类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Most of the principles, and reasonings, contained in this volume,1 were published in a work in three volumes, called A Treatise of Human Nature: a work which the Author had projected before he left College, and which he wrote and published not long a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： For offering this new edition of my fathers Phantastes, my reasons are three. The first is to rescue the work from an edition illustrated without the authors sanction, and so unsuitably that all lovers of the book must have experienced some real grie...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Richard de Bury (12811345), so called from being born near Bury St. Edmunds, was the son of Sir Richard Aungerville. He studied at Oxford; and was subsequently chosen to be tutor to Prince Edward of Windsor, afterwards Edward III. His loyalty to the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： But I scarcely heard him. The knowledge that my darling was the victim of the scourge that was ravaging all Europe drove me back against the wall faint and speechless with terror. If she dies, he had said, and the words rang in my ears like a funeral...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Joseph Conrad约瑟夫·康拉德
简介： As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity, t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The increasing interest attached to all that part of the American Continent situated within and near the tropics, has suggested the publication of the present edition of Humboldts celebrated work, as a portion of the SCIENTIFIC LIBRARY....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Edgar Rice Burroughs 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯
简介： Widely known as the creator of Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs was also one of America's most imaginative writers of science fiction. This tale of the amazing world of Pellucidar is a fine example of that genre. Discovered by two men who tra...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Jack London杰克·伦敦
简介： The People of the Abyss is Jack London's riveting expos of the conditions in the East End of London at the dawn of the 20th century. Stranded in Britain's capital after a cancelled assignment, London poses as a down-on-his-luck sailor and takes up re...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Henry James
简介： A Passionate Pilgrim is a novella by Henry James, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1871. The story was the earliest fiction that James included in the New York Edition (190709) of his works. Set in England, the tale shows James' strong inte...
