类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：803 作者： 未知
简介：Little excuse is needed, perhaps, for any fresh selection from the famous Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, provided it be representative enough, and worthy enough, to enlist a new army of youthful ...
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简介：Colonel Howard-Bury and the members of the Expedition of 1921 had effected the object with which they had been despatched. They were not sent out to climb Mount Everest. It would be impossible to reac...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：557 作者： 未知
简介：Snythergens mother was poorso poor that she did not feel able to support her baby boy. So she put him in a basketit had to be a large oneand left it on the doorstep of a little old couple who had long...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1743 作者： 未知
简介：The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its ...
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简介：It is now thirty years since the Baptist Church Directory, prepared by the writer, was first published. That work was designed to be somewhat of a consensus of the opinions of those best able to judge...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：738 作者： 未知
简介：There is no inner life that is not also an outer life. To withdraw from the stress and strain of practical action and from the complication of problems into the quiet cell of the inner life in order t...
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简介：O reticent was Miss Manning in her lifetime, and so loyally have her wishes been obeyed by her kindred since her death, that when Mr. Nimmo last year re-published her beautiful memorial portrait, The ...
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简介：The memoranda which form the basis of the following Essay have been thrown together during the preparation of one of the sections of the third volume of Modern Painters.[A] I once thought of giving th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：Mananaan Mac Lir who rules the ocean took the little Sun-God, Lugh, in his arms and held him up so that he could see the whole of Ireland with the waves whispering about it everywhere....
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简介：One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation....
