类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3452 作者： 未知
简介：In those west-country parishes where but a few years back the feast of Christmas Eve was usually prolonged with cake and cider, crowding, and geese dancing, till the ancient carols ushered in the day,...
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简介：The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years, lived in a small farm up...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3987 作者： 未知
简介：On December 1, 1851, Charras1 shrugged his shoulder and unloaded his pistols. In truth, the belief in the possibility of a coup dtat had become humiliating. The supposition of such illegal violence on...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3051 作者： 阿诺德.本涅特 Arnold Bennett
简介：The Lessways household, consisting of Hilda and her widowed mother, was temporarily without a servant. Hilda hated domestic work, and because she hated it she often did it passionately and thoroughly....
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简介：But all the afternoon his eyes had looked on glamour; he had strayed in fairyland. The holidays were nearly done, and Lucian Taylor had gone out resolved to lose himself, to discover strange hills and...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：14260 作者： 未知
简介：Niccolo Machiavelli, the first great Italian historian, and one of the most eminent political writers of any age or country, was born at Florence, May 3, 1469. He was of an old though not wealthy Tusc...
类别：英文名人传记 点击次数：6267 作者： 未知
简介：TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE WILLIAM BINGHAM, LORD ASHBURTON. MY DEAR LORD, The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Annes time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：4229 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：Mr. Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wifes nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentlemans outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that t...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：3436 作者： 未知
简介：TO DR. JOHN ELLIOTSON My Dear Doctor, Thirteen months ago, when it seemed likely that this story had come to a close, a kind friend brought you to my bedside, whence, in all probability, I never shoul...
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简介：Like many other literary men, his life was contemplative, rather than active; very few particulars, therefore, concerning him, have come down to us. He resided at Rome for a considerable time, where h...
