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世界文学名著表现了作者描述的特定时代的文化。阅读这些名著可以领略著者流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画,让读者如同置身当时的历史文化之中。为此,我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。
我们找来了专门研究西方历史、西方文化的专家学者,请教了专业的翻译人员,精心挑选了这些可以代表西方文学的著作,并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友的建议,不删节、不做任何人为改动,严格按照原著的风格,提供原汁原味的西方名著,让读者能享受纯正的英文名著。
随着阅读的展开,你会发现自己的英语水平无形中有了大幅提高,并且对西方历史文化的了解也日益深入广阔。
送您一套经典,让您受益永远!
内容简介
《世界名著典藏系列:波利安娜(英文全本)》几乎是在一夜之间畅销全美的。而且,它不仅影响了美国民众的生活,它也影响了世界各国民众的生活(国为它几乎有各种文字的翻译版本)。它带来的不只是一些关于波莉安娜这个小姑娘的小故事,更重要的是它向我们展示了一种非常乐观的人生观——正像作者埃莉诺所说:“我从不否认自己所经历的挫折和灾难,我只是不气馁,我想比起那些未知的不幸,这些肯定好得多!
目录
P0LLYANNA
CHAPTER 1 MISS P0LLY
CHAPTER 2 0LD T0M AND NANCY
CHAPTER 3 THE C0MING 0F P0LLYANNA
CHAPTER 4 THE LITTLE ATTIC R00M
CHAPTER 5 THE GAME
CHAPTER 6 A QUESTI0N 0F DUTY
CHAPTER 7 P0LLYANNA AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER 8 P0LLYANNA PAYS AVISIT
CHAPTER 9 WHICH TELLS 0F THE MAN
CHAPTER 10 A SURPRISE F0R MRS SN0W
CHAPTER 11 INTR0DUCING JIMMY
CHAPTER 12 BEF0RE THE LADIES' AID
CHAPTER 13 IN PENDLET0N W00DS
CHAPTER 14 JUST A MATTER 0F JELLY
CHAPTER 15 DR CHILT0N
CHAPTER 16 A RED R0SE AND A LACE SHAWL
CHAPTER 17 JUST LIKE A B00K
CHAPTER 18 PRISMS
CHAPTER 19 WHICH IS S0MEWHAT SURPRISING
CHAPTER 20 WHICH IS M0RE SURPRISING
CHAPTER 21 A QUESTI0N ANSWERED
CHAPTER 22 SERM0NSAND W00DB0XES
CHAPTER 23 AN ACCIDENT
CHAPTER 24 J0HN PENDLET0N
CHAPTER 25 A WAITING GAME
CHAPTER 26 A D00R AJAR
CHAPTER 27 TW0 VISITS
CHAPTER 28 THE GAME AND ITS PLAYERS
CHAPTER 29 THR0UGH AN 0PEN WIND0W
CHAPTER 30 JIMMY TAKES THE HELM
CHAPTER 33 A NEW UNCLE
CHAPTER 32 WHICH IS A LETTER FR0M P0LLYANNA
P0LLYANNA GR0WS UP
CHAPTER 1 DELLA SPEAKS HER MIND
CHAPTER 2 S0ME 0LD FRIENDS
CHAPTER 3 A D0SE 0F P0LLYANNA
CHAPTER 4 THE GAME AND MRS CAREW
CHAPTER S P0LLYANNATAKES A WALK
CHAPTER 6 JERRYT0 THE RESCUE
CHAPTER 7 A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER 8 JAMIE
CHAPTER 9 PLANS AND PL0rlINGS
CHAPTER 10 IN MURPHY'S ALLEY
CHAPTER 11 A SURPRISE F0R MRS CAREW
CHAPTER 12 FR0M BEHIND A C0UNTER
CHAPTER 13 A WAITING AND A WINNING
CHAPTER 14 JIMMY AND THE GREEN-EYED M0NSTER
CHAPTER 15 AUNT P0LLY TAKES ALARM
CHAPTER 16 WHEN P0LLYANNA WAS EXPECTED
CHAPTER 17 WHEN P0LLYANNA CAME
CHAPTER 18 A MATTER 0F ADJUSTMENT
CHAPTER 19 TW0 LETI-ERS
CHAPTER 20 THE PAYING GUESTS
CHAPTER 21 SUMMER DAYS
CHAPTER 22 C0MRADES
CHAPTER 23 TIED T0 TW0 STICKS
CHAPTER 24 JIMMY WAKES UP
CHAPTER 25 THE GAME AND P0LLYANNA
CHAPTER 26 J0HN PENDLET0N
CHAPTER 27 THE DAY P0LLYANNA DID N0T PLAY
CHAPTER 28 JIMMY AND JAMIE
CHAPTER 29 JIMMY AND J0HN
CHAPTER 30 J0HN PENDLET0N TURNS THE KEY
CHAPTER 31 AFTER L0NG YEARS
CHAPTER 32 A NEW ALADDIN
精彩书摘
With a run and a skilful turn, Pollyanna skipped by the bent old man, threaded her way between the orderly rows of green growing things, and - a little out of breath - reached the path that ran through the open field. Then, determinedly, she began to climb. Already, however, she was thinking what a long, long way off that rock must be, when back at the window it had looked so near!
