类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The book of which a translation is here offered to the English reader was published posthumously at Berlin, in the year 1852, by the Authors younger brother, Alexander von Humboldt, the eminent Naturalist. It appeared under the title of Ide...
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简介： In those west-country parishes where but a few years back the feast of Christmas Eve was usually prolonged with cake and cider, crowding, and geese dancing, till the ancient carols ushered in the day, a certain languor not seldom pervaded t...
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简介： The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles from Eastbourne,...
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简介： But all the afternoon his eyes had looked on glamour; he had strayed in fairyland. The holidays were nearly done, and Lucian Taylor had gone out resolved to lose himself, to discover strange hills and prospects that he had never seen before...
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简介： It is seldom that the historian has to record events more singular than those which occurred during this year, when the Crown of France was battled for by no less than four pretenders, with equal claims, merits, bravery, and popularity. Fir...
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简介： The History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides, is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pa...
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简介： Young Joseph Last, having finally gone down from Oxford, wondered a good deal what he was to do next and for the years following next. He was an orphan from early boyhood, both his parents having died of typhoid within a few days of each ot...
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简介： 奥威尔原名埃里克阿瑟布莱尔(Eric Arthur Blair)，1903年生于印度。1907年他举家迁回到英格兰。1917年，他进入伊顿公学。1921年后来到缅甸加入Indianimperial Police，1928年辞职。随后的日子里他...
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简介： The aim of this book is to prove that the Homeric Epics, as wholes, and apart from passages gravely suspected in antiquity, present a perfectly harmonious picture of the entire life and civilisation of one single age. The faint variations i...
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简介： At Balzacs funeral, the glorious yet bitter seal upon his destiny, Victor Hugo delivered a magnificent address, and in his capacity as poet and seer proclaimed with assurance the judgment of posterity: His life has been brief yet full, and...
