类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The town of Shannon lay like a wreath flung wide upon the hills above one of those long, green, fertile valleys to be seen everywhere below the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia. It was nothing like a city, merely a neat, little town built by thr...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： M. Legros, tailor-in-chief to His Majesty Louis XIV and to the Court of Paris and Versailles, bowed himself out of the room; with back bent nearly double, and knees trembling in the effort, he receded towards the door even whilst Monseigneur the Arch...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Many people did not like Jessop. He had rather a brutal manner sometimes of telling brutal thingsthe truth, he called it. They don't like it, he once said to me in a rare moment of confidence. But why the devil shouldn't they? They pretend these sort...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The first thing that impresses me as I begin this short book on London is the large number of subjects of which I will say nothing. There are many reasons for this. One is that a title such as A London Mosaic is as difficult to compose to as Life or...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The grey twilight gives to the long, pale stretches of sand the sense of something strangely unreal. As far as the eye can reach, it curves out into the mist, the last vanishing garments, as it were, of some fleeing ghost. The sea comes, smoothly, qu...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I have taken the liberty of dedicating this little work to you. It treats of a subject on which I have made many experiments and collected many observations in Belgium and in Holland. I have carefully weighed the conflicting evidence of some distingu...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There is not in all London a quieter spot, or one, apparently, more withdrawn from the heat and bustle of life than Newsome Terrace. It is a cul-de-sac, for at the upper end the roadway between its two lines of square, compact little residences is br...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A limitless expanse of opal sea, calm and unruffled, reflecting the crimson and gold of the sky, as the sun went down behind pine woods and moors.A clear-cut line of cliffs, rising sheer from the stretch of golden sands....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A PREFACE is the place where an author usually apologizes to the public for what he is about to inflict. Such being the case, I hasten to state that I am only jointly responsible for this aggregation of tales, which resemble, more than anything else,...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Now that most of our men in the prime of life have been in the army we seem to be in for a goodly literature of disappointment. All the ungifted young people came back from the war to tell us that they were fed up. That was their ailment, in outline....
