Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen(十五岁的小船长) 立即阅读
Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (French: Un capitaine de quinze ans) is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy that serves on the schooner Pilgrim, a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets. However, this time the hunting season has been unsuccessful, and as they plan to return home three people request passage to Valparaiso: Mrs Weldon, the wife of the hunting firm's owner, her five-year-old son Jack, his old nanny Nan and her cousin Bénédict, an entomologist. With not much of a choice, the captain accepts.
涉县的东南角上,清漳河边,有个西峧口村,姓牛的多。离西峧口三里,有个丁岩村,姓孟的多。牛孟两家都是大族,婚姻关系世代不断。像从前女人不许提名字的时候,你想在这两村问询一个牛孟两姓的女人,很不容易问得准,因为这里的“牛门孟氏”或“孟门牛氏”太多了。孟祥英的娘家在丁岩,婆家在西峧口,也是个牛门孟氏。不过你却不要以为他们既是世代婚姻,对对夫妻一定是很美满的,其实糟糕的也非常多。这地方是个山野地方,从前人们说:“山高皇帝远”,现在也可以说是“山高政府远”吧,离区公所还有四五十里。为这个原因,这里的风俗还和前清光绪年间差不多;婆媳们的老规矩是当媳妇时候挨打受骂,一当了婆婆就得会打骂媳妇,不然的话,就不像个婆婆派头;男人对付女人的老规矩是“娶到的媳妇买到的马,由人骑来由人打”,谁没有打过老婆就证明谁怕老婆。
The Yellow Wallpaper(黄色墙纸) 立即阅读
The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a 6,000-word short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental.
What Shall We Do?(我们该怎么办) 立即阅读
"What Shall We Do?" by Leo Tolstoy explores the evil in men. He looks at men's desire for power, entitlement and money.