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East Lynne
Henry Wood 试读
In an easy-chair of the spacious and handsome library of his town-house, sat William, Earl of Mount Severn. His hair was gray, the smoothness of his expansive brow was defaced by premature wrinkles, and his once attractive face bore the pale, unmistakable look of dissipation.
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Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary
Henry Sweet 试读
Although the idea of scanning and printing out-of-print books is a noble one, this particular effort is criminal. It takes an important text and turns it into a piece of garbage.
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Fair Margaret
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Queen Shebas Ring
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines. Action is surprisingly brisk, characters are generally likeable, and the ending is not surprising but still satisfying.
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Quaint Courtships
Henry Mills Alden 试读
Originally published in 1906, this book is one of the Harper's Novelettes series of short stories and prose.
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Madame De Mauves
Henry James 试读
"Introduce me to Madame de Mauves," he answered, "and Saint-Germain will quite satisfy me." All he had learned was the lady's name and residence. Longmore's further enquiries were arrested by the arrival of a young lady with a bandbox but he went away with the promise of a note of introduction, to be immediately dispatched to him at Saint-Germain. He then waited a week, but the note never came. . . .
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Pandora
Henry James 试读
Work 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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Vane of the Timberlands
Harold Bindloss 试读
A light breeze scented with the smell of the firs was blowing down the inlet and the tiny ripples it chased across the water splashed musically against the bows of the canoe. They met her end-on sparkling in the warm sunset light gurgled about her sides and trailed away astern in two divergent lines as the paddles flashed and fell.
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Damn! A Book of Calumny
Henry Louis Mencken 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Balcony Stories
Grace E. King1st World Library1stworld Library 试读
Collection of stories by the American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, who was a leader in historical and literary activities.
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Vain Fortune
George Moore 试读
Hubert Price, a struggling young playwright with one moderate success under his belt, is bequeathed a legacy by his uncle. His focus on repeating his theatrical success, and his love for the beautiful Julia, blinds him to the tragic, obsessive …
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A Columbus of Space
Garrett Putman Serviss 试读
We simply listened in silence for what could we say The facts were more eloquent than any words, and called for no commentary. Here we "were," out in the middle of space and "there" was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud. At least we knew where we were if we didn't quite understand how we had got there. . . .
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Gala-days
Gail Hamilton 试读
Once there was a great noise in our house,—a thumping and battering and grating. It was my own self dragging my big trunk down from the garret. I did it myself because I wanted it done. If I had said, "Halicarnassus, will you fetch my trunk down?" he would have asked me what trunk? and what did I want of it? and would not the other one be better? and couldn't I wait till after dinner?—and so the trunk would probably have had a three-days journey from garret to basement.
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Jack Archer
George Alfred Henty 试读
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The first day of term cannot be considered a cheerful occasion. As the boys arrive on the previous evening, they have so much to tell each other, are so full of what they have been doing, that the chatter and laughter are as great as upon the night preceding the breaking-up. In the morning, however, all this is changed. As they take their places at their desks and open their books, a dull, heavy feeling takes possession of the boys, and the full consciousness that they are at the beginning of another half year's work weighs heavily on their minds. It is true enough that the half year will have its play, too, its matches, with their rivalry and excitement. But at present it is the long routine of lessons which is most prominent in the minds of the lads who are sitting on the long benches of the King's School, Canterbury.
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A Chosen Few Short Stories
Frank Richard Stockton 试读
The stories contained in this little volume were chosen, by virtue of a sort of literary civil-service examination, in order that they might be grouped together as a representative class of the author’s best-known work in this line.Several of these stories have points of peculiar interest to the author. For instance, “Negative Gravity” was composed in Switzerland when the author was temporarily confined to the house in full view of unreachable Alps.
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Racketty-Packetty House
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
From the writer of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes the story of how Queen Crosspatch and her band of fairies help to save the Racketty-Packetty House. With classic illustrations by Harrison Cady, "Racketty-Packetty House" is Frances Hodgson Burnett's whimsical tale of wonder with a positive message that will enchant and delight young readers.
