A Mountain EuropaBy John Fox, Jr.TO JAMES LANE ALLENIAs Clayton rose to his feet in the still air, the tree-tops began to tremble in the gap below him, and a rippling ran through the leaves up the mountain-side. Drawing off his hat he stretched out his arms to meet it, and his eyes closed as the cool wind struck his throat and face and lifted the hair from his forehead. About him the mountains lay like a tumultuous sea-the Jellico Spur, stilled gradually on every side into vague, purple shapes
Eric Brighteyesby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONMadam,You have graciously conveyed to me the intelligence that duringthe weary weeks spent far from his homein alternate hope andfear, in suffering and mortal triala Prince whose memory all menmust reverence, the Emperor Frederick, found pleasure in thereading of my stories: that "they interested and fascinated him."While the world was watching daily at the bedside of your...
《战士》上市之际,一朋友给我打来电话,当头便是一句:祝你喜得贵子。我自己还跟个孩子似的,怎么就当爹了?挂掉电话,我琢磨了一会儿,觉得这比喻还挺形象。于是,我决定为孩子的诞生码篇短文以资纪念。此时此刻,盛夏将至,上海街头的梧桐树一改初春时节的枝桠光秃,长出卵球和林阴。触情生情,从孩子的性别说起。扯远了,书归正传,接下来我要向你透露一些不为人知的幕后故事。《战士》是个难产孩子,他在出版社住了差不多两年。如果不按照图书的出版规律而是套用妊娠原理的话,他则属于超难产类型。《战士》之所以难产,与香港女人选择打催胎针或者剖腹产图个吉祥的生辰八字有着异曲同工之妙,但优于前者。催生难免粗糙,就像是喷洒了茄红素的番茄,味儿不地道。难产如同足球加时比赛,意味着激烈和精彩。在这两年里,我与作家出版社的袁敏老师一边等待着黄道吉日,一边把《战士》反复斟酌。初稿的激情与狂野、二稿的慎密与收敛...
柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(2)柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(3)柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(4)柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(5)柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(6)柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(7)柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(8)柏杨先生图集柏杨先生近照(9)《女人,危险的投资》第一部分爱情是有条件的门当户对的意义,昨天已经言之,不是金钱上的相对,也不是权势上的相对,更不是社会地位的相对。《堡垒集》上曾经说过,恋爱往往是有条件的,只有少不更事的男女,或别有用心的男女才高喊恋爱没有条件。呜呼,夫无论男的爱女的,女的爱男的,都是爱对方的优点。她爱他强壮焉,会琴棋书画焉,有前途焉;他爱她苗条焉,伶俐焉,漂亮得不像话焉。这些优点便是条件矣,张先生谅已拜读,我们不再重复。问题是,世俗上所谓的条件,往往指的是金钱、权势和地位。因此稍微有点灵性的男女都以谈金钱权势地位为羞。如果对一个女孩子曰:“你最好嫁...
火车发出一声悠长的汽笛,在隆隆的轰鸣声中徐徐驶入永新车站,淡白的蒸汽在寒风中弥漫开来,车厢里的人起了一阵轻微的骚乱,因为车门没有像寻常一样及时打开。永新历来是军事重镇,承军的南大营便驻防在此地,此时站台上星罗密布的岗哨,因着局势紧张,亦算是司空见惯,只是那样整肃的荷枪实弹,无端端又叫人生了惶恐。车门终于打开了,却不许人走动,荷枪实弹的卫兵把持住了各个车厢口,车厢里的人不由惊恐地瞧着这些人,他们与站台上的岗哨不同,一色藏青呢制戎装,靴上的马刺锃亮,手中枪尖上的刺刀闪着雪亮的光芒。他们沉默而冷淡地守望着车厢,拾翠心里一阵发紧,知道这是承军的卫戍近侍,按常理不应该在这永新城里,不晓得出了什么事情。...
TWICE-TOLD TALESTHE BIRTHMARKby Nathaniel HawthorneIN THE LATTER PART of the last century, there lived a man ofscience- an eminent proficient in every branch of naturalphilosophy- who, not long before our story opens, had madeexperience of a spiritual affinity, more attractive than anychemical one. He had left his laboratory to the care of anassistant, cleared his fine countenance from the furnace-smoke, washed...
紫信笺作者:[中]程小青一、深夜的来客“那时候是在半夜过后,十二点钟已经敲过了好一会。昨天上半天下了一阵疏疏的秋雨,午后两三点钟虽住了雨点,天色仍是阴沉沉的。到了晚饭后八点钟光景,忽又下起大雨来,足足注泻了三个多钟头。虽然不能把‘倾盆’的字样形容那雨势,但屋檐下的水溜中奔流不绝,屋后的两只大缸都已储满了水,便可见雨势的一斑。但到了十一点过后,呼呼的风声转了方向,雨脚便渐渐地收束。“我因着要赶制模范教养院的两张图样,不能不漏夜工作。当我工作的时候,最怕人家的打扰和一切声响的股耳。我在今年春天所以离了我镇中叔父的老家,在这地方建造这一所小小的屋子,就为着要避嚣取静的缘故。但昨夜里嗤嗤的雨声和叮步的檐马,已扰得我心神不宁;后来风声代替了雨声,吹得全属子的玻璃窗都轧轧地乱响起来。屋子后面原有几棵老松,因着风力的压迫,发出一阵阵抵抗的吼声:另有一种鬼啸似的声响,也夹杂在松涛...
野蛮班级作者:松海VS浪涛第一章 麻烦上身 “请大家安静一下!”班主任杨老师站在讲台上宣布道,“今天我们班新来了一位同学,他现在就在门口,大家欢迎!” 杨老师说完率先鼓起掌来,可是班上却只有十几个同学的零星掌声,而且全是女生,男生一个也没有,仿佛这几十人的班级就只有这是几个女生欢迎我。不过也难怪,谁让我执意要转到这个班呢! 据说这高二九班是这所中学最难管理的班级,迟到,早退,旷课,逃学,打架,骂人,顶撞师长,吸烟,酗酒……几乎校规上所有条款都犯得如家常便饭,而且还曾罢过一个星期的课,缘由只是想让学校多开几节体育课。学校想尽一切办法高薪聘请教师来带这个班,但请来的教师都干不到一个月就辞职了,原因只有一个:这个班的学生太顽劣了。...
Augustus Does His Bitby George Bernard ShawI wish to express my gratitude for certain good offices whichAugustus secured for me in January,1917. I had been invited tovisit the theatre of war in Flanders by the Commander-in-Chief:an invitation which was, under the circumstances, a summons toduty. Thus I had occasion to spend some days in procuringthe necessary passport and other official facilities formy journey. It happened just then that the Stage Society gave a...