The neighbourhood of Bloomsbury Square towards four o'clock of a November afternoon is not so crowded as to secure to the stranger, of appearance anything out of the common, immunity from observation. Tibb's boy, screaming at the top of his voice that she was his honey, stopped suddenly, stepped backwards on to the toes of a voluble young lady wheeling a perambulator, and remained deaf, apparently, to the somewhat personal remarks of the voluble young lady. Not until he had reached the next corner-and then more as a soliloquy than as information to the street-did Tibb's boy recover sufficient...
The neighbourhood of Bloomsbury Square towards four o'clock of a November afternoon is not so crowded as to secure to the stranger, of appearance anyt...
"Kindness," argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, "costs nothing." "And, speaking generally, my dear, is valued precisely at cost price," retorted Mr. Pennycoop, who, as an auctioneer of twenty years' experience, had enjoyed much opportunity of testing the attitude of the public towards sentiment.
"Kindness," argued little Mrs. Pennycoop, "costs nothing." "And, speaking generally, my dear, is valued precisely at cost price," retorted Mr. Pennyco...
"They are very pretty, some of them," said the Woman of the World; "not the sort of letters I should have written myself." "I should like to see a love-letter of yours," interrupted the Minor Poet. "It is very kind of you to say so," replied the Woman of the World. "It never occurred to me that you would care for one." "It is what I have always maintained," retorted the Minor Poet; "you have never really understood me."
"They are very pretty, some of them," said the Woman of the World; "not the sort of letters I should have written myself." "I should like to see a lov...
The Lady Bantock's boudoir, Bantock Hall, Rutlandshire, a spacious room handsomely furnished (chiefly in the style of Louis the Fourteenth) and lighted by three high windows, facing the south-west. A door between the fireplace and the windows leads to his lordship's apartments. A door the other side of the fireplace is the general entrance. The door opposite the windows leads through her ladyship's dressing-room into her ladyship's bedroom. Over the great fireplace hangs a full-length portrait of Constance, first Lady Bantock, by Hoppner.
The Lady Bantock's boudoir, Bantock Hall, Rutlandshire, a spacious room handsomely furnished (chiefly in the style of Louis the Fourteenth) and lighte...
Myself, I do not believe this story. Six persons are persuaded of its truth; and the hope of these six is to convince themselves it was an hallucination. Their difficulty is there are six of them. Each one alone perceives clearly that it never could have been. Unfortunately, they are close friends, and cannot get away from one another; and when they meet and look into each other's eyes the thing takes shape again.
Myself, I do not believe this story. Six persons are persuaded of its truth; and the hope of these six is to convince themselves it was an hallucinati...
His name is George, generally speaking. "Call me George " he says to the heroine. She calls him George (in a very low voice, because she is so young and timid). Then he is happy. The stage hero never has any work to do. He is always hanging about and getting into trouble. His chief aim in life is to be accused of crimes he has never committed, and if he can muddle things up with a corpse in some complicated way so as to get himself reasonably mistaken for the murderer, he feels his day has not been wasted.
His name is George, generally speaking. "Call me George " he says to the heroine. She calls him George (in a very low voice, because she is so young a...
Editada por primera vez en 1889, Tres Hombres en una Barca es una obra cumbre en la literatura humoristica y convirtio a su autor en un hombre famoso y reconocido a nivel mundial. Desde su publicacion ha sido constantemente reeditada, y vendido millones de ejemplares, prueba de que es una de esas obras atemporales que son reconocidas por generaciones de lectores. Tres amigos: George, Harris y el propio Jerome, el autor, deciden remontar el Tamesis junto con Montmorency, el perro, un foxterrier que no puede faltar en la compania de tres gentlemen que se precien. Al hilo de sus aventuras, sus...
Editada por primera vez en 1889, Tres Hombres en una Barca es una obra cumbre en la literatura humoristica y convirtio a su autor en un hombre famoso ...
Troe v lodke (ne schitaja sobaki) Jeta kniga nastol'ko izvestna, chto pisat' dlja nee annotaciju ochen' slozhno. Skazhem tol'ko, chto jeto odno iz samyh populjarnyh proizvedenij anglijskogo pisatelja Dzheroma K. Dzheroma, kotoroe nazyvali vozmozhno, samoj smeshnoj knigoj v mire. Troe druzej: Dzhordzh, Garris i Dzhej (sokrashhennoe ot Dzherom) zadumyvajut predprinjat' uveselitel'nuju lodochnuju progulku vverh po Temze. Oni namerevajutsja prevoshodno razvlech'sja, otdohnut' ot Londona s ego nezdorovym klimatom i slit'sja s prirodoj. Na nit' povestvovanija o puteshestvii po reke avtor...
Troe v lodke (ne schitaja sobaki) Jeta kniga nastol'ko izvestna, chto pisat' dlja nee annotaciju ochen' slozhno. Skazhem tol'ko, chto jeto odno iz samyh populjarnyh proizvedenij anglijskogo pisatelja Dzheroma K. Dzheroma, kotoroe nazyvali vozmozhno, samoj smeshnoj knigoj v mire. Troe druzej: Dzhordzh, Garris i Dzhej (sokrashhennoe ot Dzherom) zadumyvajut predprinjat' uveselitel'nuju lodochnuju progulku vverh po Temze. Oni namerevajutsja prevoshodno razvlech'sja, otdohnut' ot Londona s ego nezdorovym klimatom i slit'sja s prirodoj. Na nit' povestvovanija o puteshestvii po reke avtor...
Troe v lodke (ne schitaja sobaki) Jeta kniga nastol'ko izvestna, chto pisat' dlja nee annotaciju ochen' slozhno. Skazhem tol'ko, chto jeto odno iz samyh populjarnyh proizvedenij anglijskogo pisatelja Dzheroma K. Dzheroma, kotoroe nazyvali vozmozhno, samoj smeshnoj knigoj v mire. Troe druzej: Dzhordzh, Garris i Dzhej (sokrashhennoe ot Dzherom) zadumyvajut predprinjat' uveselitel'nuju lodochnuju progulku vverh po Temze. Oni namerevajutsja prevoshodno razvlech'sja, otdohnut' ot Londona s ego nezdorovym klimatom i slit'sja s prirodoj. Na nit' povestvovanija o puteshestvii po reke avtor...
