类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：924 作者： 未知
简介：If there were no God, said the eighteenth century Deist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Now this XVIII century god was deus ex machina, the god who helped those who could not help themselves, th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：924 作者： 未知
简介：So saying--on a February evening a good many years ago--an elderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab, which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastily went to ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：924 作者： 未知
简介：Two big willow-trees guarded the entrance to Captain Saulsbys place, willow-trees with such huge, rough trunks and such thick, gnarled branches that they might almost have been oaks. For fifty years t...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：923 作者： 未知
简介：Here in the garden, close to the quiet house, I sit thinking of that strange meeting in the village. A blackbird at regular intervals sings the same refrain, which is taken up by others in the distanc...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：923 作者： 未知
简介：Mickey ORooney and Fred Munson were stretched on the Apache blanket, carefully watching the eyes of the wild beast whenever they showed themselves, and had been talking in guarded tones. The Irishman ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：922 作者： 未知
简介：The subject of Children's Rights does not provoke much sentimentalism in this country, where, as somebody says, the present problem of the children is the painless extinction of their elders. I interv...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：921 作者： D. H. Lawrence劳伦斯
简介：Malloy was in his month for lying on his stomach to avoid bed sores. He was walking from Peoria, Illinois, to Detroit, Michigan, currently and he had just reached Chicago. It was fine to see State Str...
类别：双语小说 点击次数：921 作者： 阿加莎.克里斯蒂 Agatha Christie
简介：Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake...In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：920 作者： 未知
简介：When the editor commenced the preparation of the following narrative, he did not suppose it would reach the size of this volume. In order, however, to present all the facts which have been communicate...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：920 作者： 未知
简介：For the study of the great writers and thinkers of the past, historical imagination is the first necessity. Without mentally referring to the environment in which they lived, we cannot hope to penetra...
