No Hero
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3222 作者： 未知
简介：Has no writer ever dealt with the dramatic aspect of the unopened envelope? I cannot recall such a passage in any of my authors, and yet to my mind there is much matter for philosophy in what is alway...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3220 作者： 未知
简介：I believe in holidays. Not in a frantic rushing about from place to place, glancing at everything and observing nothing; flying from town to town, from hotel to hotel, eager to do and to see a country...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3219 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：Because of the complexity and sophistication of its narrative structure, H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia (1905) has been called not so much a modern as a postmodern utopia. The novel is best known for it...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3214 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3214 作者： 未知
简介：From the main thoroughfare of Bayswater, where the shops display their goods and the tides of life run strongly, Crook Street extends its long line of ugly dwellings to a considerable distance. Its sh...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3214 作者： Kate Douglas Wiggin凯特·道格拉斯·维珍
简介：Dear old apple-tree, under whose gnarled branches these stories were written, to you I dedicate the book....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3213 作者： 乔治.奥威尔 George Orwell
简介：The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr McKechnies bookshop, GordonGordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten alreadylou...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3213 作者： Fergus Hume
简介：A splash of chloroform . . . The drunken man was staggering -- but he was quite alive, when the thoughtful gentleman stumbled upon him in the thick Melbourne night, and hailed a cab to take him home. ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3212 作者： Nathaniel Hawthorne霍桑
简介：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 Vo...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3209 作者： 未知
简介：It is close upon daybreak. The great wall of pines and hemlocks that keep off the west wind from Stillwater stretches black and indeterminate against the sky. At intervals a dull, metallic sound, like...