简介： It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way&mdashin short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its nois查看详情>

简介： He laughed &mdash a large, wholesome laugh &mdash and this began a dissertation on the rights of a man to do what he liked with his own creations, which being a matter of purely professional interest, I will mercifully omit.Returning to the big chair, he, speaking of truth and the like in literature, said that an autobiography was the one work in which a man, against his own will and in spite of his utmost striving to the contrary, revealed himself in his true light to the world.&lsquoA good dea查看详情>

简介： When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child a查看详情>

简介： The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is &mdash dancing.The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of the departure of an Arctic expedition from their port. The ships of the expedition are two in number &mdash the Wanderer and the Sea-mew. They are to sail (in search of the Northwest Passage) on the next day, with the morning tide.Honor to the Mayor and Corporat查看详情>

简介： 有抵抗情绪的丈夫　　有一些丈夫在自己那平常追求完美的妻子开始降低对生活中各件事情的标准时，表示不同意。如果您采纳本书中的一些建议但您的丈夫不配合时，他可能只是因为感到困惑及不了解实情。坐下来向他解释您的想法会很有帮助。如果那样做并不起作用，而且他继续对您想要改变自己追求完美的习惯表示恼火，那么，你们可能需要去求助于婚姻问题咨询。每一对夫妻关系都像是跷跷板那样一上一下地在交互作用中求得一种平衡。如果您的改变太突然，则可能把整个婚姻关系弄僵。接受咨询可能有助于你们恢复夫妻关系的平衡。　　有一些女性发现当自己在减少对完美的追求时，丈夫却不能够接受。我曾经接待过一些离开了自己丈夫的来访者，她们是因为不能够再忍受总是需要达到他们那严格的完美主义的理想要求。在几乎所有的这些情况中，女性在没有丈夫的情况下还更快乐一些。快乐着单身比结婚而需要达到病理学上不健康的期望会更好。　　不必着急当决定改变消极的习惯时，人们常常是打算突然作出巨大的改变:久坐不动的人决定开始一天锻炼90分钟，身体超重的人决定减掉100磅。完美主义者甚至更容易出现这种情况，因为她们倾向于进行非黑即白的思维。要尽力抵制住这种马上就要查看详情>

简介： On the evening of the 17th March 1859, Captain Craventy gave a fête at Fort Reliance. Our readers must not at once imagine a grand entertainment, such as a court ball, or a musical soirée with a fine orchestra. Captain Craventy&rsquos reception was a very simple affair, yet he had spared no pains to give it éclat.In fact, under the auspices of Corporal Joliffe, the large room on the ground-floor was completely transformed. The rough walls, constructed of roughly-hewn trunks of t查看详情>

简介： Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon `Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined,myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the 查看详情>

简介： THE family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who, for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happen查看详情>

简介： Ennis Del Mar wakes before five, wind rocking the trailer, hissing in around the aluminum door and window frames. The shirts hanging on a nail shudder slightly in the draft. He gets up, scratching the grey wedge of belly and pubic hair, shuffles to the gas burner, pours leftover coffee in a chipped enamel pan the flame swathes it in blue. He turns on the tap and urinates in the sink, pulls on his shirt and jeans, his worn boots, stamping the heels against the floor to get them full on. The wind 查看详情>

简介： Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its manufacturing leviathan brethren in the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those查看详情>