类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：851 作者： 未知
简介：A hot, windless August day had settled down into a dull, brooding evening, presageful of a coming storm. It was nearly dark by the time Lionel Dering was ready to turn his face homeward. The tide was ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：671 作者： 未知
简介：Bill Hardwick was as fine a specimen of an Australian as you could find in a day's march. Active as a cat and strong withal, he was mostly described as 'a real good all-round chap, that you couldn't p...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：771 作者： 未知
简介：This is the record of a journey from London to the Quantock Hillsto Nether Stowey, Kilve, Crowcombe, and West Bagborough, to the high point where the Taunton-Bridgwater road tops the hills and shows a...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：406 作者： 未知
简介：Biography, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held the fairest meed of human virtueone given and received in entire disinterestednesssince neither can the bio...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：594 作者： 未知
简介：I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day....
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：478 作者： Benjamin Disraeli 本杰明·迪斯雷利
简介：THE thunder groaned, the wind howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable darkness covered the earth. A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. A Doric temple ros...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：267 作者： 未知
简介：It is in the staging of her comedies that fate shows herself superior to mere human invention. While we, with careful regard to scenery, place our conventional puppets on the stage and bid them play t...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：368 作者： 未知
简介：This book is a continuation of those letters to the Morning Post newspaper on the South African war, which have been lately published under the title 'London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.' Although the l...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：438 作者： 未知
简介：Montaigne and Howells letters, says Thackeray, are my bedside books. If I wake at night, I have one or other of them to prattle me to sleep again. They talk about themselves forever, and dont weary me...
