类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A companionable silence prevailed in the room. At intervals it was broken, but only by the rustle of paper or the striking of a match. The heavy breathing, almost amounting to a snore, of one of the two men, and the inarticulate protests of...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A Political Romance is a 1759 novel by Laurence Sterne, author of Tristram Shandy. The first work written by Sterne might be labelled a roman clef or a cronique scandaleuse, which were so popular at the beginning of the eighteenth century....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
简介： In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to deat...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In the county town of a certain shire there lived (about forty years ago) one Mr. Wilkins, a conveyancing attorney of considerable standing....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a May morning in 1825--spring-time of the year, late spring-time of the century. It had rained the night before, and a warm pallor in the eastern sky was the only indication that the sun was trying to pierce the gray dome of nearly o...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Grade 9 UpA poignant tale, set in Ireland in 1984. When her mother dies, 15-year-old Shell Talent becomes trapped in a depressing life with her pious, but alcoholic father. Having given up his job to devote his life to the Lord, he leaves S...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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： It is close upon daybreak. The great wall of pines and hemlocks that keep off the west wind from Stillwater stretches black and indeterminate against the sky. At intervals a dull, metallic sound, like the guttural twang of a violin string,...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Queen of Shebah was a monarch of the ancient kingdom of Sheba and is referred to in Habeshan history, the Bible, the Qur'an, and Josephus. She is widely assumed to have been a queen regnant, although there is no historical proof of this...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Louisa May Alcott
简介： AUNT BETSEY, there's going to be a new Declaration of Independence. Bless and save us, what do you mean, child? And the startled old lady precipitated a pie into the oven with destructive haste. I mean that, being of age, I'm going to take...
