类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：681 作者： 未知
简介：A solitary horsemana youth in early manhoodriding at a snails pace over the great plains, or karroo, of South Africa. His chin on his breast; his hands in the pockets of an old shooting-coat; his legs...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：681 作者： 未知
简介：In a poor part of London, but not in the very poorest parttwo children sat on a certain autumn evening, side by side on a doorstep. The eldest might have been ten, the youngest eight. The eldest was a...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：680 作者： 未知
简介：This book, that exudes sincerity, just as a pine tree drops its rosin, serves a double purpose. It reveals a curious personality that might have stepped straight from the pages of Purchas or of Hakluy...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：680 作者： 未知
简介：The Russian-American Telegraph Company, otherwise known as the Western union Extension, was organised at New York in the summer of 1864. The idea of a line from America to Europe, by way of Berin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：680 作者： 未知
简介：Squadron Leader Markham, O.C. of the famous Eighty-Fourth Squadron of the Royal Air Force Fighter Command, leaned back in his office chair, dug knuckles into his tired eyes, and heaved a long sigh of ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：680 作者： 未知
简介：The butler made an instinctive movement to detain him, but he flung him aside and entered the drawing-room, the servant recovering his equilibrium and following on a run. Light from great crystal chan...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：680 作者： 未知
简介：Cedar Gulch was, in 1851, a flourishing camp. There had been some good finds by the first prospectors, and a rush had of course followed. In many cases first discoveries proved illusive, but it was no...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：679 作者： 未知
简介：Braxfield, who had been butler to Sir Anthony Markenmore, Baronet, of Markenmore Court, for thirty years, was a man of method. All his life he had cultivated the habit of doing certain things at certa...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：679 作者： 未知
简介：The policeman on duty at the North Woodfield station turned from watching the train disappear westward along the track and gave his attention to the speaker. What he saw was a rather thin youth of fou...
