类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： At her desk in the assembly room of Riverview High School, Penny Parker sat poised for instant flight. Her books had been stacked away, and she awaited only the closing bell to liberate her from a day of study....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The hot sun of the South was sinking in red glow through the giant tree-tops of a Mississippi forest beyond the village of Woodville. A slender girl stood in the pathway watching a boy of seven trudge manfully away beside his stalwart brother....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Thomas Dixon
简介： WHAS the mather with the latch!He shook it gently.No mistake about itgrown solid to the fence. Ill have to climb over.He touched the points of the sharp pickets, suddenly straightened himself with dignity and growled:I wont climb over my own fence, a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Thomas Dixon
简介： The supper over, he smoked his pipe before the cabin fire of blazing logs, while she cleared the wooden dishes. He watched her get the paper, goose-quill pen and ink as a prisoner sees the scaffold building for his execution....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Thomas Dixon
简介： The young editor of The Daily Eagle and Phoenix straightened his tall figure from the pile of papers that smothered his desk, glanced at his foreman who stood waiting, and spoke in the quiet drawl he always used when excited:Just a moment'til I read...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Thomas Dixon
简介： At the end of a warm spring day in New York, James Stuart sat in the open window of his room on Washington Square, smiling. With a sense of deep joy he watched the trees shake the raindrops from their new emerald robes, and the flying clouds that fle...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This book contains three lectures delivered at the University of North Carolina on the McNair Foundation in March of the current year. It expresses certain conclusions about history to which I have been led by the study of the history of philosophy a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Thomas Dixon
简介： It was late one fine evening in September, when a boat, borne along by a single sail, passed over the narrow sea which divides Lindisfarne from the mainland, and moored itself within the small bay of the island. The moon was beginning to rise; and by...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Thomas Dixon
简介： Quicka glass of water! A man sprang to his feet, beckoning to an usher.When he reached the seat, the woman had recovered by a supreme effort of will and sat erect, her face flushed with anger at her own weakness....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The fireflies on the Virginia hills were blinking in the dark placesbeneath the trees and a katydid was singing in the rosebush beside theportico at Arlington. The stars began to twinkle in the serene sky. Thelights of Washington flickered across the...
