ONE BASKETONE BASKETTHIRTY-ONE SHORT STORIESEDNA FERBER1- Page 2-ONE BASKETThe Woman Who Tried to Be Good[1913]Before she tried to be a good woman she had been a very badwomanso bad that she could trail her wonderful apparel up and downMain Street, from the Elm Tree Bakery to the railroad tracks, without oncehaving a man doff his hat to her or a woman bow. You passed her on thestreet with a surreptitious glance, though she was well worth looking atin her furs and laces and plumes. She had the only full-length mink coat...
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALSby Immanuel Kanttranslated by Thomas Kingsmill AbbottPREFACEAncient Greek philosophy was divided into three sciences: physics,ethics, and logic. This division is perfectly suitable to the natureof the thing; and the only improvement that can be made in it is toadd the principle on which it is based, so that we may both satisfyourselves of its completeness, and also be able to determine correctlythe necessary subdivisions.All rational knowledge is either material or formal: the formerconsiders some object, the latter is concerned only with the form ofthe understanding and of the reason itself, and with the universal...
The Scouts of the Valleyby Joseph A. AltshelerCHAPTER ITHE LONE CANOEA light canoe of bark, containing a single human figure, moved swiftly up one of the twin streams that form the Ohio. The water, clear and deep, coming through rocky soil, babbled gently at the edges, where it lapped the land, but in the center the full current flowed steadily and without noise.The thin shadows of early dusk were falling, casting a pallid tint over the world, a tint touched here and there with living fire from the sun, which was gone, though leaving burning embers behind. One glowing shaft, piercing straight through the heavy forest that clothed either bank, fell directly upon the figure in the boat, as a hidden light illuminates a great picture, while the rest is left in shad...
AEMILIUS PAULUS229-160 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenALMOST all agree that the Aemilii were one of the ancient andpatrician houses in Rome; and those authors who affirm that KingNuma was pupil to Pythagoras tell us that the first who gave name tohis posterity was Mamercus, the son of Pythagoras, who, for hisgrace and address in speaking, was called Aemilius. Most of thisrace that have risen through their merit to reputation also enjoyedgood fortune: and even the misfortune to Lucius Paulus at the battleof Cannae gave testimony to his wisdom and valour. For not beingable to persuade his colleague not to hazard the battle, he, though...
您所在的位置:登陆网站>奥普拉·温弗瑞传>正文回目录第16节:电视王国作者: [美]海伦·S·加森 奥普拉对采访她的记者说,不管生活道路上有多少障碍和困难,从小时候(大约四五岁)住在实行种族隔离的密西西比州时开始,她就感觉自己的生活将会变得与现在完全不同,但她并不能说清楚自己的感觉。40年后,已是人到中年的奥普拉仍然记得童年的岁月与渴望,于是对韦利斯利学院的1997年春季毕业生谈起了她们即将走入未来的旅程。她对这些年轻女性谈到了自己,提醒她们生活本身"就是一段旅程",并且列举了对她来说比较重要的一些事情。在谈到从自己的人生旅程中学到了什么时,她劝告这些毕业生遵循一些对她自己曾经非常有用的原则与方法。她说她必须去寻找自己是谁和不是谁,并提醒她们,每一个人都需要从自己的经验中去获取这种知识。 正如奥普拉所说,她花了很长时间,吸取了许多所谓的教训才明白,我们只能做我们自己,而不是...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHESby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Copper Beeches"To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked SherlockHolmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the DailyTelegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliestmanifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It ispleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped thistruth that in these little records of our cases which you have beengood enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally toembellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causescelebres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather...
