类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I hardly know where to begin, because, as I grow older, I find it more and more difficult to know what really is the beginning of anything. Causes are all mixed up, and things that seem afterwards to have a bearing were not at the time important enou...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a serene noonday in that melancholy interlude of the seasons when autumn has really ceasedwinter not yet visibly begun. The same hired vehicle which had borne Lionel to Fawley more than five years ago, stopped at the gate of the wild umbrageou...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Well, good-bye, boys! You won't go far from camp before we return, will you? The speaker was one of two men seated in an Indian canoe. He gripped the forward paddle, while his companion at the stern added cheerfully...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： James Madison was born on March 16, 1751, at Port Conway, Virginia; he died at Montpellier, in that State, on June 28, 1836. Mr. John Quincy Adams, recalling, perhaps, the death of his own father and of Jefferson on the same Fourth of July, and that...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： For almost seven centuries it has stood there looking out across the canyon toward the setting sun. Proudly, almost haughtily, it has resisted the heavy tread of those slow centuries. Like a giant with a shawl of everlasting stone pulled closely abou...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The history of the Utah Batteries should be a plain tale, for deeds of valor cannot be garnished by the flower of rhetoric or the pomp of oratory. This is a simple story of brave deeds. The stern browed Heracles standing unarmed in the midst of his c...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea. Beyond them to the east there lies a desert, for ever untroubled by man: all yellow it is, and spotted with shadows of stones, an...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I was by birth a gentleman living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity, said the Protector to one of his Parliaments. Cromwells family was one of the many English families which rose to wealth and importance at the time of the Refo...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A great many impressionable young men who become soldiers overnight and go to war feel strongly inspired to write books about their adventures. I felt the same way before the newness of the life on the western front had been rubbed away by constant f...
