类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：784 作者： 未知
简介：The period at which this History commences,the beginning of the sixteenth century,when compared with the ages which had preceded it, since the fall of the Roman empire, was one of unprecedented brilli...
类别：双语小说 点击次数：784 作者： 未知
简介：A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：783 作者： 未知
简介：On the afternoon of the fifth day of November, 1914, Edward Carroll was sitting as usual in his pleasant inner office, the windows of which looked down upon the middle-western city where Mr. Carroll h...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：782 作者： 未知
简介：It was a chilling experience, that first glimpse of New Zealand! Hour after hour the great ship held on her way up the Cook Straits amidst scenery that made me shudder and that scowled me out of count...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：781 作者： Grant Allen
简介：A distinguished Positivist friend of mine, who is in most matters a practical man of the world, astonished me greatly the other day at Venice, by the grave remark that Italian was destined to be the l...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：781 作者： 未知
简介：The story of David Crockett stands apart from all others in our historya nebulous collection of traditions about a great array of facts. To the unnumbered thousands to whom his name is familiar he is ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：781 作者： 未知
简介：The erection by the Canadian public of a monument in the capital of the Dominion; its unveiling by the representative of the Crown; its acceptance, on behalf of the government, by the Prime Minister o...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：781 作者： 未知
简介：I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：780 作者： 未知
简介：Gissing lived alone (except for his Japanese butler) in a little house in the country, in that woodland suburb region called the Canine Estates. He lived comfortably and thoughtfully, as bachelors oft...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：780 作者： 未知
简介：On my right hand there were lines of fishing stakes resembling a mysterious system of half-submerged bamboo fences, incomprehensible in its division of the domain of tropical fishes, and crazy of aspe...
