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The Mummy A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
Mrs. Loudon
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Mrs. Loudon Bestseller Book The Mummy A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century
出版Beyond Books Hub, 2021-01-01
主題Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & AdventureFiction / Action & AdventureFiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GxsvEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋I have long wished to write a novel, but I could not determine what it was to be about. I could not bear any thing common-place, and I did not know what to do for a hero. Heroes are generally so much alike, so monotonous, so dreadfully insipid—so completely brothers of one race, with the family likeness so amazingly strong—"This will not do for me," thought I as I sauntered listlessly down a shady lane, one fine evening in June; "I must have something new, something quite out of the beaten path:—but what?"—ay, that was the question. In vain did I rack my brains—in vain did I search the storehouse of my memory: I could think of nothing that had not been thought of before.