类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：591 作者： 未知
简介：It was late when Elma reached the station. Her pony had jibbed on the way downhill, and the train was just on the point of moving off as she hurried upon the platform. Old Matthews, the stout and chub...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：415 作者： 未知
简介：On the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromangaof course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides and the Loyalty groupwhen suddenly our dusky...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：691 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：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：724 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：644 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：520 作者： Grant Allen
简介：TWO main schools of religious thinking exist in our midst at the present day: the school of humanists and the school of animists. This work is to some extent an attempt to reconcile them. It contains,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：500 作者： Grant Allen
简介：Which every reader of this book is requested to read before beginning the story.This is a Hill-top Novel. I dedicate it to all who have heart enough, brain enough, and soul enough to understand it.Wha...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：708 作者： Grant Allen
简介：I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which were then being acted by Marie Leroux's celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn't at the time exactly engaged to poor Irene: ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：811 作者： Grant Allen
简介：It is with some little trepidation that I venture to submit to the critical world this small collection of short stories. I feel that in doing so I owe some apology both to my readers and to the regul...
