类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1764 作者： 未知
简介：The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1763 作者： 未知
简介：A discouraged, dishevelled human figure crossed a narrow woodland to the west of a chain of hills, thence made his way slowly down to a sun-baked valley or depression, many miles in extent. The valley...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1763 作者： 未知
简介：I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the lastthirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with whatwould seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of w...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1763 作者： 亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
简介：Every one asks me what I think of everything, said Spencer Brydon; and I make answer as I canbegging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1762 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介：My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1761 作者： Joseph Conrad约瑟夫·康拉德
简介：As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1760 作者： 未知
简介：The sea lay blue to the far horizon. BlueAh, blue is but a name till you have seen the sea that breaks around the Bahamas and gives anchorage to the tall ships at Port Royal; that great sheet of blue ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1760 作者： Anna Katharine Green
简介：A plan for a daring robbery is hatched between a professional criminal and an unscrupulous office manager....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1759 作者： 未知
简介：It had been a close and sultry dayone of the hottest of the dog-dayseven out in the open country, where the dusky green leaves had never stirred upon their stems since the sunrise, and where the birds...
类别：双语小说 点击次数：1759 作者： 阿加莎.克里斯蒂 Agatha Christie
简介：女王笔下的“烟囱别墅”注定是一个是非之地。继四年前的血案之后，不幸又一次降临到了这里。 几个年轻人来到这里度假，他们精心策划了一场恶作剧：用八只钟表吵醒那位似乎永远都会迟到的同伴。清晨，八只钟表依次响起，但这位可怜的同伴却再也无法苏醒。更令人吃惊的是，钟表居然只剩下了七只，有一只被扔出了窗外！ 紧接着，有一位同伴离奇死亡，而他的遗言竟然是：“七面钟……” “烟囱别墅”的主人邦德尔小姐决心找到...
