类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：731 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：465 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：1135 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：506 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：551 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：488 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：497 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：479 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：539 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,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：409 作者： 未知
简介：Living in the present days of peace and tranquillity it is difficult to picture the life of our ancestors in the days of King Alfred, when the whole country was for years overrun by hordes of pagan ba...
