Red Eveby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONDitchingham,May 27, 1911.My dear Jehu:For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side byside, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a meanswhereby our coasts may be protected from "the outrageous flowingsurges of the sea" (I quote the jurists of centuries ago), theidle swamps turned to fertility and the barren hills clothed withforest; also, with small success, how "foreshore" may be bestdefined!What will result from all these labours I do not know, nor whethergrave geologists ever read romance save that which the pen of Time...
THE CRISIS IN RUSSIATHE CRISIS IN RUSSIAby ARTHUR RANSOMETO WILLIAM PETERS OF ABERDEEN1- Page 2-THE CRISIS IN RUSSIAINTRODUCTIONTHE characteristic of a revolutionary country is that change is aquicker process there than elsewhere. As the revolution recedes into thepast the process of change slackens speed. Russia is no longer the dizzyingkaleidoscope that it was in 1917. No longer does it change visibly fromweek to week as it changed in 19l8. Already, to get a clear vision of the...
近年来,有关曾国藩的图书的出版成为文化界的一个热点。大到全集、全书,小到传记、逸闻,林林总总,不一而足。社会上也掀起了“曾国藩热”,由学界,而军界,而政界,而商界,彼此呼应,波澜壮阔;上至政坛领袖、各级干部,下至普通读者、平民百姓,对“曾国藩”或读之,或研之,或习之,或用之,竞相求证,蔚为大观。曾国藩生活的晚清社会,旧秩序行将崩溃,而社会前进的方向茫无头绪。国内,太平天国义旗一举,应者云集,烽火燃遍十余省,清王朝顿失半壁江山。国外,列强环伺,极尽威迫讹诈之能事,处处侵夺中国主权和领土。可谓内忧外患,百弊丛生。而曾国藩以一介儒生,无权的在籍侍郎,崛起于湘楚之间,纵横捭阖,以残酷的手段镇压了太平天国运动,成为清朝“中兴第一名臣”。不仅如此,他的崛起还极大地改变了近代中国的权力格局,并在政治、经济、军事、社会思想等方面影响了中国社会的走向。虽然后人对他有“毁之则为元凶...
The Vicar of Toursby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo David, Sculptor:The permanence of the work on which I inscribe your nametwice made illustrious in this centuryis very problematical;whereas you have graven mine in bronze which survives nationsif only in their coins. The day may come when numismatists,discovering amid the ashes of Paris existences perpetuated byyou, will wonder at the number of heads crowned in youratelier and endeavour to find in them new dynasties.To you, this divine privilege; to me, gratitude.De Balzac.THE VICAR OF TOURSIEarly in the autumn of 1826 the Abbe Birotteau, the principal...
【前言】【导语】【内容提要】托妮·莫瑞森深刻地认识到美国黑人遭受到的两次奴役:先是被白人贩卖到美洲充当奴隶的“肉体奴役”,继而是被白人竭力以其文化泯灭黑人古老质朴传统的“精神奴役”。“肉体奴役”已经一去不复返,留下的只是南方黑人的贫困潦倒和处处隐含着的种族歧视;但“精神奴役”却是当前日益泛滥的“祸水”,其恶果便是一部分黑人津津自乐于得到改善的物质生活,全盘接受了白人的价值观,不知不觉之中抛却了本民族的优秀传统。第一部分第1节:眠于尘埃之中《圣经·新约·哥林多前书》第一章第十一句,此句前一句(第十句)为:"弟兄们,我藉我们主耶稣基督的名,劝你们都说一样的话。你们中间也不可分党,只要一心一意,彼此相合。"看啊,我将眠于尘埃之中!他相信是安全的。他在英国船"斯托尔·柯尼格斯加尔顿"号上凭栏而立,大口地吸着空气。他望着港口,怀着甜蜜的期待,心怦怦直跳。法兰西王后岛在逐渐黯淡下去...
《英雄好汉》作者:温瑞安第一章唐花“无论天涯海角,我都一定要找到唐方。”萧秋水面对椅桌凌乱、但空无一人的客店,静静地发了这个誓愿。他正要离开这客店时,忽又发现了一些事物。一些凳子上、桌椅上、甚至墙壁上,都嵌有一些细如牛毛的针。一只小蚂蚁爬过。它离开一根比绣花针还细的小刺约三尺之地,忽然从壁上掉落、死了。这些暗器是有毒的。而且是剧毒。更特殊的是,这些暗器,打在哪里就跟那里的事物同一色调,打在桌上,就似桌上的一点污垢,要不是萧秋水如此精细的人留心观察,根本就看不出来。这些暗器竟似一些会变色的动物一般。这样精致的暗器,这么剧毒的暗器。结论大概只有一个:——唐门的人来过!可是唐方的暗器却是没有毒的;这点萧秋水最是清楚。然后萧秋水又看见了一朵暗器。真的是一“朵”暗器,因为那暗器是一朵花。铁花。这一朵铁制的花,美得妖艳,五瓣花开,舒放后,中央花心吐蕊,蕊心有五瓣未开,精致玲...
