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　　世界文學名著錶現瞭作者描述的特定時代的文化。閱讀這些名著可以領略著者流暢的文筆、逼真的描述、詳細的刻畫，讓讀者如同置身當時的曆史文化之中。為此，我們將這套精心編輯的“名著典藏”奉獻給廣大讀者。
　　我們找來瞭專門研究西方曆史、西方文化的專傢學者，請教瞭專業的翻譯人員，精心挑選瞭這些可以代錶西方文學的著作，並聽取瞭一些國外專門研究文學的朋友的建議，不刪節、不做任何人為改動，嚴格按照原著的風格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，讓讀者能享受純正的英文名著。
　　隨著閱讀的展開，你會發現自己的英語水平無形中有瞭大幅提高，並且對西方曆史文化的瞭解也日益深入廣闊。
　　送您一套經典，讓您受益永遠！

內容簡介

　　英國女作傢弗吉尼亞·伍爾夫的文學評論集《普通讀者》及其續編當中選譯齣的文章。《普通讀者》嚮我們介紹瞭英國一批著名作傢和一些我們還不怎麼熟悉的作傢的生平、作品、寫作生涯、遺聞軼事等，我們讀來饒有興味，有助於我們對這些作傢的進一步瞭解。
　　《世界名著典藏係列：普通讀者（英文全本）》為《普通讀者》的英文版，供廣大讀者閱讀學習。

目錄

THE COMMON READER
THE PASTONS AND CHAUCER
ON NOT KNOWING GREEK
THE ELIZABETHAN LUMBER ROOM
NOTES ON AN ELIZABETHAN PLAY
MONTAIGNE
THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE
RAMBLING ROUND EVELYN
DEFOE
ADDISON
THE LIVES OF THE OBSCURE
JANE AUSTEN
MODERN FICTION
"JANE EYRE" AND "WUTHERING HEIGHTS".
GEORGE ELIOT
THE RUSSIAN POINT OF VIEW
OUTLINES
THE PATRON AND THE CROCUS
THE MODERN ESSAY
JOSEPH CONRAD
HOW IT STRIKES A CONTEMPORARY

精彩書摘

　　That is the quality that first strikes us in Greek literature, thelightning-quick, sneering, out-of-doors manner. It is apparent in themost august as well as in the most trivial places. Queens andPrincesses in this very tragedy by Sophocles stand at the doorbandying words like village women, with a tendency, as one mightexpect, to rejoice in language, to split phrases into slices, to be intenton verbal victory. The humour of the people was not good-natured likethat of our postmen and cab-drivers. The taunts of men lounging at thestreet corners had something cruel in them as well as witty. There is acruelty in Greek tragedy which is quite unlike our English brutality. Isnot Pentheus, for example, that highly respectable man, maderidiculous in the Bacchae before he is destroyed？ In fact, of course,these Queens and Princesses were out of doors, with the bees buzzingpast them, shadows crossing them, and the wind taking their draperies.They were speaking to an enormous audience rayed round them on oneof those brilliant southern days when the sun is so hot and yet the air soexciting. The poet, therefore, had to bethink him, not of some themewhich could be read for hours by people in privacy, but of somethingemphatic, familiar, brief, that would carry, instantly and directly, to anaudience of seventeen thousand people perhaps, with ears and eyeseager and attentive, with bodies whose muscles would grow stiff ifthey sat too long without diversion.
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前言/序言

　　世界文學名著錶現瞭作者描述的特定時代的文化。閱讀這些名著可以領略著者流暢的文筆、逼真的描述、詳細的刻畫，讓讀者如同置身當時的曆史文化之中。為此，我們將這套精心編輯的"名著典藏"奉獻給廣大讀者。
　　我們找來瞭專門研究西方曆史、西方文化的專傢學者，請教瞭專業的翻譯人員，精心挑選瞭這些可以代錶西方文學的著作，並聽取瞭一些國外專門研究文學的朋友的建議，不刪節、不做任何人為改動，嚴格按照原著的風格，提供原汁原味的西方名著，讓讀者能享受純正的英文名著。
　　隨著閱讀的展開，你會發現自己的英語水平無形中有瞭大幅提高，並且對西方曆史文化的瞭解也日益深入廣闊。
　　送您一套經典，讓您受益永遠！

　　（不過對菜鳥級的我來說就不懂瞭）

藉用王佐良先生的話:"好像一切評說都是多餘的瞭.文章寫到這種地步,我們這些讀者也就放下一切,隻顧默默地分享它的透徹和它的完美瞭."

不錯的，京東送貨就是快啊！靠譜。

　　可以繼續研究的興趣

　　伍爾芙評論簡.奧斯汀的一段話，看的時候也頗有感觸。

　　�敚�

很好，很方便。商品也給力啊。

　　也就是怎麼開悟（AWAKEN)和解脫（LIBERATION）

　　 這本書給我的最大價值是指導瞭一批英國著名作傢的生平作品、寫作生涯、逸聞趣事，其中很多自己都不熟悉。就如外國人知道中國的李白、曹雪芹……不怎麼曉得張若虛、馮夢龍吧？