The Half-Hearted
Category： Author：John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category： Author：John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category： Author：Charles Reade
It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned priest, and Margaret Brandt, the daughter of a poor scholar, and reflects the conflict between family and church which overshadowed the lives of so many in medieval times.
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Category： Author：Beatrix Potter
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter contains nineteen stories written by Beatrix Potter. The most famous story is Peter Rabbit, which features a naughty young rabbit who learns the value of listening to his mother. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great Big Treasury of Beatrix P...
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When the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., went into the wholesale raising of silver foxes for a world market, its two partners brought to the enterprise a comfortable working capital and an uncomfortable ignorance of the brain-reactions of a fox.
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Category： Author：novel
"I can be of no use here, Carry. What am I good for? Why, I could not earn money enough to pay for my own food, even if we knew anyone who would help me to get a clerkship. I am too young for it yet. I would rather go before the mast than take a place in a shop. I am too young even to enlist. I know just about as much as oth...
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Category： Author：novel
"Have you heard, Captain Terrington?" cried the girl gaily. "There's to be a Durbar after all! So you were wrong. It's to be in the Palace too, that you were so set against, and Lewis and Mr. Langford are going with Sir Colvin, and just the littlest guard of honour for the look of the thing. Sir Colvin says the gre...
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Category： Author：Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
货运工约翰的妻子、善良的主妇多特相信，壁炉边的蟋蟀是捍卫自家家宅的小小神灵。这是一桩不被看好的婚姻，靠运货为生的约翰比多特要年长许多，他粗壮笨拙，多特则娇小可爱，朋友们围绕在多特身边，大家虽皆不富足，却因为拥有多特这样特殊的朋友，在团聚时充满欢声笑语、气氛其乐融融。然而，就在这时，一位不速之客的到来打破了这对夫妻看似平静的普通人...
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Category： Author：novel
“Is Saul also among the prophets?” With my mental ear I hear thus exclaim those in whose view the teller of tales stands immeasurably higher than the rabbi, minister, preacher, scholar, or whatever else may be called he whose vocation it is to disseminate Hebrew religion and wisdom, when they see that one of the latte...
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Vincent, the youngest of the party, a boy about eleven years of age, had been sitting at the table with a book before him, but had never turned over a leaf, drinking in eagerly every word uttered by his aunt on the subject of the step-mother whose arrival with her husband was now hourly expected in Belgrave Square. He was a bright, int...
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Category： Author：novel
Lena Streatham gave me this diary. I can’t think what possessed her, for she has been simply hateful to me sometimes this last term. Perhaps it was remorse, because it’s awfully handsome, with just the sort of back I like—soft Russia leather, with my initials in the corner, and a clasp with a dear little key, so that you can leave it a...
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