Confessions of an English Opium-Eaterby Thomas De QuinceyBEING AN EXTRACT FROM THE LIFE OF A SCHOLAR. From the "London Magazine" for September 1821.TO THE READERI here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a remarkable period in my life: according to my application of it, I trust that it will prove not merely an interesting record, but in a considerable degree useful and instructive. In THAT hope it is that I have drawn it up; and THAT must be my apology for breaking through that
Bel Amiby Henri Rene Guy De MaupassantTABLE OF CONTENTSCHAPTER I. POVERTYCHAPTER II. MADAME FORESTIERCHAPTER III. FIRST ATTEMPTSCHAPTER IV. DUROY LEARNS SOMETHINGCHAPTER V. THE FIRST INTRIGUECHAPTER VI. A STEP UPWARDCHAPTER VII. A DUEL WITH AN ENDCHAPTER VIII. DEATH AND A PROPOSALCHAPTER IX. MARRIAGECHAPTER X. JEALOUSYCHAPTER XI. MADAME WALTER TAKES A HANDCHAPTER XII. A MEETING AND THE RESULT...
The American Claimantby Mark TwainEXPLANATORYThe Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the sameperson who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the taleentitled "The Gilded Age," years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in thesubsequent editions of the same book, and finally as Mulberry Sellers inthe drama played afterward by John T. Raymond.The name was changed from Eschol to Beriah to accommodate an EscholSellers who rose up out of the vasty deeps of uncharted spac
Cabin Feverby B. M. BowerCONTENTSCHAPTERI THE FEVER MANIFESTS ITSELFII TWO MAKE A QUARRELIII TEN DOLLARS AND A JOB FOR BUDIV HEAD SOUTH AND KEEP GOINGV BUD CANNOT PERFORM MIRACLESVI BUD TAKES TO THE HILLSVII INTO THE DESERTVIII MANY BARREN MONTHS AND MILESIX THE BITE OF MEMORYX EMOTIONS ARE TRICKY THINGSXI THE FIRST STAGESXII MARIE TAKES A DESPERATE CHANCEXIII CABIN FEVER IN ITS WORST FORMXIV CASH GETS A SHOCK...
《挽留》作者:明月珰挽留 第一卷 机关算尽 第一回 毕二爷摆擂青魁府留国国都尚阳从羊市口大街青龙神庙向东折,是龙门街,过一个街口再北折就是龙佑街,这就是国都尚阳有名的斗蟋蟀的场所。论国力,留国只能算是九个大国中的二流国家,但是论吃穿住行的豪奢华尚,论吃喝玩乐的精致,留国要是称了第二,绝对没有国家能称第一。留国地处神渊大陆东南方,乃是久负盛名的鱼米之乡,民富庶而知礼仪,天下名士豪商多出于此。留国人也以这种文化氛围而自豪,认为留国才是当今天下最尊贵的王国。从当初一统神渊大陆的宇圣皇朝分崩离析后到如今已有两百来年,只有留国还是当年宇圣皇朝分封的诸侯国,算是宇圣皇朝的血脉,其余各诸侯国早已物是人非。所以留国人特别自豪,自认为只有自己的王才是正宗的皇族血统,这天下也只有留国才能得而居之。虽然留国因为国力弱小而沉寂了很长的一段时间,但是最近这几十年又挺直了腰板。国力日盛,尚阳又...
Lectures XIV and XVTHE VALUE OF SAINTLINESSWe have now passed in review the more important of the phenomenawhich are regarded as fruits of genuine religion andcharacteristics of men who are devout. Today we have to changeour attitude from that of description to that of appreciation; wehave to ask whether the fruits in question can help us to judgethe absolute value of what religion adds to human life. Were I...
The Expedition of Humphry Clinkerby Tobias SmollettTo Mr HENRY DAVIS, Bookseller, in London.ABERGAVENNY, Aug. 4.RESPECTED SIR,I have received your esteemed favour of the 13th ultimo, wherebyit appeareth, that you have perused those same Letters, the whichwere delivered unto you by my friend, the reverend Mr Hugo Behn;and I am pleased to find you think they may be printed with agood prospect of success; in as much as the objections youmention, I humbly conceive, are such as may be redargued, if
The Holly-Treeby Charles DickensFIRST BRANCHMYSELFI have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashfulman. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobodyever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is thesecret which I have never breathed until now.I might greatly move the reader by some account of the innumerableplaces I have not been to, the innumerable people I have not called...
不妨对人类作一个大胆的设想:假设每一个人都是6英尺高,1.5英尺宽,1英尺厚(很多人还够不着这样的尺码),那么,只要用一个长、宽、高各半英里的巨型集装箱就能够像装沙丁鱼一样,把所有的人口(根据最新统计资料,现在地球上大约生活着20亿人) 全部装进去。听起来似乎荒诞不经,但只要约加计算,就会发现这个答案是很精确的。 北美洲的科罗拉多大峡谷是一个自然界的神奇之境,它是由永恒之手在静默之中创造出来的。就选择这个大峡谷作为人类最后的安息之地。大峡谷的美景是那么雄壮,为了避免人类为它而惊呆,以致望断了脖子,就在较低的石崖边上,把那个塞满沙丁人类的集装箱巧妙地搁置起来,然后,让一条很听话、很聪明的德国小猎狗,用它那棕色的小软鼻子,朝这个最后的人类巨殿轻轻地拱一下,一阵轰隆隆、咔嚓嚓,人类的集装箱一路砸树碾石,从山崖上一直朝谷底滚落,随着最后的一声訇然巨响,人类撞进科罗拉多河的怀抱...