类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：871 作者： 未知
简介：There is not in all London a quieter spot, or one, apparently, more withdrawn from the heat and bustle of life than Newsome Terrace. It is a cul-de-sac, for at the upper end the roadway between its tw...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：870 作者： 未知
简介：Penny Parker, leaning indolently against the edge of the kitchen table, watched Mrs. Weems stem strawberries into a bright green bowl....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：870 作者： 未知
简介：There was no name on the doorposts, nothing beyond the number--48--to serve as a guide; and yet it may be doubted whether any firm in the City was better known to the postman, the bankers'-clerks, and...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：869 作者： 未知
简介：The Bible has been compared to a river in which a child may wade, and an elephant swim; by which is meant that it is full of practical truth so plainly revealed that a little child may rejoice in it, ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：869 作者： Maurice Thompson
简介：The Hotel Helicon stood on a great rock promontory that jutted far out into a sea of air whose currents and eddies filled a wide, wild valley in the midst of our southern mountain region....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：868 作者： 未知
简介：A piercing shriek echoed throughout the entire length and breadth of the gloomy passage, hushed as it was in the brief hour of repose that usually intervened between the vice-rampant hour of midnight ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：868 作者： 未知
简介：I placed a whisky and soda before the Rev. J. D. Eltham, also sliding the tobacco jar nearer to his hand. The refined and sensitive face of the clergyman offered no indication to the truculent charact...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：866 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：经典英文小说 点击次数：866 作者： 未知
简介：It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner. The transatlantic steamship La Provence was a swift and comfortable vessel, under the command of a most affable man....
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：865 作者： Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
简介：When Rob became interested in electricity his clear-headed father considered the boy's fancy to be instructive as well as amusing; so he heartily encouraged his son, and Rob never lacked batteries, mo...
