Novel Notesby Jerome K. JeromePROLOGUEYears ago, when I was very small, we lived in a great house in a long, straight, brown-coloured street, in the east end of London. It was a noisy, crowded street in the daytime; but a silent, lonesome street at night, when the gas-lights, few and far between, partook of the character of lighthouses rather than of illuminants, and the tramp, tramp of the policeman on his long beat seemed to be ever drawing nearer, or fading away, except for brief moments whe
PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETSby ELLEN G.WHITE17PREFACETHE PUBLISHERS SEND OUT THIS WORK FROM A CONVICTION THAT IT THROWS LIGHTUPON A SUBJECT OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE AND UNIVERSAL INTEREST, AND ONE ONWHICH LIGHT IS TO BE GREATLY DESIRED; THAT IT PRESENTS TRUTHS TOO LITTLEKNOWN OR TOO WIDELY IGNORED. THE GREAT CONTROVERSY BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR,BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS, BETWEEN THE POWER OF GOD AND THE ATTEMPTED...
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOODTHERE were formerly a king and a queen, who were sosorry that they had no children; so sorry that it cannotbe expressed. They went to all the waters in the world;vows, pilgrimages, all ways were tried, and all to nopurpose.At last, however, the Queen had a daughter. There wasa very fine christening; and the Princess had for her god-mothers all the fairies they could find in the whole kingdom(they found seven), that every one of them might...
A Mortal Antipathyby Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.PREFACE."A MORTAL ANTIPATHY" was a truly hazardous experiment. A very wiseand very distinguished physician who is as much at home in literatureas he is in science and the practice of medicine, wrote to me inreferring to this story: "I should have been afraid of my subject."He did not explain himself, but I can easily understand that he feltthe improbability of the, physiological or pathological occurrence on...
《谁妨碍了我们致富》作者: 茅于轼谁妨碍了我们致富总序总序贫困一直是困扰世界的大问题。过去二三百年内,原来是穷国的,现在多半仍是穷国;原来是富国的,现在多半仍是富国,穷富之间似乎有一条胯越不了的鸿沟。但这一难堪的局面,开始出现了转机。首先是因为中国实现了人类历史上空前的经济增长,在长达20年的时间内,在12亿人口的大范围内,实现了平均约 9%的年经济增长率,从而使人均国民生产总值增加到四倍以上,并使绝大多数人摆脱了贫困。这个伟大的转变既非完全自上而下的,也不是完全自下而上的;既有国家政策改变所引导和规范的变化,也有群众自发的创造性的经济活动。我们希望这个增长的势头还能再继续几十年。因此要求全国人民,从上到下,都能“按经济规律办事”。本着这样的心愿,我们收集并出版这套《经济学家随笔集》。...
弟弟的一封绝交信,令鲁迅惊诧莫名;欲详谈遭拒,携老母发妻搬家,兄弟阋于墙,究竟谁之过 那是1923年7月19日上午。 京城内一场大雨浇过后,地湿漉漉的。 身着青布长衫,足登一双沾满泥淖的布鞋,腋下夹着一卷书本的鲁迅匆匆忙忙地赶回了他那位于北京八道湾胡同的四合院家中。蓦地,一个熟悉的身影映入了他的眼帘,只见居于后院的二弟周作人身着同样质地的青布长衫,倚阶而立,表情却已没了往日的客套与亲近。 庭院深深,古藤环绕。门前的那棵枣树正是果实累累,微风摇曳中,一片枣香。鲁迅仰望着枣树,贪婪地吸了吸,立在那棵缀满果实的枣树下。周作人不发一言,将一封署有“鲁迅先生亲启”的信件交到了兄长手中。鲁迅蓦然惊疑,张愕着嘴,正欲开口,却见周作人已然扬长而去。...
SHERLOCK HOLMESTHE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZby Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWhen I look at the three massive manuscript volumes which containour work for the year 1894, I confess that it is very difficult forme, out of such a wealth of material, to select the cases which aremost interesting in themselves, and at the same time most conducive toa display of those peculiar powers for which my friend was famous....
初秋去的杭州,桂花未香,枫叶未红,芦花未白。去了蒋村的西溪,这是杭州西域最大一块湿地,河汊纵横,渚烟芦荡,水白菱红,惟渔舟轻摇,悠悠凤眼莲上似有久远的岁月静泊,西溪是一片被忘却的静水。写罢一篇游玩文字,就满杭州城去寻找食肆,吃茶、喝酒,惦挂着在天堂的食林酒海中寻找到一个奇处,泡过一天茶馆,吃遍了杭帮菜,蓦然去到长生路三十二号的“蒸功夫养生馆”,才发现有人以蒸为本,不做它菜,这大约算个奇处吧?或者也合乎看西溪那种宁静、淡泊水乡的心境。蒸这种烹饪技术,令我第一时间想起的不是湖北沔阳三蒸,是中国的四大古典名著之一的《西游记》,那《西游记》中多处讲到,西域的妖魔鬼怪总是想把唐僧捉来蒸了吃掉,妖魔认为蒸吃唐僧肉可以长生不老。细思考,西域干旱少水,又是高原缺氧,我去青藏高原,发现那里根本蒸不熟东西,水至75℃便沸腾了,喜欢吃馒头的人,得用高压锅来蒸馒头。大唐时代,纵是神仙鬼怪...
Fourth BookThe PoliticsChapter 33The Insular Supremacy and the Continental Powers North Americaand FranceIn all ages there have been cities or countries which have beenpre-eminent above all others in industry, commerce, and navigation;but a supremacy such as that which exists in our days, the worldhas never before witnessed. In all ages, nations and powers have...
The Day of the Confederacy, A Chronicle of the Embattled Southby Nathaniel W. StephensonCONTENTSI. THE SECESSION MOVEMENTII. THE DAVIS GOVERNMENTIII. THE FALL OF KING COTTONIV. THE REACTION AGAINST RICHMONDV. THE CRITICAL YEARVI. LIFE IN THE CONFEDERACYVII. THE TURNING OF THE TIDEVIII. A GAME OF CHANCEIX. DESPERATE REMEDIES X. DISINTEGRATIONXI. AN ATTEMPTED REVOLUTIONXII. THE LAST WORDBIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTETHE DAY OF THE CONFEDERACY...
The Man of the Forestby Zane GreyCHAPTER IAt sunset hour the forest was still, lonely, sweet with tangof fir and spruce, blazing in gold and red and green; andthe man who glided on under the great trees seemed to blendwith the colors and, disappearing, to have become a part ofthe wild woodland.Old Baldy, highest of the White Mountains, stood up roundand bare, rimmed bright gold in the last glow of the settingsun. Then, as the fire dropped behind the domed peak, a...
The Masque of the Red Deathby Edgar Allan PoeThe "Red Death" had long devastated the country. Nopestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was itsAvatar and its sealthe redness and the horror of blood. There weresharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at thepores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body andespecially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban whichshut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men....