Figures of Earth
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:857 作者: 未知
简介:Figures of Earth is, with some superficial air of paradox, the one volume in the long Biography of Dom Manuel's life which deals with Dom Manuel himself. Most of the matter strictly appropriate to a P...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:857 作者: 未知
简介:Figures of Earth is, with some superficial air of paradox, the one volume in the long Biography of Dom Manuel's life which deals with Dom Manuel himself. Most of the matter strictly appropriate to a P...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:857 作者: 未知
简介:At the beginning of the summer of 1850, a Russian nobleman, Count Kostia Petrovitch Leminof, had the misfortune to lose his wife suddenly, and in the flower of her beauty. She was his junior by twelve...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:856 作者: 未知
简介:After having passed the greater part of my life in the country, I came at length, in the year 1881, to reside in Moscow, where I was immediately struck with the extreme state of pauperism in that city...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:856 作者: Joseph A. Altsheler
简介:The tall youth, turning to the right, went down a gentle slope until he came to a little stream, where he knelt and drank. Despite his weariness, his thirst and his danger he noticed the silvery color...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:855 作者: 未知
简介:Of the many ways, worthy or vile, honourable or ignoble, whereby men, as my excellent friend the Prince de Talmont has shown in his history, may rise to court favour, few, I think, are more curious th...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:855 作者: 未知
简介:For the first time in the annals of humanity, domestic slavery, or the system of chattelhood and traffic in man, is erected into a religious, social and political creed. This new creed has its thaumat...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:855 作者: 未知
简介:The stories contained in this volume were translated by several hands. The version of The Victory is the author's own work. The seven stories which follow were translated by Mr. C. F. Andrews, with th...
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简介:Eternal peace is a chimera. Whatever pains we may take to avoid war, there always comes a moment when tradition and interest, passion and affection clash and bring to pass the shock which we desired t...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:854 作者: 未知
简介:THE childrens room of the Library was very still. Once in a while a murmur arose at the delivery desk, or some squeaky-shoed small feet crossed from open shelves to reading table. Occasionally a helpf...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:854 作者: 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介:The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is known...