类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Sincerely do I hope that the issue of this little book may prove useful in drawing the attention of the public to the mental and physical condition of the unfortunates who form such a large proportion of our prison population....
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简介： It was approaching half-past five on a June afternoon, and in consequence Colonel Raymond was approaching the Wroxton County Club. He was a man of method, and a retired Colonel of Volunteers, and thus he left his house (christened Lammermoor by his w...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The islands of the South Seas are places of an interest curiously limited. The ethnological problem presented by the native is interesting only to men of science, commerce is negligible, there is little real agriculture, and no industry at all. There...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In submitting to the Public a Memoir of a great man, it may naturally be expected that an author should endeavour to convey to them some idea of the associations, or other circumstances, which have prompted the undertaking....
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简介： From the main thoroughfare of Bayswater, where the shops display their goods and the tides of life run strongly, Crook Street extends its long line of ugly dwellings to a considerable distance. Its shape suggests a shepherd's crook,--hence undoubtedl...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： So you think the earth has been thoroughly explored, and that there is no such thing as an undiscovered continent, do you? asked Percy Randall, as he lit a cigar and seated himself comfortably in a chair in the office of Frank Reade, Jr., for a socia...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A tale of the Pampa[1] tells how a River Plate farmer of bygone days, seeing his wife and child dead of pestilence and his pastures blackened by fire, fell into a magic slumber born of the lethargy of despair....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Give it more gas; more gas, Pierre; they are coming up the cross road! exclaimed Ralph excitedly, as he leaned forward.Pierre the chauffeur looked straight ahead and nodded, as he answered: Oui, oui!Before he had gone a hundred feet farther the occup...
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简介： Guywhy Guy diced and drabbed and ruffled away his inheritance, and to save his neck took shipping for the tobacco plantations where, they say, he married a daughter of Lo, the poor Indian, and none hath since heard of him....
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简介： The Surprise Book was Marjories, but it really belonged to Dotty also, Marjorie said. It was Dotty who had made it once upon a time when she had not been able to go to school because of a snowstorm and a snuffy cold. The combination of cold and snows...
