类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：717 作者： 未知
简介：If there were no God, said the eighteenth century Deist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Now this XVIII century god was deus ex machina, the god who helped those who could not help themselves, th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1315 作者： 未知
简介：The highroad was dry, a lovely April sun was shining warmly, but the snow was still lying in the ditches and in the woods. Winter, dark, long, and spiteful, was hardly over; spring had come all of a s...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1064 作者： 未知
简介：I have ventured to write this little book with some diffidence, for it deals with farming, milling and baking, subjects on which everyone has his own opinion. In the earlier chapters I have tried to g...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1115 作者： 未知
简介：The notes on which these essays are based were collected in the course of two commissions spent under the lee of the Admiralty library, close to the Royal United Service Institution, and in touch with...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1274 作者： 未知
简介：Young Lyon, lounging in the Court House to make up his daily tale of items for the Waynscott News, was perhaps the only man who knew exactly how the quarrel between Lawrence and Fullerton began, thoug...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1971 作者： 未知
简介：Halfway across the Atlantic the good ship Arcturus was making her way from Liverpool to New York. She was a sailing vessel, and her speed by no means equaled that of the mighty steamships, more than o...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2638 作者： 未知
简介：Of the increasing success and widening popularity of the elementary science series written chiefly in the seclusion of Srignan by the gifted French naturalist who was destined to give that obscure ham...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1370 作者： 未知
简介：Adventures are to the adventurous, said Cannington, with the air of a man who believes that he is saying something undeniably smart....
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：901 作者： 未知
简介：Let me see where the story begins. Perhaps I can date it from the telephone invitation to dinner which I received one Monday from my dear and kind friend Mrs. Whyte....
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1808 作者： 未知
简介：It was Jim's last day at home. He stood in the centre of the fragrant garden and watched the glory of color suffusing the Surrey hills towards the west. With a sigh he turned away and walked to the ho...
