类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Mankind has ever been disposed to be carried away with names and words, with the representation of things, rather than with things themselves: and that portion of mankind thus apt to be deceived by mere sound, is generally the most innocentthe bestth...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The night of his grandfather's mysterious death at the Cedars, Bobby Blackburn was, at least until midnight, in New York. He was held there by the unhealthy habits and companionships which recently had angered his grandfather to the point of threaten...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： HE young man stood in the field road giving directions to a robust negro who was ploughing the corn, which, in parallel rows, stretched on to the main road a quarter of a mile distant. The negro placed the point of his ploughshare a few inches from t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： To the memory of My Brother,To the memory of Ignazio and ManfrediLanza di Trabia,To the memory of All Our Dead,This tale of suffering and of war is dedicated...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is the inclination of the average reader to skip prefaces. For this I do not in the least blame him. Skipping the preface is one of my favorite literary pursuits. To catch me napping a preface must creep up quietly and take me, as it were, unaware...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This is not a conventional biography. It is a collection of sketches in which an attempt is made to portray the character of Abraham Lincoln as the highest type of the American from several interesting points of view. He has doubtless been the subjec...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： You need to turn the little chap loose in the country, was the doctor's verdict, given in a low tone that didn'tthank Heaven!attract Paul's attention, though if the child hadn't been absorbed for the moment in driving a brood of imaginary chickens in...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Willa Cather 薇拉·凯瑟
简介： Willa Cather, best-known as the author of O Pioneers , My Antonia, and Death Comes for The Archbishop published Youth and the Bright Medusa, a collection of her short fiction, in 1920. According to Alfred Knopf, Cather had been displeased with the du...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利
简介： GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, DUKE OF ST. JAMES, completed his twenty-first year, an event which created almost as great a sensation among the aristocracy of England as the Norman Conquest. A minority of twenty years had converted a family always amongs...
