嘉莉妹妹

出版时间：2010-1  出版社：中央编译出版社  作者：德莱塞  页数：582  
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内容概要

《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》是美国20世纪第一部描写都市生活的力作，小说真实地再现了一个农村姑娘如何受到芝加哥灯红酒绿、浮华丑恶氖围的熏染，逐渐泯灭淳朴的个性，以牺牲色相为代价成为纽约电影界的名演员，从而跻身于上流社会。小说因其太过真实的描写剌痛了道德家们的眼睛。当年为出版社审阅书稿的就是美国著名作家、长篇小说《章鱼》的作者弗兰克·诺克斯，尽管诺克斯对这位文学新人身上闪现着的深刻、敏锐的批判精神大加赞赏，最终也没能扭转遭禁的厄运。　　美国第一位诺贝尔文学奖得主辛克莱·刘易斯曾满怀深情地说：“德莱塞于三十年前写作了他的处女作《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》，而我在二十五年前就读到了它；它像一股自由、强劲的西风吹进闭塞、沉闷的美国，给我们滞塞的个人天地里带来了自马克’吐温和魏特曼以来的第一缕新鲜空气。”

作者简介

Theodore Dreiser （1871-1945） wasan American novelist andjournalist. In 1892, when Dreiserbegan work as a newspaperman,he "began to observe a certaintype of crime in the United Statesthat proved very common. Itseemed to spring from the factthat almost every young personwas possessed of an ingrownambition to be somebodyfinancially and socially." 
　　He pioneered the naturalistschool and is known forportraying characters whose valuelies not in their moral code, butin their persistence against allobstacles, and literary situationsthat more closely resemblestudies of nature than tales ofchoice and agency.

书籍目录

Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING——A WAIF AMID FORCES Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED——OF GRANITE AND BRASSChapter III WEE QUESTIONOF FORTUNE——FOUR-FIFTY A WEEKChapter IV THE SPENDINGS OF FANCY——FACTS ANSWER WITH SNEERSChapter V A GLITTERING NIGHT FLOWER——THE USE OF A NAMEChapter VI THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN——A KNIGHT OF TODAYChapter VII THE LURE OF THE MATERIAL——BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELFChapter VIII INTIMATIONS BY WINTER——AN AMBASSADOR SUMMONEDChapter IX CONVENTION'S OWN TINDERBOX——THE EYE THAT IS GREENChapter X THE COUNSEL OF WINTER——FORTUNE'S AMBASSADOR CALLSChapter XI THE PERSUASION OF FASHION——FEELING GUARDS O'ER ITS OWNChapter XII OF THE LAMPS OF THE MANSIONS——THE AMBASSADOR'S PLEAChapter XIII HIS CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED——A BABEL OF TONGUESChapter XIV WITH EYES AND NOT SEEING——-ONE INFLUENCE WANES Chapter XV THE IRK OF THE OLD TIES——THE MAGIC OF YOUTHChapter XVI A WITLESS ALADDIN——THE GATE TO THE WORLDChapter XVII A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE GATEW——HOPE LIGHTENS THE EYEChapter XVIII JUST OVER THE BORDER——A HAIL AND FAREWELLChapter ~IX AN HOUR IN ELFLAND——A CLAMOR HALF HEARDChapter XX THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT——THE FLESH IN PURSUITChapter XXI THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT——THE FLESH IN PURSUITChapter XXII THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER——FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESHChapter XXIII A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL——ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND Chapter XXW ASHES OF TINDER——A FACE AT THE WINDOWChapter XXV ASHES OF TINDER——THE LOOSING OF STAYSChapter XXVI THE AMBASSADOR FALLEN——A SEARCH FOR THE GATEChapter XXVII WHEN WATERS ENGULF US——WE REACH FOR A STARChapter XXVIII A PILGRIM, AN OUTLAW——THE SPIRIT DETAINEDChapter XXIX THE SOLACE OF TRAVEL——THE BOATS OF THE SEAChapter XXX THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS——THE PILGRIM ADREAMChapter XXXI A PET OF GOOD FORTUNE——BROADWAY FLAUNTS ITS JOYS Chapter XXXII THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR——A SEER TO TRANSLATEChapter XXXIU WITHOUT THE WALLED CITY——THE SLOPE OF THE YEARSChapter XXXIV THE GRIND OF THE MILLSTONES——A SAMPLE OF CHAFFChapter XXXV THE PASSING OF EFFORT——THE VISAGE OF CAREChapter XXXVI A GRIM RETROGRESSION——THE PHANTOM OF CHANCEChapter XXXVII THE SPIRIT AWAKENS——NEW SEARCH FOR THE GATE Chapter XXXVIII IN ELF LAND DISPORTING——THE GRIM WORLD WITHOUTChapter XXXIX OF LIGHTS AND OF SHADOWS——THE PARTING OF WORLDSChapter XL A PUBLIC DISSENSION——A FINAL APPEALChapter XLI THE STRIKEChapter XLII A TOUCH OF SPRING——THE EMPTY SHELLChapter XLIII THE WORLD TURNS FLATTERER——AN EYE IN THE DARKChapter XLIV AND THIS IS NOT ELF LAND——WHAT GOLD WILL NOT BUYChapter XLV CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POORChapter XLVI STIRRING TROUBLED WATERSChapter XLVII THE WAY OF THE BEATEN——A HARP IN THE WIND

