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SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE AND OTHER LOVE POEMS
作者 : 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING[伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁]于公元1806年出生在达翰姆（英格兰北部一郡）。1838年，她出版了《撒拉弗和其它诗篇》[撒拉佛——六翼天使(九级天使中地位最高者)，又称：炽爱天使]。1843年，由于当时英国的最高统治者是女性，伊丽莎白于国家诗人的提名得到了更加广泛的支持。结果很不幸，她输给了威廉·华兹华斯--同一时代的另一位伟大诗人[有机会笔者会撰文介绍此人]。此后不久，伊利沙白与罗伯特·勃朗宁——另一位有才华的诗人，结婚了。然而，伊丽莎白的父亲，却不同意这场婚事。于是，这对情侣决定出逃。并由此，引发了一场浪漫的婚姻。伊丽莎白与罗伯特·勃朗宁准备各自出发，逃往意大利，并在比萨会合，去继续他们的生活。他们成功了。三年后，即1849年，他们已在意大利中部的佛罗伦萨定居。一日，伊丽莎白送给她的丈夫一件珍贵的礼物——44首她为丈夫写的十四行诗，里面有开始时的怀疑，与家庭抗争的恐惧，与爱人的甜蜜，及最终爱的胜利的喜悦。同年，他们唯一的男孩出生了。一年后，即1850年，勃朗宁夫妇出版了那44首诗，但做了些伪装。他们用葡萄牙十四行诗集为这44首诗命名。如此一来，读者便会接受这些诗是由葡萄牙语翻译过来的的暗示。于是，我们今天可以看到如此表达真爱和深爱的诗句。伊丽莎白的浪漫婚姻促成了她的，也是整个维多利亚时代的，最美丽的爱情商籁体诗。
最近更新 2019-11-21
作者 : 劳拉·英格尔斯·怀德
《大森林里的小木屋》是美国女作家劳拉·怀尔德(1867-1957)九部 小木屋系列小说中的第一部。本书讲述了小姑娘劳拉和家人一起生活在大森林深处的小木屋里的经历。作家用细腻的笔触描绘了拓荒者生活的点点滴滴：大自然一年四季的变化之美；收获季节的欢乐和温馨；恶劣环境中的生存和冒险……细致生动、趣味横生，让读者沉醉在往昔的质朴生活中。 本书以小女孩天真无邪的眼光观察生活中的点点滴滴。大森林里的梅花鹿、大懒熊、冬天的白雪、春天树上的绿芽，还有小木屋里温暖的火光、妈做的可口点心、爸的悠扬琴声，都是罗兰最甜蜜的童年回忆。 本书没有太多曲折的情节，但它是精彩的、令人感到愉悦的、经久不衰的世界儿童文学的经典名著。全书文辞妙趣横生，涉及到自然、探险、动物、亲情、成长等许多青少年关注的兴趣点，可以引起青少年的极大阅读兴趣，是对他们的求知和成长大有益处的高价值图书。 Laura Ingalls's story begins in 1871 in a little log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their trusty dog, Jack. Pioneer life is sometimes hard, since the family must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But it is also exciting as Laura and her folks celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. And every night they are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa's fiddle sending Laura and her sisters off to sleep. And so begins Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.
