短篇小说 | The Tell-Tale Heart

2022年4月23日

"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed!--tear up the planks!--here, here!--it is the beating of his hideous heart!"

短篇小说 | Bertie's Christmas Eve

2022年4月21日

It was Christmas Eve, and the family circle of Luke Steffink, Esq., was aglow with the amiability and random mirth which the occasion demanded.

短篇小说 | The Model Millionaire

2022年4月20日

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed.

短篇小说 | A Cosmopolite in a Cafe

2022年4月18日

At midnight the cafe was crowded. By some chance the little table at which I sat had escaped the eye of incomers, and two vacant chairs at it extended their arms with venal hospitality to the influx of patrons.

短篇小说 | What You Want

2022年4月17日

Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs not to Arabia alone.

短篇小说 | An Alpine Divorce

2022年4月15日

In some natures there are no half-tones; nothing but raw primary colours. John Bodman was a man who was always at one extreme or the other.

短篇小说 | The Huntsman

2022年4月14日

"Good-bye, Yegor Vlassitch," whispered Pelagea, and she stood on tiptoe to see the white cap once more.