类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：814 作者： Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利
简介：THE thunder groaned, the wind howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable darkness covered the earth. A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. A Doric temple ros...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：813 作者： 未知
简介：Years ago, in a chapter concerning eyes in a book of Patagonian memories, I spoke of the unpleasant sensations produced in me by the sight of stuffed birds. Not bird skins in the drawers of a cabinet,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：812 作者： Grant Allen
简介：We sat late on the verandah last night, listening to the low trilling croon of the night-jar. It was a balmy evening, one of the few this summer; the sunset was lingering over the heather-clad moors, ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：812 作者： 未知
简介：The modern club, with its luxuries and comforts, has its origin in the tavern and coffee-house of a long-past age. The resorts in question have long since entirely changed their character, although th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：811 作者： 未知
简介：The huge and solitary but featureless elevation of Cater's Beam on Dartmoor arrests few eyes. Seen from the central waste, one hog-backed ridge swells along the southern horizon, and its majestic outl...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：811 作者： 未知
简介：I chose the subject of this book as affording better opportunities than any other portion of American history for portraying forest life and the Indian character; and I have never seen reason to chang...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：811 作者： 未知
简介：Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which tells the story of the rise and progress of Venice. Built upon a few sandy islands in a shallow lagoon, and ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：811 作者： 未知
简介：A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：810 作者： 未知
简介：Narrow streets with sinuous curves; dwarfed houses with minute shops protruding on inch-wide sidewalks; a tiny casino perched like a bird-cage on a tiny scaffolding; bath-houses dumped on the beach; f...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：810 作者： Grant Allen
简介：Now, whoever knows the Alps, knows the Zillerthal well as the centre of all that is most Tyrolese in the Tyrol. From that beautiful green valley, softly smiling below, majestically grand and ice-clad ...
