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简介：The grey twilight gives to the long, pale stretches of sand the sense of something strangely unreal. As far as the eye can reach, it curves out into the mist, the last vanishing garments, as it were, ...
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简介：The earth rocked. The sky was of purple blackness. The nauseating stench of burning sulphur filled the air. Thunder rumbled, and growled constantly under the earth crust to be answered by shattering c...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：466 作者： 未知
简介：Called upon to describe Aunt Sophy you would have to coin a term or fall back on the dictionary definition of a spinster. An unmarried woman, states that worthy work, baldly, especially when no longer...
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简介：In the year 1567 there were few towns in the southern counties of England that did not contain a colony, more or less large, of French Protestants. For thirty years the Huguenots had been exposed to c...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：464 作者： 未知
简介：One of the effects of the war. The productive force of the nation deprived by death, disease and disability of one million men. The task of caring for the sick and wounded. Four notable ordersThe Sist...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：464 作者： 未知
简介：A stiff breeze, now and then with a hard gust, swept rain across the Navy airfield. The place was gloomy and deserted, except for one Privateer standing behind the air station, all other planes having...
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简介：The idea of writing Mary Prince's history was first suggested by herself. She wished it to be done, she said, that good people in England might hear from a slave what a slave had felt and suffered; an...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：463 作者： 未知
简介：Dr. Kemp thus concisely and clearly stages the difference between instinct and reason: In the former there is an irresistible impulse to go through a certain series of motions after a certain fashion,...
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简介：Joe Mulloy lounged in the plushest chair in his luxurious office. All around him, on the walls, on the ceiling, even in strategic spots all over the floor, there were mirrors. Joe sneered at the place...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：462 作者： Anatole France
简介：HE salon which the Cardinal-Archbishop used as a reception room had been fitted, in the time of Louis XV., with panellings of carved wood painted a light grey. Seated figures of women surrounded by tr...
