类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Bumper the White Rabbit, when he escaped from Edith, the red-headed girl who owned the garden where he lived, found his way into the woods, and, after many adventures with the Bats, the Crow, the Fox and Buster the Bear, he was adopted by the wild ra...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In the year 1582, a quarter of a century before the founding of Jamestown, in 1607, and thirty-eight years before the establishment of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, in 1620, there appeared in London a pamphlet-volume entitled Divers Voyages touching the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The older I grow, Mr. E. V. Lucas has said, the less, I find, do I want to read about anything but human beings.... But human beings, as human beings, are not enough; they must, to interest me, have qualities of simplicity or candour or quaintness....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The long Pullman train, an hour late and greatly begrudging the time for a special stop, came sliding into the tiny station of Rudolm and deposited a solitary passenger upon the platform. The porter set Hugh Arnolds suitcase on the ground and accepte...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The editor of The Daily Chat wondered a little vaguely why he had come down to the office at all. Here was the thermometer down to 11 with every prospect of touching zero before daybreak, and you can't fill a morning paper with weather reports. Besid...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is a perplexing thing when the making of history is often terrible, sometimes tragic, but hardly ever tedious, that the reading of history should be considered uniformly grey. In compiling the present book I shrank from the word HistoryI altered i...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The settlers task of conquering the wilderness might have been simpler had they not spent so much energy in conquering one another; for side by side with the advance of the frontier goes a process of territorial rivalry of which the end is not yet. A...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I arrived in Santacruz in the early evening, and as I stepped out of the carriage with the children the majordomo came rushing out from under the hotel portales and said: Meesus Trench, is it? Your suite awaits, madam. The Lieutenant Trench from the...
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简介： Since we have learned to study the development of human life as we study the evolution of species throughout the animal kingdom, some peculiar phenomena which have puzzled the philosopher and moralist for so long, begin to show themselves in a new li...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was an hour after midnight when the Earthstopper of the Penwith Hunt left his cottage on the outskirts of Madron. He carried a lantern and a rough terrier followed at his heels. His track led, by lanes in the heather, over a cairn to the furze-cla...
