


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The White Man\'s Foot

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My brother Frank is a most practical boy. I may be prejudiced, but it seems to me somehow there\'s nothing like close personal contact with active volcanoes to teach a young fellow prudence, coolness, and adaptability to circumstances. \"Tom,\" said he to me, as we stood and watched the queer party on deck, devouring taro-paste as a Ne...


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Bartleby, The Scrivener A Story of Wall-Street

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 I am a rather elderly man.  The nature of my avocations for the lastthirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with whatwould seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom asyet nothing that I know of has ever been written:--I mean thelaw-copyists or scriveners.  I have known very many of them,professi...


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A Motor-Flight Through France

Category: Author:novel 

Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the railway itself, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure and the novelty which enlivened the way of our posting grand-parents. Above...


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A Georgian Pageant

Category: Author:novel 

On the morning of February 2nd, 1789, a lady was taking a solitary stroll in Kew Gardens. She was a small person, of dainty features, with a dimple on each side of her mouth that suggested a smile, varying, perhaps out of compliment to the variations of the people with whom she came in contact in her daily life, and shifting doubtless ...


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Mr. Standfast

Category: Author:John Buchan 

It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, to which there are many other referenc...


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