The Human Machine
Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
An idea that can transform a man, both within and without. The author's got an amazing way of saying things. A must read for anyone not in complete control of their self .
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Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
An idea that can transform a man, both within and without. The author's got an amazing way of saying things. A must read for anyone not in complete control of their self .
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Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳
Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea and in Central Africa.
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Category: Author:novel
You must content yourself with the explanation I have already given you of Sir Ambrose Tester and Lady Vandeleur: they are following—hand in hand, as it were—the path of duty.
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Category: Author:Fergus Hume
"Gypsies! How very delightful! I really must have my fortune told. The dear things know all about the future."
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Category: Author:novel
Gold Idols. Underground city. Savages. Lions. Tigers. Bears. Giant Alligators. Giant Mosquitoes. Wealth, Fame, Glory and Excitement: Tom's experience is put to the test to liberate a huge Gold Idol and offer it as a special gift to his girl friend - but there is a rival team looking for the same Idol - and Tom must put them in their p...
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Category: Author:Tickner Edwardes
Among the beautiful things of the countryside, which are slowly but surely passing away, must be reckoned the old Bee Gardens—fragrant, sunny nooks of blossom, where the bees are housed only in the ancient straw skeps, and have their own way in everything, the work of the bee-keeper being little more than a placid looking-on at events...
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Category: Author:Julia Magruder
MARGARET TREVENNON was young and beautiful. Her faithful biographer can say no less, though aware of the possibility that, on this account, the satiated reader of romances may make her acquaintance with a certain degree of reluctance, reflecting upon the two well-worn types—the maiden in the first flush of youth, who is so immaculately...
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Category: Author:Edward Thomas
My story is of Balham and of a family dwelling in Balham who were more Welsh than Balhamitish. Strangers to that neighbourhood who go up Harrington Road from the tram must often wonder why the second turning on the right is called Abercorran Street: the few who know Abercorran town itself, the long grey and white street, with a castle...
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Category: Author:G. K. Chesterton
A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; and the third way, which is adopted here, is in some respects the most difficult of all. At least, it would be the most difficult if the other two were not impossible.
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Category: Author:Frank Thomas Bullen
It is a particular, and not altogether pleasant, feature of literary work in Britain that should an author make a certain amount of success with a book on one particular topic, it is thenceforward tacitly assumed that he must stick to that topic, assaying no other on pain of being mercilessly taken to task by the critics.
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