Colin
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:718 作者: 未知
简介:Neither superstition nor spiritual aspiration signified anything particular to the Staniers, and for many generations now they had been accustomed to regard their rather sinister family legend with cy...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:718 作者: Robert Michael Ballantyne
简介:The Great Pacific is the scene of our story. On a beautiful morning, many years ago, a little schooner might have been seen floating, light and graceful as a sea-mew, on the breast of the slumbering o...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:717 作者: 未知
简介:Felix Fay saw with his minds eye the map on the wall of the railway stationthe map with a picture of iron roads from all over the middle west centering in a dark blotch in the corner....
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:717 作者: 未知
简介:The lord and king thereof was a stark man, and so great a warrior that in his youth he took no delight in aught else save battle and tourneys. But when he was hard on forty years old, he came across a...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:715 作者: 未知
简介:Like a flash of light the gleaming sword swept down. A fraction of a second later a portion of it no longer gleamed: it was crimson! And Queen Dionaea's head bounced down the stairway into her garden ...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:715 作者: 未知
简介:BETWEEN the Seine and the Rhine lay once a beautiful land wherein more history was made, and recorded in old monuments full of grace and grandeur and fancy, than in almost any other region of the worl...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:714 作者: 未知
简介:This Romance was the last work of Cervantes, the dedication to the Count de Lemos was written the day after he had received extreme unction; he died four days after, on the 23rd of April 1616, aged 67...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:714 作者: 未知
简介:Snorting and puffing, as if in agitated apology for the tardiness of its arrival, the train came steaming into the station, the drag of its brakes[Pg 12] adding yet another item of noise to the prevai...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:714 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...