LITTLE NOVELSby Wilkie CollinsMRS. ZANT AND THE GHOST.I.THE course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground.Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself. Neither revealed by a vision, nor announced by a voice, it reached mortal knowledge through the sense which is least easily self-deceived: the sense that feels....
希腊译员我和歇洛克·福尔摩斯先生虽然相识很久,亲密无间,但极少听他说其他的亲属,也很少听他讲起自己早年的生活。他这样沉默寡言,更加使我觉得他有点不近人情,以至有时我把他看作一个孤僻的怪人,一个有头脑无情感的人,虽然他的智力超群,却缺乏人类的感情。他不喜欢接近女人,不愿结交新友,这都表明了他不易动感情的性格特征,不过尤其无情的是他绝口不提家人。因此我开始认为他是一个孤儿,没有亲属在世了。可是有一天,出乎我意料之外,他竟同我谈 起他的哥哥来了。一个夏天的傍晚,茶后无事,我们便海阔天空、东拉西扯地闲聊起来,从高尔夫球俱乐部到黄赤交角变化的原因,最后谈到返祖现象和遗传适应性,讨论的要点是:一个人的出众才能有多少出于遗传,又有多少出于自身早年所受的训练。...
请您一定仔细阅读以下文字:-┌───────┐└───────┘-无心(穿越+父子)By紫沐"为什么会这样?" "为什么......为什么会搞成现在的样子?" "为什么......?" 南星月身着白色晚礼服站在海边的悬崖上,及腰的长发随着海风肆意的拂动着。长长的群摆随着猛烈的海风似要把她带入幽深的海中。 "为什么?"当她发出这三个字时,声音像是来自远古破碎的钟声,令人心碎。 她仰起头,看着天空迅速翻滚聚集的乌云,再缓缓的低下头看着脚下汹涌翻腾的海水。嘴角勾起释然的笑,一种解脱的笑。好象水中月般随时会消失一样。无奈,也许这就是命吧!南星月这样想着。缓缓的侧过身,对着身后纠缠了二十年,这辈子唯一的弟弟道:"你要记住......以后就由你来代替姐姐活着。"...
****************第一部分*************** 现代美展愈来愈多,良莠不齐,看得人眼花缭乱,进入展厅往往如进入化装舞会,或似曾相识,或荒唐怪诞,偏偏不易见到作者的本来面目,在作品中按不到作者的脉搏。古今中外,宗教威望、政治权力及金钱诱惑扭曲了作者的灵魂,这情况,更令人怀念逸品作者的创作心态。-自序- 圣母因灵感而受孕,那是神话,只为了掩饰耶稣私生子的身份。而艺术中确存在因灵感而怀孕的真实。似闪光,忽醒悟,一种异样的思绪突然从心底升腾,谁启示了我新的美感,我乐而发颤。这是我创作生涯中每每遇到的惊喜,怀孕的惊喜。我于是用绘画或文字捕捉这转瞬即逝的感受,捕获了,牢牢不放,剪之裁之,孵化而成自己的作品。...
刘邦出身贫寒,但抱负远大。他性格豁达开朗,为人处世不取小利,重情仗义。这种人格魅力与气度胸襟在他的开国称帝的过程中,起到了至关重要的作用。刘邦是中国历史上最会用人的帝王之一,他读书甚少,身无武功,但他却能以情以义,感召了一大批有为才俊。无论是运筹帷幄的张良,还是决胜千里的韩信,再有那理政镇国的萧何,均心甘情愿地誓死效力,为大汉的创立拥不世之功。刘邦还是中国历史上最有谋略的帝王之一,这在他与项羽分争天下之时便展露无疑。项羽兵多将广,但刘邦迂回游击、佯取智取、明修栈道,几番对峙,项羽乌江饮恨,壮志未酬。在称帝后,面对诸王的叛乱,刘邦或以情动人,或杀戮儆世,或名禄邀买,让初建的大汉经受住了血的洗礼。...
