类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：804 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：804 作者： 未知
简介：WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT was born in Salem, Massachusetts, May 4, 1796. He died in Boston, January 28, 1859. William Prescott, his father, a lawyer of great ability and of sterling worth, was at one ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：804 作者： Patricia Wentworth
简介：The dining-room of Molloys flat had not been built to receive twenty-five guests, but the Delegates of twenty-five affiliated Organisations had been crowded into it. The unshaded electric light glared...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：804 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：803 作者： 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介：I am an Englishman, living, as all Englishman should do, in England, and my wife would not, I think, be well pleased were any one to insinuate that she were other than an Englishwoman; but in the circ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：803 作者： Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介：The extremely violent nature of the volcanic eruption in Krakatoa in 1883, the peculiar beauty of those parts of the eastern seas where the event occurred, the wide-spread influences of the accompanyi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：802 作者： 未知
简介：I have been reading this morning a very pathetic and characteristic document. It is a paper that has lurked for years in an old collection of archives, a preface, sketched by a great writer, who is fa...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：801 作者： 未知
简介：In sending forth this book on 'South London,' the successor to my two preceding books on 'London' and 'Westminster,' I have to explain in this case, as before, that it is not a history, or a chronicle...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：801 作者： 未知
简介：Ensign Jack Steel sat on the edge of a life raft whittling a stick. A strange place to whittle, one might say, on the deck of a great U. S. aircraft carrier in mid-Pacific. But Jack loved to whittle....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：801 作者： 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介：I first saw the man who kept his money in a box in the midst of the ravine of the Via Mala. I interchanged a few words with him or with his wife at the hospice, at the top of the Splugen; and I became...
