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Winston of the Prairie27

Category: Author:Harold Bindloss 

Winston was quietly-spoken and somewhat grim, and has had only bad luck and is going to lose his farm in the midwest.heleaves Winston with no choice but to leave his home and impersonate the Englishman in an English enclave on the American prairie.


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The Little Lame Prince10

Category: Author:Miss Mulock 

In the story, the young Prince Dolor, whose legs are paralysed due to a childhood trauma, is exiled to a tower in a wasteland. As he grows older, a fairy godmother provides a magical travelling cloak so he can see, but not touch, the world.


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A Man from the North

Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett 

This is Bennett's first novel, the story of a young man from the north of England who arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has aspirations of becoming a writer. This young man is easily distracted though and one wonders if he will ever write that first novel.


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The Incredible Honeymoon

Category: Author:E. Nesbit 

He dreamed his pastoral dreams in the deafening clangor of the shops at Crewe, but not ten thousand hammers could beat out of his brain the faith that life was really-little as one might suppose it, just looking at it from Crewe-full of the most beautiful and delicate possibilities, and that, somehow or other, people got from life what...


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The Boss of Taroomba

Category: Author:Ernest William Hornung 

They were terribly sentimental words, but the fellow sang them as though he meant every syllable. Altogether, the song was not the kind of thing to go down with a back-block audience, any more than the singer was the class of man.


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The Bobbsey Twins

Category: Author:novel 

The Bobbsey Twins series. This interesting children’s series first became available to readers all the way back in 1904. That is when the debut book in the series came out. It ran for quite a while and the last of the books would be released in 1979.


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Toni, the Little Woodcarver

Category: Author:Johanna Spyri 

Toni, the central figure, is a little goat-herder who longs to develop his gift of wood carving. Little Toni and his mother live in a mountain hut in the Swiss alps. Toni wants to become a woodcarver, and he seems to have a knack for it, but his mother can’t afford to pay for his training. Instead, he is sent high up the mountain to te...


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A Son at the Front36

Category: Author:伊迪丝.华顿 Edith Wharton 

A Son at the Front is an extraordinarily poignant novel chronicling the effects of WWI on painter John Campton and his only child, George. . . . Wharton movingly portrays those left behind during war—not the wives and children but the devastated parents, who are forced to go on living at the cost of their own flesh and blood.


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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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The Survivors of the Chancellor

Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳 

THE SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR was issued in 1875. Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales; but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the tragedy, the mystery, and the suffering possible to the sea.


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