类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The object of the following pages is to describe the Polar World in its principal natural features, to point out the influence of its long winter-night and fleeting summer on the development of vegetable and animal existence, and finally to picture m...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It had been a close and sultry dayone of the hottest of the dog-dayseven out in the open country, where the dusky green leaves had never stirred upon their stems since the sunrise, and where the birds had found themselves too languid for any songs be...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Cham Mason stood in his drawers in the middle of the floor, eagerly waving a shirt into which he was fitting cuff-links. He was a pudgy-faced boy with pink cheeks and wiry light hair like an Irish terrier's. He leaned forward with pouting lips toward...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A great many years ago, when Tom Byrnes was the able and efficient chief of the detective force of New York, a certain class of women, very much in evidence around the hotels and resorts, were known, from the peculiar manner of their work, as Badger...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Scotland's a-burning! Look out, fellows! Put on the brakes, or you will be right on top of it the first thing you know....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The drays with which I was travelling (it was in the month of March, 1849) had arrived as far as Lake Boga, on the Lower Murray River, within a day's journey of our destination. We had halted for the night close to a sheep-station established there....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Ambassador Nitworth glowered across his mirror-polished, nine-foot platinum desk at his assembled staff....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： No work dealing exclusively with the Royal Palace and Monastery of the Escorial, and purporting to give a full historical and descriptive account of that remarkable monument of Philip II. of Spain, has hitherto been published in England. In this volu...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There are many ways of entering fairyland; sometimes there is a door in the ground, and he who goes through finds himself in some great hall or carved and painted chamber. Sometimes we find the morning dew on a flower and touch the eyes with it; or,...
