类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：642 作者： Grant Allen
简介：These Essays originally appeared in the columns of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and I have to thank the courtesy of the Editor for kind permission to republish them. My object in writing them was to mak...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：722 作者： Grant Allen
简介：I desire to express my profound indebtedness, for the central mythological idea embodied in this tale, to Mr. J.G. Frazers admirable and epoch-making work, The Golden Bough, whose main contention I ha...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：667 作者： Grant Allen
简介：My brother Frank is a most practical boy. I may be prejudiced, but it seems to me somehow there's nothing like close personal contact with active volcanoes to teach a young fellow prudence, coolness, ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：688 作者： Grant Allen
简介：Mrs. Dewsbury's lawn was held by those who knew it the loveliest in Surrey. The smooth and springy sward that stretched in front of the house was all composed of a tiny yellow clover. It gave beneath ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：619 作者： 未知
简介：THE gentlemen of the jury retired to consider their verdict.Their foreman was a person doubly distinguished among his colleagues. He had the clearest head, and the readiest tongue. For once the right ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：630 作者： 未知
简介：FOR reasons of my own, I excused myself from accompanying my stepmother to a dinner-party given in our neighborhood. In my present humor, I preferred being aloneand, as a means of getting through my i...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：896 作者： 未知
简介：FOR after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands; even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose daug...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：477 作者： 未知
简介：In the autumn month of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, wherein these presents bear date, two idle apprentices, exhausted by the long, hot summer, and the long, hot work it had brought wit...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：660 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介：At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English p...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1679 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介：My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misin...