我还是要感谢欧阳雪,我书中的第一个叙述者。一个酷夏的夜晚,我在三里屯的一个咖啡屋写一篇乐评(这是我最喜欢写的文字),欧阳雪像个幽灵一样出现在我眼前,她用手轻轻地推了一下我的肩膀,然后笑着问我是不是作家,我尴尬地笑了笑,然后告诉她我只是一个记者。于是她在我对面坐了下来,她说不管我是记者还是作家,她要把她的故事讲给我听。这个有趣的女孩不由得我做决定就开始自说自话了。起初我不是太在意,以为不过是酒吧里常见的无聊行径,但是慢慢的,我被欧阳雪的叙述打动了。至今依然记得欧阳雪当时抽着烟,很小心地抹眼角的泪,表情是颓废的,声音是沙哑的。说完了自己的故事后,欧阳雪就离开了咖啡屋。分手之前,她问我,能否记住她这样一个陌生人的故事,我点点头,心有点隐隐作痛。在我看来,任何一种先入为主的评判都是不准确的,“你不是鱼,怎么能知道鱼的感受。”这是书中一个女主人公说的话,她说她不在乎别人对...
第一部分:序前言(2) 唐锁海先生的坚持是对的,苏州和宁绍平原上的河姆渡,地势低平,古时水患频繁,受第四纪冰川影响,都不是茶树的原始分布区,茶树也不可能是这一带的原始栽培作物,种茶和饮茶只能是在这里建立国家以后,社会经济、社会文化发展到一定阶段才会产生。所以,唐先生不但史前、秦汉、三国、两晋巴蜀饮茶、茶文化也均较兴盛之时,他无资料也不说,一直到陆羽《茶经》“苏州长洲县(即原吴县)生洞庭山”,有了明确的记载,他在把苏州和碧螺春茶的源和根,定在了“唐朝”。河姆渡乃至现在浙江省,其茶业和茶文化的出现和形成过程,当只会大致和历史上江南基本同步或相差不多,而绝不可能较早和早到有四五千年之差。 江南包括整个浙江,史前人类文化遗址不少,春秋时吴越两国先是如《史记·吴太伯世家》所说,吴国“西破强楚,北威齐晋,南服越人”,至夫差时,曾迫使晋公会盟于黄池(今河南封丘县南)。后来越国...
Eugenie Grandetby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Maria.May your name, that of one whose portrait is the noblest ornamentof this work, lie on its opening pages like a branch of sacredbox, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, andkept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house.De Balzac.EUGENIE GRANDETIThere are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspiresmelancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, drearymoorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is,perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, theskeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a...
焰情修罗 作者:元玥 第一章 玄冥国龙喜七年 “十方镇”,一个位在北方玄冥国、南方赤焰国、西方紫霄国交界的城镇。平素这里熙来攘往,很是热闹。 这几日滂沱狂暴的风雨却让街上陷入一片死寂,水漫上人的膝盖,天色晦暗阴霾得疑似受到诅咒。 云雨不散,云雨不散,沉迫的乌云敛合、倾泻、敛合、倾泻,像是定住脚一般,如何都不肯散。 镇上最大一间客栈的对面,聚了好些人,他们偶或开窗往客栈看去,旋即因为过强的风雨关上窗口。 “好可怕的雨势。”那人打了个寒颤。 “唉,已经是第五年了。”旁人一言一语地说起话来,神情俱是惊恐。 “真是太诡异了,每年只要玄冰雁公主路经此地,就会下起这样的怪雨。” “那雨说不定真是为了阻止她到紫霄国而下的。” “唉!”众人叹息。 “你说这公主是不是真的命中带煞?” “什么命中带煞……”一个头发花白的老者开口,颤抖的手指指着玄冰雁...
RUSSIA IN 1919RUSSIA IN 1919ARTHUR RANSOME- Page 2-RUSSIA IN 1919INTRODUCTIONI am well aware that there is material in this book which will bemisused by fools both white and red. That is not my fault. My objecthas been narrowly limited. I have tried by means of a bald record ofconversations and things seen, to provide material for those who wish toknow what is being done and thought in Moscow at the present time, anddemand something more to go upon than secondhand reports of whollyirrelevant atrocities committed by either one side or the other, and often by...
