HIGH-WATER MARKWhen the tide was out on the Dedlow Marsh, its extended drearinesswas patent. Its spongy, low-lying surface, sluggish, inky pools,and tortuous sloughs, twisting their slimy way, eel-like, towardthe open bay, were all hard facts. So were the few green tussocks,with their scant blades, their amphibious flavor and unpleasantdampness. And if you choose to indulge your fancyalthough theflat monotony of the Dedlow Marsh was not inspiringthe wavy lineof scattered drift gave an unpleasant consciousness of the spentwaters, and made the dead certainty of the returning tide a gloomyreflection which no present sunshine could dissipate. The greenermeadowland seemed oppressed with this idea, and made no positive...　

White Liesby Charles ReadeCHAPTER I.Towards the close of the last century the Baron de Beaurepaire lived in the chateau of that name in Brittany. His family was of prodigious antiquity; seven successive barons had already flourished on this spot when a younger son of the house accompanied his neighbor the Duke of Normandy in his descent on England, and was rewarded by a grant of English land, on which he dug a mote and built a chateau, and called it Beaurepaire (the worthy Saxons turned this into Borreper without delay). Since that day more than twenty gentlemen of the same lineage had held in turn the original chateau and lands, and handed them down to their present lord.Thus rooted in his native Brittany, Henri Lionel Marie St. Quentin de Beaurepaire was as f...　

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssiniaby Samuel JohnsonCHAPTER I - DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY.YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty Emperor in whose dominions the father of waters begins his course - whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty, and scatters over the world the harvests of Egypt.According to the custom which has descended from age to age among the monarchs of the torrid zone, Rasselas was confined in a private palace, with the other sons and daught...　

1978年，11月27日笔记本上留有这样的字样，这个笔记本是我在自己的档案里找到的。那是我政治生涯中具有重大意义的日子。1978年11月27日，星期一，苏共中央全会召开的日子，我在全会上当选为中央书记。结局出乎意料的聚餐11月25日，我从斯塔夫罗波尔飞到莫斯科。星期天中午12点，我来到既是老乡又是朋友的马拉塔·格拉莫夫家中，我俩从当共青团员时就很要好，当天他过50岁生日。这当然是朋友聚会的由头了。在小费列夫街一幢新楼四层的住宅里聚集了几个人，基本上都是斯塔夫罗波尔人。这样的日子我们是如何庆祝的，大家都知道。按照俄罗斯人的方式，阔绰大方，佳肴美酒，友好交谈，开开玩笑，唱唱歌曲。另外，这次聚到一起的人，大家都是老相识。聚会开始，照例是相互祝酒。不过因为这是朋友聚会，祝酒词既发自内心，又不很规范。大家情绪高涨，过生日者本人也不例外。50岁算什么！连中午都不到！祝酒的同时自然也少不了欢谈。大家谈...　

Nisidaby Alexandre Dumas, PereIf our readers, tempted by the Italian proverb about seeing Naplesand then dying, were to ask us what is the most favourable moment forvisiting the enchanted city, we should advise them to land at themole, or at Mergellina, on a fine summer day and at the hour whensome solemn procession is moving out of the cathedral. Nothing cangive an idea of the profound and simple-hearted emotion of thispopulace, which has enough poetry in its soul to believe in its ownhappiness. The whole town adorns herself and attires herself like abride for her wedding; the dark facades of marble and granitedisappear beneath hangings of silk and festoons of flowers; thewealthy display their dazzling luxury, the poor drape themselves...　

Castle Rackrentby Maria EdgeworthWith an Introduction by Anne Thackeray RitchieINTRODUCTIONIThe story of the Edgeworth Family, if it were properly told, should be as long as the ARABIAN NIGHTS themselves; the thousand and one cheerful intelligent members of the circle, the amusing friends and relations, the charming surroundings, the cheerful hospitable home, all go to make up an almost unique history of a county family of great parts and no little character. The Edgeworths were people of good means and position, and their rental, we are told, amounted to nearly L3000 a year. At one time there was some talk of a peerage for Mr. Edgeworth, but he was considered too independent for a peerage.The family tradition seems to have been unconventional and spirited alwa...　

THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOXTHE ADVENTURES OFREDDY FOXBY THORNTON W. BURGESS1- Page 2-THE ADVENTURES OF REDDY FOXI. Granny Fox Gives Reddy a ScareReddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a largefamily, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungrylittle mouths and so she had let Reddy go to live with old Granny Fox.Granny Fox was the wisest, slyest, smartest fox in all the country round,and now that Reddy had grown so big, she thought it about time that hebegan to learn the things that every fox should know. So every day she...　

