The Plain Man and His Wife
Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
本涅特描写100年前的英国,告诉我们如何度过美好的人生。
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Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
本涅特描写100年前的英国,告诉我们如何度过美好的人生。
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Category: Author:H.G. Wells
The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman is drama novel by H.G. Wells published in 1914,set in the era surrounding the days of women's suffrage.
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Category: Author:Sarah Cory Rippey
When Honor Bright went to live in the country the very first thing he asked for was some real live geese, to join the chickens, and the pussy, and the rabbits already on the farm."Will you remember to feed them every day, son, if I get you a pair?" asked his father."Yes, papa," said the little boy. "Honor bright!"
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Category: Author:George Bird Grinnell
Those who wish to know something about how the people lived who told these stories will find their ways of life described in the last chapter of this book.
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
This tale, reader—if you read it through—will give you some insight into the condition, value, and vicissitudes of the light-vessels, or floating lighthouses, which guard the shores of this kingdom, and mark the dangerous shoals lying off some of our harbours and roadsteads. It will also convey to you—if you don...
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Category: Author:novel
THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacy—or, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good glove's with your hand.
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Category: Author:novel
Let no one who shall do me the honor to read this little book suppose that I have been “laying down a lot of rules.” The most that I have attempted is to point out some of those regulations which the experiences of thoughtful men and women of the world have found necessary to good social order, as well as some of those things that a l...
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Category: Author:novel
The two girls were of about the same size, and could not either of them have been over fifteen years old. They were both very pretty, very well dressed and well mounted, and they could both speak in a strange, rough, and yet musical language; but there was no other resemblance between them.
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Category: Author:novel
Children are like jam: all very well in the proper place, but you can’t stand them all over the shop—eh, what?’
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
This family was not only Thorogood but thorough-going. The father was a blacksmith, with five sons and one daughter, and he used to hammer truth into his children’s heads with as much vigour as he was wont to hammer the tough iron on his anvil; but he did it kindly.
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