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Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
The protagonist is a young british merchant marine captain intent on the profit to be gained by running the shipping blockade around Charleston established by the north - but then he also gains a new perspective when he becomes involved with the daughter of an American abolitionist and her clever man servant
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A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady.
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Category: Author:伊迪丝.华顿 Edith Wharton
The shade of those our days that had no tongue.
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Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
'Therefore, although it be a history,Homely and rude, I will relate the same,For the delight of a few natural hearts.'
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Category: Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I CALL it an old town, but it is only relatively old.
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This children's classic, first published in 1881, which tells the story of the widowed Mrs. Pepper and her five children-Ben, Polly, David, Joel, and Phronsie, continues to resonate with readers today. Without being saccharine, the book reveals the true value of family. When the children, or Five Little Peppers as they are known in Bad...
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Category: Author:Levi Parker Wyman
“I’ll have it in a jiffy, Bob. The wire’s come unsoldered and I’ve got to fix it but it won’t take but a minute.”
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
The man wore the leathern coat and leggings of a North American hunter, or trapper, or backwoodsman; and well did he deserve all these titles, for Jasper Derry was known to his friends as the best hunter, the most successful trapper, and the boldest man in the backwoods.
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