Caesar and Cleopatraby George Bernard ShawACT IAn October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end ofthe XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation,afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A greatradiance of silver fire, the dawn of a moonlit night, is risingin the east. The stars and the cloudless sky are our owncontemporaries, nineteen and a half centuries younger than weknow them; but you would not guess that from their appearance.Below them are two notable drawbacks of civilization: a palace,and soldiers. The palace, an old, low, Syrian building ofwhitened mud, is not so ugly as Buckingham Palace; and theofficers in the courtyard are more highly civilized than modernEnglish officers: for example, they do not dig up the corp...　

360 BCSOPHISTby Platotranslated by Benjamin JowettSOPHISTPERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: THEODORUS; THEAETETUS; SOCRATES;An ELEATIC STRANGER, whom Theodorus and Theaetetus bringwith them; The younger SOCRATES, who is a silent auditorTheodorus. Here we are, Socrates, true to our agreement ofyesterday; and we bring with us a stranger from Elea, who is adisciple of Parmenides and Zeno, and a true philosopher.Socrates. Is he not rather a god, Theodorus, who comes to us inthe disguise of a stranger? For Homer says that all the gods, andespecially the god of strangers, are companions of the meek and...　

CranfordCranford1- Page 2-CranfordCHAPTER I - OUR SOCIETYIN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all theholders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couplecome to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he iseither fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranfordevening parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, hisship, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great...　

The Circulation of the Bloodby Thomas H. HuxleyI DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and laboursof a very noble EnglishmanWilliam Harvey.William Harvey was born in the year 1578, and as he lived until the year1657, he very nearly attained the age of 80. He was the son of a smalllandowner in Kent, who was sufficiently wealthy to send this, hiseldest son, to the University of Cambridge; while he embarked theothers in mercantile pursuits, in which they all, as time passed on,attained riches.William Harvey, after pursuing his education at Cambridge, and takinghis degree there, thought it was advisableand justly thought so, inthe then state of University educationto proceed to Italy, which atthat time was one of the great centres of intellectual ...　

　　　　　　　　　　　　　如果台湾没有李敖……　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 何飞鹏　　十几岁年轻的时候，没有机会认识李敖，只能偷偷地读他写的《传统下的独白》，感觉李敖似乎颠覆了所有学校中所受的教育。　　那时候所知的李敖，是个一袭长袍、特立独行的台大学生，学问足以与大师胡适往来、论战，无疑是个梦中的未来英雄。　　这个未来英雄，并没有按照我年轻时的想像，成为体制内认同的当代大师、思想家、文豪或者史学家（年轻的我，对体制有高度敬畏，当然李敖是体制外的英雄毋庸置疑），接下来只有断断续续的印象：与《文星》纠缠不断的官司，退出江湖卖牛肉面去，成为思想犯坐牢，出狱后复出江湖，与名女人胡茵梦结婚、离婚，继续放言高论，与当权者斗争，办《求是报》，以一人之力办报，其文字的产量，最令身为记者的我由衷佩服。　　这些远观（无缘认识前）的片断，串成了对李敖的想像——-个当代具有“特异功能...　

　　1.恋爱简历　　上大学时，我曾经不知不觉地谈上了恋爱，其实无所谓爱情，现在看来倒象是初恋实习。　　大学生活的平面是建立在寝室－食堂－教室－图书馆这几个点上，的确有点单调，加上我天性单纯，品行善良，好助人为乐，常常替她买饭，替她占图书馆的座位，与其他女同学相比，与她看电影和跳舞次数更多一点，这些都非常合符校园生活的公式：同学友情＋频繁接触＝校园恋情。其实，我与她除了形式上象恋爱之外，内容几乎什么也没有。　　她与我同系不同班，认识她时也不是一见钟情。听大课时，我总带一本与课程无关的书去看，走神太多，怕过不了关，一次她正好坐在我的身旁，我陪个小心，借抄她工整之极的课堂笔记，于是就认识了她。为感谢她的笔记，我请她看外国电影，她欣然而来，就这么认识了。　　我那时真不知道恋爱是怎么一回事，同学情长，在一起时间长了，就显得亲切，既亲切话也就说得多，话说得多，不就是象恋爱一样...　

