类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A GREAT, and I frankly admit, a somewhat terrifying, honour has come to me; but I think, compliments apart, that the most case-hardened worker in letters, speaking to such an assembly as this, must recognise the gulf that separates even the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Nathaniel Hawthorne霍桑
简介： The novel takes place in the utopian community of Blithedale, presumably in the mid-1800s. The main character, Miles Coverdale, embarks on a quest for betterment of the world through the agrarian lifestyle and community of the Blithedale Fa...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In a little, we crept both of us so close to the door as the chests would allow, and there we crouched, listening; but could not tell what manner of thing it might be which produced so strange a noise. For it was neither shuffling, nor trea...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Katherine Mansfield
简介： This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： With each turn of the page in The Petting Zoo, children are introduced to a different animal and are invited to ruffle the flamingo's pretty feathers; to feel the giraffe's velvety horn; to pat the baby penguin's soft, fuzzy belly; to slide...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Peter Pentecost, from his eyrie among the hazels, looked down on the Kings highway as it dipped from Stowood through the narrow pass to the Wood Eaton meadows. It was a Kings highway beyond question, for it was the main road from London to...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 瓦尔特.司各特 Sir Walter Scott
简介： Sir Edward Mauley is The Black Dwarf, a character based on a very real man of Scott's acquaintance. Mauley becomes involved in the quarrel of a friend -- and, when imprisoned for his actions in that quarrel, finds himself betrayed by the ve...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： 麦尔维尔于一八九一年去世，遗作《水手比利巴德》藏匿在一只铁盒子里。三十年后被一位学者发现。铁盒中的手稿经过编辑整理后出版，在读者中间迅速获得好评，博尔赫斯、E.M.福斯...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 瓦尔特.司各特 Sir Walter Scott
简介： Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, the...
