"Daniel Peters has done a prodigious amount of work in reconstructing the history of one of the most interesting peoples inhabing the Americas, and one of the least known, the Incas of Peru. Using this knowledge brilliantly, he has written a beautiful, tragic, heroic account of their last years, from 1511 to 1530, when these superior Indians were overwhelmed by their Spanish conquerors. It is written with beauty and compassion--an amazing accomplishment and a compelling reading experience"--James A Michener.
A self-made millionaire and a social revolutionary are at odds with each other in a novel set against the background of a nineteenth-century New York streetcar strike.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes and...
"17-year-old Molly Ayer, an orphan in foster care, is sent to help take care of a 91-year-old woman in Maine who is an alumni of the so-called orphan trains, which took orphans from the east coast to families in the farmlands of the Midwest ...
Hout, it will just be to get crane-berries, or whortle-berries, or some such stuff, out of the moss, to make the pies and tarts for the feast on Monday. — I cannot get the words of that cankered auld cripple deil's-buckie out o' my head ...
Holmes succeeds Case at Detroit , or more properly in the Thanies country , and even improves on the numbers returned by his successful predecessor ; a great achievement after such a revival . 59. RYAN , like his friend Case ...
Down to that time , and , in some ways , much later , those who were local in name were largely travelling in practice ; so much so as to be , in many cases , the pioneers in breaking up new ground and forming original societies .
曹雪芹编著的《红楼梦(导读版)》以贾宝玉、林黛玉、薛宝钗之间的恋爱婚姻悲剧为主线,描写了以贾家为代表的四大家族的兴衰,揭示了封建大家庭的各种错综复杂的矛盾,表现 ...
He held a match close to the bowl of Rubin's pipe , cupping the flame . “ Then why do you do it ? " “ It works best for me that way , Allan . I have arthritis . ” He slanted his eyes left at his pupil . “ Do you ?
sense of stopping . Also to blanch , Nor heav'n peep thro ' the blanket of the dark , To cry bold , hold . Kacbeth , i , B. with reference to the blanchers . But Cibber , in his Lives of the Poets BLANK . The white mark in the centre ...
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