类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The following Narrative was taken entirely from the lips of Peter Wheeler. I have in all instances given his own language, and faithfully recorded his story as he told it, without any change whatever. There are many astonishing facts related in this...
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简介： No other branch of the Federal Government furnishes employment to so many men as the postal service, particularly that branch of it in which letter carriers and clerks are used. In every city vacancies occur frequently, by reason of death, resignatio...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The substance of this little work was first published as a series of articles in the British Clayworker, in 189596, and I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietor of that Journal for permission to reproduce them....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The earth rocked. The sky was of purple blackness. The nauseating stench of burning sulphur filled the air. Thunder rumbled, and growled constantly under the earth crust to be answered by shattering crashes that seemed to come from the heavens, and w...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Henry stopped and squatted in the underbrush, well hidden from the path but close enough to see the coming group. Within a minute they became visible. There were twenty-five to thirty boys, girls and youths walking slowly in ragged groups, talking an...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Up until the moment when he first looked into Hippolyte Adolphe Taine's History of English Literature, Herbert Quidley's penchant for old books had netted him nothing in the way of romance and intrigue. Not that he was a stranger to either....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Vacation trip to Nirva?!? snapped Secad ScreedGalactic Sector Administrator J. Gomer Screed, a serious-minded man who rarely lost his temper. That was a pity; it was a lousy temper. A mindless excursion, and completely outside my Sector at that! Woma...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Starship Pandora creaked and groaned as her landing pads settled unevenly in the mucky surface of the ugly world outside. She seemed to be restless to end her fool's errand here, two hundred light years from the waiting hordes on Earth....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I have trod many tangled jungles, explored the floors of innumerable oceans and braved death in so many forms that a man less magnificent than myself would have died of fright. But if there is one event that stands out in my perfect memory that can s...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection out of some 140, of which I have found traces in this country. It is probable that many more exist....
