类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： If there were no God, said the eighteenth century Deist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Now this XVIII century god was deus ex machina, the god who helped those who could not help themselves, the god of the lazy and incapable. The nineteenth ce...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： George Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans, was born at Arbury Farm, in the parish of Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, on the 22nd of November, 1819. She was the fifth and last child of her father by his second wifeof that father whose sound sense and integrity sh...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Well, we ARE a pair! the poor ladys visitor broke out to her at the end of her explanation in a manner disconcerting enough. The poor lady was Miss Cutter, who lived in South Audley Street, where she had an upper half so concise that it had to pass b...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The notion of what constitutes adequate civics teaching in our schools is rapidly changing. The older idea was based on the theory that children were not citizensthat only adults were citizens. Therefore, civics teaching was usually deferred to the e...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Ellen settled herself on the most uncomfortable chair in the room for the simple reason that it was the only one left her, the others being occupied by her elders, relatives of various sorts. She pulled down her skimpy black skirt over the length of...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： JACK LANAGAN of the San Francisco Enquirer was conceded to have arrived as the premier police reporter of San Francisco. This honour was his not solely through a series of brilliant newspaper feats in his especial field, but as well by reason of an e...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： John Bernard Pye Adams was born on November 15th, 1890, at Beckenham, Kent. From his first school at Clare House, Beckenham, he obtained an entrance scholarship to Malvern, where he gained many Classical and English prizes and became House Prefect. I...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Year by year the old black tribes are dying out, and many of their legends and beliefs are dying with them. These legends deal with the world as the blacks knew it; with the Bush animals and birds; the powers of storm, flood, fire, thunder, and magic...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Arthur Morrison
简介： I shall here set down in language as simple and straightforward as I can command, the events which followed my recent return to England; and I shall leave it to others to judge whether or not my conduct has been characterised by foolish fear and ill-...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The story of a great life-saving social revolution, the mightiest in the nineteenth century and one of the most momentous in the history of civilization, is told here for the first time. It is told from the standpoint of the transformation of the Cit...
