The Spark
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：626 作者： 未知
简介：I turned my head away quickly, to avoid seeing Hayley Delanes face; though why I wished to avoid it I could not have told you, much less why I should have imagined (if I did) that a man of his age and...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：626 作者： Lyman Frank Baum 弗兰克·鲍姆
简介：Have you heard of the great Forest of Burzee? Nurse used to sing of it when I was a child. She sang of the big tree-trunks, standing close together, with their roots intertwining below the earth and t...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：625 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...
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简介：The butler made an instinctive movement to detain him, but he flung him aside and entered the drawing-room, the servant recovering his equilibrium and following on a run. Light from great crystal chan...
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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：625 作者： 未知
简介：Hotel de Louvre, January 6th, 1858.On Tuesday morning, our dozen trunks and half-dozen carpet-bags being already packed and labelled, we began to prepare for our journey two or three hours before ligh...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：625 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：儿童英文小说 点击次数：625 作者： 未知
简介：The two girls were of about the same size, and could not either of them have been over fifteen years old. They were both very pretty, very well dressed and well mounted, and they could both speak in a...
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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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：624 作者： 未知
简介：The air squadron mess of the Royal Air Force, Near East Command, was hot and close. Outside, white sunlight glared down on the steaming pavement and on the rank vegetation growing against a rock wall....