Adventure
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2756 作者: 未知
简介:He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woollyheaded, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circ...
类别:经典英文小说 点击次数:2755 作者: 未知
简介:Mrs. Emmeline Lucas of Riseholm is a relentless social climber who rules her small English village with a calculating mind and an iron fist. She is attended at every turn by Peppino, who writes bad po...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2754 作者: Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
简介:A place replete with shadowy shapes, this Mugby Junction in the black hours of the four-and-twenty. Mysterious goods trains, covered with palls and gliding on like vast weird funerals, conveying thems...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2753 作者: 未知
简介:As for the youth who had tried to steal the white horse that the King owned, he was bound hand and foot and taken into the castle of the King. There he was thrown down beside the trestles of the great...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:2753 作者: A. A. Milne
简介:Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for you is to write...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2751 作者: 未知
简介:Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951) trained as a doctor and took up a special interest in Eastern medicine and religion. He published several short story collections before becoming an undercover agent for...
类别:经典英文小说 点击次数:2749 作者: 阿加莎.克里斯蒂 Agatha Christie
简介:The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circlesuntil the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret....
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2748 作者: 未知
简介:I have wondered many times, while writing this simple story of life and love, if you would ever forgive me for putting you in a book. I hope you will, because if you do not, I shall be heartbroken, an...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2747 作者: William Dean Howells
简介:In correcting this book for a second edition, I have sought to complete it without altering its original plan: I have given a new chapter sketching the history of Venetian Commerce and noticing the pr...