在连环杀手的历史上,“开膛手杰克”是如此的卓尔不群,尽管从他惊人地出手到神秘地消失,已经过去了100多年,但每当提起著名的连环杀手,他那邪恶的身影就会从迷雾笼罩的伦敦东区那些狭窄而昏暗的街道中浮现出来,甚至,有些犯罪学家还将他称为是连环杀手之父。在从1888年8月底到11月初短短的两个月内,一系列前所未闻的血腥残忍的谋杀,让那个秋天里的伦敦变得异常的躁动不安。今天,当你漫步在伦敦的东区,会看到这里的街道干净整洁,两旁是贴着玻璃幕墙的高层写字楼。需要一些想象力,才能够回到“开膛手杰克”出没的那个时代的东区。在维多利亚时代,伦敦的东区是一个大贫民窟,以移民和贫困著称,在经济上和社会生活方面都被排除在外。在狭窄的街道两旁那些破旧的房屋里,挤满了散发着恶臭的男女酗酒者,他们眼眶乌青,整天靠烈性的杜松子酒度日,连头发都懒得梳理一下。在这里大约聚集着90万人,汇集着大批英国社会最底层的蓝...
Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaicaby Anthony TrollopeThere is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unlessit be a people in their decadence. I am not aware that the lattermisfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part ofthe world; but there is reason to fear that it has fallen on anEnglish colony in the island of Jamaica.Jamaica was one of those spots on which fortune shone with the fullwarmth of all her noonday splendour. That sun has set;whether for..
The Virgin of the SunBy H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONMy Dear Little,Some five-and-thirty years ago it was our custom to discuss manymatters, among them, I think, the history and romance of thevanished Empires of Central America.In memory of those far-off days will you accept a tale that dealswith one of them, that of the marvellous Incas of Peru; with thelegend also that, long before the Spanish Conquerors entered on...
The Ivory Childby H. Rider HaggardCHAPTER IALLAN GIVES A SHOOTING LESSONNow I, Allan Quatermain, come to the story of what was, perhaps, oneof the strangest of all the adventures which have befallen me in thecourse of a life that so far can scarcely be called tame or humdrum.Amongst many other things it tells of the war against the Black Kendahpeople and the dead of Jana, their elephant god. Often since then Ihave wondered if this creature was or was not anything more than a...
你看哟,炎炎热热的酷夏里,人本就不受活①,却又落了一场雪。是场大热雪③。一夜间,冬天又折身回来了。也许是转眼里夏天走去了,秋天未及来,冬天紧步儿赶到了。这年的酷夏里,时序乱了纲常了,神经错乱了,有了羊角风,在一天的夜里飘飘落落乱了规矩了,没有王法了,下了大雪了。真是的,时光有病啦,神经错乱啦。小麦已经满熟呢。一世界漫溢的热香却被大雪覆盖了。受活庄⑤里的人,睡觉时赤裸裸在床上摇着大蒲扇、软纸扇;身边放了一张布单也是不盖的。可是,到了下半夜,先是刮了一阵风,谁都眯着眼儿去扯拽单子了,把单子搭在身上了,却又觉得寒气从单子缝中往人的身骨里边扎,往心肝脾胃里边拧,就又起床去箱里、柜里翻那收拾好的被子了。...
THE STARIt was on the first day of the New Year that the announcementwas made, almost simultaneously from three observatories, that themotion of the planet Neptune, the outermost of all the planetsthat wheel about the sun, had become very erratic. Ogilvy hadalready called attention to a suspected retardation in its velocityin December. Such a piece of news was scarcely calculated tointerest a world the greater portion of whose inhabitants wereunaware of the existence of the planet Neptune, no
The Fall of the House of UsherThe Fall of the House ofUsherEdgar Allen Poe1- Page 2-The Fall of the House of UsherDuring the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn ofthe year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I hadbeen passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of...