Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles
Category: Author:Ellen Wood
寡居的哈里伯顿夫人,靠不懈的劳动养活自己的孩子。哈里伯顿夫人钢铁般的意志与哈里伯顿的表兄弟们生活方式形成了鲜明的对比,他们经历了一个又一个丑闻和耻辱。哈里伯顿夫人的戏剧性考验和胆小鬼的丑行使哈里伯顿夫人的烦恼成为1862年最畅销的小说之一。
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Category: Author:Ellen Wood
寡居的哈里伯顿夫人,靠不懈的劳动养活自己的孩子。哈里伯顿夫人钢铁般的意志与哈里伯顿的表兄弟们生活方式形成了鲜明的对比,他们经历了一个又一个丑闻和耻辱。哈里伯顿夫人的戏剧性考验和胆小鬼的丑行使哈里伯顿夫人的烦恼成为1862年最畅销的小说之一。
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Category: Author:Frank Thomas Bullen
Thus, closing his telescope with a bang, the elegant chief officer of the Mirzapore, steel four-masted clipper ship of 5000 tons burden, presently devouring the degrees of longitude that lay between her and Melbourne on the arc of a composite great circle, at the rate of some 360 miles per day. As he spoke he cast his eyes proudly alo...
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
Necessity is the mother of invention. This is undoubtedly true, but it is equally true that invention is not the only member of necessity’s large family. Change of scene and circumstance are also among her children. It was necessity that gave birth to the resolve to travel to the end of the earth—of English earth at all eve...
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Category: Author:Wilkie Collins
The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is — dancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port. The ships of the expedition are two in number — the W...
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