以信代序寿昌兄：我来Ｎ海岸快半个月了。初来时是很好的晴天，后来便每天下雨，一直下到今天了。下宿的庭中有一株大梧桐树，墙外又有一道清溪，更深夜静，听听雨打梧桐声，溪水潺潺声，颇能在我的精神上加了些沉静的绿色，这是可以告慰的。但是我的心境并没有因此而平静，我的麻木状态也并没有因此而稍减，目前所能告诉你的也不是什么好消息，你假使是同情我的呢，或者会替我抱悲观。我在奉天时，就想回上海之后把我近来的情形和你谈谈，到了上海，你是那么忙，我又是那么懒，住了一个月，也竟没有谈过什么话——怪来怪去也只能怪我自己，去年和你同住得那么久，也并没有谈些什么话，我这种不喜欢说话的脾气终是自己觉得最不痛快的。从前的事都是已经过去的了！自从去年发秋风的时候起，我的精神就一天一天消沉下去，委顿在不可名状的疲倦当中。虽则在新少年公司的和暖的冬日底下，以及许多朋友聚谈时还有些能够振作起来的样子，其...　

--内容摘要致命的咒语作者：沐紫大学校园里，一个恐怖的噩梦，牵出了三十年前的一桩血腥冤案，为了揭开噩梦的谜团，主人公费尽心机，抽丝拨茧，与鬼魂对话，与主谋斗智，几次遇险，最终解除咒语，真相大白。致命的咒语作者: 沐紫引子在学生们的心中，这是一道带有玄幻色彩的栅栏墙。它像一道屏障，把老校区和新校区隔开。学校规定，因为老校区年久失修，容易发生危险，禁止任何学生进入老校区。然而，在学生中流传的，却是另一个版本。毕竟是年轻的大学生，好奇心往往超越了他们的理智。陈杰是物理系大三的学生，平时寡言少语，胆子却很大，替同学打抱不平差点把人打死。学校没把他开除已是万幸。大三了，课程也稍微松了些，男生们开始琢磨着猎女孩子，泡妞儿了。陈杰却该干嘛干嘛，自己有什么想法也不和别人商量，也不听别人谈论。可没多久，就有人发现他和邻班的文小宇经常约会了。...　

The Life and Perambulations of a Mouseby Dorothy KilnerINTRODUCTIONDuring a remarkably severe winter, when a prodigious fall of snow confined everybody to their habitations, who were happy enough to have one to shelter them from the inclemency of the season, and were hot obliged by business to expose themselves to its rigour, I was on a visit to Meadow Hall; where had assembled likewise a large party of young folk, who all seemed, by their harmony and good humour, to strive who should the most contribute to render pleasant that confinement which we were all equally obliged to share. Nor were those further advanced in life less anxious to contribute to the general satisfaction and entertainment.After the more serious employment of reading each morning was conclud...　

The Titanby Theodore DreiserChapter IThe New CityWhen Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyhood was ended. His youth was gone, and with it had been lost the great business prospects of his earlier manhood. He must begin again.It would be useless to repeat how a second panic following upon a tremendous failurethat of Jay Cooke & Co.had placed a second fortune in his hands. This restored wealth softened him in some degree. Fate seemed to have his personal welfare in charge. He was sick of the stock-exchange, anyhow, as a means of livelihood, and now decided that he would leave it once and for all. He would get in something elsestreet-railways, ...　

　　败絮藏金玉　　作者：酥油饼　　楔子　　就在江湖中大多数人或自愿或被迫地参加辉煌门左右两大护法的夫夫喜宴之时，远在千里的魔教却遭受了一场惊天浩劫。　　以雪衣侯为首的五万大军以雷霆之势清剿睥睨山。不过六个时辰，魔教总部便被血洗一空。　　明尊和三位魔教长老因为正在赶去辉煌门的路上而逃过一劫。　　但，这仅仅只是开始。　　朝廷随后便开始向魔教在各地的分坛和商行下手。　　但是各地分坛和商行仿佛早有默契，各个人去楼空，连账簿和钱财都被转移至他处，朝廷搜寻无果，只能暂时封铺了事。　　一个月后，雪衣侯回京述职，得圣上钦点为诛魔大将军，全力缉拿魔教余党。　　于是，一场更大更急更寒冷的暴风雪在江湖上刮起！　　背叛有理（一）　　岁末，霜寒，刺骨。　　冯古道缩在屋檐下，拼命地想将身上这件半新不旧的大氅扯拢些，好遮挡对穿整条弄堂的冷风。　　雪衣侯府的下人冷眼看着他在那里又蹦又跳又跺脚，...