类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is a village street, with great elms on either side, while along the middle stands another row set in a narrow strip of grassy common, so that the street and roadway are in reality double. The dwellings on either side are not only widely parted by...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was in my own home, the German Embassy in London, where the atmosphere was entirely political, that I learned my first steps in politics. My father did not belong to that class of diplomats, so prevalent to-day, who treat politics as an occupation...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When Cabell Graeme was courting pretty Betty French up at the Chateau place, though he had many rivals and not a few obstacles to overcome, he had the good fortune to secure one valuable ally, whose friendship stood him in good stead. She was of a ri...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Charles John Huffham Dickens, the master story-teller, was born in Landport, England, February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in one of the offices of the Navy, and he was one of eight children....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Elizabeth would be a good name for her, said the Duke of Kent. Elizabeth was the greatest woman who ever sat on the throne of England. The English people are used to the name, and they like it....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When the news came of the discovery of gold at the south pole, nobody suspected that the beginning had been reached of a new era in the worlds history. The newsboys cried Extra! as they had done a thousand times for murders, battles, fires, and Wall...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： AMELIA came running eagerly down the wide stairs, and though she was smiling with the joy of Vernons coming, she stopped on the bottom step long enough to shake out the skirt of the new spring gown she wore, with a manner that told she had it on that...
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...
