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Arthur Hailey阿瑟·黑利

I'd like to give it 5 stars but it wasn't quite there. So few books are-- even the ones I see given 5 stars. In this case my reason was the first half of the book. It had trouble picking up steam. The first couple pages were slow. And then...

Kingdom of the Blind

盲者之国

Edward Phillips Oppenheim爱德华·菲利普斯·奥本海姆

Lady Anselman stood in the centre of the lounge at the Ritz Hotel and with a delicately-poised forefinger counted her guests. There was the great French actress who had every charm but youth, chatting vivaciously with a tall, pale-faced man...

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O. Henry欧·亨利

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The Song of the Lark

云雀之歌

Willa Cather维拉·凯瑟

The Song of the Lark is the third novel by American author Willa Cather. The title comes from a painting of the same name by Jules Adolphe Aim Louis Breton. The story is about an ambitious young woman, Thea Kronborg, who leaves her town to...

Can You Forgive Her

你能原谅她吗？

Anthony Trollope安东尼·特罗洛普

With Can You Forgive Her? Trollope begins his masterful series of Parliamentary novels, but here he is concerned with the politics of love and the demands of society. Alice Vavasor, lovely, intelligent and just a bit prudish, is torn betwee...

Whirligigs

生命的陀螺

O. Henry欧·亨利

1923. William Sydney Porter (O. Henry) was the most popular short story writer of his time. His stories typically revolved around two of his favorite themes, the situation of the impostor and fate as the one unavoidable reality of life. Ano...

The Man In Lower Ten

下层人

Mary Roberts Rinehart玛丽·罗伯茨·莱因哈特

Since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people, only one of whom can be guilty, and...

Finished

已完成

Henry Rider Haggard亨利·赖德·哈格德

Finished comprises the third book in H. Rider Haggard's so-called Zulu trilogy, the first two novels being Marie and Child of Storm. This is a magnificent set of books that deals with the downfall of the Zulu people, as personally witnessed...

Heu Heu

恶魔

Henry Rider Haggard亨利·赖德·哈格德

Heu-Heu, or the Monster is one of the 14 novels that the great H. Rider Haggard wrote that deals with the life of Allan Quatermain, an English hunter in South Africa. This is a stand-alone novel. Unlike the first two novels in the series, K...

The Avenger

复仇者

Edgar Wallace埃德加·华莱士

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