PAUL THE PEDDLEROR THE FORTUNES OF A YOUNG STREET MERCHANTBY HORATIO ALGER, JR.BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHYHoratio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys andhimself remained a boy in heart and association till death, wasborn at Revere, Mass., January 13, 1834. He was the son of aclergyman, was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at itsDivinity School in 1860 and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at...
奇异的、熠熠生辉的秘密花园本身散发出潜意识控制下的梦境才具有的虚幻光芒——潜意识是培养自由的艺术想象力的养分丰富的池塘。波许绘画作品中的怪诞形象与米博著作中的辉煌场景之间似乎存在着一种直接血缘关系。两者的作品均包含着无穷的谜和暗示,都从涌自人类心灵深处的蕴含无尽创造才能的不竭源泉中攫取养料——人类的心灵是性和死亡的永恒滋养地。作为社会批评,《秘密花园》是一则不朽的启迪:“你被迫佯装尊敬那些你认为荒谬绝顶的人和机构。你懦弱地生活在自己所鄙视、谴责、明知毫无根据的道德和社会规范中。你的愿望理想与这个文明中的一切呆板礼节和虚伪矫饰之间存在永恒的冲突,正是这种冲突使你伤心困惑、心理失衡。你在这种令人难以忍受的矛盾冲突中失去了一切生活的乐趣和个人感触,因为它无时无刻不在阻止你自由释放自身的力量。那便是文明世界中毒至深、足以致命的伤口。”...
作者:约翰·巴勒斯 翻译:董继平第一部:自然札记第二部:季节的音色第三部:鸟与蜜蜂(缺)第四部:路边笔记(缺)《自然札记》1、泉 Springs2、斑点鳟鱼 Speckled Trout3、狐狸 The Fox4、南卡茨基尔山腹地 The Heart of the Southern Catskills5、苹果 The Apple《季节的音色》6、三月记事 A March Chronicle7、四月 The April8、秋潮 Autumn Tides9、落叶 The Falling Leaves10、冬天的野生动物 Wild Life in Winter《泉》“我要对你们显示最好的泉水。”——《暴风雨》 一个人在西部生活了25年后,回到他在东部的出生地,他说他最渴望看到的故园之物就是泉水。世事倥偬,许许多多的人与事都不再熟稔,但他至少会发现故里的泉水跟从前一样,没有什么改变,只要他在泉水旁小站片刻,仿佛就回到了少年时代。他可能不会去注视他父母的面庞,而是去注视泉水——那泉水曾经映照过他父母和他自己的面庞,因此,他会很天真地把自己脸上的笑容想像...
BluebeardA Musical Fantasyby Kate Douglas WigginDedication: To my friend Walter DamroschMaster of the art form so irreverently treated in these pages.Kate Douglas WigginPREFACEMore than a dozen years ago musical scholars and critics began toilluminate the musical darkness of New York with lecture-recitalsexplanatory of the more abstruse German operas. Previous to this era no onehad ever thought, for instance, of unfolding the story, or the "_Leit_...
正文第一章注册 “起床拉~~~~~~~”一声尖利里的女高音响彻我家上空,回荡声不绝于耳。 “嗯……我再睡会儿。”我睡意正浓,连眼皮都没睁开,拉了拉被子,翻了个身,继续我的美梦。 “你小子给我起来!”一只细皮嫩肉的小脚出现在我的臀部附近。 当的一声,一团人形的被子飞出一米开外,撞在墙壁上,然后落下。我从被子中滚了出来,揉了揉眼睛,才看清楚眼前的这位怒目圆睁的美女。 “啊~阿月,早上好!”我伸了个懒腰。 本人林风华,今年十八岁,现在正好升高三。这位美女叫林雪月,本人的双胞胎姐姐,来自母亲的遗传,标准的母老虎。(为我未来的姐夫祈祷,愿主保佑你,阿门!)这年代好像漂亮的女人都比较凶猛,就像我们家的这对母女。老爸,林胜龙,拥有一个跨国集团公司,属于典型的社会成功人士,除了家有悍妻这点之外其它好像还是很成功的。不过看的出他们夫妻还是很恩爱的。对外,在公司里母亲还...
Padre IgnacioOr The Song of Temptationby Owen WisterIAt Santa Ysabel del Mar the season was at one of those moments when theair rests quiet over land and sea. The old breezes were gone; the newones were not yet risen. The flowers in the mission garden opened wide;no wind came by day or night to shake the loose petals from their stems.Along the basking, silent, many-colored shore gathered and lingered thecrisp odors of the mountains. The dust hung golden and motionless long...
