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Hugo's standard is being reprinted to tie in with the Disney animated feature. Though the average kid is not likely to wade through this epic, Hyperion's illustrated edition is actually quite nice if you're looking for a quality hardcover at a good price. 內容簡介
Before the huge crowd that packed the cathedral square, La Esmeralda stood between two executioners. Suddenly Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre Dame, rushed at the executioners and felled them with his enormous fists. He snatched the gypsy girl in one arm and ran with her into the church. A moment later he appeared at the top of the bell tower. Holding the girl above his head, he showed her triumphantly to all of Paris while his thunderous voice roared savagely to the sky: " Sanctuary Sanctuary Sanctuary "
Set amid the riot, intrigue, and pageantry of medieval Paris, Victor Hugo' s masterful tale of heroism and adventure has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1831 and remains one of the most thrilling stories of all time. 作者簡介
Victor-Marie Hugo was born in 1802 at Besanon, where his father, an officer under Napoleon, was stationed. In his first decade the family moved from post to post: Corsica, Naples, Madrid. After his parents separated in 1812, Hugo lived in Paris with his mother and brothers. At twenty he married Adele Foucher and published his first poetry collection. Hugo was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1841. The accidental death two years later of his eldest daughter and her husband devastated him and marked the end of his first literary period. By then politics had become central to his life. Though he was a Royalist in his youth, his views became increasingly liberal after the July revolution of 1830: Freedom in art, freedom in society, there is the double goal. He initially supported the political ascent of Louis Napoleon, but turned savagely against him after being denied a role in government following the coup de'tat of 1851. Hugo went into exile in Brussels and Jersey, launching fierce literary attacks on the Second Empire. After the fall of the Second Empire in 1870, Hugo returned to France and was reelected to the National Assembly, and then to the Senate. He had become a legendary figure and national icon. 精彩書評
Grade 6-9. These visually appealing abridgments of classic titles make fairly difficult and complex novels accessible to a junior high audience. Virtually all kids are aware of Disney's not-so-ugly Quasimodo as the hunchbacked bell ringer of the Notre Dame Cathedral in 15th-century hang-'em-high Paris, and many will have seen some film version of Dracula. Massively trimmed, these retellings have brief, readable chapters; the violence is toned down and the eroticism erased. Competent illustrators bring visual unity to the presentations. Beginning with table-of-contents pages that feature portraits of the casts of characters, the books then devote a few pages to setting the place and mood of the tales. Two-page spreads of text and drawings are framed by related facts and illustrated with details from paintings, photographs, and even movie stills, all of which provide fascinating geographical, historical, and archaeological tidbits. These heavily illustrated books are guaranteed to give young people a leg up on high school and college English classes with their vivid re-creations of cruel, horrific, and romantic European worlds.
——John Sigwald, Unger Memorial Library, Plainview, TX
Set in fifteenth-century Paris, Hugo's powerful novel evokes medieval life as it tells of the doomed love of Quasimodo, the grotesque bell-ringer at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, for Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy. Bill Homewood's vibrant performance captures the passion of Hugo's characters in his spellbinding narration. Whether he's thundering Frollo's lust or bellowing Quasimodo's despair, Homewood's strong voice reveals the emotions of the characters with skill and confidence. Fine liner notes include information about Hugo and a list of the classical music skillfully selected for the narrative transitions.
——P.B.J.
Grade 4-6. Done in picture-book format, this retelling is, of necessity, reduced to its bare bones, but the essentials of the complex plot have been captured. The pictures, full of action and crowded with scenes of the Parisian mob, the Festival of Fools, and the airy heights of the cathedral are skillfully drawn and colored with pale hues. Quasimodo's crooked figure and distorted face are appropriately repulsive, a foil to Esmeralda's grace and beauty. Middle grade readers familiar with the Disney movie will particularly enjoy this spin-off of the original novel.
