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这是我第一次尝试做的电子书，希望各位看管能够喜欢：）

The Other Lodgers
另外的房客
Ambrose Bierce
安布罗斯·比尔斯

"In order to take that train," said Colonel Levering, sitting in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, "you will have to remain nearly all night in Atlanta. That is a fine city, but I advise you not to put up at the Breathitt House, one of the principal hotels. It is an old wooden building in urgent need of repairs. There are breaches in the walls that you could throw a cat through. The bedrooms have no locks on the doors, no furniture but a single chair in each, and a bedstead without bedding--just a mattress. Even these meager accommodations you cannot be sure that you will have in monopoly; you must take your chance of being stowed in with a lot of others. Sir,

讽刺喜剧《钦差大臣》

果戈理于一八三三年开始构思讽刺喜剧《饮差大臣》，一八三五年底完稿。一八三六年初夏在亚力山得拉剧院首次上演这个喜剧，取得了惊人的成就。但作者并不以此为满足，首次上演后，又经过了反复修改，直到一八四二年才最后定稿，花费了他不少心血，体现了果戈理对待文学创作严肃认真、审慎精勤的态度。

在《钦差大巨》中，果戈理通过外省某县的官僚集团，把一个从彼得堡来的花花公子赫列斯达可夫，当作微服私访的钦差大臣所引起的一场慌乱，以及城市居民的强烈反响，对沙俄官僚专制的腐败现象及其反人民的本质，进行了辛辣的讽刺、尽情的嘲笑和有力的批判，为现实主义讽刺文学提供了新范例。

剧情是围绕“钦差大臣”的到来展开的。

外省某县市长司克伏兹尼克·特模哈诺夫斯基突然接到爱友加亲家安德列·伊凡诺维奇·奇密霍夫的一封信。信上告诉他：“…近闻有某大员奉旨来省视察，对于我县，尤为注意。该大员虽以常人面貌出现，然弟之消息，确系来自可靠方面。弟知吾兄与世人相同，亦有小过，盖因吾兄系聪明人也，凡财物到手，均不欲有所遗漏……故敢奉劝吾兄，诸事务宜留意，该大员虽尚未到达，亦不知隐名匿居何处，然恐将随时抵境……”得信后，市长非常着急，赶忙把城里的要职官员找来，共商对策。同僚们听说彼得堡

The Scarlet Ibis
朱鹭

by James Hurst
詹姆斯·赫斯特

Summer was dead, but autumn had not yet been born when the ibis came to the bleeding tree. It's strange that all this is so clear to me, now that time has had its way. But sometimes (like right now) I sit in the cool green parlor, and I remember Doodle.

Hills Like White Elephants

by Ernest Hemingway

The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this
side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between
two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station
there was the warm shadow of the building a