Mince Pie
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：834 作者： 未知
简介：Those who buy their ink in little stone jugs may prefer to do so because the pottle reminds them of cruiskeen lawn or ginger beer (with its wire-bound cork), but they miss a noble delight. Ink should ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：834 作者： Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
简介：It's no use; no use at all. The children won't let me stop telling tales of the Land of Oz. I know lots of other stories, and I hope to tell them, some time or another; but just now my loving tyrants ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：831 作者： 未知
简介：I AM writing these reminiscences of my ambassadorship at a moment when Germanys schemes in the Turkish Empire and the Near East have achieved an apparent success. The Central Powers have disintegrated...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：831 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：经典英文小说 点击次数：831 作者： Margaret Penrose
简介：The big maroon car glided along in such perfect rhythm that Cora Kimball, the fair driver of the Whirlwind, heard scarcely a sound of its mechanical workings....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：830 作者： 未知
简介：Forster tells us that Dickens, in his later novels, from Bleak House onwards (1853), assiduously cultivated construction, this essential of his art. Some critics may think, that since so many of the b...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：830 作者： 未知
简介：Oh how incomprehensible for us, how mysterious, how strange are the very simplest happenings in life. And we, not understanding them, unable to penetrate their significance, heap one event upon anothe...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：830 作者： 未知
简介：The windows rattled ominously as the first vibration from the cannon shook the school.It was Tuesday, the Fourth of August, 1914.The master laid down his book and rose. His shoulder crooked forward th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：830 作者： 未知
简介：On an autumn afternoon of 1919 a hatless man with a slight limp might have been observed ascending the gentle, broad acclivity of Riceyman Steps, which lead from King's Cross Road up to Riceyman Squar...