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Montague Rhodes James
死去的人并非总是安静地躺在坟墓里。有时他们在这个世界上还有没做完的事情或者想为自己所受的委屈报仇雪恨;或许生活中他们自己也作过恶,即使死了也不得安宁,所以他们一定要回来给活着的人带来麻烦和恐惧。
在这5个故事中,死者可能随时随地以最奇怪的方式到来——到牛津某一学院,威廉斯先生正在那儿饶有兴趣地看着一幅古旧的画作;或者光天化日之下来到年轻的汤姆森先生度假住的一家小旅馆。爱德华·邓宁先生的房间里灯灭了,他伸手去找火柴,黑暗中他的手触到的是什么?乡绅鲍尔斯的妻子和继子要问个问题,可只有鲍尔斯知道答案,你怎么去问一个躺在坟墓里的死人问题呢?当帕金斯教授吹起他拾到的一个很旧的口哨时,是只有风作答,还是有别的东西?一种你见不着、听不见却又难以想像有多么可怕的东西…
蒙塔古·罗兹·詹姆斯(1862——1936)生于肯特郡,先后担任过剑桥大学的国王学院及伊顿公学院长,以其鬼怪故事闻名,这些故事问世后便深受欢迎。
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人鼠之间(Of Mice And Men),美国小说,1937年出版,是美国作家 约翰·斯坦贝克的作品。
故事情节简单,涵盖的时间不超过三天,地点是一个美国加州的一个牧场。描写两个相互扶持的好朋友(George曾骗老板他们是表兄弟)——一位是精明的乔治(George),一位是轻度智障儿雷尼(Lennie)。雷尼因为社会适应较差,老是犯错,搞的两人无奈地到处换工作。在富人奥谢(Tyler Ranch)的牧场里,他们努力工作编织梦想,乔治答应雷尼如果他听话不要闯祸,将来就可以为自己照顾一窝的兔子,眼看着梦想就要成真。有一次雷尼失手勒死了奥谢儿子柯利的太太梅,铸成大错,为了躲避的农场伙计们的追打,雷尼逃跑了。当伙计们争先恐后地追杀雷尼时,乔治为了不让雷尼被农场伙计们杀死并受到侮辱,抢先找到雷尼。他举起枪来,把枪口挨近雷尼的后脑杓,将他射杀。
这部小说用来讽刺社会对弱者的歧视,反而不如雷尼对老鼠的疼惜,《人鼠之间》曾因“语言亵渎,带攻击性,并有种族主义倾向”被视为禁书。1962年史坦贝克因这部小说获得诺贝尔文学奖。
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查尔斯·狄更斯
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it is among the most famous works of fiction.
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated British barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
The novel was published in weekly installments instead of monthly, as with most of his other novels. The first ran in the first issue of Dickens' literary periodical All the Year Round on 30 April 1859. The last ran thirty-one weeks later, on 25 November.
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《第二十二条军规》是一部严肃的、讽刺性极强的小说。通过这部小说,约瑟夫·海勒将他眼中的美国社会展现在读者眼前。这个社会处于一种有组织的混乱、一种制度化了的疯狂之中,这个社会的一切只服从“第二十二条军规”的荒诞逻辑。这样一种病态的、荒诞的社会只有海勒的想象力才能够包容它,只有“黑色幽默”这样的创作手法才能够较好地表现它。通过“第二十二条军规”这个象征,读者也可以看到战争、美国社会及其官僚机构的荒诞、疯狂和不可理喻。由于这部小说揭示了美国社会真实的一面,因此它不仅在西方社会里具有普遍的意义并被译成十多种文字,而且对于我们中国读者认识、了解当代美国社会以及由这个社会造就的一代没有理想、没有信仰、没有人生目标的美国人,无疑具有极高的价值。这部小说的主要情节非常简单:第二次世界大战末,在意大利厄尔巴岛以南八英里的地中海的一个美国空军基地——皮亚诺萨小岛上,轰炸手约塞连上尉像只惊弓之鸟,在一片混乱、荒谬与恐怖中,置一切权威、信条于不顾,为保存自己的性命而进行着几近疯狂的努力。在这个岛上,他生活的唯一目的就是逃避作战飞行。于是,他一次又一次地装病住进医院,因为他发现唯有这里才是最好的藏身之地。最后,终于开了小差,逃到了瑞典。在本书中,海勒借虚构的皮亚诺萨小岛作为舞台,以第二次世界大战期间美军某飞行大队里发生的一系列事件为内容,将他眼中的美国社会展现在读者眼前,让人们能够看清楚在这个疯狂的世界里,人是如何变得“全疯了”的。
Catch-22 is like no other novel It is one of the funniest books ever written,a key-stone work in Americal literature,and even added a new term to the dictionary.
