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简介：It does not need that Herbert Spencer should cross the ocean to tell us that we are an overworked nation; that our hair turns gray ten years earlier than the Englishman's; or, that we have had somewha...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：582 作者： 未知
简介：It is a curious thing, when you stop to think about it, that, though of late the public has been deluged with books on the South Seas, though the shelves of the public libraries sag beneath the volume...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：581 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：581 作者： 未知
简介：hatever may be said as to distinction of classes in England, it is certain that in no country in the world is the upward path more open to those who brace themselves to climb it than in our own. The p...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：580 作者： 未知
简介：The slanting rays of the afternoon sun, unusually powerful for the time of year, lay warmly on the southern slopes of a tiny spur of the Little Atlas Mountains, glowing redly on the patches of bare ea...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：580 作者： 未知
简介：All through that Saturday night, rain drummed down mercilessly and unseasonably on Sweetwater Beach. Thunder pealed and lightning flared. In between, Mel Armstrong heard the steady boom of the Pacific...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：580 作者： 未知
简介：The afternoon was wearing out, and I began to think of home and tea. I stopped working, straightened my back, ran moist fingers through my hair, and sat down on the log. The axe went tumbling to the g...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：580 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：580 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...
