类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
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....
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...
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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...
