Castle RackrentCastle RackrentBy Maria Edgeworth1- Page 2-Castle RackrentINTRODUCTIONIThe story of the Edgeworth Family, if it were properly told, should beas long as the ARABIAN NIGHTS themselves; the thousand and onecheerful intelligent members of the circle, the amusing friends andrelations, the charming surroundings, the cheerful hospitable home, all goto make up an almost unique history of a county family of great parts andno little character. The Edgeworths were people of good means and...　

在遇到她之前，它未曾后悔过自己是一只鸟。相反的，它有一对羽毛丰满，开合有力的翅膀。它十分满意因翅膀而享有的高贵的自由，那种飞掠一切，俯视一切的透彻淡定。可是它却遇到了她，那是一件令翅膀亦变得无能为力的事。它常常都能在这片水塘附近看到她。初春时节，她穿着一件白色的外套和靛蓝色的短靴，小手装在一双灰色的兔毛手套里面。女孩漆黑的头发梳着平顺的刘海，皮肤仿佛很少接触太阳般白得有些不真实，眼瞳非常黝深，让人想要沉溺探究。它可以感到她与一般女孩的不同，她不似受过任何不好的浸染，好像只是一直在清澈的水潭中生长的水草，靠近了便能闻到清甜草香。可是她看起来又是那么纤弱，过分瘦削的身体在大外套里晃来晃去，它看到大片大片的风钻进她的衣服里面，那么生猛地仿佛要侵吞她。这令它感到了十分心疼，想要伸出臂膀去护住她——它竟忘记了自己只是一只鸟。它渐渐地发现她的不同。她是没有视觉的女孩，眼前永...　

前言　　天下武侠作者奇多，繁星满天，独有金庸才是侠之大者，众星拱月。　　每一个人都需要童话，每一个人也都将长大。长大的大人要看成人童话。除了金庸的武侠，天下没有第二家成人童话。　　曹雪芹写成一部《红楼梦》，道尽中国的人生，后人读红楼，感慨系之，生出千百部"红学"研究丛书。　　金庸作品集，一十四部，三十六册，读者遍布全世界各个角落，中国人一读再读，左看右看，还是金庸。　　那多人知道金庸的名字，但是不一定有那多人知道金庸的真名叫查良镛，而查良镛则是香港一代报业大亨；也不一定有那多人知道金庸的家族乃江南世家，而他赤手空拳闯荡香江，用一支妙笔写出了一片锦绣人生。江南少年　　他出生于江南的名门世家，　　江南的人文传统与自然风光陶了他。　　"我是浙江海宁人。┅┅海宁在清朝时属于杭州府，是个滨海小县，只以海潮出名。近代着名人物有王国维、蒋百里、徐志摩等，他们的性格中都有一些忧郁色...　

AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONSby Adam Smith1776BOOK TWOOF THE NATURE, ACCUMULATION, AND EMPLOYMENT OF STOCKINTRODUCTIONIN that rude state of society in which there is no divisionof labour, in which exchanges are seldom made, and in which everyman provides everything for himself, it is not necessary that anystock should be accumulated or stored up beforehand in order tocarry on the business of the society. Every man endeavours tosupply by his own industry his own occasional wants as theyoccur. When he is hungry, he goes to the forest to hunt; when hiscoat is worn out, he clothes himself with the skin of the first...　

小巫　　　姨太太是姓凌。但也许是姓林。谁知道呢，这种人的姓儿原就没有一定，爱姓什么就是什么。　　进门来那一天，老太太正在吃孙女婿送来的南湖菱，姨太太悄悄地走进房来，又悄悄地磕下头去，把老太太吓了一跳。这是不吉利的兆头。老太太心里很不舒服。姨太太那一头乱蓬蓬的时髦头发，也叫老太太眼里难受。所以虽然没有正主儿的媳妇，老太太一边吃着菱，一边随口就叫这新来的女人一声“菱姐!”　　是“菱姐!”老太太亲口这么叫，按照乡风，这年纪不过十来岁姓凌或是姓林的女人就确定了是姨太太的身份了。　　菱姐还有一个娘。当老爷到上海去办货，在某某百货公司里认识了菱姐而且有过交情以后，老爷曾经允许菱姐的娘：“日后做亲戚来往。”菱姐又没有半个儿弟弟哥哥，娘的后半世靠着她。这也是菱姐跟老爷离开上海的时候说好了的。但现在一切都变了。老太太自然不认这门“亲”，老爷也压根儿忘了自己说过的话。菱姐几次三番乘机...　

