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Mr. Prohack

Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett 

From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read.Mr. Prohack was a fairly tall man, with a big head, big features, and a beard. His characteristic expression denoted benevolence based on an ironic realisation of the humanity of...


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THE WISDOM OF FATHER BROWN

Category: Author:G. K. Chesterton 

This is a collection of 12 totally seperate stories that are independent of each other but have one common thread. Father Brown is an amateur sleuth whose day job involves preaching to his congregation at church. 


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Mr. Achilles37

Category: Author:Jennette Lee 

Achilles Alexandrakis was arranging the fruit on his stall in front of his little shop on Clark Street.


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Chasing the Sun

Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne 

Fred Temple was a tall, handsome young fellow of about five-and-twenty.


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The Cosmic Computer

Category: Author:novel 

 "There are incredible things still undiscovered; most of the important installations were built in duplicate as a precaution against space attack. I know where all of them are.  


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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Category: Author:G.K. Chesterton 

 To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a "Turing machine" did not crystallize until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allies' victory ...


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Billy To-morrow

Category: Author:Sarah Pratt Carr 

AS Billy Bennett wheeled around the corner he saw his mother in the doorway. Also he saw Jean Hammond across the street speaking with Bess Carter,—the Queen of Sheba, the children called her, she was so large and dark and handsome, and had such a royal way, like a sure ’nough queen, one said. 


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The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town

Category: Author:novel 

 A very tall girl came quietly into the room, bowed an acknowledgment of her mother's introduction, and sat down on the edge of the sofa. She was a dignified girl from the crown of her head to her finger-tips, and Mrs. Bertram, who had been listening languidly to the mother, favored the newcomer with a bright, quick, inquisitive s...


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Deep Down

Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne 

Necessity is the mother of invention. This is undoubtedly true, but it is equally true that invention is not the only member of necessity’s large family. Change of scene and circumstance are also among her children. It was necessity that gave birth to the resolve to travel to the end of the earth—of English earth at all eve...


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The Lords of the Wild A Story of the Old New York Border

Category: Author:Joseph A. Altsheler 

 The tall youth, turning to the right, went down a gentle slope until he came to a little stream, where he knelt and drank. Despite his weariness, his thirst and his danger he noticed the silvery color of the water, and its soft sighing sound, as it flowed over its pebbly bed, made a pleasant murmur in his ear. Robert Lennox alway...


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