The Steel Flea
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：883 作者： 未知
简介：I cannot tell precisely where the first germ of the Legend concerning the Steel Flea had its birththat is to say, whether it originated in Tula, the Izhma, or Sestroryetzk; but, evidently, it came fro...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：883 作者： 未知
简介：I cannot tell precisely where the first germ of the Legend concerning the Steel Flea had its birththat is to say, whether it originated in Tula, the Izhma, or Sestroryetzk; but, evidently, it came fro...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：883 作者： Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
简介：THE oceans are big and broad. I believe two-thirds of the earth's surface is covered with water. What people inhabit this water has always been a subject of curiosity to the inhabitants of the land. S...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：882 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：882 作者： 未知
简介：Legends have a fascination for all classes of people, but they possess a peculiar charm for children. They constitute, in fact, a form of literature particularly fitting to the mental world of the chi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：882 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：881 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：881 作者： 未知
简介：The silent workings, and still more the explosions, of human passion which bring to light the darker elements of man's nature present to the philosophical observer considerations of intrinsic interest...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：880 作者： 未知
简介：If there were no God, said the eighteenth century Deist, it would be necessary to invent Him. Now this XVIII century god was deus ex machina, the god who helped those who could not help themselves, th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：880 作者： 未知
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：880 作者： 未知
简介：In the present volume will be found twenty stories from early writers for children, the period being roughly 1790 to 1830, with three later and more sophisticated efforts added. Having so recently mad...