类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： What is slavery? A system under which the time and toil of one person are compulsorily the property of another. The power of life and death, and the privilege of using the lash in the master, are not essential, but casual attendants of slavery, which...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： IT was in the middle of the fifteenth century, a little before the year 1450, to be precise, that there wandered into the streets of Nuremberg a working man, a common coppersmith, one Hermann Vischer by name. He came no one knows whence. He came one...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Arthur Conan Doyle阿瑟·柯南·道尔
简介： The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a c...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Moral improvers have calls to preach. I have a friend who has a call to plough, and woe to the daisy sod or azalea thicket that falls under the savage redemption of his keen steel shares. Not content with the so-called subjugation of every terrestria...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A maid opened the door leading from a bedroom to a salon of the royal suite at Harridge's Hotel. Dusk had fallen, and entering, she switched on the electricity. The room, with its almost Louis Seize decorations, was suddenly flooded with light; and t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Bounteous Nile! Father of all living! Garlanded with lotus blooms, rosy as Horus!As these words rang out over the rocky hillside in a clear sweet voice, two men who were climbing the steep declivity paused a moment and looked at each other....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I AM writing these reminiscences of my ambassadorship at a moment when Germanys schemes in the Turkish Empire and the Near East have achieved an apparent success. The Central Powers have disintegrated Russia, have transformed the Baltic and the Black...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Widow of a village merchant, mistress of an unpretending house in the little town of Plainton, Maine, and, by strange vicissitudes of fortune, the possessor of great wealth, she was on her way from Paris to the scene of that quiet domestic life to wh...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Of Jane Austens life there is little to tell, and that little has been told more than once by writers whose relationship to her made them competent to do so. It is impossible to make even microscopic additions to the sum-total of the facts already kn...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When Mr. Hutchinson. Port, a single gentleman who admitted that he was forty-seven years old and who actually was rising sixty, of strongly fixed personal habits, and with the most positive opinions upon every conceivable subject, came to know that b...
