类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Martianne is heard occasionally these days as a stirring concert or band selection. But there was a time when its playing was punishable by deathand its defiant strains challenged the harried police in tavern and drawing room all over the Earth....
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简介： IT is full fifty years since I began to contemplate the Alfred Jewel with a wonder and curiosity which became a habit. At length, in the latter half of that period, the vague attitude of enquiry began to point in a definite direction, and to exhibit...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Aldous Huxley阿道司·赫胥黎
简介： Thank you, said Mr. Hutton, without turning round. Janet Spence's parlourmaid was so uglyugly on purpose, it always seemed to him, malignantly, criminally uglythat he could not bear to look at her more than was necessary. The door closed. Left to him...
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简介： Lady Susan had never been so hungry in her life. So, for the sixth time, she declared between loud and unbridled yawns. She worked her chair across the parquet towards the fire-place, dragging the hearthrug into folds in her progress, and put her lar...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a pleasant afternoon in the month of July, 1642, when three young people sat together on a shady bank at the edge of a wood some three miles from Oxford. The country was undulating and picturesque, and a little more than a mile in front of the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The village of Glen Cairn was situated in a valley in the broken country lying to the west of the Pentland Hills, some fifteen miles north of the town of Lanark, and the country around it was wild and picturesque. The villagers for the most part knew...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A mounted officer, followed by two orderlies, was proceeding at a brisk trot from Paris to St. Denis, in October, 1639, when he came upon a large party of boys, who, armed with sticks, were advancing in something like military order against a wall on...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Squire Thorndyke, of the Manor House of Crawley, was, on the 1st of September; 1782, walking up and down the little terrace in front of the quaint old house in an unusually disturbed mood. He was a man of forty three or four, stoutly and strongly bui...
类别：英文短篇小说 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 against British rule were posted at Delhi, and when t...
类别：英文短篇小说 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 of ours; while that temple they have dared to rear...
