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： 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>

简介： 顺流而下坐慢船，由重庆顺流而下，我来到了涪陵。这是一个温暖，清爽的夜晚，在1996年八月的尾声。长江上星光闪烁，星光微弱，无法从黑色的水面反射出来。一辆学校派来的小车，载着我们从码头出发，沿着丛丛曲折的小路前行。城市在我们身边急速掠过，在星光之下，它显得黯淡，陌生。我们有两个人。我，27岁；亚当梅勒，22岁，我们还很年轻，是被派到这里来做教师的。之前我们几乎从未听闻过涪陵。我所知的，乃是这城市部分将因新近建设的三峡大坝而淹没，我还知道，涪陵许多年来，一直对外面的人封闭。除此，就没什么关于涪陵的信息了。半个世纪来，没有美国人在此生活过。后来，我碰到城里一些长者，他们还记得在1940年代住在这里的美国居民，在1949年共产党解放之前，而这些记忆又总是相当的模糊。在我们抵达时，这里还住有另一个外国人，一个德国人，他在一所当地中学教了一个学期。但我们只和他碰了一次面，其后不久他便离开了。在那之后，我们便是这小城中仅有的两个外国人。这里的人口大约二十万，以中国的标准来说只能算是小城。涪陵不通铁路。长期以来，它都是四川省的一个贫穷地区，公路状况很是糟糕。去哪儿你都得搭船，而多数时候，你哪儿也不会去查看详情>

简介： 夏季最热的日子总算快走到了尽头，一种昏昏欲睡的宁静笼罩着女贞路大大的方形的房子。满是灰尘的汽车闪耀着灯停在了那些曾经是翠绿的而现在却变得被烤焦了的黄色的草坪上┅┅因为橡胶管已经不允许用来浇水了。被剥夺了他们通常的洗车与割草的追击後，女贞路的居民回到了他们阴凉的房子裏，窗户大开为的是毫无希望的能有一凉风的吹过。只有一个14、5岁的小孩子留在了外面，他躺在女贞路四号花台的外面。他是一个瘦小的，有着一头黑发的带眼镜的男孩，尽管看起来有一点营养不良，他在过去的一段时间中也长高了许多。他的牛仔裤被磨损了而且很脏，他穿的T──SHIRT很皱而且褪了色。他的一只运动鞋上面裂开了口。哈利波特的外表并不受到他那些喜欢看被别人法律制裁的邻居的喜爱，但是当他今天晚上藏在八仙花灌木後时，那些过路人就看不见他了。事实上，他只有在他的费农姨夫或佩妮姨妈把头伸出起居室窗外并直接往下面的花台中看时才可能被发现。总的来说，哈利庆幸自己藏在这裏。他也许，躺在这滚烫的、坚硬的土地上，不会很舒服，但从另一方面来说，这裏没人会觉着他刺眼，磨着他们的牙齿的声音让他几乎听不见新闻，或者向他质问一些卑劣的问题，这些事在他每次想要在客查看详情>

简介： 九月二十一日，两人一起出发，佛罗多骑着那匹从米那斯提力斯一路载他过来的小马，现在被取名为神行客，山姆则是骑着他最爱的比尔。这是个阳光灿烂的清晨，山姆并没问他们要去哪里，他认为自己猜得到。他们走史塔克路越过山区，朝向林尾前进，他们让小马自在的走着，他们在绿丘乡扎营过夜。九月二十二日又缓缓的走向森林，等他们到达森林边时，已经快下午了。&ldquo佛罗多先生，这不就是你当年躲黑骑士的那棵树吗？&rdquo山姆指着左边。&ldquo这一切都好像是一场梦一样。&rdquo时间是傍晚，星斗在东方天空闪耀，他们越过那株倒下的橡树，在两旁夹道的榛树之间缓缓前进。山姆一言不发，回忆着过去，这时，他才意识到佛罗多正在低声歌唱，吟颂着那古老的健行歌，但歌词不太一样了：山转路转谁能料，未知小径或密门，机缘巧合未得探，离世之日将到来，踏上西方隐匿路，月之西啊阳之东。彷佛为了回应他一般，从下面的小径传来了歌声：啊！伊尔碧绿丝，姬尔松耐尔！silivrenpennamrielomenelaglarelenath，姬尔松耐尔，啊！伊尔碧绿丝！我们依然记得，虽然在这遥远的树下那西方海面灿烂的星光。佛罗多和山姆停了下来，查看详情>

简介： 蛇人被彻底消灭后，胜利终于来临了，然而帝国和共和军的联合政府在成立的第一天，王团的破坏而告终结，楚休红的一切努力归于失败。尊王团的幕后究竟是谁？军队究竟应该站在哪一边？楚休红越发迷惘。昨天的盟友今天又成为死敌，熄灭的战火重新燃起，一切仿佛又重归起点，可是一切也已经有了翻天覆地的变化。在这条曲折的道路上，无法摆脱的命运牵扯着每个人向汹涌而来的新时代走去，有些人最终胜利了，有些人却成为时代的祭品。不论如何，如血的旭日中，新的时代终于来临了。查看详情>