类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I have the pleasure of laying before the New York Historical Society a brief account of the progress which has been made during the past year towards extending our knowledge of the globe, particularly with reference to its geography, and to those nat...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： My fathers landBorn at seaMy school lifeAunt BrettaSpoilt by over-indulgenceEnticed to seaThe Kite schoonerContrast of a vessel in port with a vessel at seaMy shipmatesMy name fixed in more ways than oneA galeRepentance comes too lateSuspicious custo...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This little volume consists of the letters I wrote from Bulawayo, Johannesburg and Pretoria for the journal South Africa, which is exclusively devoted to matters relating to the region whence it derives its title. Each letter contains the researches...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I cannot pretend that my ambition to paint the Man of Sorrows had any religious inspiration, though I fear my dear old dad at the Parsonage at first took it as a sign of awakening grace. And yet, as an artist, I have always been loath to draw a line...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a world of greedy Dynastseach contending for the right to pillage and enslave. But one man's valor became a shining shield....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In the present volume will be found twenty stories from early writers for children, the period being roughly 1790 to 1830, with three later and more sophisticated efforts added. Having so recently made remarks on the character of these old booksin th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Upon a certain dreary April afternoon in the year of grace, 1906, the apprehensions of Philip Kirkwood, Esquire, Artist-peintre, were enlivened by the discovery that he was occupying that singularly distressing social position, which may be summed up...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The passenger list of the Britannia was posted up close to the lift on B deck, but the weather had not encouraged curious groups to study and inwardly digest its items. In fact, digestion of all sorts had been difficult. To-day, however, the huge shi...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： NICOLAS, a scion of an illustrious family of Vervignole, showed marks of sanctity from his earliest childhood, and at the age of fourteen vowed to consecrate himself to the Lord. Having embraced the ecclesiastical profession, he was raised, while sti...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It has not happened to many men, as I think, to have fallen into the hands of as cruel and bloodthirsty a monster as ever defiled Gods earth, and to have escaped to tell the tale. Yet it is of this that I have come to write; and of all the hardships...
