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Twenty Years After

Category: Author:Alexandre Dumas Pere大仲马 

《二十年后》,法国十九世纪著名作家大仲马所作长篇小说,是《三个火枪手》的续集。


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The Gentle Grafter

Category: Author:O.Henry 

"A trust is its weakest point," said Jeff Peters."That," said I, "sounds like one of those unintelligible remarks such as, 'Why is a policeman?'"


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The Roman Index of Forbidden Books

Category: Author:novel 

 This short treatise was written for the benefit of those who cannot devote much time to the study of the Index. It appeared first in the “Catholic union and Times,” Buffalo, N. Y., and was reprinted in the “Catholic Mind” series, Fordham University Press, New York, as numbers 23 and 24 of 1907.


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Companionable Books

Category: Author:novel 

 Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of knowledge and from the tree of life.


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The Haunted Bookshop

Category: Author:novel 

 If you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets and magnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hoped you may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkable bookshop.


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The Autumn After Next

Category: Author:novel 

 The spell the Free'l were casting ought to have drawn the moon down from the heavens, made water run uphill, and inverted the order of the seasons. But, since they had got broor's blood instead of newt's, were using alganon instead of vervet juice, and were three days later than the solstice anyhow, nothing happened. Neeshan wat...


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After the Storm

Category: Author:novel 

NO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky, and the sun coursed onward through the azure sea until past meridian, without throwing to the earth a single shadow. Then, low in the west, appeared something obscure and hazy, blending the hill-tops with the horizon; an hour later, and three or four sma...


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After Dark

Category: Author:novel 

I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before.


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The Land of Darkness

Category: Author:novel 

 I found myself standing on my feet, with the tingling sensation of having come down rapidly upon the ground from a height. There was a similar feeling in my head, as of the whirling and sickening sensation of passing downward through the air, like the description Dante gives of his descent upon Geryon. My mind, curiously enough, was s...


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The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada

Category: Author:novel 

 I chose the subject of this book as affording better opportunities than any other portion of American history for portraying forest life and the Indian character; and I have never seen reason to change this opinion. In the nineteen years that have passed since the first edition was published, a considerable amount of additional materi...


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