THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESTHE MYSTERIOUSAFFAIR AT STYLESAGATHA CHRISTIE1- Page 2-THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESCHAPTER I. I GO TO STYLESThe intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at thetime as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, inview of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked,...
《七夜雪》作者:沧月一 序章雪是不知何时开始下的。 如此之大,仿佛一群蝶无声无息地从冷灰色的云层间降落,穿过茫茫的冷杉林,铺天盖地而来。只是一转眼,荒凉的原野已经是苍白一片。 等到喘息平定时,大雪已然落满了剑锋。 红色的雪,落在纯黑色的剑上。血的腥味让两日一夜未进食的胃痉挛起来,说起来,对于他这个向来有手不沾血习惯的人来说,这次杀的人实在是……有点太多了。 霍展白剧烈地喘息着,身体却不敢移动丝毫,手臂僵直,保持着一剑刺出后的姿势。 那是一个极其惨烈的相持:他手里的剑贯穿了对手的胸口,将对方钉在了背后深黑的冷杉树上。然而同时,那个戴着白玉面具的杀手的剑也刺入了他的身体里,穿过右肋直抵肺部——在这样绝杀一击后,两人都到达了体力的极限,各自喘息。...
The Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nationby Carrie A. NationENCOURAGEMENT FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS."My word shall not return unto me void."Isa. iv., II."When saddened by the little fruit thy labors seem to yield,And when no springing blade appears in all thy barren field;When those whom thou dost seek to win, seem hard, and cold, and deadThen, weary worker, stay thine heart on what the Lord hath said;And let it give new life to hopes which seem well-nigh destroyed...
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PHOCION402?-317 B.C.by Plutarchtranslated by John DrydenDEMADES, the orator, when in the height of the power which heobtained at Athens, by advising the state in the interest of Antipaterand the Macedonians, being necessitated to write and speak many thingsbelow the dignity, and contrary to the character, of the city, waswont to excuse himself by saying he steered only the shipwrecks of the...
A MILLIONAIRE OF ROUGH-AND-READYA MILLIONAIRE OFROUGH-AND-READYby BRET HARTE1- Page 2-A MILLIONAIRE OF ROUGH-AND-READYPROLOGUEThere was no mistake this time: he had struck gold at last!It had lain there before him a moment agoa misshapen piece ofbrown-stained quartz, interspersed with dull yellow metal; yielding...
Phantasmagoria and Other PoemsPHANTASMAGORIACANTO I - The TrystyngONE winter night, at half-past nine,Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy,I had come home, too late to dine,And supper, with cigars and wine,Was waiting in the study.There was a strangeness in the room,And Something white and wavyWas standing near me in the gloom -I took it for the carpet-broomLeft by that careless slavey.But presently the Thing began...
我一向的自我感觉,还是一个文学青年,某日无意看报,忽然发现自己已被称为“上一代作家”,心中大为不悦。原以为我这一代尚未开始,在他人眼里,如何就已成为“历史”了呢?后来慢慢体会,才觉此言并无不公。从世纪之交开始,社会发展的速度突然加快,受众关注的热点和焦点日新月异,变化无常。四十岁以上仍做长篇写作的,已是强弩之末;五十岁以上仍拒不退席的,更是自寻无趣,皆因思想僵化,大脑迟缓,对信息的占有和意识的更新,已无法快速完成,生理上的新陈代谢和外部世界的变迁速度,已不相适应。过去一个作家的人生经验,可以端坐十年潮头,而在全球化和信息化时代,能领三五天风骚,已经非常不易。近来年长篇创作低龄化的现象,以及辉煌一时的作家转眼沉寂的现实,想必并不偶然。所以,我也开始料理后事,回顾往昔,整理旧作。我最大的心愿,就是能将我的那些粗糙文字,通俗故事,以精致的装帧,经典的外观,集合成套...
Troilus and Criseydeby Geoffrey ChaucerBOOK IThe double sorwe of Troilus to tellen, 1That was the king Priamus sone of Troye,In lovinge, how his aventures fellenFro wo to wele, and after out of Ioye,My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye. 5Thesiphone, thou help me for tendyteThise woful vers, that wepen as I wryte!To thee clepe I, thou goddesse of torment,Thou cruel Furie, sorwing ever in peyne;Help me, that am the sorwful instrument 10...
The Pension Beaurepasby Henry JamesCHAPTER I.I was not richon the contrary; and I had been told the PensionBeaurepas was cheap. I had, moreover, been told that a boarding-house is a capital place for the study of human nature. I had afancy for a literary career, and a friend of mine had said to me, "Ifyou mean to write you ought to go and live in a boarding-house; thereis no other such place to pick up material." I had read something ofthis kind in a letter addressed by Stendhal to his siste