第1章 INTRODUCTION
- The Great Stone Face
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- 2016-01-18 18:21:05
THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his occasional rambles from home, but there are no entries in his Note Books which give accounts of such a visit. There is, however, among these notes the following interesting paragraph, written in 1840 and clearly foreshadowing The Great Stone Face:
'The semblance of a human face to be formed on the side of a mountain, or in the fracture of a small stone, by a lusus naturae [freak of nature]. The face is an object of curiosity for years or centuries, and by and by a boy is born whose features gradually assume the aspect of that portrait. At some critical juncture the resemblance is found to be perfect. A prophecy may be connected.'
It is not impossible that this conceit occurred to Hawthorne before he had himself seen the Old Man of the Mountain, or the Profile, in the Franconia Notch which is generally associated in the minds of readers with The Great Stone Face.
In The Ambitious Guest he has made use of the incident still told to travellers through the Notch, of the destruction of the Willey family in August, 1826. The house occupied by the family was on the slope of a mountain, and after a long drought there was a terrible tempest which not only raised the river to a great height but loosened the surface of the mountain so that a great landslide took place. The house was in the track of the slide, and the family rushed out of doors.
Had they remained within they would have been safe, for a ledge above the house parted the avalanche so that it was diverted into two paths and swept past the house on either side. Mr. and Mrs. Willey, their five children, and two hired men were crushed under the weight of earth, rocks, and trees.
In the Sketches from Memory Hawthorne gives an intimation of the tale which he might write and did afterward write of The Great Carbuncle. The paper is interesting as showing what were the actual experiences out of which he formed his imaginative stories.
THE GREAT STONE FACE and Other Tales OF THE WHITEMOUNTAINS
天之下
昆侖紀元，分治天下的九大門派為新一屆盟主之位明爭暗斗，關外，薩教蠻族卷土重來……亂世中，蕓蕓眾生百態(tài)沉浮，九大家英杰輩出，最終匯成一首大江湖時代的磅礴史詩，并推動天下大勢由分治走向大一統(tǒng)。
劍來（1-49冊）出版精校版
大千世界，無奇不有。我陳平安，唯有一劍，可搬山，斷江，倒海，降妖，鎮(zhèn)魔，敕神，摘星，摧城，開天！我叫陳平安，平平安安的平安，我是一名劍客。走北俱蘆洲，問劍正陽山，赴大驪皇城，至蠻荒天下。斬大妖，了恩怨，會舊人，歸故鄉(xiāng)。刻字劍氣長城，陳平安再開青萍劍宗！
龍族Ⅰ：火之晨曦（修訂版）
《龍族第2季》7月18日起每周五10點，騰訊視頻熱播中！人類歷史中，總是隱藏著驚人的秘密。在多數(shù)人所不知道的地方，人類與龍族的戰(zhàn)爭已經進行了幾千年。路明非的十八歲，在他最衰的那一刻，一扇通往未知國度的門轟然洞開。直升機如巨鳥般掠過南方小城的天空，在少年路明非的頭頂懸停。隱藏在歷史中的那場戰(zhàn)爭，就要重開大幕。歡迎來到……龍的國度！
奪嫡
【古風群像+輕松搞笑+高甜寵妻】【有仇必報小驕女X腹黑病嬌九皇子】《與君歡》作者古言甜寵新作！又名《山河美人謀》。磕CP的皇帝、吃瓜的朝臣、大事小事都要彈劾一下的言官……古風爆笑群像，笑到停不下來！翻開本書，看悍婦和病嬌如何聯(lián)手撬動整個天下！未婚夫又渣又壞，還打算殺人滅口。葉嬌準備先下手為強，順便找個背鍋俠。本以為這個背鍋俠是個透明病弱的“活死人”，沒想到傳言害人，他明明是一個表里不一、心機深沉的九皇子。在葉嬌借九皇子之名懲治渣男后。李·真九皇子·策：“請小姐給個封口費吧。”葉嬌心虛：“你要多少？”李策：“一百兩。”葉嬌震驚，你怎么不去搶！！！
龍族Ⅴ：悼亡者的歸來
《龍族第2季》7月18日起每周五10點，騰訊視頻熱播中！熱血龍族，少年歸來！這是地獄中的魔王們相互撕咬。鐵劍和利爪撕裂空氣，留下霜凍和火焰的痕跡，血液剛剛飛濺出來，就被高溫化作血紅色的蒸汽，沖擊波在長長的走廊上來來去去，早已沒有任何完整的玻璃，連這座建筑物都搖搖欲墜。