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A Child of the Jago37

Category: Author:Arthur Morrison 

First published in 1896, It earned Arthur Morrison considerable fame and commercial success. Quickly becoming a bestseller, this 19th century drama is now considered to be Arthur Morrison’s best work.


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The Little Minister

Category: Author:J. M. Barrie 

published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897. The Little Minister is set in Thrums, a Scottish weaving village based on Barrie’s birthplace, and concerns Gavin Dishart, a young impoverished minister with his first congregation.


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THE FAITH OF MEN

Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦 

"The Faith of Men" is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of...


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The Power-House

Category: Author:John Buchan 

It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, and it was published in book form in 1916. 


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CAPTAIN BURLE

Category: Author:Emile Zola左拉 

Burle had only just left Saint-Cyr when he distinguished himself at the battle of Solferino, where he had captured a whole battery of the enemy's artiliery with merely a handful of men. 


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David Elginbrod

Category: Author:George MacDonald 

David Elginbrod, featuring an appearance of the eponymous hero of Robert Falconer, was originally published in 1863 by Hurst and Blackett. Partially set in MacDonald’s homeland of northern Scotland, the story of Hugh Sutherland and Margaret Elginbrod is replete with the dialect and thorough “Scottishness” that became MacDonald’s tradem...


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The Blockade Runners

Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳 

The protagonist is a young british merchant marine captain intent on the profit to be gained by running the shipping blockade around Charleston established by the north - but then he also gains a new perspective when he becomes involved with the daughter of an American abolitionist and her clever man servant


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An Oxford Love Story

Category: Author:Max Beerbohm 

I was in Italy when this book was first published.A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a—a name which I hardly recognised and thoroughly disapproved. I had always thought of the lady as Zu-leek-a. Surely it was thus that Joseph thought of his Wife, and Selim ...


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Wake-Robin

Category: Author:John Burroughs 

Wake Robin is the first of Burroughs' published essays.


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In the Carquinez Woods

Category: Author:Bret Harte布勒特·哈特 

 “In the Carquinez Woods, in the arms of the man you were just defending—Low, the half-breed.” The room had become so dark that from the road nothing could be distinguished. Only the momentary sound of struggling feet was heard. “Sit down,” said Brace's voice, “and don't be a fool.


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