《诸葛亮大传》作者：朱大渭--第1节：引言(1)引言千百年来，诸葛亮的形象通过各种传播媒体走进了一代又一代人的生活。湖北古隆中，奉节白帝城，成都武侯祠，岐山五丈原，勉县定军山……诸多历史遗迹以自己的存在，向人们默默地讲述着诸葛亮一生中各个历史时期的故事。一部《三国演义》，使诸葛亮的大名传遍了祖国的神州大地。马连良的传统京剧《借东风》、《失街亭》、《空城计》、《斩马谡》，倾倒了大江南北一代又一代的戏迷，"我正在城楼观山景，耳听得城外乱纷纷"……那典雅的唱词，优美的唱腔，传神的表演，已成为京剧艺术的经典。《三国演义》连环画，伴随着几代人从童年走到少年，从少年走到青年。《三国演义》电视剧，陪伴着亿万家庭度过丰富多彩的夜晚。《三国演义》的电子游戏，使得许多青少年如醉如痴。这一切，使得诸葛亮成为一个家喻户晓、妇孺皆知的人物。然而我们还是要问：您真正了解和认识诸葛亮吗?您是通过什么途...　

1修成完人是万物最大的完美当今的世界，要成就一个贤哲之士，所花费的功夫要比造就希腊七贤还要多得多。而今天与一个人周旋所耗费的精力要比与一个国家周旋所花的资源还要多。2性格与才智性格与才智是你的天地自然发挥的转轴。二者不可或缺，缺其中一个，成功就会减半。徒有才智不足以成就非凡大事，你还必须拥有一个与才智相适应的性格。那些愚蠢的人之所以失败，就在于他们行事不能顾及自身的条件、地、出身及友群。3凡事要保持一定的悬疑出人意料获得成功最能赢得钦佩，令人心悦诚服。如果事情过于明显，既无用处，也没有品位。不立即表明态度，往往能使人们猜测不已；尤其是当你的地位重要而能够使人保持一种期待心理时，更是如此。神秘的奇妙之处在于，可以通过其神秘性来赢得他人的敬重。即使吐露心迹，道出真相，也不应该让人一览无余，切勿任由他人来窥视你里里外外的奥秘。谨慎的缄默是明智之人的护身符。你的目标和决心一...　

访《映城志》和《恋城志》的作者语安序烟火　　一个朋友从巴黎回来，说起在那里看烟火的情形。或许是烟火太过壮观，而显得夜空特别地低。等到烟火散尽，留在眼底的只有几点火星。他说，那一刻就觉得宇宙是地球深夜的一场烟火，忽然就理解到原来卡拉克斯是真的，《新桥恋人》是真的—那就是巴黎。读完《映城志》，心底也蓦然生出幻象—电影和文字就是梆梆的烟火。　　初看《映城志》时，出乎我的意料—一本讲“电影与城市”的书，竟然没有想像中能见到的街道和人潮汹涌，没有高楼和灯火辉煌，没有车水马龙，也没有十里洋场。梆梆笑言她没有去过这之中的多数城市，那些具象、建筑或者人群对于她而言是看不到的。她写的，只是她在电影中看见的城市—“私有爱的城市”、“蓝调共和的城市”、“怀旧的城市”、“不溶解性的城市”，甚至“鬼之后的城市”、“一头猪的城市”等等。　　她写了某个地方的某些电影、某些电影人、某些电影精神...　

SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAINby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAINI had intended "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange" to be the last ofthose exploits of my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, which I shouldever communicate to the public. This resolution of mine was not due toany lack of material, since I have notes of many hundreds of casesto which I have never alluded, nor was it caused by any waninginterest on the part of my readers in the singular personality andunique methods of this remarkable man. The real reason lay in thereluctance which Mr. Holmes has shown to the continued publicationof his experiences. So long as he was in actual professional...　

A New England Girlhoodby Lucy LarcomI dedicated this sketchTo my girlfriends in general;And in particularTo my namesake-niece,Lucy Larcom Spaulding.Happy those early days, when IShined in my angel-infancy!When on some gilded cloud or flowerMy gazing soul would dwell an hour,And in those weaker glories spySome shadows of eternity:Before I taught my tongue to woundMy conscience by a sinful sound;But felt through all this fleshy dressBright shoots of everlastingness.HENRY VAUGHANThe thought of our past years in me doth breedPerpetual benediction.WORDSWORTHPREFACETHE following sketch was written for the young, at the suggestion of friends.My audience is understood to be composed of girls of all ages, and of women who have not forgotten their girlhood. Such as have a ...　

An Old Town By The Seaby Thomas Bailey AldrichPISCATAQUA RIVERThou singest by the gleaming isles,By woods, and fields of corn,Thou singest, and the sunlight smilesUpon my birthday morn.But I within a city, I,So full of vague unrest,Would almost give my life to lieAn hour upon upon thy breast.To let the wherry listless go,And, wrapt in dreamy joy,Dip, and surge idly to and fro,Like the red harbor-buoy;To sit in happy indolence,To rest upon the oars,And catch the heavy earthy scentsThat blow from summer shores;To see the rounded sun go down,And with its parting firesLight up the windows of the townAnd burn the tapering spires;And then to hear the muffled tollsFrom steeples slim and white,And watch, among the Isles of Shoals,...　

