Memories and Portraitsby Robert Louis StevensonNOTETHIS volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be betterto read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random.A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood andyouth, portraits of those who have gone before us in the battle -taken together, they build up a face that "I have loved long sinceand lost awhile," the face of what was once myself. This has come...
The Wandering Jew, Volume 1by Eugene SueA NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OFThe Wandering JewEUGENE SUE(1804-1857)Time and again physicians and seamen have made noteworthy reputations asnovelists. But it is rare in the annals of literature that a man trainedin both professions should have gained his greatest fame as a writer ofnovels. Eugene Sue began his career as a physician and surgeon, and then...
PART IVTHE ANCIENT PEOPLEITHE San Francisco Mountain lies in Northern Arizona,above Flagstaff, and its blue slopes and snowy summitentice the eye for a hundred miles across the desert. Aboutits base lie the pine forests of the Navajos, where the greatred-trunked trees live out their peaceful centuries in thatsparkling air. The PINONS and scrub begin only where the...
History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 19by Thomas CarlyleBOOK XIX.FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED INTHE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.1759-1760.Chapter I.PRELIMINARIES TO A FOURTH CAMPAIGN.The posting of the Five Armies this WinterFive of them in Germany, not counting the Russians, who have vanished to Cimmeria over the horizon, for their months of restis something wonderful, and strikes the picturesque imagination. Such a Chain of Posts, for length, if for nothing else! From the centre of Bohemia eastward,
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MENby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleTHE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MENHolmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thinback curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing aparticularly malodorous product. His head was sunk upon his breast,and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, withdull gray plumage and a black top-knot....
Faustby Johann W. GeotheTranslated by Anna Swanwick ( 1808 )Introductory NoteJohann Wolfgang von Goethe, the greatest of German men of letters, wasborn at Frankfort-on-the-Main, August 28, 1749. His father was a man ofmeans and position, and he personally supervised the early education of hisson. The young Goethe studied at the universities of Leipsig and Strasburg,and in 1772 entered upon the practise of law at Wetzlar. At the invitation of...
在押回北京的路上,好几次我都想从车上跳下去。然而面对疾驶而过的路基,深不可测的沟壑,巨大的、棱角锋利的山石,我还真没那个胆子。再说狠着心跳下去,摔死当然好,摔个半残可怎么办?老爹老妈的一番心血岂不就白费了?他们坐着硬板自费从北京跑到四川。上下打点,做尽人情,一万多块钱扔进去换得下三滥儿的儿子回原籍服刑,不就是为了让自己少受点罪吗?这么跳下去,那万把块钱岂不就喂狗了?喂狗还能听声叫唤呢。 据说世界上有两种人。第一种人知道自己是混蛋,第二种人不知道自己是混蛋。而坏事则大多是第二种人干的。就这个问题我跟自己探讨过好几次,最终愣没得出结果。现在问题简单了,进监狱的人难道还不是混蛋?全世界都认可的事咱们也就不用再操心了,至于大家什么时候知道我是混蛋的,我自己也说不清,不过可以肯定的是,我春节从北京回来之前,大家肯定都知道了。...
A Phyllis Of The Sierrasby Bret HarteCHAPTER I.Where the great highway of the Sierras nears the summit, and thepines begin to show sterile reaches of rock and waste in theirdrawn-up files, there are signs of occasional departures from themain road, as if the weary traveller had at times succumbed to thelong ascent, and turned aside for rest and breath again. The tiredeyes of many a dusty passenger on the old overland coach have gazed...
自序:作独立而自由的精灵方刚几年前,我便在《自由的人》中提议,严肃的自由写作者应该以“自由作家”代替“自由撰稿人”这个称谓。因为在当时,“自由撰稿人”五个字已在一定程度上被“污名化”了。这种污名一方面来自自由写作者内部的一些不良分子,抄袭剽窃、胡编乱造、无节制地疯狂地一稿多投等等,屡被曝光;另一方面也来自一些社会保守势力,某些人听到“自由”两个字便浑身不舒服。然而,更重要的是,在我的词典里,“自由”不应仅仅意味着我们没有固定的职业,不受体制束缚,它更应该意味着一种自由而独立的精神状态,意味着思考与行动的独立性,甚至叛逆性。西方社会学定义真正知识分子的一个重要特征便是,他们的非组织化,既难以归属于任何一种组织规范中。...
第一辑 人间佛话我的第一个师父(1) 鲁迅不记得是那一部旧书上看来的了,大意说是有一位道学先生,自然是名人,一生拚命辟佛,却名自己的小儿子为“和尚”。有一天,有人拿这件事来质问他。他回答道:“这正是表示轻贱呀!”那人无话可说而退去。其实,这位道学先生是诡辩。名孩子为“和尚”,其中是含有迷信的。中国有许多妖魔鬼怪,专喜欢杀害有出息的人,尤其是孩子;要下贱,他们才放手,安心。和尚这一种人,从和尚的立场看来,会成佛——但也不一定——固然高超得很,而从读书人的立场一看,他们无家无室,不会做官,却是下贱之流。读书人意中的鬼怪,那意见当然和读书人相同,所以也就不来搅扰了。这和名孩子为阿猫阿狗,完全是一样的意思:容易养大。...
Nada the Lilyby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONSompseu:For I will call you by the name that for fifty years has been honouredby every tribe between Zambesi and Cape Agulbas,I greet you!Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men andmatters of which you know the most of any who still look upon thelight; therefore, I set your name within that book and, such as it is,I offer it to you.If you knew not Chaka, you and he have seen the same suns shine, you...
在辽宁、沈阳,我们亲眼看到一些高官巨富,本来很聪明,正是大有所为,前途一片光明的时候,却呆头呆脑地犯罪了,戴上了手铐,有的坐牢,有的被判处死刑,以至丢失了宝贵的生命。有的青年人,正当事业辉煌,飞黄腾达,却突然被骗、被盗,遇到了意外,使自己埋头奋斗的事业遭受严重挫折;也有的因为不懂法,无意中做了一些触犯法律的事情,使自己本来应当大有成就的事业,却在一夜之间功亏一篑,前功尽弃……客观现实使我们认识到:法律,是一切有志者、无志者都必须遵守的生活准则;是一切有知识、无知识的人都必须掌握的学问。法律,是火车前进的铁轨,是空中缆车的索道,是跨越大江大河的桥梁,是漂洋过海的船舶。不懂法律,其危害之大无法言表。...
《校园完全无用手册》作者:异咯嗪1、学院无用A大位于甲市西南角。该地区空旷之极盛行西北大风,冬日寒风刺骨,夏天烈日炎炎,比热熔低于我国中部平均水平,远眺无叠翠山峦,近观无公交线路,出行不利景色不佳。不适合人类居住,只适合学生读书。纵使地理位置及气候不尽人意,每年仍有成千上万的莘莘学子自五湖四海,纷至沓来。原因无他,A大——全国著名世界闻名的理工大学,享有中国麻省之美誉,学术科研位于名牌大学至前茅,乃中国大学之奇葩。但凡学理工科的男生,都有一股对科学无限热爱无限投入的研究精神,这使得他们可以不修边幅,衣衫不整,以邋遢自在为乐,荡漾在数理化的海洋中。本来这样的事情到无伤大雅,但是男生人多了,自然成了风气……不好的风气,很不好的风气…..非常不好的风气……特别是在男比女,七点五比一的情况下。...