The Silver Fox
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:350 作者: 未知
简介:Lady Susan had never been so hungry in her life. So, for the sixth time, she declared between loud and unbridled yawns. She worked her chair across the parquet towards the fire-place, dragging the hea...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:350 作者: 未知
简介:Lady Susan had never been so hungry in her life. So, for the sixth time, she declared between loud and unbridled yawns. She worked her chair across the parquet towards the fire-place, dragging the hea...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:559 作者: Aldous Huxley阿道司·赫胥黎
简介:Thank you, said Mr. Hutton, without turning round. Janet Spence's parlourmaid was so uglyugly on purpose, it always seemed to him, malignantly, criminally uglythat he could not bear to look at her mor...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:407 作者: 未知
简介:IT is full fifty years since I began to contemplate the Alfred Jewel with a wonder and curiosity which became a habit. At length, in the latter half of that period, the vague attitude of enquiry began...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:462 作者: 未知
简介:The Martianne is heard occasionally these days as a stirring concert or band selection. But there was a time when its playing was punishable by deathand its defiant strains challenged the harried poli...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:396 作者: 未知
简介:The missionaries came out of the planetary system of a star they didn't call Antares. They called it, naturally enough, The Sunjust as home was Earth, Terra, or simply The World. And naturally enough,...
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简介:Tick-de-tock, tick-de-tock, whispered the antique clock on the first floor of the house.There was no sound save for the tickingand for the pounding of Ronnie's heart....
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:427 作者: 未知
简介:Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, a woman is the real heroine, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and coura...
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简介:Although the immediate results of the Battle of Hastings may have been of less importance to the world than were those of some other great battles, the struggle has, in the long run, had a greater inf...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:488 作者: 未知
简介:In the present volume I have endeavoured to give the details of the principal events in a struggle whose importance can hardly be overrated. At its commencement the English occupied a mere patch of la...
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简介:Of all the chapters of history, there are few more interesting or wonderful than that which tells the story of the rise and progress of Venice. Built upon a few sandy islands in a shallow lagoon, and ...