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简介：Three o'clock on a warm June afternoon. The great heat has caused something like a purple haze to cloud over the deep blue of the sapphire sky. There is not one breath of wind to stir the leaves or co...
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简介：Certain persons, having heard rumours of the strange adventures that once happened to me, have asked me to write them down in detail, so that they may be printed and given to the world in their proper...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：443 作者： 未知
简介：It was evening of early summer. George Lansing sat by a window of the library at Brantholme. The house belonged to his cousin; and George, having lately reached it after traveling in haste from Norway...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：442 作者： 未知
简介：A DULL patter of sheeps hurrying feet came from behind a small knoll that jutted into the track along the mountain. The level plateau was wide and smooth below the towering slopes, and the threads of ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：442 作者： 未知
简介：It may be a fair sight in a Roman's eyes, Beric, but nought could be fouler to those of a Briton. To me every one of those blocks of brick and stone weighs down and helps to hold in bondage this land ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：442 作者： 未知
简介：This famous mutiny occurred while the reins of British rule in India were in the hands of Lord Canning. Chupattees (cakes of flour and water) were circulated among the natives, placards protesting aga...
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简介：Many people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal thingsthe truth, he called it. They don't like it, he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. But why...
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简介：The events that took place during the latter half of the fourteenth century and the first half of the fifteenth are known to us far better than those preceding or following them, owing to the fact tha...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：441 作者： 未知
简介：I think it is strange how the scenes surrounding big events stay in your memory. And sometimes with years they become more clear than the happening which impressed them. I know this, because I remembe...
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简介：Silently, so as not to shock anyone with illusions about well dressed young women, Sandra Lea Grayling cursed the day she had persuaded the Chicago Space Mirror that there would be all sorts of human ...
