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J. Sheridan LeFanu's Silas is the dark doppelganger to his brother Austin Ruthyn. When Austin dies and his daughter Maud is sent to live with her brooding uncle, the creeping, horrible nature of Silas' character unfolds. Addicted to laudanum and prey to inexplicable visions, Silas appears like a spirit to his neice Maud. Silas has his ...
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Category： Author：D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Lawrence's firstcollection of short stories, was published in England in 1914 andin the USA in 1916. It contains some of the greatest stories heever wrote: 'Odour of Chrysanthemums', 'Daughters of the Vicar','The Prussian Officer', and 'The White Stocking', with settingsranging from the mining co...
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On Generation and Corruption, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and philosophic (although not necessarily scientific in the modern sense). The philosophy, though, is essentially empirical; as in all Aristotle's works, the deductions made about the u...
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According to Aristotle in On the Heavens, the heavenly bodies are the most perfect realities, (or "substances"), whose motions are ruled by principles other than those of bodies in the sublunary sphere. The latter are composed of one or all of the four classical elements (earth, water, air, fire) and are perishable; but the matter of w...
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Category： Author：Francis Stevens
Published only once in book form a half-century ago in a collector's edition of 1500 copies, this great science-fantasy sells for more than $100 today. Written by the woman whose pseudonym was Francis Stevens, it has been hailed as the first alternate history novel. Fantasy master H. P. Lovecraft hailed Francis Stevens as among "the to...
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Category： Author：Anthony Trollope
The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, "The Eustace Diamonds" concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Sir Florian Eustace and quickly becomes a widow. Despite the brevity of their marriage, Lizzie still inherits according to the generous t...
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Category： Author：Nikolai Gogol
The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property on ...
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Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, the honorable Judge Rifkin, has asked him a favor: Defend a drug dealer accused of rapi...
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Category： Author：Graham Greene
< p > "the heart of the problem of the story of the narrative is simple: the second world war a the British colony of a west African deputy commissioner of the metropolitan police force is, than test, the original is an upright devout Catholic, in order to send spirit anguish wife go to South Africa on holiday, had to turn to a Syrian ...
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Category： Author：F. Colburn Adams
"A rebellion or an invasion alarms, And puts the people upon its defence; But a corruption of principles Works its ruin more slowly perhaps, But more surely."
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