第一部分日本殖民统治台湾简介1995年8月15日,时任日本首相的村山富市在内阁发表讲话,承认第二次世界大战期间日本对亚洲各国的侵略。同年,日本政府实施为期十年以亚洲邻国为主要对象的“和平交流计划”。作为该计划的一环,日本外务省决定在日中友好会馆内设立日中历史研究中心,并且希望我国提供协助。中日双方有关部门通过协商方式确认了如下原则:在切实遵守中日联合声明和中日和平友好条约的原则和精神、承认日本军国主义对华发动侵略战争这一历史事实的前提下,中方同意接受日方的要求,提供必要的协助。中国社会科学院接受我国外交部的委托,作为协助日方研究的中方窗口,与日方联络、协调相关事宜。1997年8月,日中友好会馆致函中国社会科学院,再次要求就协助进行历史研究问题进行协商,提出“只有作为受害者、抵抗者中国的参与,历史研究事业才能达到所期的目的。这点正是需要中国协助的”。日中友好会馆还表示,愿意将该馆的相关经费拨...
四 月-野蛮贵公子(打工贵公子四之四) 男主角:奥古斯女主角:冰可可 内容简介她明明不是灰姑娘,怎么会遇到热情如火的王子? 而且王子不但在白天化身为小苦工任她奴役晚上还会跳上她的床「用力」取悦她! 为了保护自己,她抵死不让这个花花公子偷走她的心否则要是哪天他玩腻了这个游戏她该如何面对没有他的空虚? 但……他是野蛮人吗?怎么她讲国语他都听不懂? 她就是不想让他爱呀!这样也不行喔? 他明明不缺供他泄欲的床伴为什么偏偏就眷恋她的身体,以征服她为生活的目的? 还带着她回到王子的城堡,「觐见」他的父母亲—— 楔子 「姊,妳不会是认真的吧?」 「嗯。」 「要买一个男人?」 「嗯。」 「可是……」 不理会两个小妹快把两张小脸挤成一团,可可正专心地在广告公司填写征人的广告。...
Confidence by Henry JamesCHAPTER IIt was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days at Siena, where he had intended to spend but two, and still it was impossible to continue his journey. He was a young man of a contemplative and speculative turn, and this was his first visit to Italy, so that if he dallied by the way he should not be harshly judged. He had a fancy for sketching, and it was on his conscience to take a few pictorial notes. There were two old inns at Siena, both of the...
NUMA POMPILIUSLegendary, 8th-7th Century B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenTHOUGH the pedigrees of noble families of Rome go back in exact formas far as Numa Pompilius, yet there is great diversity amongsthistorians concerning the time in which he reigned; a certain writercalled Clodius, in a book of his entitled Strictures on Chronology,avers that the ancient registers of Rome were lost when the city wassacked by the Gauls, and that those which are now extant werecounterfeited, to flatter and serve the humour of some men whowished to have themselves derived from some ancient and noble lineage,though in reality with no claim to it. And though it be commonly...
Tales and Fantasiesby Robert Louis StevensonContentsThe Misadventures of John NicholsonThe Body-SnatcherThe Story of a LieTHE MISADVENTURES OF JOHN NICHOLSONCHAPTER I - IN WHICH JOHN SOWS THE WINDJOHN VAREY NICHOLSON was stupid; yet, stupider men than heare now sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves asthe authors of their own distinction. He was of a fat habit,even from boyhood, and inclined to a cheerful and cursoryreading of the face of life; and possibly this attitude ofmind was the original cause of his misfortunes. Beyond thishint philosophy is silent on his career, and superstitionsteps in with the more ready explanation that he was detested...
还乡后记 风烟俱净,天山共色,从流飘荡,任意东西,自富阳至桐庐一百许里,奇山异水,天下独绝。水皆缥碧,千丈见底,游鱼细石,直视无碍,急湍甚箭,猛浪若奔,隔岸高山,皆生寒树,负势竟上,互相轩邈,争高直指,千百成群。泉水激石,泠泠作响,好鸟相鸣,嘤嘤成韵。蝉则千啭不穷,猿则百叫无绝,鸢飞戾天者,望峰息心,经纶世务者,窥谷忘反,横柯上蔽,在昼犹昏,疏条交映,有时见日。吴均。一 “比在家庭的怀抱里觉得更好的地方,是什么地方?”象这样的地方,当然是没有的,法国的这一句古歌,实在是把人情世态道尽了。 当微雨潇潇之夜,你若身眠古驿,看看萧条的四壁,看看一点欲尽的寒灯,倘不想起家庭的人,这人便是没有心肠者,任它草堆也好,破窑也好,你儿时放摇篮的地方,便是你死后最好的葬身之所呀!我们在客中卧病的时候,每每要想及家乡,...
