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The Cricket on the Hearth

Category: Author:Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯 

 货运工约翰的妻子、善良的主妇多特相信,壁炉边的蟋蟀是捍卫自家家宅的小小神灵。这是一桩不被看好的婚姻,靠运货为生的约翰比多特要年长许多,他粗壮笨拙,多特则娇小可爱,朋友们围绕在多特身边,大家虽皆不富足,却因为拥有多特这样特殊的朋友,在团聚时充满欢声笑语、气氛其乐融融。然而,就在这时,一位不速之客的到来打破了这对夫妻看似平静的普通人...


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Novels by Eminent Hands

Category: Author:William Makepeace Thackeray威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷 

Reglar every evening there came to the "Constantanople" a young gent etired in the igth of fashn; and indead presenting by the cleanlyness of his appearants and linning (which was generally a pink or blew shurt, with a cricketer or a dansuse pattern) rather a contrast to the dinjy and whistkcard sosaity of the Diwann. As for wiskars, t...


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Psmith in the City

Category: Author:P. G. Wodehouse 

Psmith in the City is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 23 September 1910 by Adam & Charles Black, London. The story was originally released as a serial in The Captain magazine, between October 1908 and March 1909, under the title The New Fold. It continues the adventures of cricket-loving Mike Jackson and his immaculatel...


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A Prefect's Uncle

Category: Author:P. G. Wodehouse 

The action of the novel takes place at the fictional "Beckford College", a private school for boys; the title alludes to the arrival at the school of a mischievous young boy called Farnie, who turns out to be the uncle of the older "Bishop" Gethryn, a prefect, cricketer and popular figure in the school. His arrival, along with that of ...


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Mike

Category: Author:P. G. Wodehouse 

The first half of the story, found in Mike at Wrykyn, introduces Michael "Mike" Jackson. Mike is the youngest son of a renowned cricketing family. Mike's eldest brother Joe is a successful first-class player, while another brother, Bob, is on the verge of his school team. When Mike arrives at Wrykyn himself, his cricketing talent and l...


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Head of Kay's

Category: Author:P. G. Wodehouse 

Set at the fictional school of Eckleton, the story centres around the house of "Kay's", the riotous boys therein, its tactless, unpopular master Mr. Kay, and Fenn, the head boy. The story features practical jokes, fighting between the boys and with the locals in the nearby town, politics amongst the houses of the school, a trip to an a...


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The Gold Bat

Category: Author:P. G. Wodehouse 

The Gold Bat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 13 September 1904 by Adam & Charles Black, London. Set at the fictional public school of Wrykyn, the novel tells of how two boys, O'Hara and Moriarty, tar and feather a statue of the local M.P. as a prank. They get away with it, but O'Hara had borrowed a tiny gold cricket b...


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