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The Spirit of Christmas
Henry van Dyke 试读
It was the hour of rest in the Country Beyond the Stars. All the silver bells that swing with the turning of the great ring of light which lies around that land were softly chiming; and the sound of their commotion went down like dew upon the golden ways of the city, and the long alleys of blossoming trees, and the meadows of asphodel, and the curving shores of the River of Life.
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Morning Star
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
Haggard's classic Egyptian novel, filled with magic, wandering Kas (or spirit-doubles), old gods, romance, and adventure -- as only Haggard could write it Features an introduction by Lin Carter.
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Moon of Israel
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
This is the story of me, Ana the scribe, son of Meri, and of certain of the days that I have spent upon the earth. These things I have written down now that I am very old in the reign of Rameses, the third of that name, when Egypt is once more strong and
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Maiwa‘s Revenge
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
"From about forty yards away came a tremendous snorting -- more like that of an engine getting a heavy train under weigh than anything else in the world." "A great crashing followed. Before I could even get up, the bush behind me burst asunder, and there appeared not eight yards from me the great horn and wicked twinkling eye of a charging rhinoceros." Allan Quatermain has determined to go farther afield than he had ever traveled before, into the depths of the African jungle -- on a march inland to the hills between lands controlled by the chiefs Wambe and Nala. Quatermain has heard of the elephants dwelling in the dense forests at the foot of the mountains edging Wambe's lands -- and also stories of Wambe himself, so ruthless a ruler he murdered in cold blood an entire party of English party who, seven years before, entered his country to hunt elephants. Quatermain determines to go elephant-hunting all the same. Before he has gone far, however, he faces rebellion among his own men, unexpected dangers from massive beasts of the jungle -- and then receives from an old friend a strange message, hidden within a bowl of bartered food
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Queen Shebas Ring
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
Every one has read the monograph, I believe that is the right word, of my dear friend, Professor Higgs—Ptolemy Higgs to give him his full name—descriptive of the tableland of Mur in North Central Africa, of the ancient underground city in the mountains which surrounded it, and of the strange tribe of Abyssinian Jews, or rather their mixed descendants, by whom it is, or was, inhabited.
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Dragons blood
Henry Milner Rideout 试读
"Dragon's Blood" by Henry Milner Rideout was first published in 1909. One of the heroes of the story is a twenty-two year old German man by the name of Rudolph Hackh who, green and untried, is making his first trip to China as an agent for Fliegelman and Sons. On the last leg of his journey to the village of "Stink-Chau" he meets the book's other hero -- the indefatigable and ever-cheerful, Maurice Heywood. Heywood introduces Hackh to the beauties and dangers of this unknown land and will prove to be Rudoph's greatest friend; standing with him through fire and blood under the shadow of a dragon-shaped mountain.
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Joe Wilson and His Mates
Henry Lawson 试读
There it stood, behind a calico screen that the coach-painters used to keep out the dust when they were varnishing. It was a first-class piece of work -- pole, shafts, cushions, whip, lamps, and all complete. If you only wanted to drive one horse you could take out the pole and put in the shafts, and there you were. There was a tilt over the front seat; if you only wanted the buggy to carry two, you could fold down the back seat, and there you had a handsome, roomy, single buggy. It would go near fifty pounds.
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Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn
Henry Kingsley 试读
A novel by the English novelist, Henry Kingsley, who was the brother of the better known Charles Kingsley. After emigrating to Australia, Henry Kingsley became involved in golddigging, and later joined the mounted police. On his return to the United Kingdom in 1858 he devoted himself to literature, and wrote several well-regarded novels, including The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn (1859), set in Colebrooke, Devon, and Australia.
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Louisa Pallant
Henry James 试读
1879 novel by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.
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The Altar of the Dead
Henry James 试读
Trajectory presents classics of world literature with 21st century features! Our original-text editions include the following visual enhancements to foster a deeper understanding of the work: Word Clouds at the start of each chapter highlight important words. Word, sentence, paragraph counts, and reading time help readers and teachers determine chapter complexity. Co-occurrence graphs depict character-to-character interactions as well character to place interactions. Sentiment indexes identify positive and negative trends in mood within each chapter. Frequency graphs help display the impact this book has had on popular culture since its original date of publication. Use Trajectory analytics to deepen comprehension, to provide a focus for discussions and writing assignments, and to engage new readers with some of the greatest stories ever told."The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James is a short story about a man, George Stransom who lost the love of his life, Mary Antrim, before they were able to get married. As Stransom's friends start to die, he struggles to forgive Acton Hague who had wronged him in the past.
