类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Five members of the D club had gathered in Jack Straws room on the top floor of Phillips Hall the last Saturday afternoon before the end of the Spring term. They had not assembled in official conclave, indeed they had not intended to assemble at all....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： IN concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies closed, we stood at the door of the long, quaint gallery of the Byzantine Empresses. It seemed natural and desirabl...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： As Dan opened the door, his trained glance caught the brief reflection of a strange, strong-featured face, and a lithe, powerful, and unfamiliar physique. Dan accepted this unfamiliar reflection of himself as an actor accepts makeup. What puzzled him...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This volume does not aim to contain all the best American humorous short stories; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with th...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Jim Gilmore came to Hortons Bay from Canada. He bought the blacksmith shop from old man Horton. Jim was short and dark with big mustaches and big hands. He was a good horseshoer and did not look much like a blacksmith even with his leather apron on....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In offering a revised edition of a book which has been before the public for more than ten years, there is little to say that has not been said in the original Preface. The work as published before, however, was always, to its author's mind, unfinish...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： No unabridged edition of Swiss Family Robinson exists in English. Indeed, the book has been rewritten so many times, by so many editors, that it can legitimately be said that that no complete edition of the book exists in any language....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： IT is now five years since the present volume was first laid before the public by Mr. George Smith, just before setting out on his last ill-fated expedition to the East. It naturally awakened extreme interest and curiosity....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： THERE was once a cat which was not in the least like any cat you have ever seen, or I either, for the matter of that. It was a fairy cat, you see, and so you would rather expect it to be different, wouldnt you? It had a violet nose, indigo eyes, pale...
