The Service
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：821 作者： 未知
简介：The brave man is the elder son of creation, who has stept buoyantly into his inheritance, while the coward, who is the younger, waiteth patiently till he decease. He rides as wide of this earths gravi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：821 作者： 未知
简介：The brave man is the elder son of creation, who has stept buoyantly into his inheritance, while the coward, who is the younger, waiteth patiently till he decease. He rides as wide of this earths gravi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：820 作者： 未知
简介：In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition and modern charlatanism in turn availed themselvesto indicate their ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：820 作者： 未知
简介：Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. In the case of the latter, no particular feature need betray them; they may boast an open countenance...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：820 作者： 未知
简介：Little excuse is needed, perhaps, for any fresh selection from the famous Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, provided it be representative enough, and worthy enough, to enlist a new army of youthful ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：820 作者： Mark Twain
简介：Although I have had several opportunities to see a bull-fight, I have never seen one; but I needed a bull-fight in this book, and a trustworthy one will be found in it....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：819 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：经典英文小说 点击次数：819 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：818 作者： 未知
简介：George Eliot, or Mary Ann Evans, was born at Arbury Farm, in the parish of Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire, on the 22nd of November, 1819. She was the fifth and last child of her father by his second wif...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：818 作者： 未知
简介：The young man, stretched on the grass among the waving shadows, was gazing across the valley to the hills in their soft afternoon veiling. It was a June picture beautiful enough to hold the attention ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：818 作者： 未知
简介：The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired hack had rattled along for five minutes, the children began to put their heads out of the carriage window and say, Aren't we nea...