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The Iron Game A Tale of the War
Henry Francis Keenan 试读
When expulsion from college, in his junior years, was visited upon Jack Sprague, he straightway became the hero of Acredale. And, though the grave faculty had felt constrained to vindicate college authority, it was well known that they sympathized with the infraction of decorum that obliged them to put this mark of disgrace upon one of the most promising of their students.
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Esther
Henry Adams 试读
Esther (1884), the second of two novels by noted American historian Henry Adams (1838-1918), deals with a woman's inability to accept religious faith as men have formulated it. Esther Dudley, a young New York socialite and artist raised without religion, falls in love with Episcopal clergyman Stephen Hazard, but she cannot embrace his Christianity and remain true to herself. Displaying the subtle interplay of mind found in the best work of Henry James, Esther suggests the symbolism of the Virgin Mary that Adams would take up some twenty years later in his Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, a Study in Thirteenth-Century Unity: Esther rejects Hazard just as the Virgin rejected the scholastic formulation of the Trinity and the whole medieval system of moral law.
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Pillars of Society
Henrik Ibsen 试读
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A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day
Helen Maria Winslow 试读
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The Place Beyond the Winds
Harriet Theresa Comstock 试读
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The Lure of the Mask
Harold MacGrath 试读
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In the Valley
Harold Frederic 试读
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Johnstone of the Border
Harold Bindloss 试读
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Lorimer of the Northwest
Harold Bindloss 试读
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The Eyes of the World
Harold Bell Wright 试读
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Their Yesterdays
Harold Bell Wright 试读
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When A Mans A Man
Harold Bell Wright 试读
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They of the High Trails
Hamlin Garland 试读
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Queens of the French Stage
H. Noel Williams 试读
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Secret Places of the Heart
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
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If Any Man Sin
Hiram Alfred Cody 试读
The author of the book is Hiram Alfred Cody,there are 32 chapters, is a book worth reading.
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Northern Lights
Gilbert Parker 试读
This book, "Northern Lights, " belongs to an epoch which is a generation later than that in which "Pierre and His People" moved. The conditions under which Pierre and Shon McGann lived practically ended with the advent of the railway. From that time forwards, with the rise of towns and cities accompanied by an amazing growth of emigration, the whole life lost much of that character of isolation and pathetic loneliness which marked the days of Pierre. When, in 1905, I visited the Far West again after many years, and saw the strange new life with its modern episode, energy, and push, and realized that even the characteristics which marked the period just before the advent, and just after the advent, of the railway were disappearing, I determined to write a series of stories which would catch the fleeting characteristics and hold something of the old life, so adventurous, vigorous, and individual, before it passed entirely and was forgotten. . . . Something of the old atmosphere had gone, and there was a stir and a murmur in all the West which broke that grim yet fascinating loneliness of the time of Pierre.-- from Gilbert Parker's Introduction
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The Emigrant Trail
Geraldine Bonner 试读
Geraldine Bonner (1870-1930) was an American author, born on Staten Island, New York. As a child, she moved to Colorado where she lived in mining camps. After moving to San Francisco, California, she worked at a newspaper, the Argonaut, in 1887, and subsequently. She wrote the novel Hard Pan (1900) and used the term "Hard Pan" as a pseudonym. Bonner wrote short stories which were published in Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Monthly, and Lippincott's. Her other works include: Rich Men's Children (1906), The Emigrant Trail (1910), Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California (1917).
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Confessions of a Young Man
George Moore 试读
'Mr. Moore, true to his period and to his genius, stripped himself of everything that might stand between him and the achievement of his artistic object. He does not ask you to admire this George Moore. He merely asks you to observe him from beyond good and evil as a constant plucked from the bewildering flow of eternity.'
