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Category： Author：Robert Michael Ballantyne
One beautiful summer night, about the beginning of the present century, a young naval officer entered the public drawing-room of a hotel at Nice, and glanced round as if in search of some one.
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Category： Author：novel
Before embarking upon his later career of infamy, he was, in the beginning, very well known as a reputable merchant in the island of Jamaica. Thence entering, first of all, upon the business of the African trade, he presently, by regular degrees, became a pirate, and finally ended his career as one of the most renowned freebooters of h...
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Category： Author：novel
From the termination of the campaigns of Marlborough--at which time the British army won for itself a reputation rivalled by that of no other in Europe--to the year when the despatch of a small army under Sir Arthur Wellesley marked the beginning of another series of British victories as brilliant and as unbroken as those of that...
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Category： Author：novel
We sat late on the verandah last night, listening to the low trilling croon of the night-jar. It was a balmy evening, one of the few this summer; the sunset was lingering over the heather-clad moors, and the lonely bird sat perched on one bough of the wind-swept pine-tree by Martin’s Corner, calling pathetically to his mate with that d...
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Category： Author：novel
DURING the course of my apprenticeship with Messrs. Negri and Gunter, in Berkeley Square, many housekeepers to noblemen and gentlemen, on special occasions, were frequently present, in order to observe our peculiar method of preparing confects.
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Category： Author：novel
In the dusk of a spring evening, Helen Caniper walked on the long road from the town. Making nothing of the laden basket she carried, she went quickly until she drew level with the high fir-wood which stood like a barrier against any encroachment on the moor, then she looked back and saw lights darting out to mark the streets she had l...
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Category： Author：novel
MARCH had come in like a lion, and showed no sign of going out like a lamb. The pussy willows knew that it was, or ought to be, spring, but although it takes a deal to discourage a New England pussy willow, they shivered in their brown skins and despaired of making their annual appearance even by April Fool’s Hay.
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Category： Author：novel
If you take the turn to the left after you pass the lyke-gate at Combehurst Church you will come to the wooden bridge over the brook; keep along the field-path which mounts higher and higher and in half a mile or so you will be in a breezy upland field almost large enough to be called a down where sheep pasture on the short fine elasti...
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Category： Author：novel
Anna, a thirteen-year-old girl.Thirteen years ago, Anna was born in a perfect medical plan.She knew she is precision products of gene technology, leukemia sister's specific, one of the daughters of the parents eyes does not exist.She live, is not to run comfortably to ice.She was born with the greatest sense of living, it is continuing...
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Category： Author：Sir Walter Scott
The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Lammermuir Hills Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne (1702–1714). The novel tells of a tragic love affair between Lucy Ashton (Janet Dalrymple) and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. The Bride of Lammerm...
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