类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： PHILOSOPHERS conceive of the passions which harass us as vices into which men fall by their own fault, and, therefore, generally deride, bewail, or blame them, or execrate them, if they wish to seem unusually pious. And so they think they are doing s...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
简介： The houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, was a foreshortened desert. The club on the hill alone, from its semi-cylindrical front, projected a glow upon the dusky vagueness of the C...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
简介： December 12th, 1747.My life has been strangely bound up with extraordinary incidents, some of which occurred before I had any connection with the principal actors in them, or, indeed, before I even knew of their existence. I suppose, most old men are...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
简介： The Portrait of a Lady was, like Roderick Hudson, begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like Roderick and like The American, it had been designed for publication in The Atlantic Monthly, where it began to appear in...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Edward Jenner was born at his fathers vicarage at Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, on May 17, 1749. After leaving school, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon, and in 1770 he went to London and became a resident pupil under the great surgeon and...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介： More than one charming blind girl, in fiction and in the drama, has preceded Poor Miss Finch. But, so far as I know, blindness in these cases has been always exhibited, more or less exclusively, from the ideal and the sentimental point of view. The a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is imperative that now at once, while these stupendous events are still clear in my mind, I should set them down with that exactness of detail which time may blur. But even as I do so, I am overwhelmed by the wonder of the fact that it should be o...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： We may say what we will, Mr. Larose, remarked the thin scholarly looking man in a rather regretful tone, but evil in a jeweled setting is less repugnant to the human mind, than when met with in sordid surroundings, and crime among the well-to-do is m...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
简介： . . . My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if thats what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I dont mean that it did me no good, but that I never had occasion to take the bottle out of my bag. It might have done wonders for me if I had needed it;...
