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Bracebridge Hall

Category: Author:Irving Washington华盛顿·欧文 

 Bracebridge Hall is a series of intimate character sketches that complete an idealized portrait of rural life in the 19th century. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, Washington Irving’s Bracebridge Hall follows the events leading to the marriage of a young couple, detouring to explore the personalities of the residents in the histor...


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The Devil's Pool

Category: Author:George Sand 

The Devil’s Pool is one of a group of pastoral novels inspired by the countryside of Nohant in Berry, where George Sand grew up. 


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Captain Paul 19

Category: Author:Alexandre Dumas Pere大仲马 

“Captain Paul” is loosely based on the exploits of John Paul Jones Alexandre Dumas was a famous French writer. He is best remembered for his exciting romantic sagas, including “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count of Monte Cristo”.


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Queen Hildegarde

Category: Author:novel 

The official description reads, "Spoiled New York City girl, Hildegarde Graham, is sent to stay with her mother's old nurse in the country. 


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She Buildeth Her House

Category: Author:Will Levington Comfort 

Paula Linster was twenty-seven when two invading giants entered the country of her heart. On the same day, these hosts, each unconscious of the other, crossed opposite borders and verged toward the prepared citadel between them.


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Uncle Titus and His Visit to the Country

Category: Author:Johanna Spyri 

A STORY FOR CHILDREN,AND FOR THOSE WHO LOVE CHILDREN.


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The Goody-Naughty Book

Category: Author:Sarah Cory Rippey 

 When Honor Bright went to live in the country the very first thing he asked for was some real live geese, to join the chickens, and the pussy, and the rabbits already on the farm."Will you remember to feed them every day, son, if I get you a pair?" asked his father."Yes, papa," said the little boy. "Honor bright!"


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The Bee-Master of Warrilow

Category: Author:Tickner Edwardes 

 Among the beautiful things of the countryside, which are slowly but surely passing away, must be reckoned the old Bee Gardens—fragrant, sunny nooks of blossom, where the bees are housed only in the ancient straw skeps, and have their own way in everything, the work of the bee-keeper being little more than a placid looking-on at events...


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Margaret Maliphant

Category: Author:Alice Carr 

 My sister Joyce is older than I am. At the time of which I am thinking she was twenty-one, and I was barely nineteen. We were the only children of Farmer Maliphant of Knellestone Grange, in the county of Sussex. The Maliphants were an old family. Their names were on the oldest tombstones in the graveyard of the abbey, whose choir and ...


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For the Defence

Category: Author:Fergus Hume 

Laurence Jen was a retired major, a bachelor, and the proprietor of a small estate at Hurstleigh, in Surrey. On leaving the service, he decided--not unwisely--that it was better to be a Triton in the country than a minnow in town; and acting upon this theory he purchased "Ashantee" from a ruined squire.


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