最近更新 2019-11-21
作者 : Anonymous
花木兰是家中的长女，性格爽朗率真，父母极力想帮女儿找到一个好归宿，可是多次努力未果。此时却收到了北方匈奴侵略的消息，朝廷召集各家各户的壮丁。木兰父亲也在名单之内，木兰不忍年迈残疾的父亲征战沙场，决定割掉长发，偷走父亲的盔甲，决定女扮男装代父从军。花家的祖先为了保护木兰，便派出了心地善良的木须从旁帮忙。从军的过程中，木兰凭着坚强意志，通过了一关又一关的艰苦训练，她的精神也感动了所有战友。就在战况告急的时候，她也被发现了女子的身份。她被遗留在雪地中，而最后也是她的及时出现，顺利协助大军击退了匈奴。
最近更新 2019-11-21
作者 : Jack London
JACK LONDON WAS born on January12,1876,in san Francisco,California,as John Griffith Chaney.His mother,Flora Wellman,was a teacher and spiritualist,and his father,Willian left them not long after,and Jack took his stepfather''s last name ,London.The family moved to Oakland and ,by the time he was ten,London was an avid reader,checking books out of the public library.London left school at age thirteen to work a number of odd jobs-as a cannery worker ,sailor ,oyster pirate,and fish patroller.In1893,unemloyed workers marched in protest against the econormic crisis,and London,age seventeen,joined them.Arrested for vagerancy,he spent a month in jail.When he was released,he resolved to get his education.He earned his high school equivalency degree in a year and enrolled in the Univer-sity of California at Berkeley,where he read voraciously.London embraced the wroks of Darwin,Nietzsche,and Marx and became a socialist.In1897,he dropped out to join the gold rush in the Klondike region of Alaska and Canada.JACK LONDON WAS born on January12,1876,in san Francisco,California,as John Griffith Chaney.His mother,Flora Wellman,was a teacher and spiritualist,and his father,Willian left them not long after,and Jack took his stepfather''s last name ,London.The family moved to Oakland and ,by the time he was ten,London was an avid reader,checking books out of the public library.London left school at age thirteen to work a number of odd jobs-as a cannery worker ,sailor ,oyster pirate,and fish patroller.In1893,unemloyed workers marched in protest against the econormic crisis,and London,age seventeen,joined them.Arrested for vagerancy,he spent a month in jail.When he was released,he resolved to get his education.He earned his high school equivalency degree in a year and enrolled in the Univer-sity of California at Berkeley,where he read voraciously.London embraced the wroks of Darwin,Nietzsche,and Marx and became a socialist.In1897,he dropped out to join the gold rush in the Klondike region of Alaska and Canada.
最近更新 2019-11-21
The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt(Excerpt)
作者 : 威廉·格纳齐诺
This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germanys highest literary honor, is finally available to English-speaking readers in a pitch-perfect translation by Philip Boehm.Employed by a high-end shoe manufacturer to test new products, the narrator spends his days wandering through his native city, encountering faces from his past (primarily female) and experiencing anew the many manifestations of the mystery of life. In the grand tradition of literary flaneurs, he takes note of his surroundings, from the significant to the mundane, and assembles them into a sort of mental collage that is at once self-portrait and cityscape.Most remarkable in Genazinos work is the humor with which he invests this melancholic character. Though at times he fears that he teeters on the brink of insanity, he good-naturedly pursues the strange twists of fate that land him variously behind a table at the flea market, in a newspaper office, by the banks of a flooded river, or in a friends bed. As Peter von Matt wrote in Der Spiegel, Indeed, there is hardly a subtler humorist among todays writers than Genazino.
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作者 : 叶芝
O blessed and happy he, who knowing the mysteries of the gods,sanctifies his life, and purifies his soul, celebrating orgies in the mountains with holy purifications.--Euripides.
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作者 : 叶芝
Hanrahan, that was never long in one place, was back again among the villages that are at the foot of Slieve Echtge, Illeton and Scalp and Ballylee, stopping sometimes in one house and sometimes in another, and finding a welcome in every place for the sake of the old times and of his poetry and his learning. There was some silver and some copper money in the little leather bag under his coat, but it was seldom he needed to take anything from it, for it was little he used, and there was not one of the people that would have taken payment from him. His hand had grown heavy on the blackthorn he leaned on, and his cheeks were hollow and worn, but so far as food went, potatoes and milk and a bit of oaten cake, he had what he wanted of it; and it is not on the edge of so wild and boggy a place as Echtge a mug of spirits would be wanting, with the taste of the turf smoke on it. He would wander about the big wood at Kinadife, or he would sit through many hours of the day among the rushes about Lake Belshragh, listening to the streams from the hills, or watching the shadows in the brown bog pools; sitting so quiet as not to startle the deer that came down from the heather to the grass and the tilled fields at the fall of night. . . .