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Observations By Mr. Dooley
Finley Peter Dunne 试读
Large format paper back for easy reading. Satirical observations of a fictional, honest, Irish-American street philosopher……
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Gaslight Sonatas
Fannie Hurst 试读
In the early 1920s, Fannie Hurst's enormous popularity made her the highest-paid writer in America. She conquered the literary scene at the same time the silent movie industry began to emerge as a tremendously profitable and popular form of entertainment. Abe C. Ravitz parallels Hurst's growing acclaim with the evolution of silent films, from which she borrowed ideas and techniques that furthered her career. Ravitz notes that Hurst was amazingly adept at anticipating what the public wanted. Sensing that the national interest was shifting from rural to urban subjects, Hurst set her immigrant tales and her "woiking goil" tales in urban America. In her early stories, she tried to bridge the gap between Old World and New World citizens, each somewhat fearful and suspicious of the other. She wrote of love and ethnicity--bringing the Jewish Mother to prominence--of race relations and prejudice, of the woman alone in her quest for selfhood. Ravitz argues, in fact, that her socially oriented tales and her portraits of women in the city clearly identify her as a forerunner of contemporary feminism.
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A Comedy of Masks A Nove
Ernest Christopher Dowson 试读
Me in the old days with his confounded cavalry bluster I rather think I will look him up: and I'll dine with him three times a week if he likes. Meanwhile, it's time for me to go and meet old Rainham, and take him round to Brodo- nowski's. What a ripping sunset " And he strolled light-heartedly through Grosvenor Square, the smoke of his cigarette fading away behind him. CHAPTER IV. When Rainham pushed back the door of the dim little restaurant in Turk Street, Soho, he stood a moment, blinking his eyes a little in the sudden change from the bright summer sunshine, before he assured himself that his friend had not yet arrived. Half a dozen men were sitting about smoking or discussing various drinks.
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J. Cole
Emma Gellibrand 试读
As I turned the handle of the heavy iron gate, I looked down at the front kitchen window. A man stood in the kitchen, and he looked up and saw me--such a horrible-looking ruffian, too. Fear lent wings to my feet, and I flew up the road. The watchman was just entering the park from the opposite end he saw me, and sounded his whistle the policeman turned and ran towards me. I was too exhausted to speak, and he caught me, just as, having gasped Thieves at 50 (the number of our house), I fell forward in a dead swoon.
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La debacle
Emile Zola 试读
La Débâcle est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1892, le dix-neuvième volume de la série les Rougon-Macquart, dont il constitue la conclusion historique. Pendant la guerre de 1870, deux soldats se lient d'amitié ; Jean Macquart, incarnation des solides valeurs rurales, et Maurice Levasseur, intellectuel qui rêve d'un cataclysme où s'anéantirait le monde corrompu - et le lecteur va les suivre jusqu'à ce que la Commune les sépare et dramatiquement les voie s'affronter. Mais si Zola choisit, bien au-delà de leur opposition symbolique, de les mêler à d'innombrables autres figures, c'est qu'il veut écrire le roman des masses et nous montrer une nation tout entière meurtrie par l'Histoire. Il juxtapose donc des scènes de combat et de vie civile, montre sans fard toutes les souffrances des corps, et jour après jour déroule sous nos yeux la douloureuse chronique qui va conduire à l'humiliation de Sedan. La Débâcle que Zola fait paraître en 1892, avant de clore Les Rougon-Macquart par un ultime roman, est le seul de ses livres dont le sujet soit un événement historique, le seul aussi qui soit consacré à la guerre. En abordant la crise la plus grave de l'histoire récente de la France, il adopte pour la dernière fois une vision tragique, mais nous donne à comprendre que sans doute la défaite fut un mal nécessaire. Après quoi Le Docteur Pascal pourra interpréter la totalité de la fresque romanesque comme une célébration de la vie.
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Nancy Stair A Novel
Elinor Macartney Lane 试读
Nancy Stair is a Biographical book. Nancy as a poet; the heart of the matter with him being to commend her English verses, as well as those in " gude braid Scot". With these accounts to be secured so easily it may seem presumptuous, as well as superfluous, for me to undertake a third. I state at the outset, therefore, that it is beyond my ambition and my abilities to add a word to stories told so well. Nor do I purpose to mention either the work on the bum or Nancy's song-making, save when necessary for clearness. For me, however, the life of Nancy Stair has a far deeper significance than that set forth by either of these gifted authors. My knowledge of her was naturally of the most intimate; I watched her grow from a wonderful child into a wonderful woman; and saw her, with a man's education, none but men for friends, and no counselings save from her own heart, solve most wisely for the race the problem put to every woman of gift; and with sweetest reasoning and no bitter renouncings enter the kingdom of great womanhood.
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Halcyone
Elinor Glyn 试读
This early work by Elinor Glyn was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Halcyone' is a novel about a young heroine and her romantic life. She was the youngest daughter of a civil engineer, Douglas Southerland, and his wife Elinor Saunders. Elinor Glyn began her writing career in 1900 and was a pioneer of the risque and romantic fiction genre. She went on to write many popular books such as 'Beyond the Rocks' (1906), 'Love's Blindness' (1926), and 'It' (1927), in which she coined the term 'It', meaning the animal magnetism that some individuals possess.
