Отправляет email-рассылки с помощью сервиса Sendsay

Чтение на английском

Подписаться Бесплатная «Серебряная» новостная рассылка . Подписчиков 0 RSS
←   Сентябрь 2012   →
 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30


За последние 60 дней ни разу не выходила


Сайт рассылки: http://english-reading-time.blogspot.com
Открыта: 18-08-2012

Автор
english-2days.narod.ru

Статистика

0 подписчиков
0 за неделю
←   Все выпуски   →

English Reading - Чтение на английском LiLyan STRATTON - Reno


Рассылка English Reading - http://www.english-reading-time.blogspot.com

Lilyan Stratton (1882-1928)

Born in Crisfield, Maryland, USA. Started as a newspaper agent, later became an actress, an investor. Wrote four novels: Reno, Homing, Feminine Philosophy, The Wife's Lesson.

«Dull in Reno?  Why no; how can one be bored in this delightful “big little city,” when here you will find a concentration of all the most picturesque phases of life—­a conglomeration of gaiety and tragedy, humor and drama, frivolity and learning!  What a fertile field for the psychologist and sociologist.

It is wonderfully interesting not always to turn to books only, with their rigid, lifeless rules and laws; books can only convey to us the things someone else has learned!  Those who desire a real understanding of human nature’s handiwork must work and play on human mountains, in human fields and human swamps.

Being an ardent student of life and character, I have found Reno highly interesting and amusing, and dear reader, if you will do me the honor to accompany me through the following pages of this chapter, I am sure you too will be interested.

First we will visit the restaurants, cafes and hotels which are teeming with the vigor of life, vibrant and pulsating; and if you know and understand human relationship, or wish to, then you may overflow with sympathy, laugh in conviviality, or perhaps weep in the privacy of your own room for what is and for what might have been....

The fashionable restaurant is not a large pretentious place, elaborately decorated, but there is something in the atmosphere which is not tangible but which we yet can sense.  Who are all these people? and if each told his own story, how tremendously interesting it might be!  Unconsciously, you know that the atmosphere is distinctive; that things are different; so many interesting personalities grouped into such a small place is something most unusual.

Over in the corner is a New York banker; his strong, handsome face marked with character lines and crowned with white hair:  the stamp of long years of struggle in the financial world.  See, he is smiling across the table at his companion, and his face is almost boyish as he chats and laughs.  Such a companion!  I wonder what fate has sent her to cheer the desert city; a modern Cleopatra, even more beautiful than she of Egypt:  a radiant beauty, this dark-eyed queen of the Orient; ruby lips and teeth of matched pearls; hair black as midnight, and fires smoldering in dreamy eyes as if in pools of mystery...  Bored in Reno?  How could one be?»

"Reno – A Book of short stories and information"

Читать перевод и скачать книгу - http://english-reading-time.blogspot.com/2012/09/lilyan-stratton-reno.html.
В избранное