类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：577 作者： 未知
简介：A monuments dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic, portray a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; neither...
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简介：Toldees, Mondath, Arizim, these are the Inner Lands, the lands whose sentinels upon their borders do not behold the sea. Beyond them to the east there lies a desert, for ever untroubled by man: all ye...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：576 作者： 未知
简介：It was a wild and stormy October night. The big moon-faced clock in the entrance-hall, in its slow and solemn fashion, as of a horologe that felt the burden of its years, had just announced the hour o...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：576 作者： 未知
简介：The explanations given in the following pages, in which I have sought to show the manner in which an ice age is being brought about, is an extension of a treatise on The Cause of Warm and Frigid Perio...
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简介：A writer of many books once said to me that he regretted every preface he had written. Seeing that I have the highest respect for his talents, I am constrained to take to heart the moral, which (parti...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：576 作者： 未知
简介：There have been occasions when, after long rest as a hulk lying in some land-locked cove, with little of its past history except the name left in peoples memories, that once again the old ship has bee...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：575 作者： 未知
简介：Scott Burton sat on the porch of the little cabin on the edge of the forest and looked absently out across the wide beach at the restless waters of the Gulf of Mexico. No one ever would have guessed f...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：575 作者： 未知
简介：On the first cloudy day in November, Tom Blacker, the shining light of Ostreich and Company, Public Relations Counsellors, placed a call to a shirtsleeved man on the rooftop of the Cannon Building in ...
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简介：On the North-West frontier of India stood the little fort of Darlinger. It had been erected two years previous to the opening of this story, and was occupied by three companies of a Punjaubi regiment ...
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简介：When I was young, my parents sent me to a boarding school, not in any hopes of getting me educated, but because they wanted a quiet home....