章节摘录

　　It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years ofage, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance andyouth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterizedher thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now beinggiven up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, atouch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour millwhere her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as thefamiliar green environs of the village passed in review, andthe threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and homewere irretrievably broken. To be sure there was always the next station, where onemight descend and return. There was the great city, boundmore closely by these very trains which came up daily.Columbia City was not so very far away, even once she wasin Chicago. What, pray, is a few hours——a few hundred miles？She looked at the little slip bearing her sister's address andwondered. She gazed at the green landscape, now passing inswift review, until her swifter thoughts replaced its impressionwith vague conjectures of what Chicago might be. When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one oftwo things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomesbetter, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standardof virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The cityhas its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller andmore human tempter. There are large forces which allurewith all the soulfulness of expression possible in the mostcultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often aseffective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinatingeye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and naturalmind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blareof sound, a roar of life. a vast array of human hives, appealto the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without acounselor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, whatfalsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguardedear！ Unrecognized for what they are, their beauty. like music,too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simplerhuman perceptions.　Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been halfaffectionately termed by the family, was possessed of amind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was,nevertheless, her guiding characteristic. Warm with thefancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of theformative period. possessed of a figure promising eventualshapeliness and an eye alight with certain native inteUigence,she was a fair example of the middle American class——twogenerations removed from the emigrant. Books were beyondher interest——knowledge a sealed book.

编辑推荐

　　WHEN Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago,her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitationalligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leathersnap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister'saddress in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in mone It was inAugust, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full ofthe illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret atparting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantagesnow being given up. A gush of tears at hermother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throatwhen the cars clacked by the flour mill whereher father worked by the day. a pathetic sigh asthe familiar green environs of the village passedin review, and the threads which bound her solightly to girlhood and home were irretrievablybroken.Sister Carrie （1900） is a novel by TheodoreDreiser about a young country girl who movesto the big city where she starts realizing herown American Dream by first becoming amistress to men that she perceives as superiorand later as a famous actress.　In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 193o, SinclairLewis said that "Dreiser's great first novel,Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirtylong years ago and which I read twenty-fiveyears ago, came to housebound and airlessAmerica like a great free Western wind, andto our stuffy domestidity gave us the first freshair since Mark Twain and Whitman".

用户评论 (总计37条)

•   以前在大学读过《嘉莉妹妹》的译文版，但是却没能像原著这般让我深陷其中。原本就是英语专业的我，拿到原版后更是爱不释手。作者的文字中跳跃着激情与活力，让我再一次体验到了久违的兴奋和满足。
•   买回来才知道我的水平还是英汉对照合适些，没一定的积累会看的很费力，好厚的一本，全英文
•   首先这本书是正版的，不论是从书的整体包装还是从纸张到内容的印刷质量而言，这本书都做得很不错。其次，《嘉莉妹妹》的字体是比较大的，看起来也不费力。
•   精包装，纸张质量好，这一系列的小说都很好，我还买过傲慢与偏见，简爱，看着有感觉。
•   美国文学经典，对于今天的中国社会现实很有借鉴意义~~~
•   书的手感相当棒 纸张也很好 而且页边距适中 可以在旁边做个注释啥的 很方便 很喜欢这本书的封面设计 觉得翻译出版社出版的书质量确实有保障
•   书皱了，包装太简陋。但是书真的很不错。
•   纸张的排版都不错，字算中等。买来还是很值的
•   学习英语的好资料，难度不小，这本书学习完基本就可以说本科毕业了
•   好书，经典，书柜收藏品
•   HAO SHI YUANBAN
•   宝贝不错，值得一看
•   还没开始看，但包装、纸质等方面都很好，很厚实的一本书！
•   喜欢这套书，慢慢收藏齐
•   挺不错的一本书，纸张质量不错，字迹清晰。本人比较喜欢，而且认为本书是茶余饭后的阅读佳作，对于英语学习者及爱好者来说阅读本书也是大有裨益的。
•   很喜欢这个故事~
•   刚看了五章，字体比较大，本书的装订也很好，8错8错
•   书质量很好，喜欢
•   书很厚 但是文字简单易懂 质量也很不错 ~~~
•   纸张很好,质量不错,很值得去看.
•   看上去还好 论文就定你吧
•   很难得的一本书 书的印刷不错
•   看完一定会对英语有不少帮助。
•   看过了。确实写的超级棒。
•   封面风格喜欢，内容不错
•   《嘉莉妹妹》是美国作家德莱赛的处女作，反应了非常真实的20世纪初的美国，在学校图书馆只看到了中文的译本，课堂上文学课里也只有部分节选，这次的毕业论文就是以嘉莉妹妹为主题的，上网买到了英文原版的，感觉很开心，很多评说字体太大，我没有那样觉得哦，总体感觉非常好，封面是我喜欢的风格。。
•   嘉莉妹妹很不错，华胥引里面的封面不好看，不适合珍藏。整体还不多，嘉莉妹妹的英文难度还是有的，英语专业的学生可以尝试，但需要坚持。
•   是原版小说，还不错，方便携带
•   书送达时有些污垢，纸质没有格列夫游记的好点，不太像正版的，希望书中没有错别字。
•   包装被撕开了，字体也不是太大
•   喜欢这书是因为故事情节吸引人
•   老师上课的时候推荐的书，不知道好不好看
•   写得不错，只是与我们的时代相距很远，有些细节有点费解
•   纸质挺好的，呵呵
•   书质很好，正在阅读中，剧情挺强的
•   整体还不错，要是字小一点会更好。。
•   故事不是很吸引人，看了大半了，感觉故事高潮还没来啊