类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：861 作者： 未知
简介：A dismally wet and cold September day had come early to a close and thick darkness had settled down an hour since, when the horse attached to a heavy, canvas-covered, two-wheeled emigrant wagon stoppe...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：861 作者： 未知
简介：Early one summer morning in England, in the year 1893 in the reignwhich seemed in those days to have been going on for ever and to be likely to go on for evermoreof Queen Victoria, there was born a li...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：860 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：860 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：860 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：860 作者： 未知
简介：The great Mogul Emperor was a chess player, and was generous enough to rejoice when he was beaten by one of his courtiers, which was the exact reverse of Philip II. of Spain, who, when a Spanish grand...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：860 作者： 未知
简介：Throughout the length and breadth of this London of ours there were few legal firms, no matter of how old standing, doing a better, larger ready-money business than that of Moss and Moss of Cursitor S...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：859 作者： 未知
简介：In this work I have endeavoured to portray a phase of life in a far-away land, a land concerning which we have only too little knowledge at the present time, though it is one of our Empire's greatest ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：859 作者： 未知
简介：Stephen K. Lepper, Pork-Packing Prince, from Chicago, U. S. A., by White Star Line, for Liverpool. Such was the announcement with which the Chicago Central Advertiser made beautiful its list of arriva...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：859 作者： Joseph A. Altsheler
简介：A train of wagons and men wound slowly over the hills in the darkness and rain toward the South. In the wagons lay fourteen or fifteen thousand wounded soldiers, but they made little noise, as the whe...
