THE DEVOTED FRIENDOne morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He hadbright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers and his tail was like along bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimmingabout in the pond, looking just like a lot of yellow canaries, andtheir mother, who was pure white with real red legs, was trying toteach them how to stand on their heads in the water."You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your...
Epilogue IChapter 1SEVEN YEARS had passed by. The storm-tossed, historic ocean of Europe was subsiding within its shores. It seemed to have grown calm; but the mysterious forces moving humanity (mysterious, because the laws controlling their action are unknown to us) were still at work.Although the surface of the ocean of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity was as uninterrupted as the flow of time. Various series of groups of men were joining together and separating; the causes
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...
Phantasmagoria and Other PoemsPHANTASMAGORIACANTO I - The TrystyngONE winter night, at half-past nine,Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,I had come home, too late to dine,And supper, with cigars and wine,Was waiting in the study.There was a strangeness in the room,And Something white and wavyWas standing near me in the gloom -I took it for the carpet-broomLeft by that careless slavey.But presently the Thing began...
Erewhon Revisitedby Samuel ButlerErewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later Both by the OriginalDiscoverer of the Country and by his Son.I forget when, but not very long after I had published "Erewhon" in1872, it occurred to me to ask myself what course events in Erewhonwould probably take after Mr. Higgs, as I suppose I may now callhim, had made his escape in the balloon with Arowhena. Given apeople in the conditions supposed to exist in Erewhon, and giventhe apparently miraculous ascent of a remar
TWICE-TOLD TALESTHE GREAT STONE FACEby Nathaniel HawthorneONE AFTERNOON, When the sun was going down, a mother and her littleboy sat at the door of their cottage, talking about the Great StoneFace. They had but to lift their eyes, and there it was plainly tobe seen, though miles away, with the sunshine brightening all itsfeatures.And what was the Great Stone Face?Embosomed amongst a family of lofty mountains, there was a valley...
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...
2002年4月8日,一个叫甘言春17岁高中生因为没有穿校服而被老师叫到了办公室训话。因为此事,甘言春所在班上的流动红旗被取消了。心情不畅的老师在批评完甘言春以后便把他的父亲叫到了学校。可想而知,被老师训斥的这位父亲回到家以后自然把所有的怒气都发泄到了儿子身上。甘言春怎么也想不明白,就因为这么一件事情为什么身为老师和身为父亲会如此怒不可揭。面对流动红旗的被取消所带来的集体荣誉的损失以及父亲责难的双重压力,这位马上就要考大学的高中生于两天后的4月10日,离家出走了,至今未归…… 就在同一天,江苏南通一位叫黄文静的16岁女孩,在《流星花园》的感召下也悄无声息地出走了。其父在事后泪流满面地对着电视机镜头说道:我们为了她能够考上一所好的高中,对她的管教太严厉了。我们没有和她好好地沟通,我们只想她如果能考上好的高中能给家里添光彩。最后这位父亲近乎哀求地说道:女儿你回来吧,爸爸一定不再说...
The Path Of Empire, A Chronicle Of The United States As A World Powerby Carl Russell FishCONTENTSI. THE MONROE DOCTRINEII. CONTROVERSIES WITH GREAT BRITAINIII. ALASKA AND ITS PROBLEMSIV. BLAINE AND PAN-AMERICANISMV. THE UNITED STATES AND THE PACIFICVI. VENEZUELAVII. THE OUTBREAK OF THE WAR WITH SPAINVIII. DEWEY AND MANILA BAYIX. THE BLOCKADE OF CUBAX. THE PREPARATION OF THE ARMYXI. THE CAMPAIGN OF SANTIAGO DE CUBAXII. THE CLOSE OF THE WAR...