类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：388 作者： 未知
简介：IT is full fifty years since I began to contemplate the Alfred Jewel with a wonder and curiosity which became a habit. At length, in the latter half of that period, the vague attitude of enquiry began...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：512 作者： Aldous Huxley阿道司·赫胥黎
简介：Thank you, said Mr. Hutton, without turning round. Janet Spence's parlourmaid was so uglyugly on purpose, it always seemed to him, malignantly, criminally uglythat he could not bear to look at her mor...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：326 作者： 未知
简介：Lady Susan had never been so hungry in her life. So, for the sixth time, she declared between loud and unbridled yawns. She worked her chair across the parquet towards the fire-place, dragging the hea...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1005 作者： 未知
简介：It was a pleasant afternoon in the month of July, 1642, when three young people sat together on a shady bank at the edge of a wood some three miles from Oxford. The country was undulating and pictures...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：437 作者： 未知
简介：The village of Glen Cairn was situated in a valley in the broken country lying to the west of the Pentland Hills, some fifteen miles north of the town of Lanark, and the country around it was wild and...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：488 作者： 未知
简介：A mounted officer, followed by two orderlies, was proceeding at a brisk trot from Paris to St. Denis, in October, 1639, when he came upon a large party of boys, who, armed with sticks, were advancing ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：359 作者： 未知
简介：Squire Thorndyke, of the Manor House of Crawley, was, on the 1st of September; 1782, walking up and down the little terrace in front of the quaint old house in an unusually disturbed mood. He was a ma...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：334 作者： 未知
简介：This famous mutiny occurred while the reins of British rule in India were in the hands of Lord Canning. Chupattees (cakes of flour and water) were circulated among the natives, placards protesting aga...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：355 作者： 未知
简介：It may be a fair sight in a Roman's eyes, Beric, but nought could be fouler to those of a Briton. To me every one of those blocks of brick and stone weighs down and helps to hold in bondage this land ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：401 作者： 未知
简介：A stately lady was looking out of the window of an apartment in the Royal Chateau of Amboise, in the month of June, 1470. She was still handsome, though many years of anxiety, misfortune, and trouble,...
