类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：548 作者： 未知
简介：When Cabell Graeme was courting pretty Betty French up at the Chateau place, though he had many rivals and not a few obstacles to overcome, he had the good fortune to secure one valuable ally, whose f...
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简介：Charles John Huffham Dickens, the master story-teller, was born in Landport, England, February 7, 1812. His father was a clerk in one of the offices of the Navy, and he was one of eight children....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：497 作者： 未知
简介：Elizabeth would be a good name for her, said the Duke of Kent. Elizabeth was the greatest woman who ever sat on the throne of England. The English people are used to the name, and they like it....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：448 作者： 未知
简介：When the news came of the discovery of gold at the south pole, nobody suspected that the beginning had been reached of a new era in the worlds history. The newsboys cried Extra! as they had done a tho...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：434 作者： 未知
简介：AMELIA came running eagerly down the wide stairs, and though she was smiling with the joy of Vernons coming, she stopped on the bottom step long enough to shake out the skirt of the new spring gown sh...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：406 作者： 未知
简介：What is slavery? A system under which the time and toil of one person are compulsorily the property of another. The power of life and death, and the privilege of using the lash in the master, are not ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：417 作者： 未知
简介：IT was in the middle of the fifteenth century, a little before the year 1450, to be precise, that there wandered into the streets of Nuremberg a working man, a common coppersmith, one Hermann Vischer ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：1281 作者： Arthur Conan Doyle阿瑟·柯南·道尔
简介：The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising ...
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简介：Moral improvers have calls to preach. I have a friend who has a call to plough, and woe to the daisy sod or azalea thicket that falls under the savage redemption of his keen steel shares. Not content ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：608 作者： 未知
简介：A maid opened the door leading from a bedroom to a salon of the royal suite at Harridge's Hotel. Dusk had fallen, and entering, she switched on the electricity. The room, with its almost Louis Seize d...