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Mike Fletcher A Novel
George Moore 试读
Oaths- vociferations- and the slamming of cab-doors. Thedarkness was decorated by the pink of a silk skirt- the crimson ofan opera-cloak vivid in the light of a carriage-lamp; with women'sfaces necks and hair.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
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Glyn Severns Schooldays
George Manville Fenn 试读
“I think, Mr Morris, you might be kind enough to tell Wrench to get the boy to help him and place a line of forms by the wall, so that the young gentlemen can enjoy the privilege of having a prolonged private box above the crowd; or, shall I say, a high bank in this modern form of the classic amphitheatre?”(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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Home Again
George MacDonald 试读
WILL THIS YOUNG POET AMOUNT TO NOTHINGHis Aunt Ann certainly thinks so."Walter is a drain on your finances " she states self-righteously.But Richard Colman, a farmer, doesn't think so. He loves his son, Walter Colman the young poet, and supports his ambition. Walter is his link to his dead wife. And besides . . .However Richard Colman's finances fail and the young poet must fend for himself.At first Walter finds some success -- but he meets the seductive Lufa and endures trouble.Should he return to the simple life of father, farmland and childhood friend Molly -- and his love of God HimselfFind out in this heartfelt parable of faith and art by the nineteenth century Scottish Christian master
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Gutta-Percha Willie
George MacDonald 试读
When he had been at school for about three weeks, the boys called him Six-fingered Jack but his real name was Willie, for his father and mother gave it him -- not William, but Willie, after a brother of his father, who died young, and had always been called Willie. His name in full was Willie Macmichael. It was generally pronounced Macmickle, which was, by a learned anthropologist, for certain reasons about to appear in this history, supposed to have been the original form of the name. . . . One evening in winter, when he had been putting coals on his grannie's fire, she told him to take a chair beside her, as she wanted a little talk with him. He obeyed her gladly."Well, Willie," she said, "what would you like to be "P Willie answered without a moment's hesitation --
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Weighed and Wanting
George MacDonald 试读
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The Parish Register
George Crabbe 试读
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People
George Bird Grinnell 试读
This collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate look into Blackfoot culture and philosophy and remind us of tribal values to be upheld and taught. Classic tales of adventure speak of deeds accomplished, and cultural heroes roam across an arresting Native landscape of legend and history. Ancient stories, captured in oral tradition, cast the shadow of the Blackfoot people far into the past and provide foundation and meaning for their lives in the present. The final section of this book is an insightful overview of the history and culture of the Blackfoot Nation. First published in 1892, Blackfoot Lodge Tales is based on George Bird Grinnell’s personal interactions with the Blackfoot people.
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The Day of the Dog
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
A story about gang violence, criminal sexual conduct and class warfare where a boy becomes a man by redefining rescue and accepting the consequences of his own brand of justice that puts both Catholic and Protestant theologies to the test
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The Hollow of Her Hand
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
The train, which had roared through a withering gale of sleet all the way up from New York, came to a standstill, with many an ear-splitting sigh, alongside the little station, and a reluctant porter opened his vestibule door to descend to the snow-swept platform: a solitary passenger had reached the journey's end. The swirl of snow and sleet screaming out of the blackness at the end of the station-building enveloped the porter in an instant, and cut his ears and neck with stinging force as he turned his back against the gale. A pair of lonely, half-obscured platform lights gleamed fatuously at the top of their icy posts at each end of the station; two or three frost-encrusted windows glowed dully in the side of the building, while one shone brightly where the operator sat waiting for the passing of No. 33. The train itself was dark. Frosty windows, pelted for miles by the furious gale, white outside but black within, protected the snug travellers who slept the sleep of the hurried and thought not of the storm that beat about their ears nor wondered at the stopping of the fast express at a place where it had never stopped before. Far ahead the panting engine shed from its open fire-box an aureole of glaring red as the stoker fed coal into its rapacious maw. The unblinking head-light threw its rays into the thick of the blinding snow storm, fruitlessly searching for the rails through drifts denser than fog and filled with strange, half-visible shapes.
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People You Know
George Ade 试读
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Knocking the Neighbors
George Ade 试读
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The Trees of Pride
Gilbert Keith Chesterton 试读
"Credulity is a curious thing," went on Treherne in a low voice. "It is more negative than positive, and yet it is infinite. Hundreds of men will avoid walking under a ladder; they don't know where the door of the ladder will lead. They don't really think God would throw a thunderbolt at them for such a thing. They don't know what would happen, that is just the point; but yet they step aside as from a precipice. So the poor people here may or may not believe anything; they don't go into those trees at night." Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.
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Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia
George Alfred Henty 试读
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.
