In the spring of 1883 my husband was appointed to the command of the cavalry brigade in Transylvania, composed of two hussar regiments, stationed respectively at Hermanstadt and Kronstadt—a

同克洛维斯的编年史相同，野兽与超级野兽也是萨基最著名的作品之一。这是他去世之前所写的最后一部一系列关于第一次世界大战的书，其中的几个故事经常在诗集尤其是“打开窗口”转载。 Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories, written by Saki (the literary pseud

IN the histories of the four women whose lives are here related, I have tried, as far as is possible in the limited space, to give an idea of the various ways in which the Revolutionary tempest at th

There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II., the bigoted successor of Charles the

In 1869, my father, the late Richard Henry Dana, Jr., prepared a new edition of his “Two Years Before the Mast” with this preface: “After twenty-eight years, the copyrig

Barchester Towers concerns the leading citizens of the imaginary cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, also a clergym

The air is heavy with indefinable perfume. We are already coasting the Indian shore, but it remains invisible, and gives no sign but by these gusts of warmer air laden with that inscrutable aroma of

To Benjamin H. Pearson`` Student, Artist, Gentleman in appreciation of the friendship that began on the "Pipe-Line Trail," at the camp in the sycamores back of the old orchard, and

"And because the town of this story is what it is, there came to dwell in it a Spirit--a strange, mysterious power--playful, vicious, deadly; a Something to be at once feared and courted; to

This slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the s

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

When for the third time, Richard Mahony set foot in Ausralia, it was to find that the fortune with which that country but some six years back had so airily invested him no longer existed. He was a ru

The late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my experience of these birds.

罗勒是一位重视家庭谱系的父亲的儿子，他的父亲不会让他娶一个配不上他地位的女孩。在公交车上对一个女孩一见钟情。他跟踪她并且发现她是亚麻布店店主玛格丽特·舍温的唯一的女儿。他说服了她的父亲，让她跟他秘密结婚。 Basil (1852) is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Anto

The Guest Writes and Tells the Story of the Dinner Party. MANY years have passed since my wife and I left the United States to pay our first visit to England.