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：924 作者： 未知
简介：Figures of Earth is, with some superficial air of paradox, the one volume in the long Biography of Dom Manuel's life which deals with Dom Manuel himself. Most of the matter strictly appropriate to a P...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：923 作者： 未知
简介：Dolf Van Attema, in the course of an after-dinner stroll, had called on his wifes sister, Cecile van Even, on the Scheveningen Road. He was waiting in her little boudoir, pacing up and down, among the...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：923 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：923 作者： 未知
简介：Where the sylvan character of the scene changes; where fields give place to hanging woods and they in their turn thin to poverty and obliquity under eternal stress of western winds, a gate, resting by...
类别：双语小说 点击次数：922 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：921 作者： 未知
简介：This little volume consists of the letters I wrote from Bulawayo, Johannesburg and Pretoria for the journal South Africa, which is exclusively devoted to matters relating to the region whence it deriv...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：921 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：921 作者： 未知
简介：The Honorable Socrates Potter was the only scientific man in the village of Pointview, Connecticut. In every point of manhood he was far ahead of his neighbors. In a way he had outstripped himself, fo...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：920 作者： 未知
简介：When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present...
