类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：The settlers task of conquering the wilderness might have been simpler had they not spent so much energy in conquering one another; for side by side with the advance of the frontier goes a process of ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：Most men, apparently, take their gloves for granted. In these days the little refinements of civilization are accepted among us without a thought; but in so doing we lose a great deal of enjoyment whi...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：The subject of imposture is always an interesting one, and impostors in one shape or another are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is, and society shows itself ready to be gul...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：Uncle Sam: Gentlemen, I have invited you to take part in one conversation a week upon the much-vexed and all-important question of a financial and banking system for my country. We shall continue thes...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：In January 1914 I visited Petersburg and Moscow for a couple of weeks; in September 1920 I was asked to repeat this visit by Mr. Kameney, of the Russian Trade Delegation in London. I snatched at this ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：634 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：儿童英文小说 点击次数：634 作者： 未知
简介：It was particularly provoking, because we were so well prepared for eventsany events. Rupert prepared us. He had found a fat old book in the garret, bound in yellow leather, at the end of which were D...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：633 作者： 未知
简介：Being forbidden to write anything at present I have collected various waifs and strays to appease the young people who clamor for more, forgetting that mortal brains need rest....
