The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Category: Author:Rudolf Erich Raspe
《吹牛大王历险记》又称《敏豪生奇游记》。描写敏希豪生男爵的游历故事,刻画既爱说大话又机智勇敢、正直热情的神秘骑士形象。
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Category: Author:Rudolf Erich Raspe
《吹牛大王历险记》又称《敏豪生奇游记》。描写敏希豪生男爵的游历故事,刻画既爱说大话又机智勇敢、正直热情的神秘骑士形象。
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Category: Author:Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
THIS book has been written for children. I have no shame in acknowledging that I, who wrote it, am also a child; for since I can remember my eyes have always grown big at tales of the marvelous, and my heart is still accustomed to go pit-a-pat when I read of impossible adventures. It is the nature of children to scorn realities, ...
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Category: Author:novel
The shrill treble of a girl's voice, raised to its highest pitch in anger and remonstrance, broke in upon the scholarly meditations of the teacher of the Ridgemont grammar school. He raised his head from his book to listen. It came again, mingled with boyish cries and jeers, and the sound of blows and scuffling. The teacher, a small, ...
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While some of our wars in India are open to the charge that they were undertaken on slight provocation, and were forced on by us in order that we might have an excuse for annexation, our struggle with Tippoo Saib was, on the other hand, marked by a long endurance of wrong, and a toleration of abominable cruelties perpetrated upon...
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Category: Author:novel
The man tried his best to sell me the house. He was confident that I would like it. Repeatedly he called my attention to the view.
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A single car-track ran through Payton Street, and over it, once in a while, a small car jogged along, drawn by two mules. Thirty years ago Payton Street had been shocked by the intrusion upon its gentility of a thing so noisy and vulgar as a street-car; but now, when the rest of the town was shuttled with trolleys and clamorous with sp...
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