类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： These stories of the Buddha-Rebirths are not for one age or for one country, but for all time, and for the whole world. Their philosophy might be incorporated into the tenets of faith of a League of Nations without destroying any national forms of re...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The obscure streets of life do not offer the conveniences of the central thoroughfares: no electric light, no gas, not even a kerosene lamp-bracket. There are no pavements: the traveller has to fumble his way in the dark. If he needs a light, he must...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： One of the commonly misunderstood phrases in the language is the Spanish Main. To the ordinary individual it suggests the Caribbean Sea. Although Shakespeare in Othello, makes one of the gentlemen of Cyprus say that he cannot 'twixt heaven and main d...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A HOSPITAL assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a great braggart and drunkard, was returning one evening in Christmas week from the hamlet of Ryepino, where he had been to make some purchases for the ho...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense, is quite a modern institution. Three hundred years ago there were no public libraries in Europe. The Ambrosian, at Milan, dates from 1608; the Bodleian, at Oxford, from 1612. To these...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This book, that exudes sincerity, just as a pine tree drops its rosin, serves a double purpose. It reveals a curious personality that might have stepped straight from the pages of Purchas or of Hakluyt, and at the same time, all unknown to the writer...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： While calmly perusing the annals of duelling, we cannot but be amazed when we behold, in the present day of pretended intellectual perfection, this practice adopted in a society which prides itself upon its boasted high state of civilization....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Home Sector,that was what Larry Eaton called it, a little irony beneath his irrepressible cheerfulness, when he had been ordered to Coblenz with the American Army of Occupation. He had called it so with his eyes on the Stars and Stripes already f...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： On the morning of February 2nd, 1789, a lady was taking a solitary stroll in Kew Gardens. She was a small person, of dainty features, with a dimple on each side of her mouth that suggested a smile, varying, perhaps out of compliment to the variations...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The tide was at ebb. The noisily rushing spume-spotted waters of the sea were pounding the hard-sand shore of the easterly side of a beautiful island, nestling as a jewel in its setting just within the Capes, which form the shores on either side of B...
