类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The sewing-machines whirred like a thousand devils. You have no idea what a noise thirty sewing-machines will make when they are running at full speed. Each machine is made up of dozens of little wheels and cogs and levers and ratchets, and each part...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： When it was decided to publish a new and cheaper edition of Mr. George Hoopers Sedan, the question arose whether anything should be added to it. My father had intended, should a new edition be called for, to revise and correct the work, and to furnis...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： It happened about six in the morning, in a large red room. A bar of sunlight streamed in at the window, in which dust-motes were dancing by the thousand. A man and woman were lying in bed; I was standing up in my cot, plucking at the woman with my po...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is hardly necessary to plead, in extenuation of those many faults which any impartial reader will discover in the following pages, the impossibility of discussing events which are unfolding themselves around us, in the same detached spirit as if w...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： A distinguished professor of Mathematics in a New England college was wont to remark to the Freshman class when meeting them for the first time at recitation, that every person is as lazy as he can be. However we may demur to this sweeping assertion,...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： In answer to hundreds of letters, I wish to say that all the incidents used in Book I., which is properly the prologue of my story, were selected from authentic records, or came within my personal knowledge....
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Boy Scout movement has appealed to me from the very first as a long step in the right direction. It stands for an organized boyhood on a world-wide plan. It has in it the essentials for a stronger and better manhood, based on character building a...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： In the following record of the explorations of the Teutonic corps of the R. H. B. Society of Berlin, dispatched for the classification of parasitical animalcul? peculiar to the vegetable productions of the tropics, I shall confine myself exclusively...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： In this tale are related the various haps and mishaps which befall a sturdy country youth, of high moral aim, who, by the harsh actions of his step-father, is compelled to leave what had once been the best of homes, and go forth into the world to mak...
