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Bracebridge Hall

Category: Author:Irving Washington华盛顿·欧文 

 Bracebridge Hall is a series of intimate character sketches that complete an idealized portrait of rural life in the 19th century. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall follows the events leading to the marriage of a young couple, detouring to explore the personalities of the residents in the histor...


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Spinning-Wheel Stories

Category: Author:Louisa May Alcott 

 AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "LITTLE MEN," "EIGHT COUSINS," "ROSE IN BLOOM," "UNDER THE LILACS," "JACK AND JILL," "HOSPITAL SKETCHES"... 


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The Path Of Duty8

Category: Author:novel 

You must content yourself with the explanation I have already given you of Sir Ambrose Tester and Lady Vandeleur: they are following—hand in hand, as it were—the path of duty. 


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Frank in the Woods

Category: Author:Harry Castlemon 

OUR scene opens in the swamp that stretches away for miles north of Lawrence.


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While the Billy Boils

Category: Author:Henry Lawson亨利·劳森 

While the Billy Boils is full of wonderful stories and sketches, but for me it doesn’t quite work as a collection. 


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A Sportsman's Sketcheslir

Category: Author:Ivan Turgenev屠格涅夫 

屠格涅夫的经典之作,是一部通过猎人的狩猎活动,讲述十九世纪中叶俄罗斯农村生活的随笔集。


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Life's Little Ironies

Category: Author:Thomas Hardy托马斯·哈代 

A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters


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Kilmeny of the Orchard

Category: Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery 

The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over the red brick buildings of Queenslea College and the grounds about them, throwing through the bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on the paths


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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Category: Author:Stephen Leacock 

 This work has remained popular for its universal appeal. Many of the characters, though modelled on townspeople of Orillia, are small town archetypes. Their shortcomings and weaknesses are presented in a humorous but affectionate way. Often, the narrator exaggerates the importance of the events in Mariposa compared to the rest of the ...


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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Category: Author:G.K. Chesterton 

 To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory ...


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