On Everything
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:740 作者: 未知
简介:SOME say that when that box was opened wherein lay ready the evils of the world (and a woman opened it) Hope flew out at last.That is a Pagan thing to say and a hopeless one, for the true comfort that...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:740 作者: 未知
简介:SOME say that when that box was opened wherein lay ready the evils of the world (and a woman opened it) Hope flew out at last.That is a Pagan thing to say and a hopeless one, for the true comfort that...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:548 作者: 未知
简介:Life would be much simpler if love among human beings were similar to love among the animals. At mating time, any animal of any species feels automatically attracted to any animal of the opposite sex ...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:432 作者: 未知
简介:They say automation makes jobs, especially if they are trying to keep their own job of selling automation machines. I know the Actuarvac made one purple passion of a job for me, the unpleasantly fatal...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:497 作者: 未知
简介:A quick, sharp report rent the air. Followed several seconds of deathlike silence. Then the lesser sound of a twig falling in the still forest. Again silence. A silence, tense, portentous. Then the so...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:492 作者: 未知
简介:The boy lay in a large, thickly upholstered Morris chair in the living room. His mother had lowered the back of this chair so that he could recline upon it, and she kneeled beside him holding his hand...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:562 作者: 未知
简介:When Westy Martin and his two companions, Warde Hollister and Ed Carlyle, were on their long journey to the Yellowstone National Park, they derived much amusement from talking with a man whose acquain...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:536 作者: 未知
简介:A monuments dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic, portray a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; neither...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:487 作者: 未知
简介:How light it is still! said Don Vittorio Lante, after a long silence....
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 ...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:524 作者: 未知
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...