类别：经典英文小说 作者： Fergus Hume
简介： It was Toby Clendon who named it Pinchler's Dockyard --Toby Clendon, young, handsome, and a trifle scampish, who wrote witty essays for The Satirist, slashing criticisms for The Bookworm, and dainty society verses for any journal which chose to pay f...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Warwick Deeping
简介： When Denise of the Hermitage went down to draw water at the spring at the edge of the beech wood, she saw the light of a fire flashing out through the blue gloom of the April dusk. It was far awaythat fire, almost on the horizon, a knot of tawny colo...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Joseph Waugh
简介： When I look round my little bedroom and note the various familiar items that make up its furnishings, when my eye lights on much that I associate with the days o' Auld Langsyne, I am conscious of a feeling of homeliness, a sense of chumship with my s...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Maurice Thompson
简介： The Hotel Helicon stood on a great rock promontory that jutted far out into a sea of air whose currents and eddies filled a wide, wild valley in the midst of our southern mountain region....
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Anna Buchan
简介： It was tea-time in Priorsford: four-thirty by the clock on a chillOctober afternoon....
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Ottwell Binns
简介： The man in the canoe was lean and hardy, and wielded the paddle against the slow-moving current of the wide river with a dexterity that proclaimed long practice. His bronzed face was that of a quite young man, but his brown hair was interspersed with...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Clarence S. Darrow
简介： I begin this story with the personal pronoun. To begin it in any other way would be only a commonplace assumption of a modesty that I do not really have. It is most natural that the personal pronoun should stand as the first word of this tale, for I...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
简介： Miles stood by the schoolroom window, hands jingling in pockets, as he surveyed a prospect, sufficiently grey and drear to make any diversity doubly welcome, and at his words there came the sound of a general pushing-back of chairs, as the four other...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： Boris Pilniak
简介： The English reading public knows next to nothing of contemporary Russian Literature. In the great age of the Russian Realistic Novel, which begins with Turgeniev and finishes with Chekhov, the English reader is tolerably at home....
类别：经典英文小说 作者： P.A. Sheehan
简介： It is all my own fault. I was too free with my tongue. I said in a moment of bitterness: What can a Bishop do with a parish priest? He's independent of him. It was not grammatical, and it was not respectful. But the bad grammar and the impertinence w...
