类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Edgar Allan Poe
简介： THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the mere romanticist must eschew, if he do not wish to offend or to disgust. They are with propriety ha...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Some excuse seems to be needed for venturing at this time to publish biographical sketches of the men of the Victorian era. Several have been written by men, like Lord Morley and Lord Bryce, having first-hand knowledge of their subjects, others by th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Arthur Conan Doyle阿瑟·柯南·道尔
简介： March 24. The spring is fairly with us now. Outside my laboratory window the great chestnut-tree is all covered with the big, glutinous, gummy buds, some of which have already begun to break into little green shuttlecocks. As you walk down the lanes...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Colonel Ethan Allen, the author of Oracles of Reason, was the son of Joseph Allen, a native of Coventry, Connecticut, a farmer in moderate circumstances. He afterwards resided in Litchfield, where Ethan was born in the year 1739. The family consisted...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There can be no doubt whatever, said Mr. Phillipps, that my theory is the true one; these flints are prehistoric fish-hooks.I dare say; but you know that in all probability the things were forged the other day with a door-key....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Rudyard Kipling
简介： HIS full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was the end of the christened titles. His mothers ayah called him Willie-Baba, but as he never paid the faintest attention to anything that the a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Ellen Wood
简介： If I dont relate this quite as usual, and it is found to be different from what I generally write, it is because I know less about it than others know....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Book of Revelation describes a war in heaven between angels led by the archangel Michael versus those led by the dragon, identified with the devil and Satan, who are defeated and thrown down to the earth. Revelation's war in heaven is related to...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Knut Hamsun
简介： Related to and sometimes paired with Hamsun's Under the Autumn Stars, this beautifully lyric fiction picks up with the same characters as the other book, but is set in time six years later. The central character of the former novel, Knut Pedersen (Ha...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： it was a Phantom Ship that made some voyages to different parts of the world which were recorded in early numbers of Charles Dickenss Household Words. As preface to Richard Hakluyts records of the first endeavour of our bold Elizabethan mariners to f...
