类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：460 作者： 未知
简介：It was late in the evening at San Diego, in the autumn of the year 1832; there was no moon, but the stars shone so brightly in the clear, dry atmosphere that it was easy to distinguish objects at some...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：460 作者： 未知
简介：No autobiography in the English language has been more read; to the nineteenth century it bears a relation not less characteristic than Boswell's 'Johnson' to the eighteenth....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：460 作者： 未知
简介：From steaming lowlands down by the equator, where monstrous orchids blow, where beetles big as mice sit on the tent-ropes, and fireflies glide about by night like little moving stars, the travelers we...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：459 作者： 未知
简介：Whir, whir, whir, sounded the swish of many silken wings. The swallows had arrived from the South; thousands of them there were, long winged and dusky brown, with faintly russet breasts. So full of jo...
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简介：In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining. It certainly agrees in tone and character with the description of Xenophon, who says in...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：459 作者： 未知
简介：It was ten oclock and the Bishop was on his way to church. He was driving the old roan of the night before. A parody on a horse, to one who did not look closely, but to one who knows and looks beyond ...
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简介：On the 24th of April, 1840, having finished the business that had carried me into the Brazils, I arrived at Rio de Janeiro, where I found a vessel lying nearly loaded, and sailing for the port of Bris...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：459 作者： 未知
简介：With rough pilot coat and sou-wester, scarred and tarred hands, easy, rolling gait, and boots from heel to hip, with inch-thick soles, like those of a dramatic buccaneer, he bore as little resemblance...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：458 作者： 未知
简介：A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own, lived with his wife and children in a peasants hut, and earned his living by his work. Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what ...
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简介：I assure you, gentlemen, that you do not regret this mistake more than I do. I would not have had it happen for anything....
