类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：445 作者： 未知
简介：It was a dull evening in the month of September, 1728. The apprentices had closed and barred the shutters and the day's work was over. Supper was laid in the long room over the shop, the viands were o...
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简介：When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the Carthaginians as against the Romans. Why they were so, except that one generally sympathizes with the unfortun...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：641 作者： 未知
简介：Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which tells the story of the rise and progress of Venice. Built upon a few sandy islands in a shallow lagoon, and ...
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简介：In the present volume I have endeavoured to give the details of the principal events in a struggle whose importance can hardly be overrated. At its commencement the English occupied a mere patch of la...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：563 作者： 未知
简介：Although the immediate results of the Battle of Hastings may have been of less importance to the world than were those of some other great battles, the struggle has, in the long run, had a greater inf...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：553 作者： 未知
简介：Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, a woman is the real heroine, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and coura...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：431 作者： 未知
简介：Tick-de-tock, tick-de-tock, whispered the antique clock on the first floor of the house.There was no sound save for the tickingand for the pounding of Ronnie's heart....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：506 作者： 未知
简介：The missionaries came out of the planetary system of a star they didn't call Antares. They called it, naturally enough, The Sunjust as home was Earth, Terra, or simply The World. And naturally enough,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：575 作者： 未知
简介：The Martianne is heard occasionally these days as a stirring concert or band selection. But there was a time when its playing was punishable by deathand its defiant strains challenged the harried poli...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：463 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...
