类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Romance which forms the staple of this little volume is generally considered as belonging to the Sindibād cycle of tales. It has for ages been popular in the East, though to the average English reader the very name of Prince Bakhtyār is unknown...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Two influences have urged me to make a study of the subject of the prisoners of war in Britain.First: the hope that I might be able to vindicate our country against the charge so insistently brought against her that she treated the prisoners of war i...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： I entered the lace-world by the grim door of war. For it was the war-time work of the women of the Brussels Lace Committee that opened the way to me.Long before the war, Queen Elizabeth in Belgium, like Queen Margharita in Italy, had sought means to...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： THE blossom of the lilac-tree gave a pulp-like sound as it thwacked against her window, and curiously named Stephanie Miniati smiled to herself as she turned in her bed and, placing a hand on her rounded breast, closed her eyes in order that she migh...
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简介： Such were the stranes that smote the air as Mr. Harold Withersquash drew near to the humbel home of his Selia. She was just a low born girl but none could beat her at playing the piano....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Old Capn Pem was seated on the stringpiece of the wharf, his short black pipe gripped firmly in his mouth, and his wooden leg stretched stiffly before him like the stubby bowsprit of a coasting sloop. Beside him was his crony, Mike, another wooden-le...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Reverend Mr. Artman paced soberly up and down the small living-room of his manse, as every one called the parsonage. His eyes were clouded. The lines at the corners of his kindly lips were sternly set. Now and then he glanced toward the bay-windo...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： THE blossom of the lilac-tree gave a pulp-like sound as it thwacked against her window, and curiously named Stephanie Miniati smiled to herself as she turned in her bed and, placing a hand on her rounded breast, closed her eyes in order that she migh...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Not long after the beginning of the war in Europe four American girls set sail from New York City to aid in the Red Cross nursing.When they boarded the Philadelphia they were almost strangers to one another. And never were girls more unlike....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The chapters collected in this book represent a running comment on the European situation during the past ten months. Although in the haze that covers the Continent it is difficult always to see clearly what is happening, and still more difficult to...
