In an Unknown Prison Land
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:829 作者: 未知
简介:It was on the fifth night out from Southampton that the threatening shadow of the American Custom House began to fall over the company in the saloon....
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:829 作者: 未知
简介:It was on the fifth night out from Southampton that the threatening shadow of the American Custom House began to fall over the company in the saloon....
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:829 作者: 未知
简介:It was a perfect summer's evening. The sun had just set, and purple, gold, violet, rose colour still filled the sky in the west. There was a tender new moon, looking like a silver bow, also to be seen...
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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:828 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:儿童英文小说 点击次数:828 作者: Joseph A. Altsheler
简介:A light canoe of bark, containing a single human figure, moved swiftly up one of the twin streams that form the Ohio. The water, clear and deep, coming through rocky soil, babbled gently at the edges,...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:827 作者: 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介:In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city. We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of ...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:827 作者: 未知
简介:CAIN'S BRAND! that is no fact of the far past, no legend of the Middle Ages, for are there not Cains among us; white-faced, haggard-featured Cains to the last? Men who began with a little injury, and ...
类别:经典英文小说 点击次数:827 作者: Emily Sarah Holt
简介:Jenny, my dear maid, thou wilt never fetch white meal out of a sack of sea-coal. Jenny tossed her head. It would have been a nice little brown head, if it had not been quite so fond of tossing itself....
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简介:May a thunderbolt strike you! The imprecation suited the rough fellow who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely lowered the strange tones of his voice, yet of all the rabbl...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:826 作者: 未知
简介:THE gentlemen of the jury retired to consider their verdict.Their foreman was a person doubly distinguished among his colleagues. He had the clearest head, and the readiest tongue. For once the right ...