类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It seems inexcusable to remind the public that one has written a book. Poppa says I ought not to feel that way about itthat he might just as well be shy about referring to the baking soda that he himself inventedbut I do, and it is with every apology...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There are certain beings who bear the stamp of the divine seal and are preordained to receive the highest favours within the gift of glory; they are fated to pass through life like those brilliant meteors which are seen to flash across the heavens an...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： May a thunderbolt strike you! The imprecation suited the rough fellow who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely lowered the strange tones of his voice, yet of all the rabble who surrounded him only two persons understood h...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In proceeding to trace the development and characteristics of Puritanism in an English colony, I beg to remark that I write, not as an Englishman, but as a Canadian colonist by birth and life-long residence, and as an early and constant advocate of t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： O God, I desire to approach Thy throne of Grace on the evening of this day, beseeching Thee to grant me Thy benediction and blessing. The shadows of night have once more gathered around me; may no shadow of sin or unbelief darken my soul, or interrup...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： One morning sitting with my mother in the drawing room and entreating her to comply with my wish to enter the Navy, she was so intent on listening to my importunities and her patchwork that she did not observe that the cat was running away with her f...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Many years ago, as a student in a foreign university, I remember attacking, with the complacency of youth, a German history of the English drama, in six volumes. I lost courage long before the author reached the age of Elizabeth, but I still recall t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It may seem a somewhat Irish method of beginning the story of Two Years Ago by a scene which happened but a month since. And yet, will not the story be on that very account a better type of many a man's own experiences! How few of us had learnt the m...
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简介： The Honorable Socrates Potter was the only scientific man in the village of Pointview, Connecticut. In every point of manhood he was far ahead of his neighbors. In a way he had outstripped himself, for, while his ideas were highly modern, he clung to...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Archibald Hughson, a young Shetland lad, having a strong desire to go to sea, and his mother withholding her consent, determines to run from home.He is treacherously assisted by Max Inkster, a wicked sailor, who succeeds in getting him stowed away on...
