The Man Who Could Not Loseby Richard Harding DavisThe Carters had married in haste and refused to repent at leisure.So blindly were they in love, that they considered their marriagetheir greatest asset. The rest of the world, as represented bymutual friends, considered it the only thing that could be urgedagainst either of them. While single, each had been popular. As abachelor, young "Champ" Carter had filled his modest placeacceptably. Hostesses sought him for dinners and week-end parties,...
KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATUREKANSAS WOMEN INLITERATUREBY NETTIE GARMER BARKER1- Page 2-KANSAS WOMEN IN LITERATURETO MY NEAREST AND DEAREST MY SILENT PARTNERSMY HUSBAND AND MY MOTHER.``We are proud of Kansas, the beautiful queen, And proud are we ofher fields of corn; But a nobler pride than these I ween, Is our pride in her...
Further Adventures of Ladby Albert Payson TerhuneFOREWORDSunnybank Lad won a million friends through my book, "LAD: A DOG"; and through the Lad-anecdotes in "Buff: A Collie." These books themselves were in no sense great. But Laddie was great in every sense; and his life-story could not be marred, past interest, by my clumsy way of telling it.People have written in gratifying numbers asking for more stories about Lad. More than seventeen hundred visitors have come all the way to Sunnybank to se
内容简介 在老百姓的眼中,党和国家领导人位高权重,他们的工作和生活神秘而极富传奇色彩,一直是平民百姓津津乐道的热门话题。 ■ 1978年,当真理标准的讨论被蒙上阴影时,邓小平发话了:“打破精神枷锁,使我们的思想来个大解放。”/ 001 ■ 当新中国第二代领导人意识到大好时机正向中国走来的时候,产生了一个非常理性的 想法:中国的发展离不开世界。毛泽东也曾想过,但他让当时的广东省委书记陶铸以及其他中国人足足等了20年。/ 003 ■ 统一穿着中山装的中国代表团终于踏出了国门。中共十一届三中全会召开之前,中央召开了一个延期十多天的中央工作会议,而此会之前的那个务虚会却鲜为人知。真理找到了,习仲勋等人的广东先行一步的政策也要到了手,邓小平果断地说:深圳,就叫特区吧!/ 005...
Cousin Bettyby Honore de BalzacTranslated by James WaringDEDICATIONTo Don Michele Angelo Cajetani, Prince of Teano.It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative ofthe illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than onePope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portionof a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante.It was you who led me to understand the marvelous framework ofideas on which the great Italian poet built his poem, the only...
THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUSby Herodotustranslated by George RawlinsonThe First Book, EntitledCLIOTHESE are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory; and withal to put on record what were their grounds of feuds. According to the Persians best informed in history, the Pho
The Village Rectorby Honore de BalzacKatharine Prescott WormeleyDEDICATIONTo Helene.The tiniest boat is not launched upon the sea without theprotection of some living emblem or revered name, placed upon itby the mariners. In accordance with this time-honored custom,Madame, I pray you to be the protectress of this book now launchedupon our literary ocean; and may the Imperial name which theChurch has canonized and your devotion has doubly sanctified for...
郑革新这辈子怎么也没有想到自己还能作一回贼!偷的偏偏是自己的领导——国商银行总行吴副行长的家!!他曾经是国商银行总行资产资产保全部的副主任,现在也是国商银行光照市分行下管近万名员工、风光无限的行长!他有着一米八左右的大个子,四十五六岁,短而粗的胖脖子撑着一颗硕大的西瓜状脑袋;稀疏的头发已经花白;大方脸上,一张大而厚的嘴唇下面,生着一个又大又方的下巴;一对细小的眼睛,埋在鼓鼓囊囊的大眼泡里,熠熠地环顾着四周。此时,西服革履的他,依然是个大行长的派头,没有一点贼的模样。当然,亲自作贼的不是他,亲自踩道的自然却非他莫属。因为,只有他知道吴副行长家位于北京市金融街公寓小区哪一栋小楼哪一单元的哪一套房间;只有他知道看似严密的银行高档小区其实是银行自管的,没有保安、没有监视设备,并且管理无序;只有他知道吴副行长一大家子人现在正在光照市游山玩水呢!其北京的家里,正唱着空城计,...
Letters of Ciceroby Marcus Tullius CiceroTranslated by E. S. ShuckburghTHE letters of Cicero are of a very varied character. They range from the most informal communications with members of his family to serious and elaborate compositions which are practically treatises in epistolary form. A very large proportion of them were obviously written out of the mood of the moment, with no thought of the possibility of publication; and in these the style is comparatively relaxed and colloquial. Others,