Birds and Man
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:629 作者: 未知
简介:Years ago, in a chapter concerning eyes in a book of Patagonian memories, I spoke of the unpleasant sensations produced in me by the sight of stuffed birds. Not bird skins in the drawers of a cabinet,...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:629 作者: 未知
简介:Years ago, in a chapter concerning eyes in a book of Patagonian memories, I spoke of the unpleasant sensations produced in me by the sight of stuffed birds. Not bird skins in the drawers of a cabinet,...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:1022 作者: 未知
简介:The proud lady in the new runabout was homeward bound from a shopping raid. It was her first voyage down-town alone with the thing. She guided the old family horse up to her curb in a graceful sweep, ...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:369 作者: 未知
简介:I can easily recall the little room in which I sat, poring over my next days lessons. It was in one end of the attic of our modest cottage, and the only room done off upstairs. The sloping side walls,...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:535 作者: 未知
简介:I have been asked to open the front door of this book. But I must not keep you standing too long on the threshold. The picture-gallery, the banqueting hall and the throne-room are inside. All the fasc...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:356 作者: 未知
简介:The Lunarian Professor and His Remarkable Revelations Concerning the Earth, the Moon and Mars Together with An Account of the Cruise of the Sally Ann...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:419 作者: 未知
简介:I do not like seriousness. I think it is irreligious. Or, if you prefer the phrase, it is the fashion of all false religions. The man who takes everything seriously is the man who makes an idol of eve...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:503 作者: 未知
简介:AT the open window of the great library of Blandings Castle, drooping like a wet sock, as was his habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against, the Earl of Emsworth, that amiable and boneheaded...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:393 作者: 未知
简介:This book records a philosophy of life growing out of the experience of a lifetime. The convictions put in it are not dogmatic, for dogma is the conviction of one man imposed authoritatively upon othe...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:525 作者: 未知
简介:Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as Fiction. Every emotion, thought, or action embodied into literature has been human experience at some time. We can imagine nothing within the laws of natur...