类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2397 作者： 未知
简介：The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him and chang...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：4495 作者： 未知
简介：In the noon of a September day in the year of our dear Lord 1395, a merchant vessel nodded sleepily upon the gentle swells of warm water flowing in upon the Syrian coast. A modern seafarer, looking fr...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2775 作者： 未知
简介：Here is a Decoy Duck stuffed with Oysters. The Duck is mere Fiction: The Oysters are Facts. If you find the Duck wholesome, and the Oysters hurt you, it is probably because you had a hand in the makin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3811 作者： 未知
简介：When I consented to prepare this volume for a series, which shoulddeal with the notables of American history with some familiarity anddisregard of historic gravity, I did not anticipate the seriousnes...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3875 作者： 未知
简介：It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. Th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3056 作者： 未知
简介：The title naturally suggested for this story was A Dead Soul, but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai Gogol--Dead Souls--though the motive has nothing in ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2921 作者： 未知
简介：On a summer day, long gone among the summer days that come but to go, a lad of twelve years was idly and recklessly swinging in the top of a tall hickory, the advance picket of a mountain forest. The ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2887 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2241 作者： 未知
简介：When Irene looked out of her stateroom window early in the morning of the twentieth of March, there was a softness and luminous quality in the horizon clouds that prophesied spring. The steamboat, whi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2491 作者： 未知
简介：Fire! Fire! Turn out, everybody! Fire! Fire! This cry, coming like a clarion call, at midnight, awoke the inhabitants of the peaceful little New England village of Lakeville. Fire! Fire!...
