类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2096 作者： 未知
简介：Years ago, I came upon an old and hoary tavern when I as a fashion of refugee was flying from strong drink. Its name, as shown on the creaking sign-board, was The Black Lion Inn. My coming was the fru...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2674 作者： 未知
简介：I think it is Lord Beaconsfield who, in one of his brilliant stories, makes the clever observation that adventures are to the adventurous, and certainly he who seeks for adventures even in this prosai...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1340 作者： 未知
简介：I have read with the greatest interest Mr. Childerss illuminating book War and the Arme Blanche. My opinion of the subject with which it deals is already so well known throughout the army that I need ...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1827 作者： 未知
简介：Yes, indeed, my grandfather wass once in jail, said old Mrs. McTavish, of the county of Glengarry, in Ontario, Canada; but that wass for debt, and he wass a ferry honest man whateffer, and he would no...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1379 作者： 未知
简介：If a palace be a royal residence, as the dictionary defines it, then nearly all the famous castles of England would come under that title, for the Norman and Plantagenet Kings were constantly moving f...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2472 作者： 未知
简介：At two o'clock in the morning during the month of August sounds of music could be heard proceeding from a brilliantly lighted house in Park Lane, where a ball was being given by the Countess of Kersto...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：2433 作者： 未知
简介：It was the high road to the village of Garsworth, wide, deeply rutted, and somewhat grass-grown, with a tall hedge of yellow-blossomed gorse on the one side, and on the other a ragged, broken fence, o...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1889 作者： 未知
简介：My name is Joseph Coleman, and at the time my story begins I was sixteen years of age. Mark was my twin brother; and he looked and acted so much like me, or else I looked and acted so much like him, t...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1491 作者： 未知
简介：It sometimes happens that experiences long since past seem to be repeated, and that knowledge apparently forgotten proves again of service. This is illustrated by the subject of railroad reorganizatio...
类别：经典英文小说 点击次数：1456 作者： 未知
简介：A wet Sunday--dreary, dismal, and infinitely sloppy. Even the bells ringing the people into evening service seemed to feel the depressing influence of the weather, and their brazen voices sounded hoar...
