King Coal
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：851 作者： 未知
简介：Upton Sinclair is one of the not too many writers who have consecrated their lives to the agitation for social justice, and who have also enrolled their art in the service of a set purpose. A great an...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：851 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：The buying of orchids always has in it a certain speculative flavour. You have before you the brown shrivelled lump of tissue, and for the rest you must trust your judgment, or the auctioneer, or your...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：851 作者： Ernest William Hornung
简介：She stood alone in her own room, with none to mark the white-hot pallor of the oval face, the scornful curve of quivering nostrils, the dry lustre of flashing eyes. But while she stood a heavy step we...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：850 作者： Lillian Nicholson Shearon
简介：There was no fault to be found with the present itself; the trouble lay in the method of transportation. This thought was definite enough in Hannah's mind, but she had to rely upon a seven-year-old vo...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：849 作者： 未知
简介：There is not in all London a quieter spot, or one, apparently, more withdrawn from the heat and bustle of life than Newsome Terrace. It is a cul-de-sac, for at the upper end the roadway between its tw...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：849 作者： 未知
简介：It was founded by Lillie Dulcimer in her sweet seventeenth year. She had always been precocious and could analyze her own sensations before she could spell....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：848 作者： 未知
简介：The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such communities the distincti...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：847 作者： 未知
简介：The entrance of a British cruiser into the harbor of St. Kitts was always followed by a ball at Government House in the little capital of Basse Terre. To-night there was a squadron of three at anchor;...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：847 作者： Grant Allen
简介：My brother Frank is a most practical boy. I may be prejudiced, but it seems to me somehow there's nothing like close personal contact with active volcanoes to teach a young fellow prudence, coolness, ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：847 作者： 未知
简介：It is no use my trying to stop myself. Im sure Ive tried hard enough. When I changed my name from Mary Jane Buffham to Mary Jane Beckett by marrying Harry, my sailor sweetheart (God bless him!), I sai...