Abaft the Funnel
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:608 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:608 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:608 作者: 未知
简介:In this tale I have left the battlefields of history, and have written a story of adventure in Australia, in the early days when the bush rangers and the natives constituted a real and formidable dang...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:608 作者: 未知
简介:Braxfield, who had been butler to Sir Anthony Markenmore, Baronet, of Markenmore Court, for thirty years, was a man of method. All his life he had cultivated the habit of doing certain things at certa...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:608 作者: 未知
简介:Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as Fiction. Every emotion, thought, or action embodied into literature has been human experience at some time. We can imagine nothing within the laws of natur...
类别:儿童英文小说 点击次数:608 作者: 未知
简介:It was an intensely hot July daynot a cloud appeared in the high blue vault of the sky; the trees, the flowers, the grasses, were all motionless, for not even the gentlest zephyr of a breeze was abroa...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:607 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:607 作者: 未知
简介:It was three in the afternoon and quitting time at Utopian Appliances, Inc. Bertram J. Bernard, the firm's stocky, thick-jawed president, waited discreetly at his desk for a few minutes, then closed t...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:606 作者: 未知
简介:A naval officer, trig in his white twill, strode along the Escolta, Manila's leading thoroughfare. There was something in his stride that suggested anger; and the settled grimness of his lips, visible...