The Purchase of the North Pole
Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
A sequel to "From the earth to the moon".
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Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
A sequel to "From the earth to the moon".
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Category: Author:Geraldine Bonner
The Black Eagle Mystery is a novel written by Geraldine Bonner ,published in 1916.This was a frustrating mystery. To have everything hinge upon a mere romance made the whole intrigue fall awfully short.
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
Fred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty.
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Category: Author:Julia Magruder
MARGARET TREVENNON was young and beautiful. Her faithful biographer can say no less, though aware of the possibility that, on this account, the satiated reader of romances may make her acquaintance with a certain degree of reluctance, reflecting upon the two well-worn types—the maiden in the first flush of youth, who is so immaculately...
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
This tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the Postmaster-General’s Annual Reports, and gathered, during personal intercourse and investigation, at the General Post-Office of London and its Branches.
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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
I turned and looked across the room. The window had been widely opened when I entered, and a faint fog haze hung in the apartment, seeming to veil the light of the shaded lamp. I watched the closed door intently, expecting every moment to see the knob turn. But nothing happened.
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Category: Author:Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Battle of Waterloo, which was fought just one hundred years ago and with which the story in this book ends, is popularly regarded as one of the decisive battles of the world, particularly with reference to the career of the greatest of all Captains. Personally some study has led me to believe that Bautzen was really the decisive ba...
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Category: Author:novel
It was the old she-wolf Nitka that came running lightly along the dusk. Though she had a great and powerful body, with a weight heavy enough to bear down a grown man, her feet made no sound as they came padding through the trees. She had been a long way, travelling for a kill, because at home the wolf-babies were very hungry and ...
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Category: Author:novel
The hour of noon had just struck, and the few visitors still lingering among the curiosities of the great museum were suddenly startled by the sight of one of the attendants running down the broad, central staircase, loudly shouting: "Close the doors! Let no one out! An accident has occurred, and nobody's to leave the building." There ...
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