The Modern Regime, Volume 1 [Napoleon]The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5by Hippolyte A. TaineContents:PREFACEBOOK FIRST. Napoleon Bonaparte.Chapter I. Historical Importance of his Character and Genius.Chapter II. His Ideas, Passions and Intelligence.BOOK SECOND. Formation and Character of the New State....
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnardby Anatole FrancePart IThe LogDecember 24, 1849.I had put on my slippers and my dressing-gown. I wiped away a tear with which the north wind blowing over the quay had obscured my vision. A bright fire was leaping in the chimney of my study. Ice-crystals, shaped like fern-leaves, were sprouting over the windowpanes and concealed from me the Seine with its bridges and the Louvre of the Valois.I drew up my easy-chair to the hearth, and my table-volante, and took up
第一部分序:写在灵魂的前端我又静静地将这十几万字的故事看了一遍,泪湿了干,干了又湿。最初动笔的时候是在2003年夏末,处于夏天与秋天的交界,整个人也清爽得很,看着大街上熙熙攘攘的行人,一个个不相识的人擦肩而过,花依旧灿烂,太阳依旧温暖,似乎什么都没在发生,而这些匆忙走过的人们又有些什么样的故事呢?是惊心动魄还是温缓如水?那时我18岁,正是一个爱幻想的年龄,看着别人的爱情,听着别人的爱情,而笔下的爱情也在不为人知地暗涌。然而写了只一个月就停止了,因为学习还有生活上的一些问题,一度让我没有继续这个故事。不是不能写,而是不愿意写,因为我要以最严谨的态度,以最饱满的热情来对待这部作品。再动笔的时候已经记不清是在什么时候开始的,只记得那时天空美丽的蓝色和心中柔软的文字。直到6月初,我终于完成了这部作品。夏日的阳光很猛烈,我抬起头眯着眼,阳光温柔地射在我脸上,仿佛看到了蓝夏雪灿烂的...
When the World ShookBeing an Account of the Great Adventureof Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnotby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONDitchingham, 1918.MY DEAR CURZON,More than thirty years ago you tried to protect me, then astranger to you, from one of the falsest and most malignantaccusations ever made against a writer.So complete was your exposure of the methods of those at workto blacken a person whom they knew to be innocent, that, as you...
The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamondby William Makepeace ThackerayTHE GREAT HOGGARTY DIAMONDCHAPTER IGIVES AN ACCOUNT OF OUR VILLAGE AND THE FIRST GLIMPSE OF THEDIAMONDWhen I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made mea present of a diamond-pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacturein the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the...
The Land of the Changing Sunby William N. HarbenChapter I.The balloon seemed scarcely to move, though it was slowly sinking toward the ocean of white clouds which hung between it and the earth.The two inmates of the car were insensible; their faces were bloodless, their cheeks sunken. They were both young and handsome. Harry Johnston, an American, was as dark and sallow as a Spaniard. Charles Thorndyke, an English gentleman, had yellow hair and mustache, blue eyes and a fine intellectual face.
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、话南荒 异迹溯金鳝 在云南的西部,宋末元初之时,有一个南诏国,国王段氏,以大理为首府,世代相传,说到南诏这一个国,是我国古史上,云贵边疆少数民族建立的唯一国家,她的前身是六诏国,五代残唐时候,兵威盛极一时,后来国内生变,闹出分裂,大臣段氏带了族人,逃亡滇边,另外建立了南诏国,传到宋朝孝宗时候,南诏国王名叫段盛,一般臣民叫他做“老皇爷”,这位段老皇爷是个有雄才大略的国王,精明能干,励精图治,把小小一个南诏国,统治得国富民安,路不拾遗,夜不闭户,仿佛大同世界一样,段氏老皇爷年逾半百,后宫粉黛群雌粥粥,只生下一个太子来,这太子取名段锦,自小便顽皮好动,头角峥嵘,这一位小太子,就是后来五老中的“南帝”。...
A Ward of the Golden Gateby Bret HartePROLOGUE.In San Francisco the "rainy season" had been making itself areality to the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short daysof drifting clouds and flying sunshine, and long succeeding nightsof incessant downpour, when the rain rattled on the thin shinglesor drummed on the resounding zinc of pioneer roofs. The shiftingsand-dunes on the outskirts were beaten motionless and sodden bythe onslaught of consecutive storms; the southeast trades brought.