短篇小说 | A Venetian Night's Entertainment

2022年1月6日

"Him Venice!" said the Lascar with the big earrings; and Tony Bracknell, leaning on the high gunwale of his father's East Indiaman, the Hepzibah B., saw far off, across the morning sea, a faint vision of towers and domes dissolved in golden air.

短篇小说 | To Build a Fire

2022年1月6日

Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth- bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland.

短篇小说 | The Pit and the Pendulum

2022年1月5日

I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was permitted to sit, I felt that my senses were leaving me.

短篇小说 | Afterward

2022年1月4日

The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting for the lamps to be brought into the library.

短篇小说 | Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

2022年1月4日

This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.

女生叫 Gypsy 是什么意思?

2022年1月4日

“Gypsy”这个名字的寓意比较复杂,因为它涉及到对吉普赛人(也称为罗姆人)的文化和历史的认知。

短篇小说 | A Cup of Cold Water

2022年1月3日

"Mr. Woburn!" he exclaimed; then he stepped nearer and added in a low tone: "I was requested to tell you when you came that the members of the firm are waiting; will you step into the private office?"