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...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The windows rattled ominously as the first vibration from the cannon shook the school.It was Tuesday, the Fourth of August, 1914.The master laid down his book and rose. His shoulder crooked forward threateningly....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Finnagle's Law shows that many times we don't get the effect we planned on. But ... there's an inverse to that famous law, too.... The IWC program was a newscast by Bill Howard, and the news was particularly vicious that night.Bill, his big homely fa...
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简介： It is well to remind ourselves, from time to time, that Ethics is but another word for righteousness, that for which many men and women of every generation have hungered and thirsted, and without which life becomes meaningless....
