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简介：It was a muggy night in Dovernot an unusual thing in Doverbut nevertheless the wind had an extra whip in it and was lashing the outside Channel into a state of wild waves. An acetylene flare revealed ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：The Russian-American Telegraph Company, otherwise known as the Western union Extension, was organised at New York in the summer of 1864. The idea of a line from America to Europe, by way of Berin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：The Broadstream punt was grating gently on the pebbles at the South Side. Morning, gowned in silver grey, with trimmings of gold, still slept voluptuously on her divan in the Orient East. The mists we...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 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：634 作者： 未知
简介：The sun had dipped behind the western mountains before Kai Lung, with twenty li or more still between him and the city of Knei Yang, entered the camphor-laurel forest which stretched almost to his des...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：633 作者： 未知
简介：Several years ago, or, to speak more accurately, in 1871, Philip Garland, a young man of not more than seventeen years, succeeded his father in the business of buying, selling and training wild animal...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：633 作者： 未知
简介：On a certain portion of the English coast, lying sufficiently convenient to that of France to have given rise to whispers of smuggling in the days gone by, there is a bleak plateau of land, rising hig...
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简介：To begin with nothing and end with something as great as Pickwick is an achievement given to few men to realise. Yet it seems that in this most haphazard way Pickwick was created....
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：633 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...
