The Vultures
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:387 作者: 未知
简介:Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a gir...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:387 作者: 未知
简介:Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a gir...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:498 作者: 未知
简介:Henry Seton Merriman published his first novel, Young Mistley, in 1888, when he was twenty-six years old. Messrs. Bentley's reader, in his critique on the book, spoke of its powerful situations and un...
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简介:There; that's it. That's where they buried Frenchman, said Andrewknown as River Andrew. For there was another Andrew who earned his living on the sea.River Andrew had conducted the two gentlemen from ...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:305 作者: 未知
简介:The afternoon sun was lowering towards a heavy bank of clouds hanging still and sullen over the Mediterranean. A mistral was blowing. The last yellow rays shone fiercely upon the towering coast of Cor...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:373 作者: 未知
简介:It is the Professor von Holzen, said a stout woman who still keeps the egg and butter shop at the corner of St. Jacob Straat in The Hague; she is a Jewess, as, indeed, are most of the denizens of St. ...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:257 作者: 未知
简介:It is in the staging of her comedies that fate shows herself superior to mere human invention. While we, with careful regard to scenery, place our conventional puppets on the stage and bid them play t...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:642 作者: 未知
简介:Il faut se garder des premiers mouvements, parce qu'ils sont presque toujours honntes.Dearest Anna,I see from the newspaper before me of March 13, that I am reported dead. Before attempting to investi...
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简介:In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America we...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:432 作者: Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利
简介:There is an island in the Indian Ocean, so unfortunate as not yet to have been visited either by Discovery Ships or Missionary Societies. It is a place where all those things are constantly found whic...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:485 作者: Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利
简介:The sun had set behind the mountains, and the rich plain of Athens was suffused with the violet glow of a Grecian eye. A light breeze rose; the olive-groves awoke from their noonday trance, and rustle...