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The Cloister and the Hearth

Category: Author:Charles Reade 

  It's a long and winding picaresque novel set in 15th century Europe, telling the story of the love between Gerard Eliason, an artist turned priest, and Margaret Brandt, the daughter of a poor scholar, and reflects the conflict between family and church which overshadowed the lives of so many in medieval times.


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Jerry of the Islands

Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦 

The action was placed in the Solomon Islands.  The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination.  As regards reality—they said there wasn’t any.  Of course, as every one knew, kinky-haired cannibals no longer obtained on the earth’s surface, much less ran around with nothing on, chopp...


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The Purchase of the North Pole

Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳 

A sequel to "From the earth to the moon".  


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The Hollow Earth

Category: Author:F. T. Ives 

Cranks are appliances to turn things round.


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The Story of Siegfried

Category: Author:詹姆斯·鲍德温 James Baldwin 

When the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the water, had a life like their own, and that every sight which they saw, and every sound which they heard, was caused by some intelligent being. 


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A Journey into the Interior of the Earth

Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳 

 "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" is Jules Verne's classic science fiction adventure about Professor Liedenbrock and his nephew Axel who discover an ancient document written by an Icelandic adventurer who went to the center of the earth many years before. Being the ever-ardent discoverer and scientist, Professor Liedenbrock imm...


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Pelican Pool A Novel

Category: Author:Sydney De Loghe 

 Where the equator girdles the earth, the Indian Ocean and the amorous waters of the Pacific have their marriage bed. Afire with the passions of the tropics, excited by breezes from a thousand islands of palm, of spice, of coral, of pearl, jewelled for the ceremony with quick-lived phosphorous lights, the oceans move to each other, and...


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Desert Dust

Category: Author:Edwin L. (Legrand) Sabin 

In the estimate of the affable brakeman (a gentleman wearing sky-blue army pantaloons tucked into cowhide boots, half-buttoned vest, flannel shirt open at the throat, and upon his red hair a flaring-brimmed black slouch hat) we were making a fair average of twenty miles an hour across the greatest country on earth.


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The Red Badge of Courage

Category: Author:Stephen Crane史蒂芬·克莱恩 

The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. 


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The Pioneers

Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne 

 We have heard some people object to geographical discovery, especially in the inclement parts of the earth, on the ground that it could be of no use, and involved great risk to life and limb. “Of no use!” Who can tell what discoveries shall be useful and what useless? “The works of God are great, sought out of a...


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