The Half-Hearted
Category: Author:John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category: Author:John Buchan
For the convenience of the reader it may be stated that the period of this tale is the closing years of the 19th Century.
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Category: Author:novel
A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady.
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Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦
A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. It was published in 1902 by Grosset & Dunlap. The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse.
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Category: Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I CALL it an old town, but it is only relatively old.
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Category: Author:Richard Marsh
Donald Lindsay was prostrated by a stroke of apoplexy on Thursday, April 3. It was surmised that the immediate cause was mental. He arrived home apparently physically well, but in a state of what, for him, was a state of unusual agitation.
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Category: Author:novel
The last note of “taps” rang lingeringly through the corridors of The Fortress and died away just as a knock sounded on the door of the room occupied by Bob and Jack Golden.
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Category: Author:Levi Parker Wyman
“I’ll have it in a jiffy, Bob. The wire’s come unsoldered and I’ve got to fix it but it won’t take but a minute.”
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Category: Author:novel
Ted Turner lived at Freeman's Falls, a sleepy little town on the bank of a small New Hampshire river. There were cotton mills in the town; in fact, had there not been probably no town would have existed. The mills had not been attracted to the town; the town had arisen because of the mills. The river was responsible for the whole...
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
On a brilliant summer morning in the last quarter of the seventeenth century a small troop of horsemen crossed the ford of the river Cairn, in Dumfriesshire, not far from the spot where stands the little church of Irongray, and, gaining the road on the western bank of the stream, wended their way towards the moors and uplands whi...
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Category: Author:novel
Though it is said that the South "robbed the 6 cradle and the grave" to recruit the armies of the Confederacy, it is as true that young and old in the North went forth in their zeal to "Stand by the union," and that many and many a young soldier and sailor who had not yet seen twenty summers endured the h...
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