At the heart of Cathc-22 resides the incomparable malingering bombardier,Yos sarinal a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin form the horrible chances of war.His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him.His problem is Colonel Cathcart,who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service.Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself form the perilous missions that he is committed to flying,he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade,the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title:a man is considered insane of he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions,but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.
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Daniel Defoe
This is a novel by the English author Daniel Defoe, published in 1719. It is one of the most popular adventure novels in all literature. It is the story of Bobinson Crusoe, an Englishman who is shipwrecked in a lonely tropical island. He builds himself a hut, grows his own food, and becomes self-sufficient. After 23 years he meets with a group of cannibals and rescues one of their prisoners, a young native whome he calls Friday.Crusoe and his“man”Friday become close friends, and when they are finally rescued four years later, both return to England.
Robinson Crusoe was partly based on the actual deeds of Alexander Selkirk, an 18th-century Scottish sailor who spent almost five years alone on a desert island. This novel is famous for its lovely details and its expression of belief in man's ability when left alone in nature.
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赫尔曼.梅尔维尔
捕鲸船“裴廊德”号船长亚哈,在一次捕鲸过程中,被凶残聪明的白鲸莫比-迪克咬掉了一条腿,因此他满怀复仇之念,一心想追捕这条白鲸,竟至失去理性,变成一个独断独行的偏热症狂。他的船几乎兜遍了全世界经历辗转,终于与莫比-迪克遭遇。经过三天追踪,他用鱼叉击中白鲸,但船被白鲸撞破,亚哈被鱼叉上的绳子缠住,掉入海中。全船人落海,只有水手以实玛利(《圣经》中人名,意为被遗弃的人)一人得救。
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加夫列尔·加西亚·马尔克斯
作品描写了布恩迪亚家族七代人的传奇故事,以及加勒比海沿岸小镇马孔多的百年兴衰,反映了拉丁美洲一个世纪以来风云变幻的历史。作品融入神话传说、民间故事、宗教典故等神秘因素,巧妙地糅合了现实与虚幻,展现出一个瑰丽的想象世界,成为20世纪最重要的经典文学巨著之一。
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杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格
该书的主人公霍尔顿是个中学生,出生于富裕的中产阶级家庭。他虽只有16岁,但比常人高一头,整日穿着风衣,戴着猎帽,游游荡荡,不愿读书。他对学校里的一切——老师、同学、功课、球赛等等,全都腻烦透了,曾是学校击剑队队长,3次被学校开除。又一个学期结束了,他又因5门功课中4门不及格被校方开除。他丝毫不感到难受。在和同房间的同学打了一架后,他深夜离开学校,回到纽约城,但他不敢贸然回家。当天深夜住进了一家小旅馆。他在旅馆里看到的都是些不三不四的人,有穿戴女装的男人,有相互喷水、喷酒的男女,他们寻欢作乐,忸怩作态,使霍尔顿感到恶心和惊讶。他无聊之极,便去夜总会厮混了一阵。回旅馆时,心里仍觉得十分烦闷,糊里糊涂答应电梯工毛里斯,让他叫来了一个妓女(十五块钱到第二天,五块钱一次)。 他一看到妓女又紧张害怕,给了妓女五块钱打发她走了,可妓女要十块钱。后来妓女找毛里斯来找事,毛里斯把霍尔顿打了一顿,拿走了他们要的另外五块钱。
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Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring.
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