类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：874 作者： 未知
简介：The Honorable Socrates Potter was the only scientific man in the village of Pointview, Connecticut. In every point of manhood he was far ahead of his neighbors. In a way he had outstripped himself, fo...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：874 作者： Grant Allen
简介：I desire to express my profound indebtedness, for the central mythological idea embodied in this tale, to Mr. J.G. Frazers admirable and epoch-making work, The Golden Bough, whose main contention I ha...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：874 作者： 未知
简介：The reason why Mr. Rentons sons were sent out into the world in the humble manner, and with the results we are about to record, must be first told, in order that their history may be comprehensible to...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：873 作者： 未知
简介：When but a child of seven my uncle placed me in a private school in which one of the so-called redeemed sub-sailors was a teacher of the German language. As I look back now, in the light of my present...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：873 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：872 作者： 未知
简介：To all who may be concerned in an endeavor to acquire information relating to affairs beyond the range of physical vision we offer for consideration what may be regarded as an incredible narrative of ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：871 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：871 作者： 未知
简介：Where the sylvan character of the scene changes; where fields give place to hanging woods and they in their turn thin to poverty and obliquity under eternal stress of western winds, a gate, resting by...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：870 作者： 未知
简介：Dolf Van Attema, in the course of an after-dinner stroll, had called on his wifes sister, Cecile van Even, on the Scheveningen Road. He was waiting in her little boudoir, pacing up and down, among the...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：870 作者： 未知
简介：This volume does not aim to contain all the best American humorous short stories; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of America...
