英语小说网

《心血运动论》这本书是由英国伟大的生理学家和胚胎学家威廉· 哈维(William Harvey)于1628年公开发表的。这本书的出版震惊了当时的医学界和生理学界，它的观点从根本上推翻了统治人们头脑上千年的关于心脏运动和血液运行的经典观点，提出血液是循环运行的，心脏有节律的持续搏动是促使血液在全身循环流动的动力源泉。

维多利亚时代，一名英国医生特维拉在马戏团发现了一个头部畸型的象人，受尽不人道的待遇，于是将其带回医院作研究。不料马戏班老板拜斯带人又将象人抢去，到欧洲各地巡回展出，幸得团中其它畸型人暗中搭救回英国，终于使他体验到人间的温暖。

The Angel oj Terror Chapter I THE hush of the court, which had been broken when the foreman of the jury returned their verdict, was intensified as the Judge, with a quick glance over his pince-nez at the tall prison er, marshalled his papers 'wi th the precision and method which old men display in tense moments such as these. He gathered them together, white paper and blue and buff and stacked them in a neat heap on a tiny ledge to the left of his desk. Then he took his pen and wrote a few words on a printed paper before him. Another breathless pause and he groped beneath the desk and brought out a small square of black silk and carefully laid it over his white wig. Then he spoke: " J ames Meredith, you have been convicted after a long and patient trial of the awful crime of wilful murder. With the verdict of the jury I am in complete agreement. There is little doubt, after hearing the evidence of the unfortunate lady to whom you were engaged, and vhose evide

"A tiny sound--perhaps the scrape of a boot on a ladder. Travis edged back into a compartment. A flash of light momentarily lighted the corridor; the approaching figure was using an electric torch. Travis drew his knife with one hand, reversed it so he could use the heavy hilt as a silencer. The other was hurrying now, on his way to investigate the burned-out engine cabin. Travis could hear the rasp of his fast breathing. Now!" ... Alien technology scavenged by U.S. and Russian scientists has started a race to colonize planets outside our solar system, but the U.S. scientists are losing the race. In a desperate move the U.S. government decides to use a group of Apache volunteers in an experimental attempt to colonize a primitive planet, but before they can even begin their spaceship crashes on the planet Topaz...

《玛格丽特·奥格维》（1896年）是英国作家詹姆斯·马修·巴里的作品。在这部作品中，可以找到他童年时代的痕迹。这部作品是关于他母亲的传记，书里充满对他精明的母亲深情的回忆。

It is quite probable that there are moments in a woman's life when she does become more deadly than the male. The probability is one which no man of age and experience will lack instance for making a fact. Without seeking to become profound in the matter I will say this: it is but lightly as compared with a man that one need scratch a woman to come on the natural creature.

The action was placed in the Solomon Islands.  The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination.  As regards reality—they said there wasn’t any.  Of course, as every one knew, kinky-haired cannibals no longer obtained on the earth’s surface, much less ran around with nothing on, chopping off one another’s heads, and, on occasion, a white man’s head as well.

Mrs Mannering thinks that a peaceful holiday in the Welsh mountains couldn’t possibly land the children in another dangerous adventure. 　　How wrong she is! Philip Dinah, Lucy-Ann and Jack are soon up to their necks in the mystery of a rumbling mountain, roaming wolves and a mad genius who plans to rule the world.