类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a few minutes after one o'clockthe busiest hour of the day at the most popular bar in London. The usual little throng of Americans, journalists, men of business and loiterers, were occupying their accustomed chairs in one corner of the long, g...
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简介： Paul Bourget was born in the cathedral city of Amiens about fifty years ago, but there are a number of other interesting things to say about him. Like so many famous authors, he began, in 1873, with verse. Probably the verse did not bring him the ins...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Author of this book, though a quadroon, is pleased to announce himself the Colored man around the world. Not because he may look at a colored mans position as an honorable one at this age of the world, he is too smart for that, but because he has...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The dingy little cart containing the clean linen of the Rectory, was on its way by an unusually roundabout route. Neddy Mellin, the washer woman's son, who disliked work as much as he liked play, which was natural in a lad of thirteen, grumbled openl...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The sun was setting, and a rosy light filtered through the trees which enshrouded Chiddingly Place....
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The history of the Tower of London is so closely bound up with the history of England, from the Norman Conquest onwards, that it is very difficult to write a record of the one without appearing to have attempted to write a record of the other. A full...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The Law of the Bolo, which runs throughout the Philippine Islands, has the crowning merit of simplicity. Unlike the codes of other countries, with their folios of verbiage, their precedents, decisions, and interpretations, their hair-splitting subtle...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is our fate as a nation, head and heart of a world empire, that much of our manhood must pursue its career far away from home. And it is our strength that these English sons of ours have taught themselves to make it home wherever they find their w...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： Almost every Saturday, just before the All-Night Vigil Service,[1] from two windows in the cellar of merchant Petnnikoff's old and filthy house, opening on the narrow court-yard encumbered with various utensils, and built up with wooden servants'-qua...
类别：经典英文小说 作者： 未知
简介： The east wind blew furiously, beating gray sheets down the streaming panes. Along the village street flowed a turbid torrent, the squalid wash of an old-timer-three-days'-blow from the Great Lakes. Threshing was hung up. Every wheel was stopped for a...
