Fables
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2626 作者: 未知
简介:Here is a pretty state of things! said the traveller. Dying for a smoke; only one match left; and that certain to miss fire! Was there ever a creature so unfortunate? And yet, thought the traveller, s...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2484 作者: 未知
简介:Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (1850-1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many au...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2305 作者: 未知
简介:You do very well, my friends, to treat me with some little reverence, for in honouring me you are honouring both France and yourselves. It is not merely an old, grey-moustached officer whom you see ea...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2987 作者: 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介:At a private asylum in the west of England there lives, and has lived for some years past, an unfortunate lady, as to whom there has long since ceased to be any hope that she should ever live elsewher...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2325 作者: 未知
简介:A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best ...
类别:经典英文小说 点击次数:3597 作者: 未知
简介:Published in 1886, Wilkie Collins The Evil Genius is a dramatic novel about the life of Sydney, who struggles to support herself as a governess. She disrupts the Linsley household by falling in love w...
类别:经典英文小说 点击次数:3431 作者: 安东尼·特罗洛普 Anthony Trollope
简介:The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Si...
类别:经典英文小说 点击次数:2202 作者: 未知
简介:Nestling among the hills of the Scioto valley, in the south-central portion of the state of Ohio, lies the little town of Wadsworth. Venerable in its age, proud of its history, the first capital of it...
类别:英文短篇小说 点击次数:2584 作者: 未知
简介:I have been twice in England. In 1833, on my return from a short tour in Sicily, Italy, and France, I crossed from Boulogne, and landed in London at the Tower stairs. It was a dark Sunday morning; the...