类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of the...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： There have been occasions when, after long rest as a hulk lying in some land-locked cove, with little of its past history except the name left in peoples memories, that once again the old ship has been brought forth, staunch as ever, to perform, it i...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： A number of years ago, when the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute was quite small, with only a few dozen students and two or three teachers, I began the practice of giving what were called Sunday Evening Talks to the students and teachers. The...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： Aldous Huxley阿道司·赫胥黎
简介： Gumbril, Theodore Gumbril Junior, B.A. Oxon., sat in his oaken stall on the north side of the School Chapel and wondered, as he listened through the uneasy silence of half a thousand schoolboys to the First Lesson, pondered, as he looked up at the va...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Any people who may happen to have read the story of Wilful, the Conceited Pig, will recollect how he had called up his friend, Miss Peck, one night, from the henhouse, where there had been a great disagreement between her and Cock-a-doodle, and how t...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： Vincent, the youngest of the party, a boy about eleven years of age, had been sitting at the table with a book before him, but had never turned over a leaf, drinking in eagerly every word uttered by his aunt on the subject of the step-mother whose ar...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： This is Peggys own drawing of what happened in the first Adventure of the Ring. Everyone is very frightened in it. Nurse has just sat down on seeing the Giant, and has dropped Peggys brown holland frock behind her....
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 亨利.詹姆斯 Henry James
简介： The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to sa...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： The student of American sociology will find the year 1894 marked by a pronounced awakening of the public conscience to a system of anarchy and outlawry which had grown during a series of ten years to be so common, that scenes of unusual brutality fai...
类别：英文短篇小说 作者： 未知
简介： When the editor commenced the preparation of the following narrative, he did not suppose it would reach the size of this volume. In order, however, to present all the facts which have been communicated to him, it has seemed necessary to extend it to...
