类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： THE gentlemen of the jury retired to consider their verdict.Their foreman was a person doubly distinguished among his colleagues. He had the clearest head, and the readiest tongue. For once the right man was in the right place.Of the eleven jurymen,...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介： Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. London Time by the great clock of Saint Pauls, ten at night. All the lesser London churches strain their metallic throats. Some, flippantly begin before th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： We hear a great deal of lamentation now-a-days, proceeding mostly from elderly people, on the decline of the Art of Conversation among us. Old ladies and gentlemen with vivid recollections of the charms of society fifty years ago, are constantly aski...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： ON a summers morning, between thirty and forty years ago, two girls were crying bitterly in the cabin of an East Indian passenger ship, bound outward, from Gravesend to Bombay....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceiv...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In the matter of Jezebel's Daughter, my recollections begin with the deaths of two foreign gentlemen, in two different countries, on the same day of the same year....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介： This novel ranks the third, in order of succession, of the works of fiction which I have produced. The history of its reception, on its first appearance, is soon told....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before....
