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Twenty Years After

Category: Author:Alexandre Dumas Pere大仲马 

《二十年后》,法国十九世纪著名作家大仲马所作长篇小说,是《三个火枪手》的续集。


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A Year with a Whaler

Category: Author:Walter Noble Burns 

 When the brig Alexander sailed out of San Francisco on a whaling voyage a few years ago, I was a member of her forecastle crew. Once outside the Golden Gate, I felt the swing of blue water under me for the first time in my life. I was not shanghaied. Let's have that settled at the start. I had shipped as a green hand before the mast f...


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Thirty Years from Home

Category: Author:Samuel Leech 

 Were it not that the most common of all inquiries, respecting every man who comes before the public, is, “who is he? whence did he proceed? who were his parents?” &c., I would not detain the reader with any account of my humble ancestors and their circumstances. But, since men naturally expect this information, and would hence conside...


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The Wonderful Year

Category: Author:novel 

He was a shabby concierge sharing in the tarnish of the shabby hotel which (for the information of those fortunate ones who only know of the Ritz, and the Meurice and other such-like palaces) is situated in the unaristocratic neighbourhood of the Halles Centrales.


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Twelve Years a Slave

Category: Author:novel 

 When the editor commenced the preparation of the following narrative, he did not suppose it would reach the size of this volume. In order, however, to present all the facts which have been communicated to him, it has seemed necessary to extend it to its present length.


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Two War Years in Constantinople

Category: Author:novel 

 The undersigned hereby declares on his sworn word of honour that in writing this volume he has been in no way inspired by outside influence, and that he has never had any dealings whatsoever, material or otherwise, either before or during the war, with any Government, organisation, propaganda, or personality hostile to Germany or...


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Thirteen years at the Russian court

Category: Author:novel 

 IN September, 1920, after staying three years in Siberia, I was able to return to Europe. My mind was still full of the poignant drama with which I had been closely associated, but I was also still deeply impressed by the wonderful serenity and flaming faith of those who had been its victims.


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Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864

Category: Author:novel 

I was one of a family of nine, of which four were sons. My eldest brother was destined for the Church; the second had entered a mercantile house in Liverpool; and I, who was third on the list, it was my father\'s intention, should be educated for the Royal Engineers, and at the time my story opens I was prosecuting my studies for admis...


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Two Years Ago

Category: Author:novel 

It may seem a somewhat Irish method of beginning the story of \"Two Years Ago\" by a scene which happened but a month since. And yet, will not the story be on that very account a better type of many a man\'s own experiences! How few of us had learnt the meaning of \"Two Years Ago,\" until this late quiet autumn time; and till Christmas...


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My Three Years in America

Category: Author:novel 

It was in my own home, the German Embassy in London, where the atmosphere was entirely political, that I learned my first steps in politics. My father did not belong to that class of diplomats, so prevalent to-day, who treat politics as an occupation to be pursued only in their spare time. His whole life was consecrated to the cause of...


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