Life's Little Ironies
Category： Author：Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代
A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters
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Category： Author：Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代
A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters
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Talk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in Ecuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare, in the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake which diurnally and hourly shocked little Gertie’s dwelling, quivered the white dimity curtains of little Gertie’s bed and ...
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The year 1400 opened with more than usual peacefulness in England. Only a few months before, Richard II—weak, wicked, and treacherous—had been dethroned, and Henry IV declared King in his stead. But it was only a seeming peacefulness, lasting but for a little while; for though King Henry proved himself a just and a me...
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The story grew after the title had been (hastily) given, and so many other incidents gathered round the incident of the purchase of the flat iron as to make it no longer important enough to appear upon the title page.
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A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It stifles me. I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, where a crowd of drunken Irishme...
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Hark, Hark! The giant’s ponderous hammer rings on the anvil of destiny. Enter, thou massive figure, Bismarck, and in deadly earnest take thy place before Time’s forge.
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A sudden, far-off cry broke the stillness that had brooded over the long, low Indian lodges on the hill. Instantly the whole village awoke to intense excitement. Women dropped their work by the fireside; old men put away their long-stemmed pipes and leaped like young braves to the doors of the lodges; while in the fields young girls st...
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The General Manager of the Transcontinental System glared at the young man who stood facing him across the office desk. “Why, you wouldn’t last three months!” he snapped.
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Died in 1662, the French king Louis xiii, the succession of Louis xiv arrogant, cruel, and dissolute.To cory, Louis will the son of former bodyguard team, o king Leo sent to the front to kill.Son's death aroused the indignation of sass, meanwhile, ella Smith priests have a secret plan, is to rescue from prison with the iron mask myster...
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Category： Author：Jack London
Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack Londons The Iron Heel offers a grim dep
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