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Children of the Frost

Category: Author:Jack London杰克·伦敦 

 A Short Story Collection American journalist and action-adventure writer Jack London had a life-long fascination with the indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest


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Auld Licht Idyls

Category: Author:J. M. Barrie 

Early this morning I opened a window in my school-house in the glen of Quharity, awakened by the shivering of a starving sparrow against the frosted glass. 


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Don Gordon's Shooting-Box

Category: Author:novel 

This conversation took place one cold, frosty morning in the latter part of January, 18—, among the members of a little party of boys who were walking up the path that led to the door of the Bridgeport Military Academy. There were a dozen of them in all, and their ages varied from thirteen to sixteen years. They looked like young soldi...


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A Woman In China

Category: Author:novel 

My grandmother\'s curios—Camels and elephants—Dr Morrison—Chinese in Australia—Feared for his virtues—Racial animosity—Great Northern Plain—A city of silence—A land of exile—The Holy Sea—Frost flowers on a birch forest—Chaos at Manchuria and Kharbin—Japanese efficiency—A Peking dust storm.


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The Luck of the Vails

Category: Author:novel 

The short winter\'s day was drawing to its close, and twilight, the steel and silver twilight of a windless frost, falling in throbs of clear dusk over an ice-bound land. The sun, brilliant but cold as an electric lamp, had not in all the hours of its shining been of strength sufficient to melt the rime congealed during the night befor...


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The Doom of London

Category: Author:novel 

The editor of The Daily Chat wondered a little vaguely why he had come down to the office at all. Here was the thermometer down to 11° with every prospect of touching zero before daybreak, and you can\'t fill a morning paper with weather reports. Besides, nothing was coming in from the North of the Trent beyond the curt information tha...


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Falling In With Fortune

Category: Author:novel 

In this story are related the adventures of Robert Frost, who figured in the other volume mentioned. In the first tale we saw how Robert was compelled to leave home on account of the harsh actions of his step-father, and what he did while \"out for business,\" as he frequently expressed it.


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The Earth Quarter

Category: Author:novel 

 The sun had set half an hour before. Now, from the window of Laszlo Cudyk\'s garret, he could see how the alien city shone frost-blue against the black sky; the tall hive-shapes that no man would have built, glowing with their own light.  


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Miss Mephistopheles

Category: Author:novel 

A wet Sunday--dreary, dismal, and infinitely sloppy. Even the bells ringing the people into evening service seemed to feel the depressing influence of the weather, and their brazen voices sounded hoarse and grumbling, as if they rang under protest. Cold, too!--not a brisk sharp frost--for here in Melbourne frost and snow are unknown; b...


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A Woman's War

Category: Author:novel 

There was a ripple of chimes through the frosty air as Catherine Murchison turned from King’s Walk into Lombard Street, and saw the moon shining white and clear between the black parapets and chimney-stacks of the old houses. St. Antonia’s steeple was giving the hour of three, and a babel of lesser tongues answered from the silence of ...


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