THE IRON HEELby Jack LondonFOREWORD.IT CANNOT BE SAID THAT THE Everhard Manuscript is an importanthistorical document. To the historian it bristles with errors- noterrors of fact, but errors of interpretation. Looking back acrossthe seven centuries that have lapsed since Avis Everhard completed hermanuscript, events, and the bearings of events, that were confused and...
THE BLACK THIEFAND KNIGHT OF THE GLEN.IN times of yore there was a King and a Queen in the south ofIreland who had three sons, all beautiful children; but theQueen, their mother, sickened unto death when they were yet veryyoung, which caused great grief throughout the Court, particularlyto the King, her husband, who could in no wise be comforted.Seeing that death was drawing near her, she called the King to herand spoke as follows:`I am now going to leave you, and as you are young and in...
Sheby H. Ryder HaggardCHAPTER IMY VISITORTHERE are some events of which each circumstance andsurrounding detail seems to be graven on the memory insuch fashion that we cannot forget it, and so it iswith the scene that I am about to describe. It risesas clearly before my mind at this moment as though ithad happened yesterday.It was in this very month something over twenty yearsago that I, Ludwig Horace Holly, was sitting one night...
总 序内容简介一刀能割出多少爱医学院里,英俊潇洒的落拓处男卓左右22年未近女色,于心急火燎中陡然发镖,岂不知家境不凡的清纯小女生宁一早已悄悄注意上他了。解剖室里的猝然邂逅,一个是拔刀相“助”,一个是金屋藏“娇”,均暗暗种下情愫,远胜过山盟海誓。然而被贸然阉割的尸体又引发出连环命案的谜局,阴差阳错中,卓左右牵涉其中,又被卷入更深的情感纠纷……案中案,情中情,离奇情节,鲜言辣语,既有快意的爆笑,也有缠绵的泪水。总 序作者简介作者介绍卓左右,当初取这名是希望能够卓尔不群,踏入社会则左右逢源,万没想到是在真实生活里左右碰壁。他起始专为自己喜欢的人写作,不料一发不可收拾,成为文坛上横空出世的一匹搞笑黑马。其作《一刀能割出多少爱》《向作文开炮,不许放空枪》等皆以深厚生活阅历为底蕴,语言风趣,让人爆笑之后留有深思。...
张晓梅简介 张晓梅,女,北京市人,四川大学MBA,全国政协委员,全国工商联执委,高级经济师,曾于美国加州大学进修。 现任《中国美容时常报》社社长兼总编辑、全国工商联美容化妆品业商会常务副会长、中国香料香精化妆品协会副理事长、国家劳动社会保障部《美容师职业教材》主编、联合国第四届世界妇女大会代表。多次出任国际国内美容发型大赛主席、总评判长。 著有《中国美容美学》、《中国基础美容》、《国际美容教程》、《修炼魅力》、《2005中国美容经济年度报告》、《中国式美女》、《脱敏护肤》、《美容师国家职业资格培训教程》等专著。曾先后赴美国、法国、日本、新加坡、德国进修学习,并在美国知名NEWBERRY美容学院、JUANDIOR美容学院、ASTAR好莱坞化妆造型学院、法国FAIRLADY色彩鉴定专科学校完成了美容、化妆、造型、色彩设计等专科学习,并获得四个国际认可专科证书。...
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE OF NAPOLEON, V4BY CONSTANTPREMIER VALET DE CHAMBRETRANSLATED BY WALTER CLARKCONTENTS:CHAPTER XXIII. to CHAPTER XXXI.CHAPTER XXIII.It was the 2d of January, 1805, exactly a month after the coronation,that I formed with the eldest daughter of M. Charvet a union which hasbeen, and will I trust ever be, the greatest happiness of my life. Ipromised the reader to say very little of myself; and, in fact, how could...
FAIRY TALES OF HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSENOUR AUNTby Hans Christian AndersenYou ought to have known our aunt; she was charming! That is tosay, she was not charming at all as the word is usually understood;but she was good and kind, amusing in her way, and was just as any oneought to be whom people are to talk about and to laugh at. She mighthave been put into a play, and wholly and solely on account of the...
The Metal Monsterby A. MerrittPROLOGUEBefore the narrative which follows was placed in my hands, I had never seen Dr. Walter T. Goodwin, its author.When the manuscript revealing his adventures among the pre-historic ruins of the Nan-Matal in the Carolines (The Moon Pool) had been given me by the International Association of Science for editing and revision to meet the requirements of a popular presentation, Dr. Goodwin had left America. He had explained that he was still too shaken, too depress
Father Goriotby Honore de BalzacTranslated by Ellen MarriageTo the great and illustrious Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a token of admiration for his works and genius. DE BALZAC.Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve- Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and
The Vanished Messengerby E. Phillips OppenheimCHAPTER IThere were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one ofLiverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the eveningof April 2 - possibly because the platform in question is one ofthe most remote and least used in the great terminus. Thestation-master, however, was there himself, with an inspector inattendance. A dark, thick-set man, wearing a long travellingulster and a Homburg hat, and carrying in his hand a brown leather...