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世界上擅長講故事的人
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買中文版送英文版
他用這“含淚的微笑”給我們帶來生活的主啓迪。
內容簡介
本書是歐·亨利的短篇小說閤集,歐?亨利的作品中以描寫紐約曼哈頓市民生活的作品著名。其作品的成功主要在於他善於捕捉和把握生活中的典型場麵,他的作品構思新穎,語言詼諧,結局常常齣乎意料,又描寫瞭眾多的人物,富於生活情趣,被譽為“美國生活的百科全書”。
作者簡介
歐·亨利,1862—1910,原名威廉?西德尼?波特。美國著名作傢,世界三大短篇小說大師之一,被譽為曼哈頓桂冠散文作傢和美國現代短篇小說之父。歐?亨利的作品構思新穎,語言詼諧,結局常常齣人意料,代錶作有小說集《白菜與國王》、《四百萬》、《命運之路》等。其中一些名篇如《愛的犧牲》、《警察與贊美詩》、《帶傢具齣租的房間》、《賢人的禮物》、《最後一片藤葉》等使他獲得瞭世界聲譽。譯者:青閏(1965~),河南武陟人。本名宋金柱,常用筆名聽泉、宣碧。現供職於焦作大學翻譯中心。擅長雙語互譯。迄今已在外文齣版社、譯林齣版社、上海交通大學齣版社、東華大學齣版社、大連理工大學齣版社、中國宇航齣版社等齣版雙語著作多部。另在《世界文學》《譯林》《當代外國文學》《英語世界》等重要報刊發錶譯文和論文多篇。他翻譯的原則是:“以雅俗共賞為基點,注重選材的廣度、深度和科學性,整體把握字詞句段篇,力求做到形聲色味神的完美統一。”
精彩書評
如果一個孩子在12歲之前沒有養成閱讀習慣。一生就不會養成良好的閱讀習慣。
——中國教育學會副會長、新教育改革發起人 硃永新
勵誌版名著之所以廣受歡迎,一是因為它強調瞭閱讀的本義,代錶瞭素質閱讀的高水平;二是因為它的真情實感,顯示齣一種真誠的力量!
——北大教授、當代文學教研室主任 陳曉明
目錄
Hearts and Hands / 心與手 1
Witches’ Loaves / 女巫的麵包 4
The Cop and the Anthem / 警察與贊美詩 9
The Gift of the Magi / 麥琪的禮物 17
The Romance of a Busy Broker / 忙碌經紀人的浪漫史 24
The Mammon and the Archer / 財神與愛神 29
The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein / 埃基?捨恩斯坦的媚藥 37
The Last Leaf / 最後一片葉子 43
The Exact Science of Matrimony / 精確婚姻學 51
The Furnished Room / 帶傢具齣租的房間 59
Springtime A La Carte / 菜單上的春天 67
A Service of Love / 愛的奉獻 74
A Double-Dyed Deceiver / 雙料騙子 81
The Lotus and the Bottle / 蓮與瓶 94
A Lickpenny Lover / 吝嗇的情人 106
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog / 黃狗迴憶錄 113
The Count and the Wedding Guest / 伯爵和婚禮來客 119
While the Auto Waits / 當汽車等著的時候 127
Telemachus, Friend / 生死之交 133
Between Rounds / 迴閤之間 142
An Unfinished Story / 未瞭情 149
Skylight Room / 天窗屋 157
Confessions of a Humorist / 幽默作傢的自白 165
Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet / 催眠師傑夫?彼得斯 176
The Roads We Take / 我們選擇的道路 184
The Marionettes / 提綫木偶 190
Conscience in Art / 藝術良心 205
Let Me Feel Your Pulse / 讓我摸摸你的脈搏 213
The Red Roses of Tonia / 托妮亞的紅玫瑰 228
The Hand that Riles the World / 混世魔手 239
The Pendulum / 鍾擺 246
By Courier / 愛情信使 252
After Twenty Years / 二十年後 257
A Retrieved Reformation / 浪子迴頭 261
The Princess and the Puma / 公主與美洲獅 271
The Ransom of Red Chief / 紅酋長的贖金 279
The Passing of Black Eagle / 飛逝的黑鷹 292
Roads of Destiny / 命運之路 305
精彩書摘
At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. express. In one coach there sat a very pretty young woman dressed in elegant taste and surrounded by all the luxurious comforts of an experienced traveler. Among the newcomers were two young men, one of handsome presence with a bold, frank countenance and manner; the other a ruffled, glum-faced person, heavily built and roughly dressed. The two were handcuffed together.
As they passed down the aisle of the coach the only vacant seat offered was a reversed one facing the attractive young woman. Here the linked couple seated themselves. The young woman’s glance fell upon them with a distant, swift disinterest; then with a lovely smile brightening her countenance and a tender pink tingeing her rounded cheeks, she held out a little gray-gloved hand. When she spoke her voice, full, sweet, and deliberate, proclaimed that its owner was accustomed to speak and be heard.
“Well, Mr. Easton, if you will make me speak first, I suppose I must. Don’t you ever recognize old friends when you meet them in the West?”
The younger man roused himself sharply at the sound of her voice, seemed to struggle with a slight embarrassment which he threw off instantly, and then clasped her fingers with his left hand.
“It’s Miss Fairchild,” he said, with a smile. “I’ll ask you to excuse the other hand; “it’s otherwise engaged just at present.”
He slightly raised his right hand, bound at the wrist by the shining “bracelet” to the left one of his companion. The glad look in the girl’s eyes slowly changed to a bewildered horror. The glow faded from her cheeks. Her lips parted in a vague, relaxing distress. Easton, with a little laugh, as if amused, was about to speak again when the other forestalled him. The glum-faced man had been watching the girl’s countenance with veiled glances from his keen, shrewd eyes.
“You’ll excuse me for speaking, miss, but, I see you’re acquainted with the marshall here. If you’ll ask him to speak a word for me when we get to the pen he’ll do it, and it’ll make things easier for me there. He’s taking me to Leavenworth prison. It’s seven years for counterfeiting.”
“Oh!” said the girl, with a deep breath and returning color. “So that is what you are doing out here? A marshal!”
“My dear Miss Fairchild,” said Easton, calmly, “I had to do something. Money has a way of taking wings unto itself, and you know it takes money to keep step with our crowd in Washington. I saw this opening in the West, and—well, a marshalship isn’t quite as high a position as that of ambassador, but—”
“The ambassador,” said the girl, warmly, “doesn’t call any more. He needn’t ever have done so. You ought to know that. And so now you are one of these dashing Western heroes, and you ride and shoot and go into all kinds of dangers. That’s different from the Washington life. You have been missed from the old crowd.”
The girl’s eyes, fascinated, went back, widening a little, to rest upon the glittering handcuffs.
“Don’t you worry about them, miss,” said the other man. “All marshals handcuff themselves to their prisoners to keep them from getting away. Mr. Easton knows his business.”
“Will we see you again soon in Washington?” asked the girl.
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