类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：5112 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：2824 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：3875 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：3969 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：3123 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：2973 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：2966 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：2278 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：2527 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!...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3298 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventu...
