美国经典短篇小说选读

出版时间:2009-3  出版社:世界图书出版公司  作者:Washington Irving  页数:255  译者:罗慕谦  
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前言

我常常在想:生活节奏加快了,我们读书的时间越来越少了,我们休闲的方式似乎也不是阅读了。然而,我经常回味起小时候,自己坐在小桌前如饥似渴的读着一本又一本的书。每每读完一本,我就会快乐很多日子。我真的很怀念这种日子。也很期待还能有小时候让我们着迷的书。现在的生活五彩斑斓,似乎玩乐的东西很多,学习却让我们感到枯燥。我们真的需要一本于休闲和学习为一体的好书。记得著名的英语教育专家秦秀白先生说过:“就英语学习而言,一部英文小说其实就是英语建构的一个‘虚拟世界’。走进一部英文小说,你实际上就已经‘生活’在一个‘英语世界’里了,还愁没有东西可学?经典作品要读,写得好的当代通俗小说也要读,因为后者的语言更新鲜,更有时代感。”优秀的小说能够展现社会百态、人生智慧,蕴涵深厚的文化背景知识。尤其是短篇小说,更是浓缩社会人生,字字珠玑的精华之作。翻开书籍杂志、网络论坛,都会看到很多当代英语大家对小说阅读推崇有加。这对我们的启示就是,要想真正提高外语水平,阅读原版小说是必经之路。阅读原版长篇英文小说无疑是值得称道的。然而,在各种考试、工作和学习的压力之下,能坚持下来并非易事。因而篇幅短小、故事性强而又富有文采的英语短篇小说成为千千万万依然对英语充满热情的学习者的上上之选。这便是《美国经典短篇小说选读》的初衷,《美国经典短篇小说选读》选择8篇19世纪最具代表性的美国短篇小说作品,小说图文并茂,文短意深,值得回味。编排上采用英汉对照,注释采用脚注,部分疑难词汇附有音标,适合阅读和收藏,是休闲和学习的良师益友。为方便读者阅读,《美国经典短篇小说选读》将原文较长段落加以细分,行文间搭配名家插画,令人在阅读中也可嗅到艺术的清香。还犹豫什么呢?亲爱的读者朋友们,来吧,原汁原味的英语,绚丽优美的译文,让我们一起享受这华美的饕餮盛宴吧。

内容概要

短篇小说是美国早期的文学贡献,在19世纪初即已达到发展颠峰。短篇小说与美国生活方式极为相似:结构简洁,故事通常以单一背景为主,且篇幅短小,人物不多且情节紧凑。其中以华盛顿·欧文(Washington Irving)、霍桑(Nathaniel Hawthorne),以及爱伦·坡(Edgar Allan Poe)为最重要的短篇小说作家。他们不仅对美国文坛产生了深远的影响,其作品更是现代大学生必读的经典名著。   本书精选了八篇18-20世纪最具代表性的美国短篇小说作品,小说的选篇依作者年代排列,完整收录原著小说,带领读者进入书中遨游。  编排上采用英汉对照,注释采同页注,附IPA音标,兼收欣赏与学习之效。为方便现代读者阅读,并将原文较长段落加以细分。行文间搭配名家插画,令人爱不释手,值得典藏。

作者简介

作者:(美国)Washington Irving 译者:罗慕谦

书籍目录

1. Rip Van Winkle  李伯大梦2. The Birthmark  胎记3. The Cask of Amontillado  一桶阿蒙蒂拉多酒4. The Lightning-Rod Man  避雷专家5. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County  卡拉韦拉斯郡驰名的跳蛙6. A Service of Love  爱的牺牲7. The Men in the Storm  风雪沦落人8. Love of Life  热爱生命

章节摘录

插图:He never smiled,he never frowned,he never changed hisvoice from the gentle-flowing key to which he tuned the initialsentence,he never betrayed the slightest suspicion of enthusiasm;but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein ofimpressive earnestness and sincerity,which showed me plainlythat,so far from his imagining that there was any thing ridiculousor funny about his story,he regarded it as a really importantmatter,and admired itS two heroes as men of transcendentgenius in finesse.To me,the spectacle of a man drifting serenely along through such a queer yarn without ever smiling,was exquisitely absurd.As I said before,I asked him to tell me what he knew of Rev.Leonidas W.Smiley,and he replied as follows.I let him go on in his own way,and never interrupted him once:  There was a feller here once bv the name of Jim Smiley,in the winter of'49 or may be it was the spring of'50 I don't recollect exactly,somehow,though what makes me think it was one orthe other is because I remember the big flume wasn't finished when he first came to the camp;but any wav,he was the curiosest man about always betting on any thing that turned up you ever see,if he could get any bodv to bet on the other side;and if he couldn’t,he’d change sides.Any way that suited the other man would suit him any way just so’s he got a bet,he was satisfied.But still he was lucky,uncommon lucky;he most always come out winner.He was always ready and laying for a chance;there couldn't be no solittry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it,and-take any side you please,as I was just telling you.

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