BENITO CERENOby Herman MelvilleIN THE year 1799, Captain Amasa Delano, of Duxbury, in Massachusetts, commanding a large sealer and general trader, lay at anchor, with a valuable cargo, in the harbour of St. Maria- a small, desert, uninhabited island towards the southern extremity of the long coast of Chili. There he had touched for water. On the second day, not long after dawn, while lying in his berth, his mate came below, informing him that a strange sail was coming into the bay. Ships we
At the Sign of the Cat and Racketby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Clara BellDEDICATIONTo Mademoiselle Marie de MontheauAT THE SIGN OF THE CAT AND RACKETHalf-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue duPetit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses whichenable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threateningwalls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated withhieroglyphics. For what other name could the passer-by give to the Xs...
Cleopatraby H. Rider HaggardDEDICATIONMy dear Mother,I have for a long while hoped to be allowed to dedicate some bookof mine to you, and now I bring you this work, because whateverits shortcomings, and whatever judgment may be passed upon it byyourself and others, it is yet the one I should wish you toaccept.I trust that you will receive from my romance of "Cleopatra" somesuch pleasure as lightened the labour of its building up; and that...
尽管晓彤也觉得有点荒唐,但她确实是因为一个梦才展开她的旅程的。 那是一个迷离的梦。 湛蓝的大海,四溅的水花,落入海中的她一袭白衣,长发飞舞,成串的气泡宛如晶亮珍珠,把她团团包围。她奋力想浮出水面,双手盲目地挥舞着,想抓住什么,却触不到一线生机。在恐惧与死亡的临界点中,她终于停止了无望的挣扎,随波逐流。就在这时候,她看到海面上透出一道光,宛如天国之门般圣洁,她感到一双手,一双强而有力的手,轻轻托着她的腰,将她缓缓推起,浮上水面。就在破水而出的一刹那,她看到眼前的远山,山腰上的雅典卫城真实地映入眼帘…… 晓彤时常想,或许那双手,正是女人都渴望的……爱情! 一 闹钟响了,晓彤噌地一下从床上跳起来,猛地拉开落地窗帘。清晨的阳光映着晓彤充满朝气的脸庞。晓彤快速做了一个深呼吸,然后唰地一声撕下日历。新日历上的日期被红线明显地框了起来,旁边还写着“希腊之旅启程日...
A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEARby DANIEL DEFOEPart 1being observations or memorialsof the most remarkable occurrences,as well public as private, which happened inLondon during the last great visitation in 1665.Written by a Citizen who continuedall the while in London.Never made public beforeIt was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the restof my neighbours, heard in ordinary discourse that the plague was...
实验结果仍然不理想,甚至没有一点进展,刘安定心里不免有些焦急。坐在那里闭目想一阵,决定再查查资料,好好分析一下原因,然后再理出一个新的思路。电话铃声吓刘安定一跳。是一个年轻女子的声音。女子说她是何秋思。刘安定一下清醒过来,他有点莫名的紧张,表情也不由得严肃起来。何秋思说她在市妇产医院,要刘安定快点过来一下。要他去干什么,有什么事,都没说清就挂了电话。妇产医院让刘安定立即想到女性、妇科、生殖系统一类的问题。刘安定是兽医系产科教研室的副教授,严格地说应该算做兽医,但对于生殖系统来说,人和牛羊没什么两样。刘安定想,何秋思要他去,很可能是和妇科有关,说不定要他发挥专长干点什么。刘安定心里止不住一阵乱跳。...
第一章旧日情怀岂能相忘我抑制不住自己的心跳,长得太像她了,特别是这双动人的眼睛,我双手颤抖地把杯子接住。“你怎么了?”年轻人终于忍不住问了句,“你是不是生病了?”“多管闲事!”我眼睛一瞪,没好气地说。他碰了一鼻子灰,讪讪扭过头,自言自语:“好人难当。”我突然意识到自己有些过分,我凭什么拿一个好心人发火,影响别人的情绪?我跟他道歉:“对不起,刚才那位空中小姐特别像我的一个朋友,所以我如此失态。”我把杯子放下,却没有喝的意思,回忆起刚才我看到的那双眼睛,长长地叹了一口气:“怎么走到哪里,都有她的影子?”他接口:“你这么想念她,你和她的感情一定很要好。”要好?我笑了。笑得很勉强。其中有多少酸甜苦辣的滋味只有我自己知道,可是现在连我都弄不明白。我们十几年的感情,仅仅为了一件事情马上可以灰飞烟灭,变得一点牵挂都没有。这件事情到底只是小事情,还是大事情?我们是有过很深很深的感情,曾经如...
A TALE OF THE TONTLAWALDLong, long ago there stood in the midst of a country covered withlakes a vast stretch of moorland called the Tontlawald, on whichno man ever dared set foot. From time to time a few bold spiritshad been drawn by curiosity to its borders, and on their returnhad reported that they had caught a glimpse of a ruined house ina grove of thick trees, and round about it were a crowd of beingsresembling men, swarming over the grass like bees. The men were...
THE HISTORY OF DWARF LONG NOSEIt is a great mistake to think that fairies, witches, magicians,and such people lived only in Eastern countries and in such timesas those of the Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid. Fairies and theirlike belong to every country and every age, and no doubt weshould see plenty of them nowif we only knew how.In a large town in Germany there lived, some couple of hundredyears ago, a cobbler and his wife. They were poor andhard-working. The man sat all day in a little stall at
THE MONKEY AND THE JELLY-FISHChildren must often have wondered why jelly-fishes have noshells, like so many of the creatures that are washed up everyday on the beach. In old times this was not so; the jelly-fishhad as hard a shell as any of them, but he lost it through hisown fault, as may be seen in this story.The sea-queen Otohime, whom you read of in the story ofUraschimatoro, grew suddenly very ill. The swiftest messengerswere sent hurrying to fetch the best doctors from every country...