类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：846 作者： 未知
简介：The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such communities the distincti...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：846 作者： Ernest William Hornung
简介：She stood alone in her own room, with none to mark the white-hot pallor of the oval face, the scornful curve of quivering nostrils, the dry lustre of flashing eyes. But while she stood a heavy step we...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：846 作者： Alice Carr
简介：My sister Joyce is older than I am. At the time of which I am thinking she was twenty-one, and I was barely nineteen. We were the only children of Farmer Maliphant of Knellestone Grange, in the county...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：845 作者： 未知
简介：RICHARD LEDDAM was a poor man, who obtained a subsistence by toiling in all weathers in catching fish and oysters, which he sold to persons whose business it was to supply the city market. The village...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：845 作者： 未知
简介：It is no use my trying to stop myself. Im sure Ive tried hard enough. When I changed my name from Mary Jane Buffham to Mary Jane Beckett by marrying Harry, my sailor sweetheart (God bless him!), I sai...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：845 作者： 未知
简介：It was founded by Lillie Dulcimer in her sweet seventeenth year. She had always been precocious and could analyze her own sensations before she could spell....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：844 作者： Grant Allen
简介：My brother Frank is a most practical boy. I may be prejudiced, but it seems to me somehow there's nothing like close personal contact with active volcanoes to teach a young fellow prudence, coolness, ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：844 作者： 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介：Castle Richmond was written in 1861, long after Trollope had left Ireland. The characterization is weak, and the plot, although the author himself thought well of it, mechanical....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：843 作者： 未知
简介：There are a number of things that are pleasanter than being sick in a New York boarding-house when one's nearest dearest is a married sister up in far-away Michigan....
