Hard Cashby Charles ReadePREFACE"HARD CASH," like "The Cloister and the Hearth," is a matter-of-fact Romancethat is, a fiction built on truths; and these truths have been gathered by long, severe, systematic labour, from a multitude of volumes, pamphlets, journals, reports, blue-books, manuscript narratives, letters, and living people, whom I have sought out, examined, and cross-examined, to get at the truth on each main topic I have striven to handle.The madhouse scenes have been picked out by
The Duchesse de Langeaisby Honore de BalzacTHE DUCHESS OF LANGEAISIIn a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true.Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Europe for that matter, was either destroyed or disorganised b
A Discourse of Coin and Coinageby Rice Vaughan1675A Discourse of Coin and Coinage: The first Invention, Use,Matter, Forms, Proportions and Differences, ancient & modern:with the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Rise and Fallthereof, in our own or Neighbouring Nations: and the Reasons.Together with a short Account of our Common Law therein.by Rice Vaughan, late of Grayes-Inn, Esq;London, Printed by Th. Dawks, for Th. Basset, at the George, nearCliffords-Inn, in Fleet-street. 1675....
-BBS.4020-一统后传之血战台海 第一章 顽劣太子 黄帝十一年。 庄严肃穆的建业皇宫东院的一个小房间里,门缝中飘出来本不应在此出现的袅袅清烟。 “哇,好了,着了着了,取水来……支锅支锅,笨!那个铁盔便是锅,拿过来!”年仅十二岁的太子方瑜压低声音叫嚷着,一边伸手敲着旁边一个少年的头:“我父皇说你爷爷是天下最聪明的人,怎么你这么笨!”被敲打的少年皮肤白皙,文弱清雅,正是诸葛亮的长房嫡孙诸葛尚——他一边捂着头,一边奋力吹火,可惜那火就是不旺,还弄的满屋浓烟。 屋里象军士野战一般生了堆火,把地砖熏的漆黑,火上吊着一个铁盔,盔里盛着一汪子水,里面搁着三根硕大的人参。火堆旁围着五个少年,除了方瑜和诸葛尚以外,还有关羽的孙子关兴的儿子关统、陆逊的长子陆抗、凌统的儿子凌烈。...
(历史在这里哭泣系列之六) 当十九世纪中期英国用坚船利炮打开中国封建社会的封闭大门时,中国人惊讶地发现这个世界上还有比中国更强大的国家,同时更让中国人惊愕不已的是这个国家的王位竟然可以由女儿继承,女王逝世后,再由女王的子女继承。这种改姓乱统的现象,使一向提倡忠于一姓,提倡宗法正统的儒家系统知识分子坚定地认为英国是民智未开无父无君不知礼义廉耻仁义道德为何物的蛮夷之邦。在中国,女人当皇帝是不可思议的,在五千年的文明史中只出过武则天一个女皇帝,且她的皇位是从男人手中窃取的,是不合法的,武则天也因此被后世的中国人描述成淫乱朝纲人伦丧尽的女魔王,比丧家灭国的秦二世赢胡亥和隋炀帝杨广还要邪恶一千倍。...
第一部分你是什么颜色的人?在多彩的世界中,大自然里的万物都有属于它们自己原有的色彩,不论它是有生命的,或是没有生命的物体。而我们赤裸着来到这世界上,就立刻被严实地包裹起来。五彩的服饰包裹着本色的肌肤,我们感受到自身的安全,又赢得他人的赞誉。于是,大家都学会并且习惯了“包裹术”:用笑脸包裹痛苦,因为“英雄有泪不轻弹”;用沉默包裹无知,因为“言多必失”;用赞美包裹厌恶,因为“智者不揭短”。……如此不断地给自己动手术,终于,我们的外观一天天地完善,而本色却一点点地隐没。所以在我们的生命里不止一种颜色,当你认清自己时,才可以看见属于你自己的真实颜色。 人群中,你有一层厚厚的外壳,我有一层厚厚的外壳,他也有。这时,我们不禁要问我是什么颜色的人?而这个颜色又代表了什么? 要弄清你自己属于哪一个色彩,请先花几分钟做做下面的题目。问题1 你是怎样的人? 下面是关于你自己的一些描述。...
The Jacket (Star-Rover)by Jack LondonCHAPTER IAll my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. Ihave been aware of other persons in me.Oh, and trust me, so haveyou, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, andthis sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as anexperience of your childhood. You were then not fixed, notcrystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and...
沈健2003年11月9日,从东京国际电影节吹来一股暖流,驱散了近日来笼罩在人们心头的严寒。中国参赛片《暖》获得了金麒鳞最佳影片大奖,这也是该片继不久前获得本年度金鸡奖最佳影片和最佳编剧后在国际影坛再获的殊荣。据此次前往东京电影节做现场报道的电影频道《世界电影之旅》栏目记者介绍,《暖》片在东京电影节的数场放映均在当地观众中引起了强烈共鸣。无疑,该片导演霍建起此时此刻在日本也已名不虚传地成了中国电影的形象化身。《暖》在东京电影节获得如此的成功应属预料之中。他的《那山,那人,那狗》去年在日本便创造过票房奇迹,人们对他的电影已趋之若鹜。几月前,我应霍导之邀去北影观摩该片,坐在我身边的日本《朝日新闻》驻北京社长看完后一边抹着眼泪,一边激动地说:“这部电影将会创造新的奇迹!”事实上,那天观摩影片的二十多人无不为之动容,包括我自己在内。...
The Caged Lionby Charlotte M. YongePREFACEWhen the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms of friend rather than