The Plain Man and His Wife
Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
本涅特描写100年前的英国,告诉我们如何度过美好的人生。
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Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
本涅特描写100年前的英国,告诉我们如何度过美好的人生。
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Category: Author:G.K. Chesterton
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory ...
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Category: Author:Laura Preston
In the village of W——, in western Missouri, lived Mrs. Loring and her son Guy, a little boy about ten years old. They were very poor, for though Mr. Loring, during his life time was considered rich, and his wife and child had always lived comfortably, after his death, which occurred when Guy was about eight years old, they found that ...
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Category: Author:Joseph McCabe
This book is a frank criticism of most of the dominant ideas and institutions of our time: a confession of faith in nearly all the more daring heresies which hold, so to say, the firing line of our literature: a conception of a new social order and new planetary arrangement. It is therefore candidly egoistic, and I should like to expla...
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Category: Author:I. T. Thurston
An algebra recitation was in progress in D section.Reed was on his feet explaining the given problem with his usual quickness and accuracy. Suddenly Mr. Horton interrupted him.“Very well, Reed, take your seat. Crawford, you may continue the explanation.”
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Category: Author:Anna Buchan
It was tea-time in Priorsford: four-thirty by the clock on a chill October afternoon.
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Category: Author:David Grew
In the fall of the year, the farmers and the ranchers of the northwest prairies of Canada release their horses for the winter. Strange as it may seem to those of us who shudder at the very thought of raging blizzards on the open plains
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Category: Author:Edward S. Ellis
Avon Burnet, at the age of eighteen, was one of the finest horsemen that ever scurried over the plains of Western Texas, on his matchless mustang Thunderbolt.
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Category: Author:novel
Very bright and pretty, in the early springtime of the year 1857, were the British cantonments of Sandynugghur. As in all other British garrisons in India, they stood quite apart from the town, forming a suburb of their own. They consisted of the barracks, and of a maidan, or, as in England it would be called, "a common,&quo...
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Category: Author:novel
The story contained in this volume is a record of youthful struggles, not only in the world without, but in the world within; and the success of the little hero is not merely a gathering up of wealth and honors, but a triumph over the temptations that beset the pilgrim on the plain of life. The attainment of worldly prosperity is...
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