Tanglewood Tales
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：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：Attendants pushing an ambulance cot wheeled what was left of murdered Fannie Bork into the center of the courtroom. The body was covered with a white sheet, except for the long, slim feet which were s...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：516 作者： 未知
简介：The outburst of political speculation which followed the Renaissance is well known to us by its remarkable literature. True it is that the greater part of it is long since dead and sleeps in peace, sa...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：516 作者： 未知
简介：This famous mutiny occurred while the reins of British rule in India were in the hands of Lord Canning. Chupattees (cakes of flour and water) were circulated among the natives, placards protesting aga...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：516 作者： 未知
简介：Charlie Jingle walked into the long room with the long table and long Commissioners' faces in it. He went to a chair at the head of the table, and sat down, a small man in loose, seedy clothing lookin...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：516 作者： 未知
简介：Once there was a nice young hen that we will call Mrs. Feathertop. She was a hen of most excellent family, being a direct descendant of the Bolton Grays, and as pretty a young fowl as you could wish t...