类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The poet who wrote the hexameter quoted on the title-page meant it to be the first line of a Latin epic. The epic was not writtenin Latin at any rate,and the poets change of purpose had consequences of moment to literature. But I have always been gla...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own, lived with his wife and children in a peasants hut, and earned his living by his work. Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what he earned he spent for food. The man and his wife...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and Eve after they were expelled from the garden to the time that Cain kills his brother Abel. It tells of Adam and Eve's first dwellingthe Cave of Treasures; their trials and temptati...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It lay down in a hollow, rich with fine old timber and luxuriant pastures; and you came upon it through an avenue of limes, bordered on either side by meadows, over the high hedges of which the cattle looked inquisitively at you as you passed, wonder...
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简介： The undersigned hereby declares on his sworn word of honour that in writing this volume he has been in no way inspired by outside influence, and that he has never had any dealings whatsoever, material or otherwise, either before or during the war, wi...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： No autobiography in the English language has been more read; to the nineteenth century it bears a relation not less characteristic than Boswell's 'Johnson' to the eighteenth....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive. In that hope...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In republishing these essays in collected form, it has seemed best to issue them as they were originally printed, with the exception of a few slight corrections of slips in the text and with the omission of occasional duplication of language in the d...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： But it was difficult to know exactly what to do! For to-day was the day on which the Lennox cousins were to arriveDick and Donald, who had been invited to spend the last weeks of the holidays with the Vaughans. The Vaughans had been looking forward t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The village was called Beddagama, which means the village in the jungle. It lay in the low country or plains, midway between the sea and the great mountains which seem, far away to the north, to rise like a long wall straight up from the sea of trees...
