The Iron Horse
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：519 作者： 未知
简介：Talk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in Ecuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare, in the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake whic...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：519 作者： 未知
简介：Talk of earthquakes! not all the earthquakes that have rumbled in Ecuador or toppled over the spires and dwellings of Peru could compare, in the matter of dogged pertinacity, with that earthquake whic...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：519 作者： 未知
简介：That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end (and in which it is far easier to neglect it than in any other) is the art of writing. Yet this much is certain, that unconstructed wri...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：518 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：517 作者： 未知
简介：In the old city of Tr?zene, at the foot of a lofty mountain, there lived, a very long time ago, a little boy named Theseus. His grandfather, King Pittheus, was the sovereign of that country, and was r...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：The village of Glen Cairn was situated in a valley in the broken country lying to the west of the Pentland Hills, some fifteen miles north of the town of Lanark, and the country around it was wild and...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：A dark night on the banks of the Thames; the south-west wind, heavily charged with sleet, was blowing strongly, causing little waves to lap against the side of a punt moored by the bank. Its head-rope...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：Tall and rawboned was Jeremiah Winthrop. Narrow of shoulder and shallow of chest he was, but no matter. There was a dignity to the man that showed itself in every movement....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：The town has nothing to sell except the finest wrought iron in the world. As the quality of this iron is historic and the form of it a standard muck bar for use in further manufacture you order it fro...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：It is becoming more and more a matter of regret that a larger amount of systematic effort was not established in early years for the gathering and preservation of the folk-lore of the Hawaiians. The w...
类别：双语小说 点击次数：517 作者： 阿加莎.克里斯蒂 Agatha Christie
简介：Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake...In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek...