类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：606 作者： 未知
简介：This book, that exudes sincerity, just as a pine tree drops its rosin, serves a double purpose. It reveals a curious personality that might have stepped straight from the pages of Purchas or of Hakluy...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：606 作者： 未知
简介：THE measure of a man's popularity is not alwaysor indeed seldomthe measure of his intrinsic worth. So, when the earlier work of any writer is gathered together in more enduring form, catering to the e...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：606 作者： 未知
简介：In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money. In this comparatively new field there are so many avenues of success ope...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：605 作者： 未知
简介：There were tears in the girl's eyes--tears of futile anger and despair. The danger was so great, and yet safety was so near. If only the black horse would stumble or swerve, if only she could work the...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：605 作者： 未知
简介：It will be obvious to the reader that this book affects neither the dignity of history nor the authority of political instruction. The causes which precipitated the conflict between the sections and t...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：604 作者： 未知
简介：It was one evening at the close of a September month and a September day that two equestrians might be observed passing along one of those old and lonely Irish roads that seemed, from the nature of it...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：604 作者： 未知
简介：In the year 1850 or thereabouts religious and charitable society in England was seized with a desire to convert Irish Roman Catholics to the Protestant faith. It is clear to everyone with any experien...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：604 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：604 作者： 未知
简介：Anne Meredith looked at her mother, appalled. Marry David Curtis! she exclaimed. Marry a man I have seen not more than a dozen times. Are you mad?No, but your uncle is, bitterly. God knows what has pr...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：604 作者： 未知
简介：When I first saw the table, dingy and dusty, in the furthest corner of the old hopper-shaped garret, and set out with broken, be-crusted old purple vials and flasks, and a ghostly, dismantled old quar...
