Birds and Man
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：836 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：836 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：836 作者： 未知
简介：THOUGH the adventures recorded in this book may set up the impression that I am a kind of Don Quixote of the South Seas, I do not claim to have sought to redress wrongs done to beauteous dusky maidens...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：835 作者： 未知
简介：At the entrance to the driveway leading to the residence occupied by the President of the Theological Seminary were two flat-topped stone pillars, and upon one of these on a certain bright September d...
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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：835 作者： 未知
简介：Go with me to the great river Mississippi. It is the longest river in the world. A line that would measure it would just reach to the centre of the earth,in other words, it is four thousand miles in l...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：835 作者： 未知
简介：Happy Jack Squirrel sat on the tip of one of the highest branches of a big hickory tree. Happy Jack was up very early that morning. In fact, jolly, round, red Mr. Sun was still in his bed behind the P...
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简介：A great many years ago, when Tom Byrnes was the able and efficient chief of the detective force of New York, a certain class of women, very much in evidence around the hotels and resorts, were known, ...
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简介：The memoranda which form the basis of the following Essay have been thrown together during the preparation of one of the sections of the third volume of Modern Painters.[A] I once thought of giving th...
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简介：Elizabeth would be a good name for her, said the Duke of Kent. Elizabeth was the greatest woman who ever sat on the throne of England. The English people are used to the name, and they like it....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：832 作者： 威尔基·柯林斯 Wilkie Collins
简介：At the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English p...