The Young Train Dispatcher
类别:经典英文小说 作者: Burton Egbert Stevenson
简介: Stretching from the Atlantic seaboard on the east to the Mississippi River on the west, lies the great P.O. Railroad, comprising, all told, some four thousand miles of track....
类别:经典英文小说 作者: Burton Egbert Stevenson
简介: Stretching from the Atlantic seaboard on the east to the Mississippi River on the west, lies the great P.O. Railroad, comprising, all told, some four thousand miles of track....
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: To all who are capable of new impressions and fresh thought, some modification of former beliefs and hopes has been brought by the war. What the modification has been has depended, in each case, upon character and circumstance; but in one form or ano...
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: This little volume was written in the spring of the year 1913, and is intended as a plea for moderation and good sense in dealing with the writings of early Christianity; just as my earlier volumes entitled Myth, Magic, and Morals and A History of Ne...
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简介: There is always tragedy when man invades the solitudes of the earth, for his coming never fails to mean the destruction of the wild things. But, surely, nowhere can the pathos be greater than when, in the western part of North America, there is a dis...
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: Alexei Maximovitch Peshkoff was born March 14, 1869, at Nijni Novgorod. On both his father's and mother's side he belonged to the people; his father followed the trade of a jobbing upholsterer, and his mother was the daughter of a dyer. He was left a...
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: The mud-sills of this book are hewn from the presupposition that the person who reads it has not only the essentially necessary equipment to do his own thinking, but also a more or less practiced habit of doing it. It is upon such foundation the supe...
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: Stranger than the tales of the Arabian Nightsindeed, almost Munchausen-like in its seemingly improbable character is the tale I am about to give you in truth, said Captain Nicodemus Beere as he hitched up his trowsers and shifted his quid....
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: If you had been standing on a certain cold night in January opposite the great building where The Day is jewelled in electric lights across the dark sky, you would have seen a little, stout man run down the steps of the entrance at the side, three at...
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: We had better lie down and die, said Robin peevishly. I can't go a step further, and to emphasise his words he deliberately sat....
类别:经典英文小说 作者: 未知
简介: BY the side of a small stream, which ran through one of the most picturesque portions of the province of Burgundy, in France, there sat, on a beautiful day in early summer, two boys, who were brothers....