类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The boy lay in a large, thickly upholstered Morris chair in the living room. His mother had lowered the back of this chair so that he could recline upon it, and she kneeled beside him holding his hand in one of hers while she gently bathed his forehe...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When Westy Martin and his two companions, Warde Hollister and Ed Carlyle, were on their long journey to the Yellowstone National Park, they derived much amusement from talking with a man whose acquaintance they made on the train....
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简介： A monuments dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. We are not here trying to carve an epic, portray a moonlight scene, or write a sonnet; neither are we dealing with mystery or tragedy, but rathe...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： How light it is still! said Don Vittorio Lante, after a long silence....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Little excuse is needed, perhaps, for any fresh selection from the famous Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, provided it be representative enough, and worthy enough, to enlist a new army of youthful readers. Of the two hundred and sixty-four bewilde...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Colonel Howard-Bury and the members of the Expedition of 1921 had effected the object with which they had been despatched. They were not sent out to climb Mount Everest. It would be impossible to reach the summit in a single effort....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Snythergens mother was poorso poor that she did not feel able to support her baby boy. So she put him in a basketit had to be a large oneand left it on the doorstep of a little old couple who had long wished for a child....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The efficiency of a book is like that of a man, in one important respect: its attitude toward its subject is the first source of its power. A book may be full of good ideas well expressed, but if its writer views his subject from the wrong angle even...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： It is now thirty years since the Baptist Church Directory, prepared by the writer, was first published. That work was designed to be somewhat of a consensus of the opinions of those best able to judge in matters of Baptist church polity and usage, es...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There is no inner life that is not also an outer life. To withdraw from the stress and strain of practical action and from the complication of problems into the quiet cell of the inner life in order to build its domain undisturbed is the sure way to...
