Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
Category: Author:Stephen Leacock
A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe,The Wizard of Finance,The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson
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Category: Author:Stephen Leacock
A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe,The Wizard of Finance,The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson
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Category: Author:Robert Ames Bennet罗伯特·艾姆斯·班纳特
The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois
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Category: Author:Johanna Spyri
OLD MARY ANN,AT THE GRANDMOTHER’S,ANOTHER LIFE,HARD TIMES,THE BIRDS ARE STILL SINGING,SAMI SINGS TOO
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Category: Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The novel is about women owning and running a business.
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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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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
It ought to be known to all English boys that there is a terrible and costly war in which the British nation is at all times engaged. No intervals of peace mark the course of this war. Cessations of hostilities there are for brief periods, but no treaties of peace. “War to the knife” is its character. Quarter is neith...
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Category: Author:novel
The summer had been cool; but, as often happens after cool summers, the autumn proved unusually hot. It seemed as if the months had been playing a game, and had "changed places" all round; and as if September were determined to show that he knew how to make himself just as disagreeable as August, if only he chose to do ...
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Category: Author:novel
The September sun was glinting cheerfully into a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed; and as each crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to the snowy hea...
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Category: Author:novel
I was sitting in the meadows one day, not long ago, at a place where there was a small brook. It was a hot day. The sky was very blue, and white clouds, like great swans, went floating over it to and fro. Just opposite me was a clump of green rushes, with dark velvety spikes, and among them one single tall, red cardinal flower, w...
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