A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soulby George MacDonaldDEDICATIONSweet friends, receive my offering. You will findAgainst each worded page a white page set:This is the mirror of each friendly mindReflecting that. In this book we are met.Make it, dear hearts, of worth to you indeed:Let your white page be ground, my print be seed,Growing to golden ears, that faith and hope shall feed.YOUR OLD SOULThe Diary of an Old Soul....
The Poet at the Breakfast Tableby Oliver Wendell HolmesPREFACE.In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slightdramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided bycertain silent supernumeraries. The machinery is much like that ofthe two preceding series. Some of the characters must seem like oldacquaintances to those who have read the former papers. As I readthese over for the first time for a number of years, I notice one...
The Way of All Fleshby Samuel ButlerCHAPTER IWhen I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember anold man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who usedto hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick.He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807, earlierthan which date I suppose I can hardly remember him, for I was bornin 1802. A few white locks hung about his ears, his shoulders werebent and his knees feeble, but he was still hale, and
Down the Mother Lode - Pioneer Tales of CaliforniaBy Vivia HemphillForewordSo many inquiries have been made as to exactly where, and what is the "Mother Lode"!The geologist and the historian agree as to its location and composition, but the old miners and "sojourners" of the vanished golden era give strangely different versions of it. Some of these are here set down, if not all for your enlightenment at least, I hope, for your entertainment.That is, after all, the principal aim of these tales o
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENWHAT THE MOON SAWby Hans Christian AndersenINTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTIONIT is a strange thing, when I feel most fervently and most deeply,my hands and my tongue seem alike tied, so that I cannot rightlydescribe or accurately portray the thoughts that are rising within me;and yet I am a painter; my eye tells me as much as that, and all my...
Swan Songby Anton CheckovPLAYS BY ANTON TCHEKOFFTRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARIAN FELLCONTENTSIntroductionChronological List of WorksThe Swan SongINTRODUCTIONANTON TCHEKOFFTHE last years of the nineteenth century were for Russia tingedwith doubt and gloom. The high-tide of vitality that had risenduring the Turkish war ebbed in the early eighties, leavingbehind it a dead level of apathy which lasted until life was...
2000年3月10日凌晨,一场绵绵的春雨伴着轰隆隆的春雷声降临到人口密集的西原市。黑沉沉的天空被凄厉的闪电一次次无情劈开,窒息的空气中弥漫着尘土的味道。电闪雷鸣虽然阵势很吓人,但洒下大地的雨水并不多。尽管如此,久旱的城市还是如饥似渴地吞咽着微薄的水量,生命的迹象在湿润的泥土中一点一点伸展出来。灰蒙蒙的街道和尘埃覆盖的树木被冲洗出一丝春天的颜色,柳枝尖绿色的小嫩芽拼命挤了出来,迎春花黄色的小花苞也争相绽放,预示着春天万物复苏的勃勃景象。老百姓手捧着甘甜的春雨喜笑颜开,天还没亮,街头巷尾就已经人头涌动。大家激动地奔走相告,有人义愤填膺,有人感慨万分,有人热泪盈眶,都在议论这场来得非常及时的绵绵春雨。一场再寻常不过的春雨被淳朴的老百姓赋予了生机勃勃、欣欣向荣的寓意,其实只是一种自然的发自内心的借物抒情,表达了百姓们对这座城市美好未来的憧憬和希望。...
"Speaking of Operations"by Irvin S. CobbRespectfully dedicated to two classes:Those who have already been operated onThose who have not yet been operated onNow that the last belated bill for services professionally renderedhas been properly paid and properly receipted; now that the memoryof the event, like the mark of the stitches, has faded out from avivid red to a becoming pink shade; now that I pass a display ofadhesive tape in a drug-store window without flinchingI sit me...
1.高贵之贼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...
A UNITARIAN CREED_To Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse__Monticello, June 26, 1822_DEAR SIR, I have received and read with thankfulness andpleasure your denunciation of the abuses of tobacco and wine. Yet,however sound in its principles, I expect it will be but a sermon tothe wind. You will find it as difficult to inculcate these sanativeprecepts on the sensualities of the present day, as to convince anAthanasian that there is but one God. I wish success to both...
Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchiefby James Fenimore CoopoerCHAPTER I.Certain moral philosophers, with a due disdain of the flimsy foundationsof human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from amillion of ancestors, within a given number of generations; therebydemonstrating that no prince exists who does not participate in theblood of some beggar, or any beggar who does not share in the bloodof princes. Although favored by a strictly vegetable descent myself, the...
《人造天才》作者:春溪嫩水序 世界总是变化的那么快,永远不要认为事情是一成不变的。---青牛在天界,也不是一个普通的人物!不是他多么的厉害,只是因为他有着一个强大的主人,当然他本人也是不弱的。在一个非常之强大的主人庇护下,是没人会找他的麻烦的。毕竟,打狗还要看主人呢!所以,青牛在天界,也是横行无忌的人物。不是说,所有的人都不敢得罪他。只是那些厉害的人物都是不屑于搭理他而已。那些人,都是会卖个太上老君一个面子的。要是不是很厉害的人,就更不行了,青牛本身的实力也是不弱的。青牛整天在天上呆着,时间长了也是非常的烦闷的。平常找几个小仙和仙兽,在一起聊天打屁,打发时间。但是整天和这些人在一起,时间一长也就没有意思了。想要搞个破坏,找点事情出来。但是,别人见是他在搞风搞雨的,就不敢管他了。因为反正事情不大,要是事情闹大了,自然有太上老君来修理他,所以大家一向是,不会去找他的...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V4BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARKCONTENTS:CHAPTER XXIII. to CHAPTER XXXI.CHAPTER XXIII.It was the 2d of January, 1805, exactly a month after the coronation,that I formed with the eldest daughter of M. Charvet a union which hasbeen, and will I trust ever be, the greatest happiness of my life. Ipromised the reader to say very little of myself; and, in fact, how could...
序序言:假如王小波还活着文/欢乐宋假如王小波还活着,至少多活十年吧,这个亲爱的死鬼会有怎样的人生际遇呢?如果不是遭遇特殊的事情,王二应该还会坚持写作。毕竟,对他来说,爱写作,就像爱生命。王小波说过,写作的意义在于与人交流,所以他应该还会不停地投稿,说不定会在梅开二度之后,再次拿到《联合报》的文学奖。用一句足球界的黑话来说,那就叫上演了“帽子戏法”。但是,那又能怎么样?毕竟那只是在海外获得一个大陆并不知名的文学奖。他很可能继续郁闷着他的郁闷,去寻找明天的“发表”。可以想象,会有很多出版商找到王小波,不论托多少关系,花多少代价,也要请老王吃饭,然后谈“正事”。比如金丽红,现在她已经到了长江文艺出版社。这个平台有足够的实力捧红一位默默无闻的作者,何况鼎鼎大名的王小波呢?老王这时候可以摆谱了:“版税20%,起印30万册,一次性提前付清。”金大姐会说:“哥们,小崔的《不过如此》...