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Category: Author:Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany’s most popular book is The King of Elfland's Daughter.
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Category: Author:Lord Dunsany
Lord Dunsany’s most popular book is The King of Elfland's Daughter.
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Had any of the boys in the lower forms of Eton in the year 1808, been asked who were the most popular boys of their own age, they would have been almost sure to have answered, without the slightest hesitation, Tom and Peter Scudamore, and yet it is probable that no two boys were more often in disgrace. It was not that they were i...
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It has been the tendency of certain anthropologists, of most popular writers, and of most artists in Europe and America to represent the men of the Old Stone Age as scarcely raised above the level of the brutes. I have protested against this point of view on what I believe to be very good grounds, namely, that modern man could not have...
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It was a few minutes after one o'clock—the busiest hour of the day at the most popular bar in London. The usual little throng of Americans, journalists, men of business and loiterers, were occupying their accustomed chairs in one corner of the long, green-carpeted room. Around the bar, would-be customers were crowded three or four deep...
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The success attending the publication of a new translation of the Fairy Tales of the Countess d'Aulnoy has justified the publishers in believing that an equally faithful version of some of the most popular stories of her contemporaries and immediate successors, similarly annotated, might meet with as favourable a reception.
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Category: Author:Lewis Carroll
A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical pro...
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873). Irish journalist, novelists, and short story writer, called the father of the modern ghost story. Although Le Fanu was one of the most popular writers of the Victorian era, he is not so widely read anymore. Le Fanu's best-known works include Uncle Silas (1864), a suspense story, and The House by the Chu...
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Category: Author:Cecily von Ziegesar 塞西莉·冯·齐格萨
Only a preparatory high school in Manhattan's upper east side, the students by a girl named gossip days' text messages, insider information about all kinds of campus scandal and relationships. And her identity is complicated is unknown. The SMS order of gossip days later, Serena Van Der Woodsen has ended his once choose boarding, and b...
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FEW mediaeval heroes are so widely known as William Tell. His exploits have been celebrated by one of the greatest poets and one of the most popular musicians of modern times. They are doubtless familiar to many who have never heard of Stauffacher or Winkelried, who are quite ignorant of the prowess of Roland, and to whom Arthur and La...
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Category: Author:Emile Zola
‘GERMINAL’ was published in 1885, after occupying Zola during the previous year. In accordance with his usual custom — but to a greater extent than with any other of his books except La Débacle —he accumulated material beforehand. For six months he travelled about the coal-mining district in northern France and Belgium, especially the ...
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