Flight From Tomorrow
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! Today, they were screaming: Death to Hradzka! Kill the tyrant!...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: But yesterday, a whole planet had shouted: Hail Hradzka! Hail the Leader! Today, they were screaming: Death to Hradzka! Kill the tyrant!...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: NO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky, and the sun coursed onward through the azure sea until past meridian, without throwing to the earth a single shadow. Then, low in the west, appeared something obscure...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: The sweet bells of Helstonleigh Cathedral were ringing out in the summers afternoon. Groups of people lined the streets, in greater number than the ordinary business of the day would have brought forth; some pacing with idle steps, some halting to ta...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: There were three women in the dressing-room. Little Miss Macy, who played a subaltern, was pulling off her uniform; and the Duchess, divested of velvet, stood brushing the powder out of her hair. The third woman was doing nothing. In a chair by the t...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: Mr. Gladstone has not disappointed the confidence of those who have believed of him that when great occasions presented themselves, of interest to the Church, he would not be found wanting. A statesman has a right to reserve himself and bide his time...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: It was an unusual sight, the long vista of the beautiful street in deep shadow, peaceful and calm as if it knew no trampling footsteps nor jostling vehicles. It 10was just waking up from its brief hour of repose. Here and there a market cart, laden w...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: It had rained that April more continuously than capriciously, but this morning April showed at last her fairer face. The sunshine held as yet no sense of heat, only the bracingness of a glad salt wave. Across the spacious blue of the Essex sky clouds...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: The person who invented the Irish question may or may not deserve well of his species. In a sense, of course, there has been an Irish question since the beginning of history. But it is only within the last century or so that we have begun to spell it...
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: What if he is a great deal older than I am! that doesn't give him any right to rumple my hair, does it? I'm willing to respect old age, of course, but I want my hair respected too....
类别:英文短篇小说 作者: 未知
简介: It was with feelings of doubt that were not very far from dismay that Beatrice Deems watched her new acquaintance, Dan OLeary, saddle her recently acquired horse. She had ridden before, of course, in the tan-bark ring of the riding-school or on shady...