The story of The Pickwick Papers revolves around Samuel Pickwick and his friends as they embark on various adventures across England. These adventures are full of humor and satire, reflecting the author's keen observation of society. For example, the travels to Rochester and Dingley Dell showcase...
The highly anticipated Chinese war epic filmThe Battle at Lake Changjinabout the Korean War (1950-53) debuted around the country on September 30. 9月30日,备受期待的中国战争史诗电影《长津湖之战》(1950-53)在全国上映...
Finally, he walked across the room with a measured tread to where the window was. He stopped there, and faced round. The garret, built to be a depository for firewood and the like, was dim and dark: for, the window of dormer shape, was in truth a door in the roof, with a little...
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“They would leave and then come back and keep doing the same thing. They held a gun to my head the entire time. Eventually, they came back so drunk that they couldn’t stand up — they were pissing themselves right in the house — and finally they sat down in armchairs and fell ...
Finally we pulled the boats up among the brushwood and spent the night on the bank of the river. In the morning Lord John and I made our way for a couple of miles through the forest, keeping parallel with the stream; but as it grew ever shallower we returned and reported, wha...
第8章 A Ghost Story I took a large room, far up Broadway, in a huge old building whose upper stories had been wholly unoccupied for years until I came. The place had long been given up to dust and cobwebs, to solitude and silence.I seemed groping among the tombs and invading the pri...
Angrily – he could finally permit anger-he said, “You know nothing about it.” “Well,” said Swift. “Tell us. The war is over. We’ve won.” “Yes.” Henderson nodded his head. He had to remember that. Earth had won so all had been for the best. “Well, the data became ...
The unlucky Governor fumed and stormed and threatened his refractory prisoner with impossible p unishments; but finally came, as James Burton had come long ago, to the conclusion that it was mere waste of breath and temper to argue with a person in so unreasonable a state of ...
unaware that the rest of the school was on fire. The problem was that only Mother Superior could call for an evacuation, so several teachers kept their students in their smoke-filled rooms waiting for Mother Superior’s permission to evacuate. Finally, after it was too late, the teachers dec...