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Nineteen Eighty-Four 一九八四 Part 3, Chapter 4
2023-12-05He was much better. He was growing fatter and stronger every day, if it was proper to speak of days.The white light and the humming sound were the sam...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four 一九八四 Part 3, Chapter 5
2023-12-05At each stage of his imprisonment he had known, or seemed to know, whereabouts he was in the windowless building. Possibly there were slight differenc...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four 一九八四 Part 3, Chapter 6
2023-12-05The Chestnut Tree was almost empty. A ray of sunlight slanting through a window fell on dusty table-tops. It was the lonely hour of fifteen. A tinny m...
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Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 1
2023-12-05U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda. It was only half past eight, but the month was April, a...
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Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 2
2023-12-05At about the time when U Po Kyin began his morning's business, 'Mr Porley' the timber merchant and friend of Dr Veraswami, was leaving his...
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Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 3
2023-12-05Flory turned to the left outside the Club gate and started down the bazaar road, under the shade of the peepul trees. A hundred yards away there was a...
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Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 4
2023-12-05Flory lay asleep, naked except for black Shan trousers, upon his sweat-damp bed. He had been idling all day. He spent approximately three weeks of eve...
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Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 5
2023-12-05In spite of the whisky he had drunk at the Club, Flory had little sleep that night. The pariah curs were baying the moon--it was only a quarter full a...
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Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 6
2023-12-05The morning sunlight slanted up the maidan and struck, yellow as goldleaf, against the white face of the bungalow. Four black- purple crows swooped do...
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Burmese Days 缅甸岁月 Chapter 7
2023-12-05Elizabeth lay on the sofa in the Lackersteen's drawing-room, with her feet up and a cushion behind her head, reading Michael Arlen's These Cha...