Fifteen minutes later the great clock in the hallway of the Harrington homestead struck six. At precisely the last stroke Nancy sounded the bell for supper.
One, two, three minutes passed. Miss Polly frowned and tapped the floor with her slipper. A little jerkily she rose to her feet, went into the hall, and looked upstairs, plainly impatient. For a minute she listened intently; then she turned and swept into the dining- room.
"Nancy," she said with decision, as soon as the little serving-maid appeared; "my niece is late. No, you need not call her," she added severely, as Nancy made a move toward the hall door. "I told her what time supper was, and now she will have to suffer the consequences. She may as well begin at once to learn to be punctual. When she comes down she may have bread and milk in the kitchen."
"Yes, ma'am." It was well, perhaps, that Miss Polly did not happen to be looking at Nancy's face just then.
At the earliest possible moment after supper, Nancy crept up the back stairs and thence to the attic room.
"Bread and milk, indeed! - and when the poor lamb hain't only just cried herself to sleep," she was muttering fiercely, as she softly pushed open the door. The next moment she gave a frightened cry. "Where are you? Where've you gone? Where have you gone?" she panted, looking in the closet, under the bed, and even in the Uunk and down the water-pitcher. Then she flew downstairs and out to Old Tom in the garden.
"Mr Tom, Mr Tom, that blessed child's gone," she wailed. "She's vanished right up into Heaven where she come from, poor lamb - and me told ter give her bread and milk in the kitchen - her what's eatin' angel food this minute, I'll warrant, I'll warrant! "
The old man straightened up.
"Gone? Heaven?" he repeated stupidly, unconsciously sweeping the brilliant sunset sky with his gaze. He stopped, stared a moment intently, then turned with a slow grin. "Well, Nancy, it do look like as if she'd tried ter get as nigh Heaven as she could, and that's a fact," he agreed, pointing with a crooked finger to where, sharply outlined against the reddening sky, a slender, wind-blown figure was poised on top of a huge rock.
"Well, she ain't goin' ter Heaven that way ternight - not ifl has my say," declared Nancy, doggedly. "If the mistress asks, tell her I ain't furgettin' the dishes, but I gone on a stroll," she flung back over her shoulder, as she sped toward the path that led through the open field.