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Painted Windows
Elia Wilkinson Peattie 试读
"Painted Windows" is a series of remembrances (some most certainly autobiographical in nature) from the point of view of a young girl growing up, covering all aspects of her life, from family and love, to friendship and travel and remorse. Its author, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, was born and raised in poverty in southwestern Michigan and went on to become one of the first female reporters for the "Chicago Tribune." From her introduction to this work: "Will you come with me into the chamber of memory and lift your eyes to the painted windows where the figures and scenes of childhood appear Perhaps by looking with kindly eyes at those from out my past, long wished-for visions of your own youth will appear to heal the wounds from which you suffer, and to quiet your stormy and restless heart."
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Taken Alive
Edward Payson Roe 试读
Two or three years ago the editor of "Lippincott's Magazine" asked me, with many others, to take part in the very interesting "experience meeting" begun in the pages of that enterprising periodical. I gave my consent without much thought of the effort involved, but as time passed, felt slight inclination to comply with the request. There seemed little to say of interest to the general public, and I was distinctly conscious of a certain sense of awkwardness in writing about myself at all. The question, Why should I always confronted me. When this request was again repeated early in the current year, I resolved at least to keep my promise. This is done with less reluctance now, for the reason that floating through the press I meet with paragraphs concerning myself that are incorrect, and often absurdly untrue. These literary and personal notes, together with many questioning letters, indicate a certain amount of public interest, and I have concluded that it may be well to give the facts to those who care to know them.
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Half Portions
Edna Ferber 试读
Edna Ferber was an early 20th century American author and playwright. Ferber worked for several newspapers. She covered the 1920 Republican and Democratic national conventions for the United Press Association. Her novels often featured a strong female protagonist and often had a secondary character who faced some form of discrimination. In 1925 her novel So Big won a Pulitzer Prize. Stories in this collection include The maternal feminine, April 25th, as usual, Old lady Mandle, You've got to be selfish, Long distance, Un Morso Doo Pang, One hundred per cent, Farmer in the Del, and The dancing girls.
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Edmund Dulacs Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations
Edmund Dulac 试读
The old wife sang merrily as she sat in the inglenook stirring the soup, for she had never felt so sad. Many, many years had come and gone, leaving the weight of their winters on her shoulders and the touch of snow on her hair without ever bringing her a little child.
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Queen Lucia
E. F. Benson 试读
Queen Lucia is a humorous delightful book. E F Benson was a 19th century English biographer, novelist, short story writer, and memoirist. Benson wrote several ghost stories. His Mapp and Lucia series is his best known work. Lucia's supremacy as the social and cultural queen of an English village is challenged when one friend discovers an Indian guru and begins yoga lessons. Olga a beautiful diva comes to challenge Lucia's rule over the gentry of Riseholme. Lucia's ego is challenged by the guru who is a fraud and her Italian which is also fraudulent.
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A Circuit Riders Wife
Corra Harris 试读
If you will look back over the files of the "Southern Christian Advocate," published at the time in Macon, Georgia, you will find the following notice—by a singular coincidence on the page devoted to "obituaries": "Married—Mary Elizabeth Eden to William Asbury Thompson. The bride is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Eden, of Edenton; the groom is the son of the late Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Asbury Thompson, and is serving his first year in the itinerancy on the Redwine Circuit. We wish the young people happiness and success in their chosen field."
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Kathleen
Christopher Morley 试读
The literary society, named in accordance with the grotesque whim of Oxford undergraduates, consisted of eight members, and it was proposed that each one should contribute a chapter. Forbes was of a fertile wit, and he had been nominated the first operator. He had been allowed the whole Christmas vacation to prepare his opening chapter; which was why on this first Sunday of term while the rest of Merton College was at dinner in hall, he sat at his desk desperately driving his pen across the paper.
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Palmistry for All
Cheiro 试读
There is no country in the world where the "study of character" is more indulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visits there I could not help remarking how even the "hardest headed" business men used any form of this study that they could get hold of to help them in their business dealings with other men and also in endeavouring to ascertain the character of their clerks and employees.
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Gawayne and the Green Knight A Fairy Tale
Charlton Miner Lewis 试读
Arms and the man I sing,—not as of old,The Mantuan bard his mighty verse unrolled,But in such humbler strains as may beseem,Light changes rung on a fantastic theme.My tale is ancient, but the sense is new,Replete with monstrous fictions, yet half true;And, if you'll follow till the story's done,I promise much instruction, and some fun.
