Ali Pacha
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：930 作者： 未知
简介：The beginning of the nineteenth century was a time of audacious enterprises and strange vicissitudes of fortune. Whilst Western Europe in turn submitted and struggled against a sub-lieutenant who made...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：929 作者： Joel Chandler Harris 乔尔·钱德勒·哈里斯
简介：The post-office in the middle Georgia village of Hillsborough used to be a queer little place, whatever it is now. It was fitted up in a cellar; and the postmaster, who was an enterprising gentleman f...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：929 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：英文短篇小说 点击次数：928 作者： 未知
简介：It began in a Woman's Club in London on a February afternoonan uncomfortable club, and a miserable afternoonwhen Mrs. Wilkins, who had come down from Hampstead to shop and had lunched at her club, too...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：928 作者： 未知
简介：The following Narrative was taken entirely from the lips of Peter Wheeler. I have in all instances given his own language, and faithfully recorded his story as he told it, without any change whatever....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：927 作者： 未知
简介：THE year 1704 was the year of Blenheim, that wonderful victory of Marlboroughs which dissipated Lewis the Fourteenths dreams of universal empire. As stars are extinguished in the light of dawn, so in ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：927 作者： 未知
简介：I was hard at work in my tent. I had almost completed translating the inscription of a small stele of Amen-hotep III, dated B. C., 1382, which with my own efforts I had discovered, and I was feeling w...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：927 作者： 未知
简介：In our heart of hearts--which we in England take almost as much pains to hide from ourselves as from our fellow-creatures--most of us realize that life without love is a weariness, a conflict bereft o...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：927 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：英文短篇小说 点击次数：927 作者： 未知
简介：Ambassador Nitworth glowered across his mirror-polished, nine-foot platinum desk at his assembled staff....