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前言/序言
《世界名著典藏系列》之瑰丽篇章:精选经典,洞察人性 《世界名著典藏系列》,汇集了人类文学史上最为璀璨的群星,每一部作品都是一个时代的缩影,一次对人性的深刻拷问,一次对艺术形式的极致探索。本典藏系列致力于为读者呈现那些跨越时空、至今仍能震撼心灵的文学巨著,它们不仅是知识的积累,更是精神世界的丰沛滋养。 本系列收录的精选名著,旨在提供一个广阔的阅读视野,涵盖从古典史诗的恢弘叙事到现代主义的细腻解构,从英美文学的现实主义脉络到欧洲大陆的浪漫主义激荡。每一部作品都经过精心甄选和审慎校对,力求还原原著的精髓与魅力。 --- 聚焦经典巨著:本系列精选书目概览(不含《波利安娜》) 本系列中,我们深入挖掘了对世界文学产生深远影响的标志性作品,它们共同构筑了人类共同的文化记忆。 一、 现实主义的巅峰与社会批判的利剑 1. 《傲慢与偏见》(Pride and Prejudice)—— 简·奥斯汀 这部被誉为“英国文学史上最完美的爱情小说”的经典,以其机智的对话和对十八世纪末英国乡绅阶层生活的精准描摹而著称。故事围绕班内特家的五位小姐展开,重点刻画了伊丽莎白·班内特与达西先生之间从误解到理解的复杂情感历程。奥斯汀以讽刺的笔触,巧妙地揭示了当时社会中婚姻与财富的现实考量,以及女性在父权社会中受到的束缚。伊丽莎白独立自主的精神和达西先生由傲慢转为谦逊的心路历程,构成了永恒的阅读魅力。 2. 《红字》(The Scarlet Letter)—— 纳撒尼尔·霍桑 美国文学早期哥特式浪漫主义的代表作。故事背景设定在十七世纪清教徒统治下的波士顿,海丝特·白兰是一位因通奸而背负“罪恶”的女性。她被迫终身佩戴象征耻辱的红色“A”字。霍桑通过这一强烈的意象,探讨了罪孽、羞耻、忏悔与救赎的复杂主题。小说深入剖析了压抑的宗教道德对人性的扭曲,以及公众审判与个人良知之间的永恒冲突。其象征手法的运用达到了炉火纯青的地步。 3. 《悲惨世界》(Les Misérables)—— 维克多·雨果 这部鸿篇巨制不仅是一部小说,更是一部关于社会不公、法律与恩典的百科全书式作品。故事以冉阿让这位背负着沉重刑期出狱的前科犯为核心,展现了他一生力求赎罪的坎坷道路。穿插着芳汀的悲惨遭遇、德纳第夫妇的贪婪以及学生起义的壮阔场面,雨果以其澎湃的热情和悲悯的情怀,描绘了法国大革命后特定历史时期底层人民的苦难,并颂扬了人类的博爱精神。 4. 《战争与和平》(War and Peace)—— 列夫·托尔斯泰 被誉为“人类精神的史诗”。托尔斯泰以拿破仑战争时期俄国社会为宏大背景,将五大家族的命运与历史的洪流交织在一起。小说中既有对奥斯特里茨战役、博罗季诺战役等重大历史事件的细致描绘,也有对彼埃尔、安德烈等贵族青年在爱情、哲学、生命意义上的不懈探索。托尔斯泰试图在个体的自由意志与历史的必然规律之间找到平衡点,其对人物心理的剖析入木三分,对战争场面的描写真实震撼。 二、 现代主义的先声与探索 5. 《都柏林人》(Dubliners)—— 詹姆斯·乔伊斯 这部短篇小说集是乔伊斯文学创作的基石。通过十五个相互关联的故事,乔伊斯以其标志性的“意识流”手法,展现了二十世纪初爱尔兰都柏林市民的日常生活和精神困境。小说着重刻画了“麻痹”(Paralysis)这一核心主题——人物们深陷于社会、宗教和个人习俗的泥潭中无法自拔。其中《死者》一篇,以其对死亡的沉思和对逝去人生的复杂情感处理,成为现代文学的典范。 6. 《局外人》(L'Étranger)—— 阿尔贝·加缪 存在主义文学的奠基之作。以其简洁、冷峻的语言,讲述了默尔索这位因意外杀人而被审判的阿尔及利亚职员的故事。默尔索对待生命和死亡、爱与社会的反应,表现出一种对既有价值体系的彻底疏离。小说探讨了荒谬(Absurdity)的概念——即人类对意义的渴望与宇宙的冷漠之间的永恒冲突。默尔索的“局外人”身份,是对现代社会虚伪性的无声控诉。 三、 哥特、悬疑与心理深度 7. 《呼啸山庄》(Wuthering Heights)—— 艾米莉·勃朗特 一部充满原始激情与毁灭性的爱情悲剧。故事围绕着孤儿希斯克利夫与庄园小姐凯瑟琳之间强烈而扭曲的爱恨情仇展开。勃朗特以约克郡荒原的阴郁、狂野的自然环境为背景,塑造了超越世俗道德约束的爱情形象。希斯克利夫对凯瑟琳的痴迷与复仇,将人性的黑暗面、占有欲以及宿命感推向了极致,读来令人心悸。 8. 《白鲸记》(Moby Dick)—— 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔 这是一部关于执念、自然与形而上学的宏伟史诗。小说以捕鲸船“裴廓德号”的航行为主线,船长亚哈对白色巨鲸“莫比·迪克”的疯狂追杀构成了故事的核心驱动力。梅尔维尔不仅仅是在描写航海冒险,更是在探讨人类挑战自然、对抗命运的勇气与徒劳。书中穿插的鲸类知识、哲学思辨和丰富的象征意义,使其成为美国文学中最为复杂和深刻的作品之一。 --- 典藏系列的独特价值 严谨的文本校对: 鉴于许多经典名著存在多个译本,本系列力求采用最受推崇的权威译本,或由专业团队进行新译和校订,确保读者接触到的是最准确、最忠实于原著精神的文字。 深入的背景导读: 每部作品前均附有详尽的文学史背景介绍、作者生平与其创作意图的分析,帮助读者跨越时空的隔阂,理解作品诞生的时代语境和社会思潮。 艺术性装帧设计: 典藏系列在装帧设计上力求典雅与现代的结合,采用优质纸张和精美的封面设计,使之不仅是阅读材料,更是值得收藏的艺术品。 本《世界名著典藏系列》所收录的每一部作品,都以其独特的视角和不朽的主题,构成了对人类经验的深刻记录。它们邀请读者进入一个充满挑战、美感与哲思的文学宇宙,去感受那些永恒的人类情感,去思考那些永恒的生命议题。这是对人类智慧和情感表达的最高礼赞。