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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 ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：421 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：382 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 reac...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：719 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 ...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：427 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 点击次数：396 作者： 未知
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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：437 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 acquain...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：429 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...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：354 作者： 未知
简介：A quick, sharp report rent the air. Followed several seconds of deathlike silence. Then the lesser sound of a twig falling in the still forest. Again silence. A silence, tense, portentous. Then the so...
类别：英文短篇小说 点击次数：311 作者： 未知
简介：They say automation makes jobs, especially if they are trying to keep their own job of selling automation machines. I know the Actuarvac made one purple passion of a job for me, the unpleasantly fatal...
