As I walked home one freezing day, I stumbled on a wallet someone had lost in the street. I picked it up and looked inside to find some identification...
Mr. Vinegar and His Fortune A long time ago, there lived a poor man whose real name has been forgotten. He was little and old and his face was wrinkle...
12岁的阿富汗富家少爷阿米尔与仆人哈桑情同手足。然而,在一场风筝比赛后,发生了一件悲惨不堪的事,阿米尔为自己的懦弱感到自责和痛苦,逼走了哈桑,不久,自己也跟随父亲逃往美国。 成年后的阿米尔始终无法原谅自己当年对哈桑的背叛。为了赎罪,阿米尔再度踏上暌违二十多年的故乡,希望能为不幸的好友尽最后一点心力,...
"Yes, " she continued, "Michael Goldstein was a wonderful person. If you should find him, tell him I think of him often. And, " sh...
Mr. Vinegar and His Fortune Mr. Vinegar gave him the bagpipes and drew the gloves on over his half frozen fingers. "How lucky I am," he said...
'He didn't take any notice of you, I suppose?'. 'Yes he did. He walked up to my seat, - I wish he wasn't so solemn and stiff, Uncl...
It is half-past five o'clock, and an autumn afternoon, when the reader and Solomon Gills become acquainted. Solomon Gills is in the act of seeing ...
In which some more First Appearances are made on the Stage of these Adventures. Though the offices of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the ...
And she was right. The last time he had seen his slighted child, there had been that in the sad embrace between her and her dying mother, which was at...
With a quick perception that it was intended to relate to what she had asked, little Florence laid aside the bonnet she had held in her hand until now...