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A Lad of Mettle30

Category: Author:Gould, Nat 

Lessons were over for the day, and the boys at Redbank School came running with shouts and whoops of joy into the playing-fields. They were like young colts freed from restraint for a few hours, and eager to make the most of their liberty.


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An Oxford Love Story

Category: Author:Max Beerbohm 

I was in Italy when this book was first published.A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a—a name which I hardly recognised and thoroughly disapproved. I had always thought of the lady as Zu-leek-a. Surely it was thus that Joseph thought of his Wife, and Selim ...


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The Lair of the White Worm

Category: Author:novel 

又名: The Garden of Evil 恶魔花园 "The Lair of the White Worm" is a fantastic, dream-like narrative whose only saving grace is that there's nothing else like it out there. The plot is a maze of myth and pseudo-gothic imagery that, while never the least bit convincing, is somehow irresistible.


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The Spoils of Poynton

Category: Author:亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James 

The Spoils of Poynton traces the shifting relations among three people and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house


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The Red House Mystery

Category: Author:A. A. Milne 

 Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for you is to write you one. Here it is: with more gratitude and affection than I can well put down here.


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The Adventures of Old Man Coyote

Category: Author:Thornton W. Burgess 

"Listen," whispered Jimmy Skunk to Peter Rabbit as the strange howling sound echoed through the Green Forest. But Peter was listening. He had never heard anything like it. The sound made cold chills run up and down his backbone. 


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Rich Men’s Children

Category: Author:novel 

 The cold of foot-hill California in the month of January held the night. The occupants of the surrey were too cramped and stiffened by it, and too uncomfortably enwrapped against it, to speak. Silence as complete as that which lay like a spell on the landscape brooded over them. 


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Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's

Category: Author:Laura Lee Hope 

 "There! It's all done, so I guess we can get on and start off! All aboard! Toot! Toot!" Russ Bunker made a noise like a steamboat whistle. 


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Little Fuzzy

Category: Author:Henry Beam Piper 

The extra-solar world of Zarathustra is devoid of intelligent life,  it was thought to be until prospector Jack Holloway discovers a race of Ewok-like Fuzzies. 


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The White Peacock

Category: Author:D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯 

"A book of real distinction both of style and thought. Many of the descriptive passages have an almost lyrical charm and the characterisation is generally speaking deft and life-like.


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