类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2101 作者： 未知
简介：These words drawled slowly forth produced an immediate effect, and caused fifty people to straighten suddenly up and look enquiringly around. The reporter of The Live Wire gave one lightning glance to...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2099 作者： 未知
简介：On the western side of the island of Arran. seldom visited, and almost unknown to tourists is the little island named Uffa. Between the two lies a strait, or roost, two miles and a half broad, with a ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2097 作者： Charles Dickens查尔斯·狄更斯
简介：The present Government, having shown itself to be particularly clever in its management of Indictments for Conspiracy, cannot do better, we think (keeping in its administrative eye the pacification of...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2097 作者： 未知
简介：1. The Gentleman ThugONE BEAUTIFUL morning in early June in the year nineteen hundred and forty-eight a motorist was driving slowly along a lonely and rough road that wound between the salt marshes an...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2097 作者： Stephen Leacock
简介：This work has remained popular for its universal appeal. Many of the characters, though modelled on townspeople of Orillia, are small town archetypes. Their shortcomings and weaknesses are presented i...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2096 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 hitche...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2094 作者： Thomas Carlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔
简介：We have undertaken to discourse here for a little on Great Men, their manner of appearance in our worlds business, how they have shaped themselves in the worlds history, what ideas men formed of them,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2093 作者： 未知
简介：Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in O...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2093 作者： 未知
简介：The clipper ship Aurelian, one of the few survivors of the old West India trade, had sighted Sandy Hook, and was making New York harbor after a remarkable voyage from Belize....
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2092 作者： 未知
简介：As for the grown-ups the story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and t...
