类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： As indicated on the title-page, The Boy Travellers on the Congo is condensed from that remarkable narrative, Through the Dark Continent, by one of the most famous explorers that the century has produced. The origin of the present volume is sufficient...
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简介： Ruth Courthope Seer stood on her own doorstep and was content. She looked across the garden and the four-acre field with the white may hedge boundary. It was all hers. Her eyes slowly followed the way of the sun. Another field, lush and green, sloped...
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简介： There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlets favourite. Thirty years agothese chronicles are of the year 1894the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even of large houses owned by rich people, were dark,...
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简介： It was between nine and ten oclock on a January night, and the London streets were in a state of slush. During the previous night snow had fallen heavily, and the respectable portion of the community, which, according to regular custom, had retired t...
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简介： Young Henry Trenchard, one fine afternoon in the Spring of 1920, had an amazing adventure.He was standing at the edge of Piccadilly Circus, just in front of Swan and Edgar's where the omnibuses stopped. They now stop there no longer but take a last f...
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简介： The fog had swallowed up the house, and the house had submitted. So thick was this fog that the towers of Westminster Abbey, the river, and the fat complacency of the church in the middle of the Square, even the three Plane Trees in front of the old...
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简介： The story of Pele and her sister Hiiaka stands at the fountain-head of Hawaiian myth and is the matrix from which the unwritten literature of Hawaii drew its life-blood. The material for the elaboration of this story has, in part, been found in seria...
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简介： Somewhere in the early nineties was Absalom Jay's first period. He was so well known a figure in London at that time as to be frequently caricatured in the weekly society journals, and Spy's Absalom, that appeared in the 1894 volume of Vanity Fair, i...
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简介： Fort Worth, August 5, 18. One hundred and seventy-five thousand head of cattle are being slowly drifted and driven from the drought-parched sections of Northwestern Texas into Jacks County, along the waters of the West Fork of Trinity. The herders wh...
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简介： The decision to record my experiences, observations, and reactions during my stay in Russia I had made long before I thought of leaving that country. In fact, that was my main reason for departing from that tragically heroic land....
