Twenty Years Afterby Alexandre Dumas [Pere]1The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu.In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styledthe Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, hishead supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaidtable which was covered with letters and papers. Behind thisfigure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames;great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brassandirons whose flicker shone upon the superb habiliments of...
The Red Innby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Monsieur le Marquis de Custine.THE RED INNIn I know not what year a Parisian banker, who had very extensivecommercial relations with Germany, was entertaining at dinner one ofthose friends whom men of business often make in the markets of theworld through correspondence; a man hitherto personally unknown tohim. This friend, the head of a rather important house in Nuremburg,...
追求一个境界(代序)——谈梁衡的散文最近几年,我在几篇谈散文的文章中,提出了一个看法:在中国散文坛上有两个流派。一个流派主张(或许是大声地主张),散文之妙就在一个“散”字上,信笔写来,松松散散,随随便便,用不着讲什么结构,什么布局,我姑且称此派为“松散派”。另一个是正相反,他们的写作讲究谋篇布局,炼字铸句,我借用杜甫的一句话:“意匠惨淡经营中”,称此派为“经营派”,都是杜撰的名词。我还指出,在中国文学史上,散文大家的传世名篇无一不是惨淡经营的结果。我窃附于“经营派”。我认为,梁衡也属于“经营派”,而且他的“经营”无论思想内容还是艺术表现都非同寻常。即以他的写人物的散文来说,一般都认为,写人物能写到形似,已属不易,而能写到神似者则不啻为上乘。可是梁衡却不以神似为满足,他追求一种更高的水平,异常执着地追求。但是他追求什么呢?我想了好久,也想不出一个恰当的名词。我曾想...
Unconscious Comediansby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Katharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane.UNCONSCIOUS COMEDIANSLeon de Lora, our celebrated landscape painter, belongs to one of thenoblest families of the Roussillon (Spanish originally) which,although distinguished for the antiquity of its race, has been doomedfor a century to the proverbial poverty of hidalgos. Coming,...
A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of Indiaby Robert SewellPrefaceThe two Portuguese chronicles, a translation of which into English is now for the first time offered to the public, are contained in a vellum-bound folio volume in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, amongst the manuscripts of which institution it bears the designation "PORT. NO. 65." The volume in question consists of copies of four original documents; the first two, written by Fernao Nuniz and Domin
360 BCSTATESMANby Platotranslated by Benjamin JowettSTATESMANPERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: THEODORUS; SOCRATES; THE ELEATICSTRANGER; THE YOUNGER SOCRATESSocrates. I owe you many thanks, indeed, Theodorus, for theacquaintance both of Theaetetus and of the Stranger.Theodorus. And in a little while, Socrates, you will owe me three...
Concerning Christian Libertyby Martin LutherCONCERNING CHRISTIAN LIBERTYLETTER OF MARTIN LUTHER TO POPE LEO XAmong those monstrous evils of this age with which I have now forthree years been waging war, I am sometimes compelled to look toyou and to call you to mind, most blessed father Leo. In truth,since you alone are everywhere considered as being the cause ofmy engaging in war, I cannot at any time fail to remember you;and although I have been compelled by the causeless raging of...
一张清同治年间摄于上海的照片,以及一个百年前的传奇故事是怎样浮出水面的 这是他们的歌——我们可以肯定——这首源自英国、曾流行于美国的Long Long Ago,是这一群身穿缎袍、拖着长辫的中国孩子曾经听过和唱过的歌。 一个多世纪以后,当Long Long Ago已然成为几乎所有中国“琴童”的练习曲时,我们看到这张奇异的照片。它像是从大海的深处浮出水面,背后的故事虽已模糊残缺,扑入眼帘的一切却依然鲜活:那些怯生生的眼睛,那些紧抿的嘴唇,还有被优雅地握在手里的折扇。 他们有一个共同的名字:“留美幼童”。 公元1872年8月11日,农历七月初八。这批年龄在九岁到十五岁的少年,在上海登船出发,目的港是旧金山。从1872年到1875年,大清王朝先后派出四批共一百二十名官费留学生,远涉重洋,踏上美国的土地。 “留美幼童”的故事奇异而曲折。 他们是文学巨匠马克·吐温和斯陀夫人的忘年朋友。他们曾受到...
Memoirs of General William T. Shermanby William Tecumseh ShermanVolume 2CHAPTER XVI.ATLANTA CAMPAIGN-NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA TO BENEBAW.MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY, 1864.On the 18th day of March, 1864, at Nashville, Tennessee, I relieved Lieutenant-General Grant in command of the Military Division of the Mississippi, embracing the Departments of the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Arkansas, commanded respectively by Major-Generals Schofield, Thomas, McPherson, and Steele. General Grant was in the
伊拉克战争使人们大饱眼福,全球电视首次直播真实的战场和战争,美军长驱直入,势不可挡,伊军节节败退,溃不成军,25天激战之后,共和国卫队神秘消失,美军兵不血刃占了巴格达。“看不懂的战争给人们留下了一个个难解的谜团。针对萨达姆的战争结束了,但伊拉克人民反抗外来侵略游击战和巷战却刚刚开始”。当时我面对摄像机的这番感言因为美军的长驱直入而受到不少网友和观众的炮轰,许多专家也认为我的观念过于陈旧。战后一年的伊拉克,我们看到了什么?刚刚推翻了独裁者却又迎来了占领军的伊拉克战乱不止,战后重建没有进展,美国西方式的民主自由不但没有实现,侵犯人权的虐俘事件却屡屡发生。一场遍及伊拉克全境的反抗侵略、反抗占领、争取民族自决、自立和自治的斗争正在如火如荼地展开。“以美军强大的军事实力,推翻萨达姆政权,占领伊拉克领土,还是很容易做到的,这是一...
一个社会文化所生产的性知识和性常识,不但相对应于那个文化所赋予性活动的功能和意识,同时也呈现出性文化中的权力关系。 换句话说,各种性学报告或权威的性医学专书并非客观中立、不带价值判断、不牵涉权力利害关系的事实呈现。相反,它们的研究取向、现象采样、叙事角度,都会受到当下社会文化结构的渗透,当然,也同时捕捉到这些文化结构的变迁。 如果我们从这个前提出发来思考《海蒂性学报告:女人篇》在70年代中期的问世,那么我们至少注意到美国性文化的两个重要发展: 第一,一反传统父权社会女人噤声的规范,《海蒂性学报告:女人篇》呈现了众多女人或激情、或怨愤、或反省、或渴求的多样声音,而且是直接针对最禁忌、最被压抑的性事话题发言,以坦然开放的话语来述说女人的经验。...