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The Spoils of Poynton

Category: Author:亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James 

The Spoils of Poynton traces the shifting relations among three people and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house


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The Four Feathers四片羽毛

Category: Author:A.E.W. Mason 

The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha.


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A Sweet Little Maid

Category: Author:Amy E. Blanchard 

"I'll hunt up the feathers, and you get ready," Dimple went on. "And the shawl—we must have the striped shawl for a blanket," and, running into the house, she soon came out with a little striped shawl, and a handful of stiff feathers. The shawl was arranged over Bubbles' shoulders, and produced a fine effect, when the feathers were stu...


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The Dinner Club

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On a certain day in the year of grace 1920, there came into being a special and very select club. There was no entrance fee and no subscription, in which respect it differed from all other clubs. Its membership was limited to six: the Actor, the Barrister, the Doctor, the Ordinary Man, the Soldier, and the Writer. And since each i...


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Æsop's Fables

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 A conceited jackdaw was vain enough to imagine that he wanted nothing but the coloured plumes to make him as beautiful a bird as the Peacock. Puffed up with this wise conceit, he dressed himself with a quantity of their finest feathers, and in this borrowed garb, leaving his old companions, tried to pass for a peacock; but he no ...


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The Wisdom of Life

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In these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which may be called Eudaemonology, for it teaches us how to lead a happy existence. Such an existence might perhaps be...


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The Haunted Baronet

Category: Author:J. Sheridan Le Fanu 

The pretty little town of Golden Friars — standing by the margin of the lake, hemmed round by an amphitheatre of purple mountain, rich in tint and furrowed by ravines, high in air, when the tall gables and narrow windows of its ancient graystone houses, and the tower of the old church, from which every evening the curfew still rings, s...


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The Getting of Wisdom

Category: Author:Henry Handel Richards 

“ . . . and the Prince went further and further into the forest,” said the elder girl, “till he came to a beautiful glade — a glade, you know, is a place in the forest that is open and green and lovely. And there he saw a lady, a beautiful lady, in a long white dress that hung down to her ankles, with a golden belt and a golden crown. ...


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The Petting Zoo

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  With each turn of the page in The Petting Zoo, children are introduced to a different animal and are invited to ruffle the flamingo's pretty feathers; to feel the giraffe's velvety horn; to pat the baby penguin's soft, fuzzy belly; to slide a finger along the tiger's rough, sandpapery tongue, and to investigate the look and feel of...


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Love Among the Chickens

Category: Author:P. G. Wodehouse 

Love Among the Chickens is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published as a book in the United Kingdom in June 1906 by George Newnes, London, and in the United States by Circle Publishing, New York, on 11 May 1909, having already appeared there as a serial in Circle magazine between September 1908 and March 1909. The English edition wa...


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