类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：593 作者： 未知
简介：Fortunate, indeed, is the reader who takes up a volume without preface; of which the persons are left to enact their own drama and the author does not come before the curtain, like the chorus of Greek...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：593 作者： 未知
简介：That there was a tremendous increase in immigration in prospect was announced by the agents of the great immigrant-carrying lines of steamships as early as January of 1903. All Europe seemed stirred w...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：593 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：593 作者： 未知
简介：The Siege of Gibraltar stands almost alone in the annals of warfare, alike in its duration and in the immense preparations made, by the united powers of France and Spain, for the capture of the fortre...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：593 作者： 未知
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 ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：592 作者： 未知
简介：I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderable disappointment to me had you withheld it; for I have long desired to connect ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：592 作者： 未知
简介：Kenneth Stockton was a man of letters, and correspondingly poor. He was the literary editor of a leading metropolitan daily; but this job only netted him fifty dollars a week, and he was lucky to get ...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：592 作者： 未知
简介：This conversation took place one cold, frosty morning in the latter part of January, 18, among the members of a little party of boys who were walking up the path that led to the door of the Bridgeport...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：591 作者： 未知
简介：ON the 20th of September, 1837, a lad was standing before Mr. M'Neill, the British minister at the Persian court. Both looked grave, for the interview was an important one. The former felt that it was...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：591 作者： 未知
简介：The clear water of the little river, in which the willows were mirrored quiveringly, shallowed where a tiny bar of silver-white sand thrust the ripples aside. Thus confined, the stream sulked for a mo...
