类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years service a man is directly or indirectly acquainted with the two or three hundred Civilians in his Province, all the Messes of ten or twelve Regiments and B...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Edgar Allan Poe
简介： THE Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its sealthe redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the p...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Sinclair Lewis 辛克莱·刘易斯
简介： The ticket-taker of the Nickelorion MovingPicture Show is a public personage, who stands out on Fourteenth Street, New York, wearing a gorgeous light-blue coat of numerous brass buttons. He nods to all the patrons, and his nod is the most cordial in...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
简介： It has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I was a great solitary when I was young. I made it my pride to keep aloof and suffice for my own entertainment; and I may say that I had neither friends nor acquaintances until I met that friend who became my wife and the mother of my children. With...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： One winter night, at half-past nine,Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,I had come home, too late to dine,And supper, with cigars and wine,Was waiting in the study....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： WE have, in the next place, to treat of Memory and Remembering, considering its nature, its cause, and the part of the soul to which this experience, as well as that of Recollecting, belongs. For the persons who possess a retentive memory are not ide...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty- four, that I, Gill Davis to command, His Mark, having then the honour to be a private in the Royal Marines, stood a-leaning over the bulwarks of the armed sloop Christopher Columbus...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Her father was a poor Norman laborer. Her mother died while she was a child. From an early age Marie had learned to get her own living by going out to service. Three different mistresses tried her while she was a very young girl, and found every reas...