香蝶作品全集·钟馗嫁妹系列眼儿媚楔子 钟离隔着窗子看到钟魁的时候,四弟正督着几位妹妹修行,没精打彩的脸上带着没精打采的笑,印象中钟离好象就没见过钟魁沮丧的样子,打从老爷子让他进府来的那一天起,似乎那嘴角就总是上扬的。 钟离觉得很奇怪,虽然是庶出,还是老爷偷娶的三房的庶出,这样好脾气的兄弟也算是十分讨人喜欢了,为何几个妹妹都说他是钟馗,是真真正正带着小鬼儿的凶神呢? 或许是对几个妹妹太严的缘故? 钟离从窗口探进头去叫:“钟魁!” 钟魁听见了,把爬到膝盖上用墨水在纸上画圈圈的小妹妹捉起来,宛如捉一只小肥猪,他把她放到地上,站起来快步迎到窗前。 “大少爷!”他俯首低眉,态度十分和顺。 “如今该叫大哥了,不需要这么生分。”钟离皱起眉,提醒他。 钟魁笑笑,“大哥。”叫一声,很坦然,并不忸怩作态,似乎先前的叫法只是没改过来的习惯,这后来的叫法和前面的本质上并...
才华横溢的薄命君王:李煜传 作者:田居俭李煜,原名从嘉,李景的第六子,961年即位,没有年号。李煜即位时,南唐已为宋的属国。他面对宋朝的压力,逆来顺受,以图苟且偷安。975年,宋军入金陵,俘后主,南唐灭。宋太祖封他为违命侯,978年,李后主被毒死,年42岁。李煜在政治上是一个昏君,在文学上却是一个文学家,诗人。其主要成就在诗词上,前期作品主要反映宫廷生活,如《长相思》,《浣溪沙》等。被俘后,比前期有很大突破,代表作有《虞美人》,《破阵子》,《浪淘沙》等。国际文化出版公司 出版 引言:恰似一江春水向东流(1) 北宋开宝八年(公元975年)腊月末,古城金陵(今江苏南京)暗淡而阴冷的一天。 浓重低垂的乌云,像峰峦起伏的群山,沉甸甸地压在南唐紫禁城剥蚀的宫墙上,压在宫殿鳞次栉比的黄琉璃瓦殿顶上,压在御花园颓圮的太湖石假山和御道两侧的古柏、古槐上。往日金碧辉煌、气象森严的皇宫,如今...
THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOPTHE HAUNTEDBOOKSHOPBY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY1- Page 2-THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOPChapter IThe Haunted BookshopIf you are ever in Brooklyn, that borough of superb sunsets andmagnificent vistas of husband-propelled baby-carriages, it is to be hopedyou may chance upon a quiet by-street where there is a very remarkablebookshop.This bookshop, which does business under the unusual name"Parnassus at Home," is housed in one of the comfortable old brown-stone...
SCHIPPEITAROIt was the custom in old times that as soon as a Japanese boyreached manhood he should leave his home and roam through theland in search of adventures. Sometimes he would meet with ayoung man bent on the same business as himself, and then theywould fight in a friendly manner, merely to prove which was thestronger, but on other occasions the enemy would turn out to be arobber, who had become the terror of the neighbourhood, and thenthe battle was in deadly earnest.One day a youth started off from his native village, resolvednever to come back till he had done some great deed that wouldmake his name famous. But adventures did not seem very plentifuljust then, and he wandered about for a long time without meetingeither with fierce giants or distressed ...
小男孩的母亲是个传统的妇女,保守中带点固执的习性,对小男孩的管教非常的严格,而小男孩则是家中的独子,上面有一个大他四岁的姊姊,但就如读者将在文章中所看到的,他们两人时常不是吵架,就是顶嘴了。富、声名,或做过任何卑贱的勾当」,所以当我们知悉,作者原先并不想将这本日记予以出版时,我们就能理解,这完全是作者的个人特质所使然。而此书之所以能够问世,那是因为在作者过世的数年前,经过他遗孀的再三请求和说服,才勉强同意出版的,但他开出了两个条件,一是,这本日记必须在他死后数年才能出版,二是,书中的名字必须更改,以免为还活着的亲戚朋友带来任何的困扰。二 日记(一)一八八五年一月一日 日记阿诺,我最亲密的死党,说他要在新的一年里,写一本日记,我说,我也要写一本!而且希望有一天,这本日记也能够被出版,就像爸爸书架上巴比斯先生的日记一样。...
29BC THE GEORGICS29BC THE GEORGICSby Virgil1- Page 2-29BC THE GEORGICSGEORGIC IWhat makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it ismeet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; Whatpains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thriftybees;- Such are my themes. O universallights Most glorious! ye that lead the gliding year Along the sky, Liber andCeres mild, If by your bounty holpen earth once changed Chaonian acorn...