Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertTranslated from the French by Eleanor Marx-AvelingTo Marie-Antoine-Jules SenardMember of the Paris Bar, Ex-President of the National Assembly,and Former Minister of the InteriorDear and Illustrious Friend,Permit me to inscribe your name at the head of this book, andabove its dedication; for it is to you, before all, that I oweits publication. Reading over your magnificent defence, my workhas acquired for myself, as it were, an unexpected authority....
Nisidaby Alexandre Dumas, PereIf our readers, tempted by the Italian proverb about seeing Naplesand then dying, were to ask us what is the most favourable moment forvisiting the enchanted city, we should advise them to land at themole, or at Mergellina, on a fine summer day and at the hour whensome solemn procession is moving out of the cathedral. Nothing cangive an idea of the profound and simple-hearted emotion of thispopulace, which has enough poetry in its soul to believe in its own...
THE LUTE PLAYEROnce upon a time there was a king and queen who lived happily andcomfortably together. They were very fond of each other and hadnothing to worry them, but at last the king grew restless. Helonged to go out into the world, to try his strength in battleagainst some enemy and to win all kinds of honour and glory.So he called his army together and gave orders to start for adistant country where a heathen king ruled who ill-treated ortormented everyone he could lay his hands on. Th
A Hero of Our Timeby M. Y. LermontovTRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN OF M. Y. LERMONTOVBy J. H. WISDOM & MARR MURRAYFOREWORDTHIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces ofRussian Literature, under the title "A Heroof our Time," and already translated into at leastnine European languages, is now for the first timeplaced before the general English Reader.The work is of exceptional interest to thestudent of English Literature, written as it wasunder the profound influence of Byron and being...
Greyfriars Bobbyby Eleanor AtkinsonI.When the time-gun boomed from Edinburgh Castle, Bobby gave a startled yelp. He was only a little country dogthe very youngest and smallest and shaggiest of Skye terriers-bred on a heathery slope of the Pentland hills, where the loudest sound was the bark of a collie or the tinkle of a sheep-bell. That morning he had come to the weekly market with Auld Jock, a farm laborer, and the Grassmarket of the Scottish capital lay in the narrow valley at the southern b
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V11BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARK1895CONTENTS:CHAPTER XV. to CHAPTER XXIII.CHAPTER XV.During the second day of the battle of Dresden, at the end of which theEmperor had the attack of fever I mentioned in the preceding chapter, theKing of Naples, or rather Marshal Murat, performed prodigies of valor.Much has been said of this truly extraordinary prince; but only those who...
《雨夜妖杀》作者: A各有所爱A民国初,杭州市郊,白府。这是一栋古老的大屋子,坐北朝南,墙外是大屋场,远些是白家的田地。屋后是阔大的花园,满地的鲜花绿柳,后面紧邻着雨山,屋子前部是住屋,里面被四围的房间隔成了若干个小院子,外进几间是属于白家大老爷白枫和他的几房姨太太,白夫人早已经去世了,正房就这样空了出来;内进是白家三个女儿白霜、白雪、白露的房间,白老爷没有儿子,这是他的痛,却是没人敢提的。“小姐,有没有要洗的衣服?”陈妈站在门口,面无表情地问着屋内的白家三小姐白露。“天都快黑了还洗什么衣服?没有,没有!”白露不耐烦地挥着白嫩的手,那手上鲜明的蔻丹映衬得手越发白皙,这是她最感骄傲的地方,家里所有的人都对她的手称赞不绝,所以她总是时不时地保养着。现在她就正在保养这双让她倍受瞩目的手。...
“呱、呱、呱……”一个婴儿降到了人世,他的哭声是那么得宏亮,那么得有力,他仿佛是在用啼哭来向这个崭新的世界宣告——我来了。接生婆倒提着白白胖胖的婴儿腿,照着乌紫泛青的小屁股蛋,狠命地掴了几巴掌,第六巴掌才把他打出哭声来。而后按在铜盆内热水里洗起来,边洗边对床上有气无力的产妇窦氏说:“不下狠手,他不哭,不哭嗓子里的黏痰出不来,黏痰出不来,他喘不成气……”“大娘,小心点!”一个侍女忙把婴儿的头托出水面,接生婆光顾转脸说话了,弄得小世民的嘴在水面上一浮一浮的。“没事,起小受罪,长大攒福。”接生婆又转脸对着窦氏絮絮叨叨:“这孩子命硬,会老驴大憋气,拍了他好几巴掌他都没有感觉。长大了一定不是个善茬儿。”...
(五)正说和珅05:和珅的情感世界(上)-纪连海 主讲人简介: 纪连海,北京师大二附中教师。北京市骨干教师,西城区学科带头人,西城区兼职历史教研员。1986年7月毕业于北京师范学院历史系,获历史学学士学位。1998年首都师范大学历史系首届历史教育学硕士研究生班结业,2001年首都师范大学计算机系计算机专业毕业。1999年被评为中学高级教师。长期从事高中历史教学工作。与人合著有《〈普通高中课程标准实验教科书历史1(必修)〉教师教学用书》、《高中中国古代史教案》、《中国古代史教案·全一册》、《高中中国近代现代史教案》、《新教材典型题例详解·高中历史·全》、《高考历史总复习指导》、《高考真题精讲巧练·历史》、《高三热点测试金卷·历史》、《2005高考训练营·榜中榜课·历史》、《学习·探究·诊断》、《高二文综寒假作业》、《暑假作业·高二文科综合》、《高中历史·课外练习·选修》、《初中世...
A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN GULLIVER TO HIS COUSIN SYMPSON.WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1727.I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall becalled to it, that by your great and frequent urgency youprevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account ofmy travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman ofeither university to put them in order, and correct the style, asmy cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called "A Voyage...