——Shirley Wilton, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
《呼嘯山莊》 艾米莉·勃朗特以其唯一的長篇小說《呼嘯山莊》在英國文學史上留下瞭濃墨重彩的一筆。這部作品不僅是哥特式小說的典範,更是一部關於愛、復仇、階級和自然力量的宏大史詩。故事的背景設定在陰鬱荒涼的英格蘭北部曠野,兩座相互對立的莊園——呼嘯山莊和畫眉山莊——成為瞭恩怨糾葛的舞颱。 故事的敘述者,一個名叫洛剋伍德的租客,初到約剋郡便被捲入瞭呼嘯山莊那令人不安的氛圍中。他從僕人奈莉·迪恩那裏,逐漸拼湊齣瞭一個跨越兩代人的、充滿激情與毀滅性的愛情悲劇。 故事的核心是希斯剋利夫和凱瑟琳·恩肖之間那段超越世俗、近乎病態的依戀。希斯剋利 perbedaan 作為一個孤兒被恩肖先生收養,他與凱瑟琳青梅竹馬,他們的靈魂仿佛從一開始就緊密相連。他們一起在荒野中奔跑,分享著對自由和野性的嚮往,這份情感深厚到足以衊視任何社會規範。然而,當恩肖先生去世後,凱瑟琳的哥哥希德利·恩肖對希斯剋利施加瞭殘酷的對待,加上凱瑟琳自身對社會地位的渴望,促使她做齣瞭一個改變所有人命運的決定:嫁給富有的林頓傢族的埃德加。 這個選擇,是凱瑟琳“背叛”瞭她真正的靈魂伴侶。正如她在奈莉麵前痛苦懺悔的那樣:“我就是希斯剋利。”她的婚姻成為瞭壓垮希斯剋利精神的最後一根稻草。他憤而齣走多年,歸來時已蛻變成一個富有、但內心被復仇的火焰徹底吞噬的男人。 希斯剋利夫的迴歸,是一場精心策劃的、對所有曾傷害過他的人的毀滅行動。他利用經濟手段,一步步奪取瞭呼嘯山莊和畫眉山莊的産權,將曾經的仇敵——希德利、林頓夫婦——置於他的絕對控製之下。他的復仇對象不僅僅是活著的個體,更包括瞭他們下一代的命運。他強迫他的兒子林頓·希斯剋利娶瞭凱瑟琳的女兒凱瑟琳·林頓,並利用這段婚姻達到瞭對林頓傢族財産的最終掌控。 小說中最令人著迷的,是人物的復雜性和道德的模糊性。《呼嘯山莊》中沒有絕對的善人或惡人,隻有被環境、階級和無法遏製的激情所扭麯的靈魂。希斯剋利夫,無疑是文學史上最著名的反英雄之一。他的殘忍令人發指,但他所有的惡行都根植於他被拋棄的痛苦和被摯愛背叛的絕望。他追求的不是簡單的物質報復,而是精神層麵的同步毀滅——他希望看到所有與凱瑟琳有關的人都陷入與他當年相同的痛苦深淵。 凱瑟琳·恩肖,則代錶瞭那個時代女性在個人欲望與社會責任之間的掙紮。她的選擇並非完全齣於貪婪,更多是源於她對“上流社會”的嚮往以及對穩定生活的渴望,但這無疑是她悲劇的起點。 勃朗特筆下的自然環境,並非隻是背景,它與人物的內心世界緊密相連,具有強烈的象徵意義。呼嘯山莊那狂風呼嘯、貧瘠蕭瑟的荒原,正是希斯剋利和凱瑟琳原始、不受約束的激情的寫照。在暴風雨中,他們的愛情顯得狂野而不可抗拒;而在林頓傢那精緻、受約束的畫眉山莊裏,愛意則變得溫和而馴服。小說中,荒原上的幽靈、夜間的低語,都為故事增添瞭濃厚的哥特式恐怖色彩,暗示著死亡和過去的陰影從未真正消散。 故事的後半段,轉嚮瞭“第二代”的命運——小凱瑟琳、哈裏頓·恩肖以及林頓·希斯剋利。起初,他們似乎注定要重復父輩的悲劇。小凱瑟琳繼承瞭母親的美麗與韌性,而哈裏頓,則被希斯剋利故意貶低為文盲和粗魯的野人,以報復他的父親希德利。然而,正是這種宿命般的重演,最終導嚮瞭救贖。 在希斯剋利夫的死亡之後,荒原上的怨靈似乎終於得到瞭安息。小凱瑟琳和哈裏頓,這兩位在痛苦中被塑造齣的年輕一代,意外地找到瞭彼此靈魂的契閤點。哈裏頓從野蠻的陰影中被喚醒,而小凱瑟琳則學會瞭愛與寬恕。他們的結閤,標誌著兩大傢族之間長達數十年的仇恨鏈條終於被斬斷,象徵著狂野的激情最終必須讓位於寜靜與和諧。 《呼嘯山莊》之所以成為永恒的經典,在於它對人類情感最極端形態的深刻探索。它探討瞭愛的界限——愛可以成為滋養生命的泉源,也可以蛻變為毀滅一切的毒藥。小說中那種無可名狀的、近乎宗教般的激情,以及那種對社會約束的激烈反抗,使得這部作品超越瞭簡單的愛情故事,成為對人性和自由的永恒追問。即便是隨著時間的推移,我們依然能感受到那股從約剋郡曠野吹來的、令人心悸的、永不平息的呼嘯之聲。