懦弱的人类!我曾经想给你们最大的宽恕,我给过你们自我领悟的机会,也给过只属于你们的领地。然而现在我不得已,因为你们的野心和欲望正越来越大……我只让你们了解世界,却不曾让你们选择世界。可是愚蠢的你们丝毫不顾自己的罪恶,超出你们的领地和你们应该遵守的范围,想使整个地狱之沼变得混乱不堪。你们这些微不足道的人类。现在我要像从前一样收回地狱之沼。在一开始你们就不应该踏上地狱之沼的土地。现在后悔也没有用了,因为我给你们的枷锁都是你们自己招致的!我,瑞贝璐虽然暂时离开了你们,但却不会忘记给你们的命令。这就是精灵只能作为精灵、人类只能作为人类存在的绝对不灭的秩序,这是天命,是绝对不可逾越的界限,这是最后的命令。然而你们连这个小小的命令也没有执行,我的意念你们没有遵照和贯彻,甚至异化了它,使它渐渐褪色。结果使地狱之沼陷于一片混乱,是你们自己把它变成了地狱。...
Flower of the MindandLater Poemsby Alice MeynellINTRODUCTIONPartial collections of English poems, decided by a common subjector bounded by narrow dates and periods of literary history, aremade at very short intervals, and the makers are safe from thereproach of proposing their own personal taste as a guide for thereading of others. But a general Anthology gathered from the wholeof English literaturethe whole from Chaucer to Wordsworthby agatherer intent upon nothing except the quality of poetr
高天不用睁开眼睛,已经可以察觉到屋内那诡异的气氛。他躺在那里,周围的一切都像被赋予了特别的力量似的,全部向他沉沉地压来,他的胸口仿佛压着一座大山。一瞬间他的呼吸急促起来,脑子被恐惧和焦虑完全占据。然而他还是睁开了眼睛,颇有些费力地、挣扎着微微睁开眼睛,带着仿佛不睁开眼睛就什么也不会发生的神情。他轻轻地睁开眼睛,眼前一片模糊,屋内昏暗无光,空气潮湿沉闷,如同一股混浊的气流将他整个儿地裹挟起来。他就快要晕过去了,他就快要窒息了。然而他还是看见了。看见了那个熟悉的男人,那个可怖的身影。他的身体又控制不住地颤抖起来,他惊恐地想要大声呼喊,脖子却好像被人掐住了一样,怎么也发不出声音。随后,他的身体完全僵硬了,他一动不动地躺在那里,正像一只绝望的、待宰的羔羊。...
致中国读者杰里米·里夫金长期以来,中欧之间共享着某种特殊关系。尽管时有争执、常常竞赛、偶尔拌嘴,我们还是可以公平地说,地球这两个地区的人民都向对方的巨大成就表示了相当的倾慕。思想和发明在二者之间自由地流动着,过去五百年间尤为鼎盛。如今,随着美国梦开始褪色,世界许多其他地区都把目光投向了欧盟和中国,以求汲取21世纪的灵感和引导。拥有25个成员国、近5亿人口的欧盟,挺身成为有史以来首个跨国政治空间。而拥有13亿人口和非凡经济增长速度的中国,在全球化世界里不容小觑。在许多方面,这两大政治经济超级强权的命运都会越来越有赖于它们向对方学习、缔结起相互友好之紧密纽带的开放性,这不仅将有助于提高它们的双边利益,也将造福于其他各族人民。...
PROPHETS AND KINGSby ELLEN G.WHITEProphets and Kings(9)FOREWORDTHE STORY Of PROPHETS AND KINGS IS THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF FIVE OUTSTANDING VOLUMES SPANNING SACRED HISTORY. IT WAS, HOWEVER, THE LAST BOOK OF THE SERIES TO BE WRITTEN, AND THE LAST OF MANY RICH WORKS TO COME FROM THE GIFTED PEN OF ELLEN G. WHITE. THROUGH HER SEVENTY YEARS OF SPEAKING AND WRITING IN AMERICA AND ABROAD, MRS. WHITE EVER KEPT BEFORE THE PUBLIC THE LARGER SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EVENTS OF HISTORY, REVEALING THAT IN THE AF
EUMENESReigned 197-160? B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenDURIS reports that Eumenes, the Cardian, was the son of a poorwagoner in the Thracian Chersonesus, yet liberally educated, both as ascholar and a soldier; and that while he was but young, Philip,passing through Cardia, diverted himself with a sight of the wrestlingmatches and other exercises of the youth of that place, among whom...
The Chaperonby Henry JamesCHAPTER I.An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close tothe fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She wasdressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered,however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips inobedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was farfrom the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needlesshe was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite
The Unknown Guestby Maurice MaeterlinckTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosINTRODUCTION1My Essay on Death[1] led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry which I have endeavoured to render as complete as possible. I had hoped that a single volume would be able to contain the result of these investigations, which, I may say at once, will teach nothing to those who have been over the same ground and which have nothing to recommend them ex