简介： 母亲因病早逝后，女孩露丝与父亲及继母一同生活在家乡小镇尘土飞扬的一端。伴着“庄严的鞭打”和“半个柚子”的叫喊声，露丝走过她的童年。当驶向大都会的火车轰隆向前，露丝也开始像春天里迁徙的“野天鹅”一样羽翼渐丰。奇遇般的初恋为她带来更为优渥的生活，可“乞丐新娘”的诅咒却从不曾消失；几段情感的纠葛，伴随着激情的一次次萌发缠绕而来又悄然退散，是苦中作乐的“淘气”，也是无可奈何的“天意”。最后，行至中年的露丝终于又回到自己的生身之地，回到一切故事的起始点，向内心深处最隐秘的自我发出质问——你以为的你，是谁？ 从首次...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It was a severely cold morning in January, which succeeded a heavy fall of snow through the night, five winters ago, that I remarked from my parlour window, a child lingering round the gateway; he was apparently ten or eleven years of age, and misera...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the counter of the express office and shook his fist....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In the year 1691, Lois Barclay stood on a little wooden pier, steadying herself on the stable land, in much the same manner as, eight or nine weeks ago, she had tried to steady herself on the deck of the rocking ship which had carried her across from...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
简介： December 12th, 1747.My life has been strangely bound up with extraordinary incidents, some of which occurred before I had any connection with the principal actors in them, or, indeed, before I even knew of their existence....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
简介： You know, my dears, that your mother was an orphan, and an only child; and I daresay you have heard that your grandfather was a clergyman up in Westmoreland, where I come from....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Johanna Spyri
简介： Near the fortress of the little Swiss village above Altdorf are green meadows with fragrant grass and fresh flowers. They are beautiful to look upon and wander over....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Bret Harte布勒特·哈特
简介： Hardly one of us, I think, really believed in the auriferous probabilities of Eureka Gulch....
