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A Man from the North

Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett 

This is Bennett's first novel, the story of a young man from the north of England who arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has aspirations of becoming a writer. This young man is easily distracted though and one wonders if he will ever write that first novel.


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The Four Feathers四片羽毛

Category: Author:A.E.W. Mason 

The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's 1882 expedition to Egypt to suppress the rising of Urabi Pasha.


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Three Thousand Dollars

Category: Author:Anna Katharine Green 

A plan for a daring robbery is hatched between a professional criminal and an unscrupulous office manager. 


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Witching Hill

Category: Author:novel 

The Witching Hill Estate Office was as new as the Queen Anne houses it had to let, and about as worthy of its name. It was just a wooden box with a veneer of rough-cast and a corrugated iron lid. 


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Doctor Dolittle's Post Office

Category: Author:Hugh Lofting 

Nearly all of the history of Doctor Dolittle's post office took place when he was returning from a voyage to West Africa. 


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Deep-Sea Plunderings

Category: Author:Frank Thomas Bullen 

 Thus, closing his telescope with a bang, the elegant chief officer of the Mirzapore, steel four-masted clipper ship of 5000 tons burden, presently devouring the degrees of longitude that lay between her and Melbourne on the arc of a composite great circle, at the rate of some 360 miles per day. As he spoke he cast his eyes proudly alo...


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Simeon Tetlow's Shadow

Category: Author:Jennette Lee 

 IT was turning dusk in the office, though it was scarcely three o’clock and outside the sun was still shining, beyond the busy streets. The two men sitting on opposite sides of the small room bent closer to their desks. The younger glanced up and got up to turn on the electric light.


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In Times of Peril A Tale of India

Category: Author:novel 

 Very bright and pretty, in the early springtime of the year 1857, were the British cantonments of Sandynugghur. As in all other British garrisons in India, they stood quite apart from the town, forming a suburb of their own. They consisted of the barracks, and of a maidan, or, as in England it would be called, "a common,&quo...


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Post Haste

Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne 

 This tale is founded chiefly on facts furnished by the Postmaster-General’s Annual Reports, and gathered, during personal intercourse and investigation, at the General Post-Office of London and its Branches.


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The Middy and the Moors Or An Algerine Story

Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne 

 One beautiful summer night, about the beginning of the present century, a young naval officer entered the public drawing-room of a hotel at Nice, and glanced round as if in search of some one.


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