类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：614 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：614 作者： 未知
简介：IT is just sixteen years since misfortune brought about our emancipation. A disastrous business venture made it necessary to curtail expenses. Rent being an especially heavy item, the hunt for a cheap...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：614 作者： 未知
简介：Monsieur des Ageaux was a man of whom his best friends could not say that he shone, or tried to shine, in the pursuit of the fair sex. He was of an age, something over thirty, when experience renders ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：614 作者： 未知
简介：Belgium, after centuries of intermittent misery and recuperation as the cockpit of Europe, had with a hundred years of the peaceful fruition of the intelligence, courage, thrift, and industry of its p...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：614 作者： 未知
简介：Nicholas Ribsam was a comical fellow from his earliest babyhood, and had an original way of doing almost everything he undertook....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：613 作者： 未知
简介：Oh! Jack, Ellen, come here this instant! cried Jane Pellew in so excited a manner that the mail rider almost fell out of his jumper in his effort to see what it was that made Miss Jane take on so. She...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：613 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：613 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：613 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：613 作者： 未知
简介：Colonel Howard-Bury and the members of the Expedition of 1921 had effected the object with which they had been despatched. They were not sent out to climb Mount Everest. It would be impossible to reac...
