类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：798 作者： Mary Russell Mitford
简介：A crosser old woman than Mrs. Deborah Thornby was certainly not to be found in the whole village of Hilton. Worth, in country phrase, a power of money, and living (to borrow another rustic expression)...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：798 作者： Crittenden Marriott
简介：There is a floating island in the sea where no explorer has set foot, or, setting foot, has returned to tell of what he saw. Lying at our very doors, in the direct path of every steamer from the Gulf ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：797 作者： 未知
简介：Here in the garden, close to the quiet house, I sit thinking of that strange meeting in the village. A blackbird at regular intervals sings the same refrain, which is taken up by others in the distanc...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：796 作者： 未知
简介：This is not a history of geographical exploration, though the leading episodes in the advance of our knowledge of the face of the Earth are necessarily referred to in tracing the evolution of geograph...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：796 作者： 未知
简介：I have no intention of writing an autobiography. There has been nothing in my life which could justify such a pretension. But I have lived a long time. I remember an aged porter at the monastery of th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：796 作者： 未知
简介：The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：794 作者： 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介：There are men who cannot communicate themselves to others, as there are also men who not only can do so, but cannot do otherwise. And it is hard to say which is the better man of the two. We do not sp...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：793 作者： 未知
简介：There was a drabble of dead leaves on the sidewalk which was of wood, and on the roadway which was of macadam and stiff mud. The wind blew sharply, for it was a December day and only six in the mornin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：793 作者： Mark Twain
简介：One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe on foot. After much thought, I d...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：793 作者： Arthur D. Howden Smith
简介：The messenger was peering at the card above the push-button beside the apartment entrance as I came up the stairs.Chesby? he said laconically, extending a pink envelope.He lives here, I answered. I'll...
