With Lee in VirginiaA Story Of The American Civil Warby G.A. HentyPREFACE.My Dear Lads:The Great War between the Northern and Southern States ofAmerica possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because itwas a struggle between two sections of a people akin to us in raceand language, but because of the heroic courage with which theweaker party, with ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-equipped regiments, for fouryears sustained the contest with an adversary not only possessed of...
The Gameby Jack LondonCHAPTER IMany patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floortwoof Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending inthat direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes andprolonged the debate between desire pocket-book. The head of thedepartment did them the honor of waiting upon them himselfor didJoe the honor, as she well knew, for she had noted the open-mouthedawe of the elevator boy who brought them up. Nor had she been blind...
--序章 血与火的镇魂歌在这片大陆上,不知有多少人类的存在。不过人类文明最发达的地方仍然是大陆的东方,这里曾出现过雄才大略的帝王,名臣与良将,以及那些传说中的世外高人。上古时代,东方世界群雄并起,割据混战,历经千年。文明的碰撞与交融,最终铸造了一代伟人——哥飞大帝。他手握圣剑·混沌,用血与火打造了强大的帝国——斯楚瓦尔兹贝特,统一了整个东方世界的人类。但是,和平十分短暂。哥飞大帝完成统一大业后,才过了四年,便病逝于帝国的首都——普隆德拉。他的儿子在内忧外患之中又将统治延续了十年。至斯楚瓦尔兹贝特14年,哥飞大帝的三个孙子争当大帝,最后导致了国家的分裂。在一连串战争之后,彩虹、斯楚瓦尔兹、朱诺三个新的国家形成,斯楚瓦尔兹贝特成为历史名词,但是它的纪年法被延续了下来,后世记史多用“斯楚瓦尔兹某年”。...
La Mere Baucheby Anthony TrollopeThe Pyreneean valley in which the baths of Vernet are situated is notmuch known to English, or indeed to any travellers. Tourists insearch of good hotels and picturesque beauty combined, do notgenerally extend their journeys to the Eastern Pyrenees. They rarelyget beyond Luchon; and in this they are right, as they thus end theirperegrinations at the most lovely spot among these mountains, and areas a rule so deceived, imposed on, and bewildered by guides,...
琼瑶:《秋歌》1 午后五点正。一下了班,董芷筠就匆匆的走出了嘉新办公大楼,三步并作两步的,她 迫不及待的往对面街角的水果店跑去。早上来上班的时候,她就发现这家水果店有种新上 市的、盒装的新鲜草莓,如果买一盒草莓回去,竹伟该多开心呢!她想著,心里就被一种 既兴奋而又苦涩的情绪所充满了。草莓,竹伟前不久还对她说过:“姐,哪一天我们去采 草莓?” 哪一天?她不能告诉竹伟,可能永远没有这一天了!采草莓,那是太久远太久远之前 的事了,久得数不清多少日子,多少岁月,奇怪的是竹伟却始终记得那段欢乐的时刻…… 那时他们住在台北近郊,附近都是草地和芦苇,每当清晨,爸爸、妈妈、竹伟和她,一家 四口,戏嬉追逐在芦苇丛中,收集芦花,采撷草莓,她常常和竹伟比赛,谁采的草莓多, 谁采的草莓大……那年她十岁,竹伟才六岁,父母双全。而今,父母安在?那时,台北近 郊都是草原,而今,早已盖满了高楼大厦!...
Salammboby Gustave FlaubertCHAPTER ITHE FEASTIt was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar.The soldiers whom he had commanded in Sicily were having a great feastto celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Eryx, and as the masterwas away, and they were numerous, they ate and drank with perfectfreedom.The captains, who wore bronze cothurni, had placed themselves in thecentral path, beneath a gold-fringed purple awning, which reached from...
Hermann and DorotheaBy Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTranslated by Ellen FrothinghamINTRODUCTORY NOTEThere are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative, it conforms admirably to the strict canons of art; yet it preserves a freshness and spontaneity in its emotional appeal that are rare in works of so classical a
作为一个承前启后的雕塑家,对罗丹套用这样一句古语来评价并不过分:前不见古者,后不见来者,念天地之悠悠,独怆然而涕下。罗丹,他是古典主义时期的最后一位雕塑家,又是现代主义时期的最初的一位雕塑家。因此他一生注定了要孤独。 罗丹的一生充满了异议、批评和误解,很难进行——地解释。但其作品,那些不再仅仅只从属于他个人和他那个时代,已经成为了人类社会的美的化身,人类智慧的结晶,一直为后来人所赞叹,所欣赏,也为后人所学习,所模仿着。 多少年来,在罗丹的千百件作品中,我们心悦诚服地欣赏着,我们不无惊叹地感慨着,我们无不将目光转向那双手,创造出奇迹的手。 弗郎索瓦•奥古斯特•罗丹,伟大的雕塑家,1840年11月12日出生于巴黎市圣马塞尔的贫民区。父亲让•巴蒂斯特在警察局工作,属于低级公务员,母亲玛丽•谢弗来自法国东部摩泽尔省,1936年与罗丹的父亲结婚。两人都是...