类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：386 作者： 未知
简介：S URELY it was no longer ago than yesterday. I had left the scythe lying at the edge of the long grass, and gone up through the rows of nodding Indian corn to the house, seeking a draught of cool wate...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：500 作者： 未知
简介：Alarm bells filled the wardroom, screaming off the metal walls and filling the room with their flat, metallic clang. Cressey leaped up, spilling the table with its checkerboard to the floor....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：422 作者： 未知
简介：The publishers believe that a picture of life sketched by a master handsomebody who stands in the world of crime as Edison does in his field or as Morgan and Rockefeller do in theirscould not fail to ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：546 作者： 未知
简介：It was a saying of Dryden that Anything, though ever so little, which a man speaks of himself, in my opinion, is still too much. This depends upon what a writer says. No man is required to give an opi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：393 作者： 未知
简介：It was the old she-wolf Nitka that came running lightly along the dusk. Though she had a great and powerful body, with a weight heavy enough to bear down a grown man, her feet made no sound as they ca...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：441 作者： 未知
简介：The object of these pages* is not to defend the intellectual accuracy of Atheism (which could not be attempted in this brief space), the object is to explain its case, to vindicate its moral rectitude...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：429 作者： 未知
简介：In the days of old, it happened that all Olympus was dull, and Zeus complained, yawning the while, that there was not a fool amongst the gods, with wit enough to keep the divine assembly alive, or to ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：513 作者： 未知
简介：THE story of the Sleeping Beauty is well known; we have excellent accounts of it, both in prose and in verse. I shall not undertake to relate-it again; but, having become acquainted with several memoi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：471 作者： 未知
简介：THE strangest, the most varied, the most erroneous opinions have been expressed with regard to the famous individual commonly known as Bluebeard. None, perhaps, was less tenable than that which made o...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：419 作者： 未知
简介：The Emperor Charlemagne and his twelve peers, having taken the palmers staff at Saint-Denis, made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They prostrated themselves before the tomb of Our Lord, and sat in the thir...
