类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1160 作者： Charles W. Chesnutt
简介：The Marrow of Tradition is based on the only successful coup detat in American history, which took place after a race massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 10, 1898....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1159 作者： 未知
简介：It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense, is quite a modern institution. Three hundred years ago there were no public libraries in Europe. The Ambrosian, at Milan, dates from ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1159 作者： 未知
简介：In one sense, very young persons are apt to think too much of themselvesin another, not enough. When they think they know more than their parents and teachers, or other elderly people, and so set up t...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：1159 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介：Necessity is the mother of invention. This is undoubtedly true, but it is equally true that invention is not the only member of necessitys large family. Change of scene and circumstance are also among...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：1156 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介：We have heard some people object to geographical discovery, especially in the inclement parts of the earth, on the ground that it could be of no use, and involved great risk to life and limb. Of no us...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1156 作者： 未知
简介：When I began, some years ago, to plead the cause of the innumerable hardy flowers against the few tender ones, put out at that time in a formal way, the answer frequently was, We cannot go back to the...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1155 作者： 未知
简介：Dusk, like soft blue smoke, fell with the dying spring air and settled upon the northern French village. In the uncertain light one and two story buildings set along the crooked street showed crisply,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1155 作者： 未知
简介：In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America we...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1155 作者： 未知
简介：Before embarking upon his later career of infamy, he was, in the beginning, very well known as a reputable merchant in the island of Jamaica. Thence entering, first of all, upon the business of the Af...
