出版时间:2009-5 出版社:中国对外翻译出版公司 作者:亨利 页数:195
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一部文学史是人类从童真走向成熟的发展史,是一个个文学大师用如椽巨笔记载的人类的心灵史,也是承载人类良知与情感反思的思想史。阅读这些传世的文学名著就是在阅读最鲜活生动的历史,就是在与大师们做跨越时空的思想交流与情感交流,它会使一代代的读者获得心灵的滋养与巨大的审美满足。中国对外翻译出版公司以中外语言学习和中外文化交流为自己的出版方向,向广大读者提供既能提升语言能力,又能滋养心灵的精神大餐是我们的一贯宗旨。尽管随着网络技术和数字出版的发展,读者获得这些作品的途径更加便捷,但是,一本本装帧精美、墨香四溢的图书仍是读书人的最爱。“熟读唐诗三百首,不会做诗也会吟”,汉语学习如此,外语学习尤其如此。要想彻底学好一种语言,必须有大量的阅读。这不仅可以熟能生巧地掌握其语言技能,也可了解一种语言所承载的独特文化。“中译经典文库?世界文学名著(英语原著版)”便是这样一套必将使读者受益终生的读物。
内容概要
美国著名短篇小说家欧?亨利的代表作有小说集《白菜与国王》、《四百万》、《命运之路》等。其中一些名篇如《爱的牺牲》、《警察与赞美诗》、《带家具出租的房间》、《麦琪的礼物》、《最后一片藤叶》等使他获得了世界声誉。本书从他的短篇小说作品中精选了22篇,为英语原著版。
作者简介
欧?亨利(1862-1910),原名威廉?西德尼?波特,是美国最著名的短篇小说家之一,曾被评论界誉为曼哈顿桂冠散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父。他出身于美国北卡罗来纳州格林斯波罗镇一个医师家庭。他的一生富于传奇性,当过药房学徒、牧牛人、会计员、土地局办事员、新闻记者、银行出纳员。当银行出纳员时,因银行短缺了一笔现金,为避免审讯,离家流亡中美的洪都拉斯。后因回家探视病危的妻子被捕入狱,并在监狱医务室任药剂师。他在银行工作时,曾有过写?的经历,担任监狱医务室的药剂师后开始认真写作。1901年提前获释后,迁居纽约,专门从事写作。
书籍目录
A Newspaper Story
After Twenty Years
Buried Treasure
Confessions of a Humorist
"Girl"
Hearts and Hands
The Cactus
The Cop and the Anthem
The Detective Detector
The Furnished Room
The Gift of the Magi
The Green Door
The Last Leaf
The Marry Month of May
The Pimienta Pancakes
章节摘录
Littlefield went to the clerk of the court and looked over therecords with him. They decided that the letter might have been sent byMexico Sam, a half-breed border desperado who had been imprisonedfor manslaughter four years before. Then official duties crowded thematter from his mind, and the rattle of the revengeful serpent wasforgotten. Court was in session at Brownsville. Most of the cases to be triedwere charges of smuggling, counterfeiting, post-office robberies, andviolations of Federal laws along the border. One case was that of ayoung Mexican, Rafael Ortiz, who had been rounded up by a cleverdeputy marshal in the act of passing a counterfeit silver dollar. He hadbeen suspected of many such deviations from rectitude, but this wasthe first time that anything provable had been fixed upon him. Ortizlanguished cozily in jail, smoking brown cigarettes and waiting fortrial. Kilpatrick, the deputy, brought the counterfeit dollar and handedit to the district attorney in his office in the court-house. The deputyand a reputable druggist were prepared to swear that Ortiz paid fora bottle of medicine with it. The coin was a poor counterfeit, soft,dull-looking, and made principally of lead. It was the day before themoming on which the docket would reach the case of Ortiz, and thedistrict attorney was preparing himself for trial. "Not much need of having in high-priced experts to prove thecoin's queer, is there, Kil?" smiled Littlefield, as he thumped the dollardown upon the table, where it fell with no more ring than would havecome from a lump of putty.
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