On the Irrawaddy
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：508 作者： 未知
简介：A party was assembled in a room of an hotel in Calcutta, at the end of the year 1822. It consisted of a gentleman, a lady in deep mourning, a boy of between fourteen and fifteen, and two girls of thir...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：508 作者： 未知
简介：A party was assembled in a room of an hotel in Calcutta, at the end of the year 1822. It consisted of a gentleman, a lady in deep mourning, a boy of between fourteen and fifteen, and two girls of thir...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：508 作者： 未知
简介：THE prairie lay that afternoon as it had lain for centuries of September afternoons, vast as an ocean; motionless as an ocean coaxed into very little ripples by languid breezes; silent as an ocean whe...
类别：儿童英文小说 点击次数：508 作者： 未知
简介：Between the village and the inlet, and half a mile from the great bay, lay the Kinzer farm. Beyond the bay was a sandbar, and beyond that the Atlantic Ocean; for all this was on the southerly shore of...
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简介：Three o'clock on a warm June afternoon. The great heat has caused something like a purple haze to cloud over the deep blue of the sapphire sky. There is not one breath of wind to stir the leaves or co...
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简介：The existence of this story, posthumously published, was not known to any one but Hawthorne himself, until some time after his death, when the manuscript was found among his papers. The preparation an...
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简介：AS birds are to be considered throughout these pages from any standpoint but that of sport, much that is of interest in connection with a bird essentially the sportsman's must necessarily be omitted. ...
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简介：I couldn't help listening to the big spaceman sitting alone at the corner table. He wasn't speaking to methat was certainnor was his flat, curiously uninflected voice directed at anyone else. With som...
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简介：When, in the turmoil of my daily occupation, I received an invitation, several months ago, from several hundred students of this famous university, to give them a brief summary, in short special lectu...
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简介：It all started just before school was out. One afternoon when I got home mother showed me a letter from Uncle Hieronymous, who lives in the woods back of Baldwin, on the Middle Branch of the Pre Marqu...
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简介：The four children had rather peculiar names. The eldest girl was called Iris, which, as everybody ought to know, means rainbowindeed, there was an Iris spoken of in the old Greek legends, who was supp...