类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2780 作者： 未知
简介：Here is a Decoy Duck stuffed with Oysters. The Duck is mere Fiction: The Oysters are Facts. If you find the Duck wholesome, and the Oysters hurt you, it is probably because you had a hand in the makin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3822 作者： 未知
简介：When I consented to prepare this volume for a series, which shoulddeal with the notables of American history with some familiarity anddisregard of historic gravity, I did not anticipate the seriousnes...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3910 作者： 未知
简介：It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. Th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3066 作者： 未知
简介：The title naturally suggested for this story was A Dead Soul, but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai Gogol--Dead Souls--though the motive has nothing in ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2929 作者： 未知
简介：On a summer day, long gone among the summer days that come but to go, a lad of twelve years was idly and recklessly swinging in the top of a tall hickory, the advance picket of a mountain forest. The ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2897 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2248 作者： 未知
简介：When Irene looked out of her stateroom window early in the morning of the twentieth of March, there was a softness and luminous quality in the horizon clouds that prophesied spring. The steamboat, whi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：2496 作者： 未知
简介：Fire! Fire! Turn out, everybody! Fire! Fire! This cry, coming like a clarion call, at midnight, awoke the inhabitants of the peaceful little New England village of Lakeville. Fire! Fire!...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：3237 作者： H.G. Wells
简介：As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventu...
类别：英文科幻小说 点击次数：3868 作者： Herbert George Wells
简介：《星球大战》的背景设置在英国伦敦，描绘的是火星人入侵地球、毁灭人类时触目惊心的景象。奇形怪状的火星人侵犯地球。他们凭借一种巨大的机器，横行无阻，用热射线、毒气和火箭杀害地球上的人类。村庄和城镇被毁灭，伦敦也难逃厄运。他们靠趿食其他动物和人的鲜血为生，...
