标题: 《The master of Petersburg 》作者：- J. M. Coetzee【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-2-20 07:40 标题: 《The master of Petersburg 》作者：- J. M. Coetzee【EPUB】 The Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee ?? ?? (First published in 1994) ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? I ?? ?? _Petersburg_ ?? October, 1869. A droshky passes slowly down a street in the Haymarket district of St Petersburg. Before a tall tenement building the driver reins in his horse. ?????????????????????? His passenger regards the building dubiously. 'Are you sure this is the place?' he asks. ?????????????????????? ' Sixty-three Svechnoi Street , that's what you said.' ?????????????????????? The passenger steps out. He is a man in late middle age, bearded and stooped, with a high forehead and heavy eyebrows that lend him an air of sober self-absorption. He wears a dark suit of somewhat démodé cut. ?????????????????????? 'Wait for me,' he tells the driver. ?????????????????????? Beneath scarred and peeling exteriors the older houses of the Haymarket still retain some of their original elegance, though