【英文短篇小说】Lord Arthur Savile's Crime（3）

CHAPTER III When Lord Arthur woke it was twelve oclock, and the midday sun was streaming through the ivorysilk curtains of his room. He got up and looked out of the window. A dim haze of heat was hanging over the great city, and the roofs of the hous

【英文短篇小说】Lord Arthur Savile's Crime（4）

CHAPTER IV In Venice he met his brother, Lord Surbiton, who happened to have come over from Corfu in his yacht. The two young men spent a delightful fortnight together. In the morning they rode on the Lido, or glided up and down the green canals in t

【英文短篇小说】Lord Arthur Savile's Crime（5）

CHAPTER V Mr. Merton was a good deal distressed at the second postponement of the marriage, and Lady Julia, who had already ordered her dress for the wedding, did all in her power to make Sybil break off the match. Dearly, however, as Sybil loved her

【英文短篇小说】Lord Arthur Savile's Crime（6）

CHAPTER VI When the wedding took place, some three weeks later, St. Peters was crowded with a perfect mob of smart people. The service was read in the most impressive manner by the Dean of Chichester, and everybody agreed that they had never seen a h

【英文短篇小说】Father Sergy（1）

[Part 1] I In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the cuirassier guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nikolay I and have a brilliant career, left the servi

【英文短篇小说】THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON（2）

There's a great future in the dry-goods business, Roger Button was saying. He was not a spiritual man--his aesthetic sense was rudimentary. Old fellows like me can't learn new tricks, he observed profoundly. It's you youngsters with energy and vitali

【英文短篇小说】THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON（1）

I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one

【英文短篇小说】The Canterville Ghost（3）

Virginia grew quite grave, and her little lips trembled like rose-leaves. She came towards him, and kneeling down at his side, looked up into his old withered face. Poor, poor Ghost, she murmured; have you no place where you can sleep? Far away beyon

【英文短篇小说】The Canterville Ghost（2）

He selected Friday, August 17th, for his appearance, and spent most of that day in looking over his wardrobe, ultimately deciding in favour of a large slouched hat with a red feather, a winding-sheet frilled at the wrists and neck, and a rusty dagger

【英文短篇小说】The Canterville Ghost（1）

I When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed, Lord Canterville himself, who was a man of the most punc

【英文短篇小说】The Boarding House

The Boarding House by James Joyce as read by Alex Wilson MRS. MOONEY WAS a butcher's daughter. She was a woman who was quite able to keep things to herself: a determined woman. She had married her father's foreman and opened a butcher's shop near Spr

【英文短篇小说】The Best Girlfriend You Never Had

A perfect day in the city always starts like this: My friend Leo picks me up and we go to a breakfast place called Rick and Anns where they make red flannel hash out of beets and bacon, and then we cross the Bay Bridge to the gardens of the Palace of

【英文短篇小说】Eveline

SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home;

【英文短篇小说】Crazy Sunday

It was Sunday--not a day, but rather a gap between two other days. Behind, for all of them, lay sets and sequences, the long waits under the crane that swung the microphone, the hundred miles a day by automobiles to and fro across a county, the strug

【英文短篇小说】Araby

Araby - read by Colm Meaney NORTH RICHMOND STREET, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a

【英文短篇小说】An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timbe

【英文短篇小说】A Painful Case

MR. JAMES DUFFY lived in Chapelizod because he wished to live as far as possible from the city of which he was a citizen and because he found all the other suburbs of Dublin mean, modern and pretentious. He lived in an old sombre house and from his w

【英文短篇小说】A Mother

A Mother Read by Fionnula Flanagan MR HOLOHAN, assistant secretary of the Eire Abu Society, had been walking up and down Dublin for nearly a month, with his hands and pockets full of dirty pieces of paper, arranging about the series of concerts. He h

【英文短篇小说】A Little Cloud

Eight years before he had seen his friend off at the North Wall and wished him godspeed. Gallaher had got on. You could tell that at once by his travelled air, his well-cut tweed suit, and fearless accent. Few fellows had talents like his and fewer s

【英文短篇小说】Dr. Heidegger's Experiment

THAT VERY SINGULAR man, old Dr. Heidegger, once invited four venerable friends to meet him in his study. There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Wid