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Category： Author：Cyrus Townsend Brady
The Battle of Waterloo, which was fought just one hundred years ago and with which the story in this book ends, is popularly regarded as one of the decisive battles of the world, particularly with reference to the career of the greatest of all Captains. Personally some study has led me to believe that Bautzen was really the decisive ba...
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Category： Author：novel
If a line were drawn directly south from Pittsburg it would almost pass through the middle of Cuba. The Island, which is the largest of the Antillean group, lies about fifty miles distant from Santo Domingo and somewhat more than eighty miles from Jamaica. Its western end nuzzles into the opening between the peninsulas of Florida...
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Category： Author：novel
The “Boys’ Foot-race” at the great games of Olympia, celebrated now for the one hundred and eleventh time since the epoch of Cor?bus, has just been run, and the victor is about to receive his crown of wild olive. The herald proclaims with a loud voice, “Charidemus, son of Callicles of Argos, come forward, and re...
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Category： Author：novel
At one hundred and thirty, life was indeed gratifying for Titus McWorther. But for one missing detail, it would have been perfect.
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Category： Author：novel
From the main thoroughfare of Bayswater, where the shops display their goods and the tides of life run strongly, Crook Street extends its long line of ugly dwellings to a considerable distance. Its shape suggests a shepherd\'s crook,--hence undoubtedly the name--as it finally terminates in a curved cul de sac, the end of which is block...
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Category： Author：novel
HE WAS a Japanese fox, and although he looked just like any other fox, he knew a few things that his American brothers have never heard about even to this day. One of these things was that if he lived to be one hundred years old without ever being chased by a dog, he could become a beautiful woman; if he lived for five hundred years an...
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Category： 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...
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Category： Author：novel
The following performance, as the title imports, was originally composed in the Welch language. Its style is elegant and pure. And if the translator has not, as many of his brethren have done, suffered the spirit of the original totally to evaporate, he apprehends it will be found to contain much novelty of conception, much classical t...
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Category： Author：Tobias Smollett
In a certain county of England, bounded on one side by the sea, and at the distance of one hundred miles from the metropolis, lived Gamaliel Pickle, esq.; the father of that hero whose fortunes we propose to record. He was the son of a merchant in London, who, like Rome, from small beginnings had raised himself to the highest honours o...
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Category： Author：Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien a?os de soledad, 1967), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a novel that narrates the multi-generational story of the Buendía Family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendia, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The non-linear story is narrated via different time frames, a technique derived f...
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