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Die frohliche Wissenschaft
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 试读
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Strife and Peace
Fredrika Bremer 试读
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ..." it is he who is this disturber of peace! I have suspected it long; and now, Flora, novT I will know what right, what ground he has for doing so. This hour must end our connexion, or cement it for ever. I have more than once besought for your full confidence--to-day, I must demand it." " You shall know all," exclaimed Flora, with determination--" and you shall be my judge. But, O Thorsten! remember that even God's highest judgment is--mercy!" Lennartson made no reply; he sate grave and dark, and seemed to wait for Flora's confession. " Well, then," replied she, whilst she seemed powerfully to compel herself, " all then may be said. This St. Orme, when he was in Stockholm five years ago, paid his homage to me, and acquired--a certain power over me. His bold confidence, his talents, his powers of mind, which I then regarded as quite extraordinary, made an impression upon me. I fancied that I lored him. He misused my blindness, my inexperience, in order to seduce me into an exchange of letters, and the promise of eternal love and the like. St. Orme however troubled himself but little in the fulfilment of the promises which he made to me. I was at that time poor; and he left me for a journey to Paris, whence for a long time I heard nothing of him. In the mean time I became acquainted with you, Lennartsun, and learned what real love is. I regarded myself as forgotten by St. Orme, and forgot also him and my childish, foolish promises. Ah! I forgot the whole world, when you, Lennartson, offered me your heart, and life dawned for me in new beauty. But I was now rich, and St. Orme came again and asserted liis old pretensions. He had forgotten Flora, but he called to mind the heiress.
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American Indians
Frederick Starr 试读
THIS book about American Indians is intended as a reading book for boys and girls in school. The native inhabitants of America arc rapidly dying off or changing. Certainly some knowledge of them, their old location, 2nd their old life ought to be interesting to American children. While intended for young people and written with them only in mind, the author will be pleased if the book shall interest some older readers. Should it do so, may it enlarge their sympathy with our native Americans.......
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Over Prairie Trails
Frederick Philip Grove 试读
Over Prairie Trails recalls Grove’s solitary and often perilous journeys by horse and wagon over 30-odd miles of Manitoba countryside that separated him and his wife during a year of hardship. Grove brings before the reader’s eye a landscape by turns magical and menacing, whose ever-changing moods demand of the traveller the utmost courage, resourcefulness, and endurance.
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Japhet, in Search of a Father
Frederick Marryat 试读
Captain Frederick Marryat (1792-1848) was an English novelist, a contemporary and acquaintance of Charles Dickens, noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story. He is now known particularly for the semi-autobiographical novel Mr Midshipman Easy (1836) and his children's novel The Children of the New Forest (1847). After trying to run away to sea several times, he was permitted to enter the Royal Navy in 1806, as a midshipman on board HMS Imperieuse. In 1829 he was commanding the frigate HMS Ariadne on a mission to search for shoals around the Madeira and Canary Islands. This was an uninspiring exercise, and between that and the recent publication of his first novel, The Naval Officer (1829) he decided to resign his commission and take up writing full time.
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Peter Simple
Frederick Marryat 试读
From the Father of Modern Nautical Fiction While Frederick Marryat had achieved commercial success with his previous books, Peter Simple was perhaps his first "classic." Indeed, Peter Simple is considered by many to be the best of Captain Marryat's novels. Peter Simple goes to sea as a young, naive, midshipman during the Napoleonic wars. He is taken under the wing of Terence O'Brien, a Master's Mate, who, a bit at a time, brings Peter into a mature adulthood. Together they form a kind of nautical Don Quixote Sancho Panza team that experiences the best and the worst that the nautical life has to offer. From cutting-out missions, to hurricanes, to mutiny, Peter Simple set the standard for presenting vivid characters and heart stopping adventure to the nautical reader. " Marryat's] stories depict, with detailed realism, those qualities of courage, seamanship, tyranny, cruelty, recklessness, and good fellowship, all of which combined to render the British Navy so formidable a fighting instrument."