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Madam How and Lady Why
Charles Kingsley 试读
Though there is nothing left for you to pick and all the flowers are dead and brown except here and there a poor half-withered scrap of bottle-heath and nothing left for you to catch either for the butterflies and insects are all dead too except one poor old Daddy-long-legs who sits upon that piece of turf boring a hole with her tail to lay her eggs in before the frost catches her and ends her like the rest...'
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Earths Enigmas A Volume of Stories
Charles George Douglas Roberts 试读
One side of the ravine was in darkness. The darkness was soft and rich, suggesting thick foliage. Along the crest of the slope tree-tops came into view—great pines and hemlocks of the ancient unviolated forest—revealed against the orange disk of a full moon just rising. The low rays slanting through the moveless tops lit strangely the upper portion of the opposite steep,—the western wall of the ravine, barren, unlike its fellow, bossed with great rocky projections, and harsh with stunted junipers. Out of the sluggish dark that lay along the ravine as in a trough, rose the brawl of a swollen, obstructed stream.
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Backlog Studies
Charles Dudley Warner 试读
Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri studied law at the University of Pennsylvania practiced in Chicago was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870). Amongst his other works are Saunterings (1872), Backlog Studies (1873), Being a Boy (1878), In the Wilderness (1878), Captain John Smith (1881), Washington Irving (1881), A Little Journey in the World (1889), As We Were Saying (1891) and That Fortune (1899).
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Salomy Jane
Bret Harte 试读
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a prolific American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. The spirit of Dickens breathes through the poems and stories of Bret Harte just as the spirit of Bret Harte breathes through the poems and stories of Kipling.
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East and West Poems
Bret Harte 试读
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a prolific American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. The spirit of Dickens breathes through the poems and stories of Bret Harte just as the spirit of Bret Harte breathes through the poems and stories of Kipling.
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Cabin Fever
B. M. Bower 试读
In the fourth installment of this fun, girl-power series, Zoe Richards is spending her spring break at superhero camp, where she'll perfect her Super skills. As usual, though, things don't quite go as planned. Will Kid Zoom be called on to save the day-- or will she be crowded out by 500 other superhero campers?
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Obiter Dicta
Augustine Birrell 试读
Augustine Birrell, KC (1850-1933) was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. After unsuccessfully contesting parliamentary seats in Liverpool, Walton in 1885 and Widnes in 1886, Birrell was elected to parliament for West Fife at a by-election in 1889, as a Liberal. He was not really in favour of votes for women and like many of his political colleagues and members of the general public he strongly disapproved of the militancy and violence the suffragettes were increasingly espousing. His works include: Obiter Dicta (1884), Obiter Dicta: Second Series (1887), Copyright in Books (1899), In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays (1905), Andrew Marvell (1905) and Frederick Locker Lampson (1920).
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Sacred and Profane Love
Arnold Bennett 试读
THE NOVELIST FOR WHOM MAN AND NATURE ARE INSEPARABLE WITH PROFOUND RESPECT FOR THE CLASSICAL DIGNITY OF HIS AIM AND EQUAL ADMIRATION FOR THE AUSTERE SPLENDOUR OF HIS PERFORMANCE。
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Ralph the Heir
Anthony Trollope 试读
There are men who cannot communicate themselves to others, as there are also men who not only can do so, but cannot do otherwise. And it is hard to say which is the better man of the two. We do not specially respect him who wears his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at, who carries a crystal window to his bosom so that all can see the work that is going on within it, who cannot keep any affair of his own private, who gushes out in love and friendship to every chance acquaintance; but then, again, there is but little love given to him who is always wary, always silent as to his own belongings, who buttons himself in a suit of close reserve which he never loosens.
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Half a Hero A Novel
Anthony Hope 试读
In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on—and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that—then Mr. Puttock, bourgeois as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in.
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Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch
Annie Roe Carr 试读
It was a terrible shock to the railroad magnate's daughter—this. The defection of her chief henchman and ally would rather break up the little group which Laura Polk had unkindly dubbed "the School of Snobs". With all her wealth Linda had but few retainers. In the van of the newcomers were a rather comely, brown-eyed girl with a bright and cheerful expression of countenance, a dark beauty with curls and flashing eyes, and a demure but pretty girl to whom Lillie Nevins ran with exclamations of joy. This last was Grace Mason, the flaxen-haired girl's chum.
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X Y Z A Detective Story
Anna Katharine Green 试读
Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected or with attendant circumstances of greater interest than in the instance I am now about to relate.
