The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Category: Author:Rudolf Erich Raspe
《吹牛大王历险记》又称《敏豪生奇游记》。描写敏希豪生男爵的游历故事,刻画既爱说大话又机智勇敢、正直热情的神秘骑士形象。
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Category: Author:Rudolf Erich Raspe
《吹牛大王历险记》又称《敏豪生奇游记》。描写敏希豪生男爵的游历故事,刻画既爱说大话又机智勇敢、正直热情的神秘骑士形象。
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Category: Author:novel
Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder
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Category: Author:novel
The last note of “taps” rang lingeringly through the corridors of The Fortress and died away just as a knock sounded on the door of the room occupied by Bob and Jack Golden.
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Category: Author:novel
If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop.
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Category: Author:novel
There were no casements in the wide windows; the heavy shutters were thrown back, and the moonlight poured, in long, unbroken streams, across the polished, un-carpeted floor.
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Category: Author:novel
Neither sixteen-year-old Larry Turner nor Dick Summers, a year his junior, had any more fear than had Sandy Maclaren, hardly thirteen and seated just back of the pilot who, in flying the four-place, low-wing airplane, had called back reassuringly.
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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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Category: Author:Wilkie Collins
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times. One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had just taken his luncheon a...
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Category: Author:Virginia Woolf
Monday or Tuesday, the only book of short stories by Virginia Woolf which appeared in her lifetime, was published 22 years ago, in 1921. It has been out of print for years. All through her life, Virginia Woolf used at intervals to write short stories. It was her custom, whenever an idea for one occurred to her, to sketch it out in a ve...
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