Rick and Ruddy Out West
Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
Chot Benson called to his chum Rick Dalton who was racing down the Belemere street with every appearance of being in great haste.
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Category: Author:Howard R. Garis
Chot Benson called to his chum Rick Dalton who was racing down the Belemere street with every appearance of being in great haste.
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Category: Author:John Breck
You’d have thought every wing and paw in the Woods and Fields (except the Bad Little Owls, of course) would have been glad to know that Silvertip the Fox was caught.
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Category: Author:Johanna Spyri
Years ago, in a little country called Switzerland, there lived a little girl who was the daughter of a doctor. This doctor sometimes had to climb up high mountains and sometimes he had to descend slowly to the deep valleys
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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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Category: Author:novel
The substance of this little work was first published as a series of articles in the British Clayworker, in 1895–96, and I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietor of that Journal for permission to reproduce them.
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Category: Author:novel
From the head of the platoon Lieutenant Lee Hartford signaled Sergeant Felix, busy policing up stragglers at the rear, that he was taking over. Hartford tongued the volume-setting of his bitcher to "Low" and softly sing-songed to his three dozen troopers: "Your girlfriend's just an hour away; there's a time to soldier and a time to pla...
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Category: Author:novel
It was early in 1756 that a Scottish trader, from Edinburgh, entered the port of Stettin. Among the few passengers was a tall young Scotch lad, Fergus Drummond by name. Though scarcely sixteen, he stood five feet ten in height; and it was evident, from his broad shoulders and sinewy appearance, that his strength was in full propo...
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Category: Author:Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
货运工约翰的妻子、善良的主妇多特相信,壁炉边的蟋蟀是捍卫自家家宅的小小神灵。这是一桩不被看好的婚姻,靠运货为生的约翰比多特要年长许多,他粗壮笨拙,多特则娇小可爱,朋友们围绕在多特身边,大家虽皆不富足,却因为拥有多特这样特殊的朋友,在团聚时充满欢声笑语、气氛其乐融融。然而,就在这时,一位不速之客的到来打破了这对夫妻看似平静的普通人...
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Category: Author:novel
On the afternoon of the fifth day of November, 1914, Edward Carroll was sitting as usual in his pleasant inner office, the windows of which looked down upon the middle-western city where Mr. Carroll had lived for forty of his fifty-six years. But he was not behaving quite as usual. At this hour he should normally have been confer...
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Category: Author:novel
\"You are aware, I suppose, Marshall, that there have been considerably over a million dollars\' worth of automobiles stolen in this city during the past few months?\" asked Guy Garrick one night when I had dropped into his office.
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