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Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
Alice Turner 试读
Sylvia Fulton, a little Boston girl, was staying with her father and mother in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, just before the opening of the Civil War. She had become deeply attached to her new friends, and their chivalrous kindness toward the little northern girl, as well as Sylvia's perilous adventure in Charleston Harbor, and the amusing efforts of the faithful negro girl to become like her young mistress, all tend to make this story one that every little girl will enjoy reading, and from which she will learn of far-off days and of the high ideals of southern honor and northern courage.
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La Clique doree
Emile Gaboriau 试读
Mademoiselle Henriette, fille du comte de la Ville-Handry, est sauvée in extremis du suicide par le père Ravinet, brocanteur de son état. "Trop fière pour se plaindre, isolée par les pudeurs de la pauvreté, la malheureuse qui gisait là, avait dû subir bien des angoisses. Ainsi pensait le père Ravinet, quand une feuille de papier attira ses regards. Il la prit. C'était comme le testament de la pauvre fille. Qu'on n'accuse personne. Je meurs volontairement. Je prie Madame Chevassat de porter à leur adresse les lettres jointes. Henriette". Touché par son malheur, le vieux brocanteur l'aidera à châtier les escrocs qui cherchent à la dépouiller. Parviendra-t-il à lui faire retrouver fortune, honneur et amour ?
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La maison de Claudine
Colette 试读
Colette se propose, d'abord, au lecteur, comme la souveraine d'un royaume sensible, la reine des choses prochaines, un écrivain de la nature. Pourtant, (elle) n'est pas orientée vers la campagne à la manière des romanciers paysans. La campagne de Colette est une campagne pour citadines, une campagne dont les baumes cicatrisent les plaies du cœur. Rien ne viendra à bout d'une certitude solidement appuyée sur la terre, d'une confiance animale dans la vie qui assurera toujours, en fin de compte, le ressaisissement et la reconquête de soi. Colette connaît la souffrance, et la fin inexorable de toutes choses heureuses ; elle les accepte l'une et l'autre, sûre d'une complicité secrète du monde, du chat qui dort près du feu, les pattes en manchon, de l'acidité des fruits sauvages dans les souvenirs d'enfance. Accepter est déjà la source d'une satisfaction mystérieuse.
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La Princesse Flora
Alexandre Dumas 试读
Résumé La jeune et jolie Flora, épouse du prince Pierre, vit à Saint-Pétersbourg. Un jour, à bord de la frégate L'Espérance, elle rencontre le capitaine du vaisseau, Pravdine, et tombe sous son charme. Le capitaine, alors, devient fou, selon les commentaires de son second et ami Nil-Pavlovitch: il est amoureux et néglige sa frégate. Il préfère assiéger la princesse. Celle-ci repousse de son mieux, bien que fort coquettement, les avances du capitaine.
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Calvert of Strathore
Goodloe,Carter 试读
Across the courtyard covered with snow fallen during the might which glittered and sparkled in the brilliant wintry sunshine grooms and stable-boys hurried between ecuries and remises currying Mr. Jefferson's horses and sponging off Mr. Jefferson's handsome carriage with which he had provided himself on setting up his establishment as minister of the infant federation of States to the court of the sixteenth Louis.
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General William Booth Enters into Heaven:and other poems
Gruger,Frederic Rodrigo,Lindsay,Vachel 试读
In 1913, after several years of tramping about the country and writing poetry, Lindsay published "General William Booth Enters into Heaven," in the fourth issue of Poetry. The poem, a tribute to the founder of the Salvation Army, brought him instant fame. The Review of Reviews praised it as "perhaps the most remarkable poem of a decade." In his column for Harper's, William Dean Howells called it a "fine brave poem."
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La Mare au diable
George Sand 试读
Écrit en plein cœur du XIXe siècle, La Mare au diable est un roman champêtre et social par l'intermédiaire duquel George Sand exalte l'amour de son Berry natal et son idéal de réconciliation des classes à travers la peinture du milieu paysan dont elle décrit la noblesse et les valeurs, face à une société capitaliste pervertie.
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La princesse de Cleves
Madame de La Fayette 试读
Quelque approbation qu'ait eu cette Histoire dans les lectures qu'on en a faites, l'Auteur n'a pû se resoudre à se déclarer, il a craint que son nom ne diminuât le succès de son Livre. Il sait par expérience, que l'on condamne quelquefois les Ouvrages sur la médiocre opinion qu'on a de l'Auteur, et il sait aussi que la réputation de l'Auteur donne souvent du prix aux Ouvrages. Il demeure donc dans l'obscurité où il est, pour laisser les jugements plus libres & plus équitables, & il se montrera néanmoins si cette Histoire est aussi agréable au Public que je l'espère.