类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England. It was first published by William Heinemann in London in October 1902. The individual chapters had originall...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A wallaby would have done just as well as a human being to endure the nothingness of existence as it has been known to me. This, I suppose, is why I want to tell of the only two lively things that have happened in a dull, uninteresting life....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
简介： I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days' journey out of what people now go over in a couple of hours with a whizz a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介： Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an early master of mystery and suspense, writing such classics as The Moonstone, The Woman in White, and Basil. At the time of their publication, his works were classified as sensation novels, a subgenre now seen as a p...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： For the simple reason that he is confident he has put you off the scent, was my companion's reply. He is doing the one foolish thing the criminal always does sooner or later; that is to say, he is becoming over-confident of his own powers to elude us...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Such is this delicious Isle - this unkempt, unrestrained garden where the centuries gaze upon perpetual summer. Small it is, and of varied charms - set in the fountain of time-defying youth. By the popular Australian author who wrote Confessions of a...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o'clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsin...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Referred to by Henry James as 'the first novelist of his time' Ivan Turgenev's works focus on class, love and suffering. Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories with its themes of the supernatural was, therefore, something of a departure for a writer w...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The King of the Golden River is a delightful fairy tale told with all Ruskins charm of style, his appreciation of mountain scenery, and with his usual insistence upon drawing a moral. None the less, it is quite unlike his other writings. All his life...
