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The foregoing Preface was written by Mrs. Ewing for the first edition of Brothers of Pity, and Other Tales. The book contains five stories, illustrated by the pictures of which my sister speaks; and it is still sold by the S.P.C.K. "Toots and Boots" was so minutely adapted to Flinzer's pictures, that the tale suffers in...
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How shall I bring to your mind the time and distance that separate us from the Age of Fable? Think of what seemed to you the longest week of your life. Think of fifty-two of these in a year; then think of two thousand five hundred years and try to realize that Aesop—sometimes called the Eighth Wise Man—lived twenty-fi...
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\"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery,\" said D\'Arnot. \"I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped.\"
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In the beginning of the year 1920 I happened to be living in theSiberian town of Krasnoyarsk, situated on the shores of the RiverYenisei, that noble stream which is cradled in the sun-bathedmountains of Mongolia to pour its warming life into the ArcticOcean and to whose mouth Nansen has twice come to open the shortestroad for commerce ...
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Category： Author：Ambrose Bierce
This unique book is composed of 245 "beautiful fable", each one is Bierce by sharp insight to the greedy politicians, not so holy saint, members of the Legislative Council, doctors, judges and diplomats, observation and evaluation of the classic. Many people like to read long story, but the real fable style, such as Bierce works, he i...
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Category： Author：Ambrose Bierce
This unique book is composed of 245 "beautiful fable", each is a Bierce by sharp insight of greedy politicians, less holy saint, lawmakers, doctors, judges, diplomats and people such as observation and evaluation of classic. Many people like to read a long story, but the real fable style, such as Bierce's works, he personification to o...
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Category： Author：Saki
Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro) and first published in 1914. The title parodies that of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. Along with The Chronicles of Clovis, Beasts and Super-Beasts is one of Saki's best-known works. It was his final collect...
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