本书摘录:
Chapter 1. A Marvelous Invention
_ CHAPTER I. A MARVELOUS INVENTION
TO THE READERS OF
JULES VERNE‘S ROMANCES
THIS STORY IS DEDICATED
Not because the author flatters himself that he can walk in the Footsteps of that Immortal Dreamer, but because, like Jules Verne, he believes that the World of Imagination is as legitimate a Domain of the Human Mind as the World of Fact.
CHAPTER I
I am a hero worshiper; an insatiable devourer of biographies; and I say that no man in all the splendid list ever equaled Edmund Stonewall. You smile because you have never heard his name, for, until now, his biography has not been written. And this is not truly a biography; it is only the story of the crowning event in Stonewall‘s career.
Really it humbles one‘s pride of race to see how ignorant the world is of its true heroes. Many a man who cuts a great figure in history is, after all, a poor specimen of humanity, slavishly following old ruts, destitute of any real
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