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简介：It is just as well to say at the onset that the tragedy in which Tristrem Varick was the central figure has not been rightly understood. The world in which he lived, as well as the newspaper public, h...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：515 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：515 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...
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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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：514 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：514 作者： 未知
简介：It is a solemn yet pleasant duty to compile in comprehensive order the records of a life so eventful and influential as that of Bayard Taylor. It is solemn, because the sad tears which began to flow a...
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简介：The speaker was Mr. Brigham. As he uttered these words he placed his hat and gloves on the table, and looked down at his son Lester, who had just entered the library in obedience to the summons he had...
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简介：There is no country in the world where the study of character is more indulged in than in the United States of America. During my many visits there I could not help remarking how even the hardest head...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：514 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：双语小说 点击次数：514 作者： 未知
简介：A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife stands over ...
