Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green(蓝色和绿色的薰衣草草图) 立即阅读
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently. Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Reginald Blake was as typical a specimen of the well-bred cad as one could hope to find between Piccadilly Circus and Hyde Park Corner. Vicious without passion, and possessing brain without mind, existence presented to him no difficulties, while his pleasures brought him no pains. His morality was bounded by the doctor on the one side, and the magistrate on the other.
Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine(一个中国人在中国的遭遇) 立即阅读
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1879. Kin-Fo est un jeune Chinois riche, qui est indifférent à tout et ne connaît pas le bonheur. Un jour, il se retrouve ruiné. Ne voulant pas imposer à sa future épouse une vie misérable, il préfère mourir. Au moment de se donner la mort, il se rend compte qu'il ne ressent rien, et décide qu'il ne peut mourir sans connaître d'émotions au moins une fois dans sa vie. Il demande donc à son maître et ami, le philosophe Wang, de le tuer dans un délai imparti, ce qui, il l'espère, lui fera redouter la mort et éprouver quelques émotions.
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, an Irish writer. It was his first book and was first published in 1914.The fifteen stories were supposed to describe very well the life of Irish people living in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories in the collection are first told by children, and as the stories continue they deal with the lives of older people. The last story, "The Dead", is the longest and the most famous.
The Underground City(地下之城) 立即阅读
The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.