类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In commencing the story of the brave deeds performed during the dark days of the great civil war in America by the gallant band known as Whites Battalion, it will be proper to give a short sketch of the man who, as chief of the Comanches, gave to the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Two bells tinkles within the masters cabin, and the quartermaster on the bridge repeats the announcement of nine oclock with two strokes upon the bronze bell near his station at the wheel. It is sailing-time. The townspeople have turned out en masse...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Ensign Jack Steel sat on the edge of a life raft whittling a stick. A strange place to whittle, one might say, on the deck of a great U. S. aircraft carrier in mid-Pacific. But Jack loved to whittle....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： DAMON and Pythias, collegiately and colloquially known as Day and Pie, were seated in Damons room in the great quadrangle, on two chairs, side by side, with a candle on the table that guttered in the draught, and a copy of Socratess Apology (in the o...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： They had not lifted into view suddenly, but had rather emerged from the east, solidifying slowly out of a slate-colored blur which to the eyes of unaccustomed voyagers might or might not have been land. There was no ebullition of spirits. The two tho...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Certain persons, having heard rumours of the strange adventures that once happened to me, have asked me to write them down in detail, so that they may be printed and given to the world in their proper sequence. Therefore, in obedience, and in order t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： THE conscience of every man recognizes courage as the foundation of true manliness, and manliness as the perfection of human character, and if Christianity runs counter to conscience in this matter, or indeed in any other, Christianity will go to the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is just as well to say at the onset that the tragedy in which Tristrem Varick was the central figure has not been rightly understood. The world in which he lived, as well as the newspaper public, have had but one theory between them to account for...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In one sense, very young persons are apt to think too much of themselvesin another, not enough. When they think they know more than their parents and teachers, or other elderly people, and so set up to be bold and smart, then they think too much of t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Dunraven Bleak, the managing editor of The Evening Balloon, sat at his desk in the center of the local-room, under a furious cone of electric light. It was six o'clock of a warm summer afternoon: he was filling his pipe and turning over the pages of...
