类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：552 作者： 未知
简介：In the following pages I have endeavoured to give a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：552 作者： 未知
简介：It was our old friend Oscar Preston who said this. He was standing on the platform in front of the station at Julesburg, gazing after the stage-coach in which Leon Parker, the disgusted and repentant ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：552 作者： 未知
简介：Somewhere in the early nineties was Absalom Jay's first period. He was so well known a figure in London at that time as to be frequently caricatured in the weekly society journals, and Spy's Absalom, ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：552 作者： 未知
简介：The student of American sociology will find the year 1894 marked by a pronounced awakening of the public conscience to a system of anarchy and outlawry which had grown during a series of ten years to ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：551 作者： 未知
简介：The success and the distinction had come early in life, and the love had come late. In the nature of things it could not have come earlier. It came in time to crown the rest of the good gifts that Pro...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：550 作者： 未知
简介：It was a bitterly cold night in the month of November, 1330. The rain was pouring heavily, when a woman, with child in her arms, entered the little village of Southwark. She had evidently come from a ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：549 作者： 未知
简介：The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has work...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：549 作者： 未知
简介：The desolate condition of the moneyless and unprotected widow was aggravated in no common degree by the political commotion already adverted to. Persons unacquainted with the approaching terrors of th...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：549 作者： 未知
简介：It was during the war that Thomas Mann, one of the great modern stylists, wrote this simple little idyll as a refuge and relief. It was a flight from the hideous realities of the world to the deeper r...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：548 作者： 未知
简介：Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a gir...
