类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The speaker was Farmer Parkins, and the person addressed was Jack Wittingham, only son of the most successful physician in Doveton. Farmer Parkins had driven to town quite early in the morning to make some necessary purchases, and he had been followe...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The sun fell hot upon the bosom of the Nile and clung there, vibrant, hesitating, yet aggressive, as if baffled in its desire to penetrate beneath the rivers lurid surface. For the Nile defies the sun, and relegates him to his own broad domain, where...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Portugal had been familiar to me from my earliest youth, for my road to and from Spain had often lain that way, and circumstances had made me conversant with the language and history of the country; and yet this book is not the outcome of any such pr...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Alexander Sergueievitch Pushkin came of a noble family, so ancient that it was traced back to that Alexander Nevsky who, in the thirteenth century, gained a great victory over the Swedes upon the ice of the River Neva, in token whereof he was surname...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Two boys, with guns on their shoulders, were crossing a meadow towards the Pecasset woods. These were situated about a mile from the village, and were quite extensive. The two boys were James Collins and Tom Wyman, the first, the son of a large shoe...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： That was the name Squib went by in the nursery and in the householdthe odd one. Not exactly because of any personal peculiaritiesalthough he had a few of thesebut because he had no especial brother or sister belonging to him, and seemed to stand alon...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： She did not put the sacramental phrase on her cards, as no invitations were sent out. These were delivered verbally by boarders desirous of seeing their friends present on Friday evening. Mrs. Jersey dignified her gatherings with the name of At Homes...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： It gives me great pleasure to write a few words of introduction to Lieut.-Col. Preston's History of the Desert Mounted Corps, which I had the honour to command. In writing this History Lieut.-Col. Preston has done a service to his country which I am...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： In this book I have endeavoured to bring together from all available sources such information as exists as to the claims formerly made to the sovereignty of the British Seas, and to trace the evolution of the territorial waters in recent times. The w...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The sun was breaking above the sea line, and the Pacific, heaving to the swell, lay all to the eastward in meadows of gold....