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Moran of the Lady Letty
Frank Norris 试读
Ross WIlber went to the docks to meet a friend, and when he accepted the offer of a drink from a friendly sailor, he never dreamed he would end up drugged, sold to an unscrupulous captain, and shipped off for the Orient . . . in a word, shanghaied By a series of strange twists of fate, his new-found employment proves anything but drudgery . . . between a derelict ship, a mutiny, and a female sailor named Moran, his adventures off the California coast are just beginning
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The Garies and Their Friends
Frank J. Webb 试读
The Garies and Their Friends was written in 1857 with a preface by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Frank Webb was a black man born in Philadelphia. Being one of the nearest free cities of any size to the slave territory, it was been a sanctuary for escaping fugitive or emancipated slaves. Mr. Garies was a slave-owning Southerner. His beloved wife was once a slave. They had two mixed-race children. To escape the racism of the South and the strict laws of Georgia prohibiting freedom for the children, the family moves to Philadelphia. They moved into a white neighborhood. Here they meet their remarkable "friends," including the middle-class and black Ellis family. They soon find out that Northern racism is different and equally dangerous. The wife next door is appalled by their new mixed-race neighbors, and her husband concocts a plot to rob the Garies of their wealth.
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Jack Mason, the Old Sailor
Francis Channing Woodworth 试读
Francis Channing Woodworth (1812-1859), who wrote under the pseudonyms Uncle Frank and Theodore Thinker, was the author of Stories About Animals (1850), Stories About Birds (1851), Woodworth's Cabinet of Curious Things (1852), The Holiday Book (1853), Balloon (1854), Young American's Life of Fremont (1856), Jack Mason, The Old Sailor, Uncle Reuben and his Budget of Stories, Wreaths of Friendship, The Diving Bell or, Pearls to be Sought for, A Peep at our Neighbors and Willow Lane Stories. "Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him, and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to, he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen, until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well as anybody. "
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My Home in the Field of Honor
Frances Wilson Huard 试读
"Below you on the right runs the Marne, and over there, beyond those hills, do you see that long straight line of trees?""Yes.""Well, that's the road that lead's from Paris to Metz!"(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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The Land of the Blue Flower
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
Every fair night through the King's earliest years the Ancient One carried him to the battlements and let him fall asleep beneath the shining myriads. But first he would walk about bearing him in his arms, or sit with him in the splendid silence, sometimes relating wonders to him in a low voice, sometimes uttering no word, only looking calmly into the high vault above as if the stars spoke to him and told him of perfect peace.
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The History of Emily Montague
Frances Brooke 试读
Frequently called the first Canadian novel, The History of Emily Montague, presents subversive views on traditional subjects like love and marriage and introduces such unique Canadian themes as the relationships between the Quebecois and their British conquerors and the customs and habits of the native peoples.
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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
Ezra Pound 试读
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Makers of Many Things
Eva March Tappan 试读
I remember being once upon a time ten miles from a store and one mile from a neighbor; the fire had gone out in the night, and the last match failed to blaze. We had no flint and steel. We were neither Indians nor Boy Scouts, and we did not know how to make a fire by twirling a stick. There was nothing to do but to trudge off through the snow to the neighbor a mile away and beg some matches. Then was the time when we appreciated the little match and thought with profound respect of the men who invented and perfected it. It is a long way from the safe and reliable match of to-day back to the splinters that were soaked in chemicals and sold together with little bottles of sulphuric acid. The splinter was expected to blaze when dipped into the acid. Sometimes it did blaze, and sometimes it did not; but it was reasonably certain how the acid would behave, for it would always sputter and do its best to spoil some one's clothes. Nevertheless, even such matches as these were regarded as a wonderful convenience, and were sold at five dollars a hundred.
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A Little Book of Profitable Tales
Eugene Field 试读
The Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many of which were written during a period of remarkable creativity.
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Songs and Other Verse
Eugene Field 试读
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Out of the Ashes
Ethel Watts Mumford 试读
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The Knave of Diamonds
Ethel May Dell 试读
There came a sudden blare of music from the great ballroom below, and the woman who stood alone at an open window on the first floor shrugged her shoulders and shivered a little. The night air blew in brisk and cold upon her uncovered neck, but except for that slight, involuntary shiver she scarcely seemed aware of it. The room behind her was brilliantly lighted but empty. Some tables had been set for cards, but the cards were untouched. Either the attractions of the ballroom had remained omnipotent, or no one had penetrated to this refuge of the bored - no one save this tall and stately woman robed in shimmering, iridescent green, who stood with her face to the night, breathing the chill air as one who had been on the verge of suffocation. It was evidently she who had flung up the window. Her gloved hands leaned upon the woodwork on each side of it. There was a certain constraint in her whole attitude, a tension that was subtly evident in every graceful line. Her head was slightly bent as though she intently watched or listened for something.