类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：266 作者： 未知
简介：A PREFACE is the place where an author usually apologizes to the public for what he is about to inflict. Such being the case, I hasten to state that I am only jointly responsible for this aggregation ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：383 作者： 未知
简介：Now that most of our men in the prime of life have been in the army we seem to be in for a goodly literature of disappointment. All the ungifted young people came back from the war to tell us that the...
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简介：As indicated on the title-page, The Boy Travellers on the Congo is condensed from that remarkable narrative, Through the Dark Continent, by one of the most famous explorers that the century has produc...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：347 作者： 未知
简介：Ruth Courthope Seer stood on her own doorstep and was content. She looked across the garden and the four-acre field with the white may hedge boundary. It was all hers. Her eyes slowly followed the way...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1401 作者： 未知
简介：There was a certain window between the kitchen and the pantry that was Hamlets favourite. Thirty years agothese chronicles are of the year 1894the basements of houses in provincial English towns, even...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：479 作者： 未知
简介：It was between nine and ten oclock on a January night, and the London streets were in a state of slush. During the previous night snow had fallen heavily, and the respectable portion of the community,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：398 作者： 未知
简介：Young Henry Trenchard, one fine afternoon in the Spring of 1920, had an amazing adventure.He was standing at the edge of Piccadilly Circus, just in front of Swan and Edgar's where the omnibuses stoppe...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：542 作者： 未知
简介：The fog had swallowed up the house, and the house had submitted. So thick was this fog that the towers of Westminster Abbey, the river, and the fat complacency of the church in the middle of the Squar...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：596 作者： 未知
简介：The story of Pele and her sister Hiiaka stands at the fountain-head of Hawaiian myth and is the matrix from which the unwritten literature of Hawaii drew its life-blood. The material for the elaborati...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：401 作者： 未知
简介：Somewhere in the early nineties was Absalom Jay's first period. He was so well known a figure in London at that time as to be frequently caricatured in the weekly society journals, and Spy's Absalom, ...
