类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. A man will often look at them, and be tempted to go on, when he would have been frightened at books of a larger size, and of a more erudite appearance...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： THERE was a smell of burning spruce in the sharp air, and Corporal Bracknell, of the North-west Mounted Police, threw back his head and sniffed it gratefully. His team of dogs had been conscious of it for some time, and now, quickening the pace, they...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： As for the grown-ups the story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and the end all bright. Many grown-ups like the tragedy...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Through the whole of the night, chopping, shifting winds had been tearing through the streets of London, now from the north, now from the south, now from the east, now from the west, now from all points of the compass at once; which last caprice--tak...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Man, as is evidenced by his teeth, was created graminivorous, as well as carnivorous, and the earliest skull yet found possesses teeth exactly the same as modern man, the carnivorous teeth not being bigger, whilst in many cases the whole of the teeth...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： A book iron-grey and chill is this that I have written, the tale of times when the passions of men were still working like a yeasty sea after the storms of the Great Killing. If these pages should chance to be read when the leaves are greening, they...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Two days later they came in sight of Bordeaux, and it became necessary to decide at once how they should enter the city. The dukes, with their army, were no more than ten leagues away, so that they were at liberty to choose between a peaceable and a...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The night of summer comes late in this north land. Although it was nearly nine oclock, the shadows, long gathering in the valleys and the woods, had but just now overflowed onto the broad levels of the river. Above was hurry of low-lying clouds, thro...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 小霍雷肖·阿尔杰 Horatio Alger Jr.
简介： His mother looked up from the table where she was cutting out pie crust, and asked in surprise, What do you mean, Grant? Why is to-day any different from ordinary days?...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Among my first passions was that for exploration. The Unknownthat region of mysteries lying upon the outskirts of commonplace environmentdrew me with a mighty attraction. My earliest recollections are of wanderings into the domains of the neighbors,...
