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The stories in this collection, inasmuch as they constitute a somewhat new departure in this class of literature, require a few words of introduction. The primary function of all fiction is to furnish entertainment to the reader, and this fact has not been lost sight of. But the interest of so-called "detective" fiction...
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Squire Thorndyke, of the Manor House of Crawley, was, on the 1st of September; 1782, walking up and down the little terrace in front of the quaint old house in an unusually disturbed mood. He was a man of forty three or four, stoutly and strongly built, and inclined to be portly. Save the loss of his wife four years before, there...
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Alarm bells filled the wardroom, screaming off the metal walls and filling the room with their flat, metallic clang. Cressey leaped up, spilling the table with its checkerboard to the floor.
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“Flash the light on the compass again, Frank. Let’s have another look!” Instantly the ray of an electric hand-light shot over the shoulder of a boy and centered itself on a curiously arranged compass fixed between the lad’s feet.
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Category： Author：考琳·麦卡洛 Colleen McCullough
《The Thorn Birds》Is contemporary writers to take an examination of Australia, McCullough, creation of a family saga, as the heroine meggie and father Ralph love entanglement as the main line, describes the story of a three generations in Cleveland, the time span for more than half a century.Ralph addicted to the power of the church, ...
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Category： Author：Henry James
It will be necessary, for several reasons, to give this short sketch the form rather of a critical essay than of a biography. The data for a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne are the reverse of copious, and even if they were abundant they would serve but in a limited measure the purpose of the biographer. Hawthorne’s career was probably as t...
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Category： Author：Anthony Trollope
Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to save the family's mortgaged estate by making a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Mary's loving uncl...
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It was not her fault, but the cost is her life. So, she decided to comprehensive counterattack, first to pay! In 2009, an all of Europe Top1 best-selling writer, ShiDiGe. Larson is held sketches articles An unprecedented, whole series of conquered global bestseller lists six year sales volume exceeding 26 million copies, the Swedish...
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