《神力》作者：西方不败-前言 心情看书，写书，一直是小西最大的爱好之一。小西经历过太多的失败，也经历过太多的无奈，唯有写作能够给小西带来些许安慰。上网看书是2005年的事了，其中也开过几部书，都因为工作原因，不能给朋友们一个稳定理想的结局和更新。在此，小西唯有给关注小弟的朋友表达深深的歉意。小西希望新的作品，能够带来更多的读者，也感激一直支持小西的朋友。小西没有别的要求，只希望朋友们能够支持小弟，多投票多收藏，多给小弟一些宝贵的意见。而在卷章上，小西会做一些改动，将以前20章/卷改为40章/卷，毕竟这是一部长篇作品，卷要长一些才妥。最后，小西希望朋友们玩得愉快，天天开心，事事顺心，走好运发大财。您的朋友：西方不败2008年3月8日第一卷 神力初露 第1章 古店传人人活着为了什么？杀人！被人杀！为了爱情？为了死亡？不合逻辑！魔法师从来就是身分的象征……...　

THE BLACK DWARFTHE BLACK DWARFWalter Scott, Bart.1- Page 2-THE BLACK DWARFI. TALES OF MY LANDLORDCOLLECTED AND REPORTED BY JEDEDIAH CLEISHBOTHAM,SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH-CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH.INTRODUCTION.As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and officialdescription prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate andreflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood toaddress myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth,...　

ON THE GAIT OF ANIMALSby Aristotletranslated by A. S. L. Farquharson1WE have now to consider the parts which are useful to animals formovement in place (locomotion); first, why each part is such as itis and to what end they possess them; and second, the differencesbetween these parts both in one and the same creature, and again bycomparison of the parts of creatures of different species with oneanother. First then let us lay down how many questions we have toconsider.The first is what are the fewest points of motion necessary toanimal progression, the second why sanguineous animals have four...　

The Choir Invisibleby James Lane Allen"O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence. . . . . . feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused And in diffusion evermore intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world."GEORGE ELIOTTHE middle of a fragrant afternoon of May in the green wilderness of Kentucky: the year 1795.High overhead ridges of many-peaked cloudthe gleaming, wandering Alps of the blue ether; outstretched far below, the warming bosom of the earth, throbbing with the hope of maternity. Two spirits abroad in the air, encountering each other and passing into one: the spirit of scentless spring left by ...　

Marieby H. Rider HaggardAN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF THE LATE ALLAN QUATERMAINDEDICATIONDitchingham, 1912.My dear Sir Henry,Nearly thirty-seven years have gone by, more than a generation, sincefirst we saw the shores of Southern Africa rising from the sea. Sincethen how much has happened: the Annexation of the Transvaal, the ZuluWar, the first Boer War, the discovery of the Rand, the taking ofRhodesia, the second Boer War, and many other matters which in thesequick-moving times are now reckoned as ancient history.Alas! I fear that were we to re-visit that country we should find butfew faces which we knew. Yet of one thing we may be glad. Thosehistorical events, in some of which you, as the ruler of Natal, played a...　

作者：司马辽太郎　陈生保、张青平 译前言一　杀生关白二　金吾中纳言三　宇喜多秀家四　北政所五　大和大纳言六　骏河夫人七　结城秀康八　八条亲王九　淀姬和她的儿子前言学的评论。司马是一位多产作家，从1956年发表处女作到1982年的二十六年间，已经写了几十周年时，开始出版他的全集，至今已达三十二卷。一　　司马辽太郎1923年生于大阪市，原名福田定一，父亲福田定是系经营药房的药剂师。　　司马从小就对历史有兴趣，小学时代他常去奈良县的外婆家玩，那一带有许多古代留下的坟墓，以及日本最古的官道——竹内街道。司马在那里拾到了大量的弥生时代的土器和石镞的碎片。从1938年起，在中学读书的司马，每天放学之后都上大町市内御藏迹町的市立图书馆博览群书，总要读到晚上八九点钟才离开。1940年司马中学毕业，在投考旧制大阪高等学校落选之后，利用这一年的空暇时间步行游历了有名的金刚山、葛城山和六甲山等，增长...　

目 录第一章青蛙和王子（001）紫苏鱼（003）桃的汁液（006）另一种形式的维纳斯（010）杨玉环（013）黄色向日葵的窗帘（016）老年痴呆症（018）隐蔽的饥饿（020）第二章瑜伽男人（024）睡在蒿草丛中的初恋（029）魅惑版的跑车（034）结冰的女人（040）黄昏般迟缓的手指（046）看月亮去（051）双人瑜伽（055）第三章早衰的卵巢（059）素描与媚态（061）仕 途（065）红白玫瑰（068）误 解（072）40岁生辰（075）单人舞（081）欲望的原则（085）身躯是用来相爱的（091）第四章内 伤（096）荡 漾（100）浴足房（103）...