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Winston of the Prairie27

Category: Author:Harold Bindloss 

Winston was quietly-spoken and somewhat grim, and has had only bad luck and is going to lose his farm in the midwest.heleaves Winston with no choice but to leave his home and impersonate the Englishman in an English enclave on the American prairie.


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A Man from the North

Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett 

This is Bennett's first novel, the story of a young man from the north of England who arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has aspirations of becoming a writer. This young man is easily distracted though and one wonders if he will ever write that first novel.


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Alice Adams 25

Category: Author:Booth Tarkington布思·塔金顿 

Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation.


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The Riddle Of The Sands

Category: Author:Erskine Childers 

The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. 


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The Blockade Runners

Category: Author:Jules Verne儒勒·凡尔纳 

The protagonist is a young british merchant marine captain intent on the profit to be gained by running the shipping blockade around Charleston established by the north - but then he also gains a new perspective when he becomes involved with the daughter of an American abolitionist and her clever man servant


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The Spoilers22

Category: Author:Rex Ellingwood Beach 

The Spoilers is a thrilling true-to-life underdog story. Rex Beach delivers a detailed account of a prospector’s life full of uncertainty. Upon its initial release, this was one of the best-selling novels of 1906. 


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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 Old Maids' Club20

Category: Author:novel 

It was founded by Lillie Dulcimer in her sweet seventeenth year. She had always been precocious and could analyze her own sensations before she could spell.


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Gaspar Ruiz12

Category: Author:Joseph Conrad约瑟夫·康拉德 

Gaspar Ruiz is a strong rebel soldier whose bad luck makes him pass as a deserter, a man who seems predestined to be a victim of his own strength.


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A Great Man A Frolic

Category: Author:阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett 

 A Great Man is the lightly comic story of Henry Shakspeare Knight, an innocuous shorthand clerk who becomes a highly successful novelist, despite living a sedentary life with his adoring mother and having no real experience or knowledge of human nature.


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