Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
Maid Marian is the love interest of the legendary outlaw Robin Hood in English folklore. Maid Marian was in origin a "shepherdess" figure associated with May Day. Her character may also have been influenced by the image of the Virgin Mary. Her role as the love interest of Robin Hood dates to the 16th century.
Cate： Classical Novels Author：Sinclair Lewis
The first of Sinclair Lewis's great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narrow-minded provincialism. Reflecting his own unhappy childhood in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis's sixth novel attacked the conformity and dullness he saw in midwestern village life. Young col...
Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
I stood on a high hill that overlooked a large city. The proud spires of many churches rose high, here and there; and round about the city were beautiful, sloping hills, stretching away, away into the distance; while a broad river wound here and there, extending a kindly arm toward the city.
Cate： Classical Novels Author：H.G. Wells
The room was long and lofty, a room of scarlet hangings and pale brown stone, unilluminated as yet by any of its red-shaded electric lights. There were two great Italianate fire-places with projecting canopies of carved stone; in one, the olive logs were unlit, in the other the fire, newly begun, burnt and crackled cheerfully; its leap...
Cate： Classical Novels Author：novel
Young student John Melmoth inherited his uncle's heritage, uncle let young people burned a built-in wardrobe or cupboard in the will of the manuscript.Out of a sense of awe, a young man in a dark cold night reading the story in the manuscript.The hero of the story is one of his ancestors, with the same person Melmoth the Wanderer, he i...
Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
I felt a peculiar interest in Mrs. Gainsborough, because, in addition to her other attractions, she was a countrywoman of mine — that is to say, an American. She was brunette, slender, graceful; with a weird expression of the eyes under straight black eyebrows, an expression which somehow suggested mesmerism — or perhaps a liability on...
Cate： Short Stories Author：novel
THE main incident on which the following story turns, is founded on a fact which many readers of these pages will probably recognise as having formed a subject of conversation, a few years back, among persons interested in Literature and Art.
Cate： Science Fiction Author：John Buchan
It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Greenmantle (1916); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), is set in the period immediately before the war started. The title refers to a character in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, to which there are many other referenc...
Cate： Science Fiction Author：novel
Told through the eyes of a watchmaker, Dr. Thorndyke is once again faced with a prickly mystery involving a mysterious fire in a Soho house filled with supposedly inflammable objects. What transpires is an entertaining and amazing twist, thanks to the eagle eyes of the doctor and his friend the watchmaker, Mr. Polton.
Cate： Classical Novels Author：novel
Mr. Harrison’s Confessions is an episodic 1851 long short story or novella (over 29,000 words) by Elizabeth Gaskell about a doctor in provincial England. It is notable for being a prequel to her novel Cranford. With Cranford, The Last Generation in England and My Lady Ludlow, it was adapted for TV in 2007 as Cranford.