《白星》 题记媒体评价——《纽约时报》书评一场极大的心灵震颤。——《波士顿环球报》《白星》 题记前言关于《白星》评论者为《白星》用了恐怕每个畅销书作家都会心动的形容词:引人入胜!这是极高的评价。对一本畅销读物来说,阅读快感是第一位的,所谓遣词造句、谋篇布局、人物刻画之类,都是评论家才会操心的事,沉浸书中享受快感的人根本应无暇考虑。拿起书,翻开第一页,前几句还算入眼,耐住性子看下去直到舍不得放下,心无旁骛、废寝忘食——这样才看得痛快,看得尽兴,大概也才对得起引人入胜这个词。《白星》确实很难说是靠故事取胜的,基本上是好莱坞大片惯有的套路,被迫害——溯源追凶——决斗。情节也并不复杂:曾有过辉煌战绩的狙击手在久别战场、成为检察官后,突然受到不知来自何方的威胁……但詹姆斯·塞耶深谙抓住读者眼球的手法,全书以一段充满神秘感又极具暗示性的描述开头:...
如果坐飞机,由纽约曼哈顿往东飞,过了“东河”,飞越广袤平坦的皇后区,看到世界博览会旧址的草原公园(MeadowPark),再掠过爱丽塘(AllyPond)的一片湿地,才离开纽约市的边界,就会看见一个高起的山头。山不过几百英尺,朝北呈阶梯似地一坡一坡下降,伸向“大颈区”(GreatNeck)外的海湾;向南先有个较大的落差,再平平滑滑地延伸向远处的大西洋;向东则是长岛,那个由阿帕拉契山脉(Appalachians)冲积出来的香肠型半岛。山头上长满了树,像是一片丛林,但是掠过树梢,可以看见心型的一抹蓝,正好被四周的小山坡围绕着,这抹蓝、这片不过三十英亩的水,就是莱克瑟丝湖(L-akeSuccess)。据地质学家研究,十五万年前的冰河时期,这个山头远比今天为高,可能还相当陡峭。那时地球的气候寒冷,从北极、加拿大,一路下来都是冰天雪地,终年不融。厚达千尺的白雪一层压一层,变成冰。再由于地心引力,高处的冰逐渐往低处移动,成为...
The Commonwealth of Oceanaby James Harrington1656JANOTTI, the most excellent describer of the Commonwealth of Venice, divides the whole series of government into two times or periods: the one ending with the liberty of Rome, which was the course or empire, as I may call it, of ancient prudence, first discovered to mankind by God himself in the fabric of the commonwealth of Israel, and afterward picked out of his footsteps in nature, and unanimously followed by the Greeks and Romans; the other beginning with the arms of Caesar, which, extinguishing liberty, were the transition of ancient into modern prudence, introduced by those inundations of Huns, Goths, Vandals, Lombards, Saxons, which, breaking the Roman Empire, deformed the whole face of the world with those ...
Love of Life and other storiesby Jack LondonLOVE OF LIFE"This out of all will remain -They have lived and have tossed:So much of the game will be gain,Though the gold of the dice has been lost."THEY limped painfully down the bank, and once the foremost of thetwo men staggered among the rough-strewn rocks. They were tiredand weak, and their faces had the drawn expression of patiencewhich comes of hardship long endured. They were heavily burdenedwith blanket packs which were strapped to their shoulders. Head-straps, passing across the forehead, helped support these packs.Each man carried a rifle. They walked in a stooped posture, theshoulders well forward, the head still farther forward, the eyes...