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简介：It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense, is quite a modern institution. Three hundred years ago there were no public libraries in Europe. The Ambrosian, at Milan, dates from ...
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简介：This book, that exudes sincerity, just as a pine tree drops its rosin, serves a double purpose. It reveals a curious personality that might have stepped straight from the pages of Purchas or of Hakluy...
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简介：While calmly perusing the annals of duelling, we cannot but be amazed when we behold, in the present day of pretended intellectual perfection, this practice adopted in a society which prides itself up...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：708 作者： 未知
简介：The Home Sector,that was what Larry Eaton called it, a little irony beneath his irrepressible cheerfulness, when he had been ordered to Coblenz with the American Army of Occupation. He had called it s...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：435 作者： 未知
简介：On the morning of February 2nd, 1789, a lady was taking a solitary stroll in Kew Gardens. She was a small person, of dainty features, with a dimple on each side of her mouth that suggested a smile, va...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：608 作者： 未知
简介：The tide was at ebb. The noisily rushing spume-spotted waters of the sea were pounding the hard-sand shore of the easterly side of a beautiful island, nestling as a jewel in its setting just within th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：520 作者： 未知
简介：Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the r...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：811 作者： 未知
简介：In the fall of the year 1850 my father removed with his family from the city of D, where we had been living, to a property on the Little Miami River, to take charge of a saw-mill and grist-mill, and s...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：578 作者： 未知
简介：HE WAS a Japanese fox, and although he looked just like any other fox, he knew a few things that his American brothers have never heard about even to this day. One of these things was that if he lived...
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简介：Matters had come to a crisis with Len and Max, when Sandy McKinnon arrived at the camp, with a letter of introduction from a friend in Denver....
