NOVELS about sport are notoriously hard to pull off. It seems somewhat odd for a literary mind to care how often a ball makes it to the back of the net or how long it takes to spri...

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: 'I am blind, please help.' There were only a few coins in the hat.   A man wa...

But one night he working late at the Scanlon-Taylor mill, lugging two-by-fours to the truck, 1splinters slicing all the way through the glove. He too small for that kind a work, to...

  A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections.” The money for which I shall sell this milk will e...

  When I was growing up, I had an old neighbor named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever known. He never yelled at us for playing in his yard. I remember him ...

It rains when Heaven deems fit, mother remarries when she wants to—a popular saying often heard in China, what‘s the source of it? It comes from a legend.  中国有句老话...

英国王位第二顺位继承人、全球最受瞩目的英国王子威廉，于2011年4月29日，在伦敦迎娶交往8年的女友凯特·米德尔顿。这位准新娘虽出身中产家庭，然而在威廉面前却不乏幽默自信，面对媒体大...