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Category： Author：Robert Michael Ballantyne
The coxswain went by the name of Sturdy Bob among his mates. Among the women of the village he was better known as handsome Bob, and, looking at him, you could not help seeing that both titles were appropriate, for our coxswain was broad and strong as well as good-looking, with that peculiar cast of features and calm decided mann...
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Category： Author：novel
Sam was meditating. Tipped back in a chair made of river alder and willow, he leaned against the log wall of his cabin. His shoeless feet were swathed in wrinkled socks of the kind that come to a point at the toe where a tuft of thread keeps the cotton yarn from unraveling. Sam’s blue shirt was faded from too many washings in the...
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Category： Author：novel
A Hansom pulled up in front of 799, Park Lane, and a slim figure of a woman, dressed in deep mourning, ran up the broad flight of marble steps leading to the house. Her features were closely concealed by a thick veil, so that the footman who answered the ring could makenothing of the visitor. Her voice was absolutely steady as she aske...
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Category： Author：novel
1915. Written by the author of "Phantom of the Opera," this tale takes us to Peru where Dick Montgomery hopes to marry his fiance, Maria-Teresa de la Torre, the daughter of a Spanish marquis. Because of their disrespectful manner, Maria-Teresa discharges a group of Quichua Indians working in the household, including Huascar. It is hear...
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Category： Author：Sir Walter Scott
The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Lammermuir Hills Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714). The novel tells of a tragic love affair between Lucy Ashton (Janet Dalrymple) and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. The Bride of Lammerm...
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Category： Author：Salman Rushdie
Rush's "midnight's children" is a magical realism written in the modern literature classic. First of all, this work is a surprising total idea of fancy: in India the same time the birth of 1001 children, can be in a person in the mind of every night party, this meeting and become the modern India's a mirror. The basic idea is enough to...
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Category： Author：Stephenie Meyer
Midnight Sun is an unreleased companion novel to the book Twilight by author Stephenie Meyer. It would be the retelling of the events of Twilight, but written from the perspective of Edward Cullen as opposed to that of Bella Swan.Meyer has stated that Twilight is the only book from the series that she plans to rewrite from Edward's per...
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Category： Author：Evelyn Waugh
The story from the point of view of the protagonist Charles launched, describes the London suburb of this fifth Brighton manor a Catholic family life and fate. The family of the marches may for the first time in the marquis during world war ii to go abroad to war, didn't come back after the war, long-term and his Italian mistress in Ve...
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