【有声英语文学名著】蝇王（1b）

( CHAPTER ONE - Continued ) Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way. Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and th

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER FOUR（9）

Never mind, it suited him, as did the preponderance of young women like Naomi: hard, ambitious, metropolitan. In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here was a job where confi

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(9)

Really? Evensong at seven. No, but really. Its a nice offer, but after my shift here Im wiped out. I like to just go home, comfort eat, cry. So Ill have to give it a miss, Im afraid. Another time then? Im playing the Bent Banana at the Cheshire Cat i

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(2)

Scott slapped a palm on Ians shoulder, startling him: ‗So Im going to hand you over to Emma, our longest serving member of staff! Emma winced at the accolade, then smiled apologetically at the new boy, and he smiled back with his mouth closed tight

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(3)

When will you stop trying to educate me, I wonder? Never I hope. By the way, in case you hadnt guessed from the Exquisite Prose and all the SHOUTING Im writing this drunk, beers at lunch time! As you can tell Im not a great letter writer not like you

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(4)

Are you doing another play? Are you still in that box room? Does the flat still smell of fried onions? Is Tilly Killick still soaking her big grey bras in the washing -up bowl? Are you still at Mucho Loco or whatever its called? Your last letter made

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(5)

And theres nothing else you can do? You cant temp, or live with your parents orsomething? I need to be in London, I need flexible hours . . . Why, whats your stroke? My what? Your stroke. Everyone who works here has a stroke. Waiter-stroke-artist, wa

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(6)

In fact Ill go further and say that I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because its easier, isnt it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it. Is this annoying you? I bet it is

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(7)

I just dont worry about the dole and housing benefit and the future of the Labour Party and where Im going to be in twenty years time and how Mr Mandela is adjusting to freedom. So time for another breather before the next paragraph because Ive barel

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(8)

She pulled a soft pancake from a catering pack of fifty and dangled it like a wet flannel. Thats a burrito. Fill it, deep fry it, melt cheese on it, its an enchilada. A tortilla thats been filled is a taco and a burrito that you fill yourself is a fa

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(10)

Thats providing you can overcome your sexual attraction to me ha ha. If the worst comes to the worst, Ill lock you in your room at nights. Anyway, now the big one 3 As soon as youve read this, go to the student travel agency on Tottenham Court Road a

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(11)

Besides its only for three months. Ive got to come back in the autumn anyway. As you know Mums not been well. She tells me the operation went fine and maybe it did or maybe she just doesnt want me to worry. Either way Ive got to come home eventually.

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(12)

To complete the image he had acquired a cautious tattoo on his ankle, a non-committal yin-and-yang that he would probably regret back in London. But that was fine. In London he would wear socks. Sobered by the cold shower, he returned to the tiny roo

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(13)

Shortly after nine that night, Dexter left the bar with Renee van Houten, a trainee pharmacist from Rotterdam with fading henna on her hands, a jar of temazepam in her pocket and a poorly executed tattoo of Woody Woodpecker at the base of her spine.

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER THREE(14)

She resolved to ask at the reception of the hostel over the road. This was, after all, the best that she could do. Heidi Schindler is Heidi Klauss now. Forty-one years old, she lives in a suburb of Frankfurt with a husband and four children, and is r

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER FOUR（1）

So Ill come straight out with it. Take a seat. Scott lit a cigarette and Emma hoisted herself onto the bar stool opposite his large, untidy desk. A wall of boxes filled with vodka, tequila and cigarettes the stock deemed most nickable blocked out the

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER FOUR（2）

She pressed two wads of rough blue paper against her eyes. Sorry, sorry, sorry, you were saying. Ive lost my place now, you bursting into tears like that. I think you were telling me that my life was going nowhere, and she began to laugh and cry at t

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（4）

Stay positive, Sid, will you please? implored Candy on a long, controlled out-breath. Gary continued. Remember, keep it fresh, stay connected, keep it lively, say the lines like its the first time and most importantly of all, dont let the audience in

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（5）

Her younger sister, Marianne, a happily married nurse with a new baby, would come round at nights just to gloat at mum and dads golden girl brought low. But every now and then, there was Dexter Mayhew. In the last few warm days of the summer after gr

【有声英语文学名著】CHAPTER TWO（6）

Amsterdam is MAD, Barcelona INSANE, Dublin ROCKS. Sick as DOG this morning. As a travel writer, he was no Bruce Chatwin, but still she would slip the postcards in the pocket of a heavy coat on long soulful walks on Ilkley Moor, searching for some hid