THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESTHE MYSTERIOUSAFFAIR AT STYLESAGATHA CHRISTIE1- Page 2-THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESCHAPTER I. I GO TO STYLESThe intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at thetime as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, inview of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked,...
《七夜雪》作者:沧月一 序章雪是不知何时开始下的。 如此之大,仿佛一群蝶无声无息地从冷灰色的云层间降落,穿过茫茫的冷杉林,铺天盖地而来。只是一转眼,荒凉的原野已经是苍白一片。 等到喘息平定时,大雪已然落满了剑锋。 红色的雪,落在纯黑色的剑上。血的腥味让两日一夜未进食的胃痉挛起来,说起来,对于他这个向来有手不沾血习惯的人来说,这次杀的人实在是……有点太多了。 霍展白剧烈地喘息着,身体却不敢移动丝毫,手臂僵直,保持着一剑刺出后的姿势。 那是一个极其惨烈的相持:他手里的剑贯穿了对手的胸口,将对方钉在了背后深黑的冷杉树上。然而同时,那个戴着白玉面具的杀手的剑也刺入了他的身体里,穿过右肋直抵肺部——在这样绝杀一击后,两人都到达了体力的极限,各自喘息。...
A MILLIONAIRE OF ROUGH-AND-READYA MILLIONAIRE OFROUGH-AND-READYby BRET HARTE1- Page 2-A MILLIONAIRE OF ROUGH-AND-READYPROLOGUEThere was no mistake this time: he had struck gold at last!It had lain there before him a moment agoa misshapen piece ofbrown-stained quartz, interspersed with dull yellow metal; yielding...
The Pension Beaurepasby Henry JamesCHAPTER I.I was not richon the contrary; and I had been told the PensionBeaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had afancy for a literary career, and a friend of mine had said to me, "Ifyou mean to write you ought to go and live in a boarding-house; thereis no other such place to pick up material." I had read something ofthis kind in a letter addressed by Stendhal to his siste
笔者从事美国城市史研究20余年,对乔尔·科特金并不陌生。他是总部设在华盛顿特区的“新美国基金会”欧文高级研究员,全球公认的未来学和城市问题研究权威。曾在纽约城市大学纽曼研究所和南加州建筑学院任教,也是《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街杂志》、《美国企业界》和《洛杉矶时报》等名牌媒体炙手可热的专栏作家。他学贯古今、视野开阔、建树甚多。其著作往往甫一出版,即成经典书热卖。在其发表的五部著作中,《部族》(Tribes)和《新地理》(New Geography)深受学术界推崇,好评如潮。科特金以其神来之笔,把我们带入一个似曾相识但又别有意境的城市世界:从美索不达米亚、印度河流域和中国的宗教中心,到古典时期的罗马帝国中心,伊斯兰世界城市,欧洲威尼斯等商业城市,再到后来的伦敦、纽约等工业城市,一直到今天以洛杉矶为代表的后工业化城市。他发现,这个城市世界从发轫伊始,就带有某些共同的特征,尽管它们可能远隔重洋...
Lectures on The Industrial Revolution in Englandby Arnold Toynbee1884I IntroductoryThe subject of these lectures is the industrial and Agrarian Revolution at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The course is divided into three parts. The first deals with Adam Smith and the England of his time. It will describe England on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, and the system of regulation and protection of industry as it existed in 1760. It will give also an outli
Rosamund, Queen of the Lombardsby Algernon Charles SwinburnePERSONS REPRESENTEDALBOVINE, King of the Lombards.ALMACHILDES, a young Lombard warrior.NARSETES, an old leader and counsellor.ROSAMUND, Queen of the LombardsHILDEGARD, a noble Lombard maiden.SCENE, VERONATime, June 573ACT IA hall in the Palace: a curtain drawn midway across it.Enter ALBOVINE and NARSETES.ALBOVINE.This is no matter of the wars: in warThy king, old friend, is less than king of thine,...
Elizabeth and her German Gardenby "Elizabeth" [Marie Annette Beauchamp]May 7th.I love my garden. I am writing in it now in the late afternoon loveliness, much interrupted by the mosquitoes and the temptation to look at all the glories of the new green leaves washed half an hour ago in a cold shower. Two owls are perched near me, and are carrying on a long conversation that I enjoy as much as any warbling of nightingales. The gentleman owl says [[musical notes occur here in the printed text]],
Last Days in a Dutch Hotelby William Dean HowellsWhen we said that we were going to Scheveningen, in the middle ofSeptember, the portier of the hotel at The Hague was sure we should bevery cold, perhaps because we had suffered so much in his house already;and he was right, for the wind blew with a Dutch tenacity of purpose fora whole week, so that the guests thinly peopling the vast hostelry seemedto rustle through its chilly halls and corridors like so many autumn...
程流金为上海华东师范大学教授。——1976年10月于苏州流金、宗蕖、小妹:这次来上海一住十天,不免把你们大小安静生活秩序完全打乱,忙得团团转。特别是宗蕖和小妹,为我而忙,心中实过意不去。或天不亮即上菜市为副食品而战斗,或陪同我上街买这买那,既费事又花钱不少。我回到苏州,已简直像个“运输大队长”。出站时,虽近于经过“武举”考试,勉强及了格,依然不免受老伴小小谴责,说:“大吃大喝不算,还好意思带了这么大包小包回来,真像是前清抚台巡月!”过去抚台出巡,府县必大办招待。一大群随从官吏,不仅把好吃的吃个精光,临上路,还照例把府县从当地豪绅大富人家临时借来的陈设房卧一切也一捞而光。我这回却采用“走单帮”方式搂去那么多!事实上,坐在我位子对面一对壮年夫妇,就早已估计到我是个“走单帮”的老头子。可是听到我和小妹用普通话对白,开车后,和我聊了几句闲天,便认定我只是南来不久的“北京佬”,...