类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：558 作者： 未知
简介：In a poor part of London, but not in the very poorest parttwo children sat on a certain autumn evening, side by side on a doorstep. The eldest might have been ten, the youngest eight. The eldest was a...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：557 作者： 未知
简介：My grandmother sat in her own particular easy-chair by the open window of her back parlor. This was a pleasant place in which to sit in the afternoon, for the sun was then on the other side of the hou...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：557 作者： 未知
简介：When I was a boy at school, if I remember rightly, our sympathies were generally with the Carthaginians as against the Romans. Why they were so, except that one generally sympathizes with the unfortun...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：557 作者： 未知
简介：After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, an...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：557 作者： 未知
简介：PRISCILLA'S trunk was neatly packed. It was a new trunk and had a nice canvas covering over it. The canvas was bound with red braid, and Priscilla's initials were worked on the top in large plain lett...
类别：双语小说 点击次数：557 作者： 未知
简介：A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：556 作者： 未知
简介：It is a curious thing, when you stop to think about it, that, though of late the public has been deluged with books on the South Seas, though the shelves of the public libraries sag beneath the volume...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：556 作者： 未知
简介：Jasso grinned, a flashing grin in a dark face. He sank into a chair, pulled out a cigarette pack and offered one to Tern. The older man shook his head, fishing in his pocket for an old-fashioned pipe....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：555 作者： 未知
简介：Katherine Boulby had reached her fiftieth year, and all these years had been spent in single blessedness. It is true that she had not realized the entirety of the perfect calm and peace that abides in...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：555 作者： 未知
简介：You are nowadays called upon to acquire so great a mass of learning and information in the period of life between the ages of twelve and eighteen that it is not surprising that but little time can be ...
