类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：809 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：儿童英文小说 点击次数：809 作者： Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
简介：Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and t...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：808 作者： 未知
简介：Here I am in this strange country about which I have learned in the geography and history, and about which I heard my father talk. The daughter of an American man and a Chinese woman, I suppose I am w...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：808 作者： 未知
简介：In the preface of The Companions of Jehu I told why that romance had been written; and those who have read it cannot fail to have seen where I borrowed from Nodier in the description of the execution,...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：808 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：808 作者： 未知
简介：In a life written by a friend for friends there must of necessity be more of the intimacy of private friendship than in a record written dispassionately for an unknown public. The world in general kno...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：807 作者： 未知
简介：Tom Carlingford was sitting at his piano, in his rooms at Kings College, Cambridge, playing the overture to Lohengrin with the most indifferent success. It was a hot night in the middle of August, and...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：807 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：807 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：807 作者： 未知
简介：FEW Frenchmen, united in friendship, who were spending the spring in Rome, were wont to meet amid the ruins of the disinterred Forum. They were Josphin Leclerc, an Embassy Attach on leave; M. Goubin, ...
