英语短篇小说

英语短篇小说 | The Signal Man 信号员 查尔斯·狄更斯

2021年7月25日

He looked up at me without replying, and I looked down at him without pressing him too soon with a repetition of my idle question. Just then there came a vague vibration in the earth and air, quickly changing into a violent pulsation, and an oncoming rush that caused me to start back, as though it had force to draw me down.

英语短篇小说

英语短篇小说 | The Black Cat 黑猫 埃德加·爱伦·坡

2021年7月21日

I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own. Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind. We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat.

英语短篇小说

英语短篇小说 | The Law of Life 生命的法则 杰克·伦敦

2021年7月18日

Old Koskoosh listened greedily. Though his sight had long since faded, his hearing was still acute, and the slightest sound penetrated to the glimmering intelligence which yet abode behind the withered forehead, but which no longer gazed forth upon the things of the world.

英语短篇小说

英语短篇小说 | After Twenty Years 二十年后 欧·亨利

2021年7月16日

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of wind with a taste of rain in them had well nigh depeopled the streets.