类别：双语小说 点击次数：520 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：519 作者： 未知
简介：People wondered why Don Beltran remained in the casa down by the river. He had been warned by his prudent neighbors, who lived anywhere from two to six miles away, that some time a flood, greater than...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：519 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：519 作者： 未知
简介：1. I learned from my grandfather, Verus, to use good manners, and to put restraint on anger. 2. In the famous memory of my father I had a pattern of modesty and manliness. 3. Of my mother I learned to...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：519 作者： 未知
简介：He was the most innocent-looking chap you ever saw. He had the face of a cherub, eyes which inhabit the faces of angels, and a smile which every woman envied....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：518 作者： 未知
简介：If there be one object in life that stirs the current of human feeling more sadly than another, it is a young and lovely woman, whose intellect has been blighted by the treachery of him on whose heart...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：518 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：英文短篇小说 点击次数：518 作者： 未知
简介：A quick, sharp report rent the air. Followed several seconds of deathlike silence. Then the lesser sound of a twig falling in the still forest. Again silence. A silence, tense, portentous. Then the so...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：For a brief instant following her spoken pledge, an eloquent silence reigned over the circle of picturesque figures seated about the brightly-blazing camp fire. Then a storm of acclamation rent the st...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：517 作者： 未知
简介：The Truly Clever know enough to make books of a country by a few days of Pullman and hotelor even by skimming the public library at home, without the bother and expense of travel at all....