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作者 : 乔治·奥威尔
奥威尔的作品，不仅有远见卓识的政治寓言，更透出一股浓浓的对人类灵魂的关怀和对普通人的深爱。据说奥威尔幼时长得极丑，可想而知的成为了一个一个不合群的孩子，无法融入他所出生的上流社会。也许正是这种孤独培养出他独立思考和观察的能力，也让他接近下层的普通民众，体验他们的生活，关爱普通人的精神世界。《上来透口气》中的主人公是一个处在低层社会中的小推销员，他一直在压抑苦闷的生活中忍受和挣扎，终于有一天他决定不顾一切回自己美丽的家乡透口气。因为在他的记忆中，那里有一大片一大片的山毛榉树林，树上发着星星点点的新芽，阳光投下的影子在树叶间互相追逐，晾在路边的干草弥漫在整个村庄，还有那个有着硕大黑鱼穿梭的池塘。但他回去之后却看到他的故乡成了一个大规模的工业城镇，整片整片相连的是一个模样的鲜红色屋顶，破旧的被熏黑的院墙、肮脏的河流和简陋的街巷，这个想上来透口气的可怜人最终发现原来根本没有空气可透。在中国日益工业化、城市化的今天，几乎每个人的家乡都遭遇了和小说中描述的同样的沦落。当我们发现儿时碧水蓝天的故乡变成了一个个烟囱和一栋栋灰色的楼房，当我们发现已经无处透口气，当我们在工业化的社会中迷失了自我……也许到了该好好思考一下的时候：究竟什么是我们真正需要的？当付出了一切，才发现追求的只是最初所拥有的东西，会不会太晚了呢？
最近更新 2019-11-21
作者 : 谢尔·希尔弗斯坦
The Little Boy and the Old ManSaid the little boy, Sometimes I drop my spoon.Said the old man, I do that too.The little boy whispered, I wet my pants.I do that too, laughed the little old man.Said the little boy, I often cry.The old man nodded, So do I.But worst of all, said the boy, it seemsGrown-ups don't pay attention to me.And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.I know what you mean, said the little old man.
最近更新 2019-11-21
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
作者 : 唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
唐纳德·巴塞尔姆Donald Barthelme（1931年4月7日—1989年7月23日）是美国后现代主义小说家，代表作是《白雪公主》。他一生写了大量的短篇小说，并曾从事新闻记者、杂志编辑等工作，并曾在纽约城市大学任教。虽然以短篇小说文明，巴塞尔姆一生中亦著有四部中长篇小说：《白雪公主》（Snow White），《死去的父亲》（The Dead Father），《天堂》（Paradise）以及 The King。他的一百多篇短篇收集在 《Come Back, Dr. Caligari》、 《Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts》《City Life》和《Sadness》等书中。另外，它的大部分作品汇集在了《故事六十篇》（Sixty Stories）和《故事四十篇》（Forty Stories）之中。巴塞尔姆还著有一些非小说书籍，如：《Guilty Pleasures》、《Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews of Donald Barthelme》。并和女儿一道写了儿童文学作品《The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine》，并因此在1972年获得美国国家图书奖。巴塞尔姆的短篇小说作品通常只重视偶然和片断，而并传统、完整的叙述并不多见。一些作品背离了小说传统表现方式，甚至在一些作品里采用大量非文字的表达方式例如插入让读者难以捉摸的图片或者单调的色块。人们对他的作品有褒有贬。褒者认为巴塞尔姆的作品思维方式奇特、观点独到，贬者认为他的作品毫无意义不能理解。他也是美国最富有影响力的后现代主义作家之一。
最近更新 2019-11-21
作者 : 尼克·霍恩比
在元旦新年的守岁夜，伦敦有四个失意绝望的人：因为跟一个15岁少女上床而声败名裂的电视名人马丁；除了照顾自己严重残疾的成年儿子没有自己生活的中年妇女莫莲；因为姐姐几年前神秘失踪而一直走不出心理阴影的少女杰丝；和乐队解散、女友分手的美国摇滚歌手JJ。他们都想到著名的礼帽大厦楼顶跳楼自杀，四人在楼顶不期而遇。他们一起度过了一个晚上，讲述各自不幸的遭遇，第二天一早各自回家，但从此形成了一个奇怪的四人小团体，开始发生各种各样有趣的事情，比如他们试图挽救马丁的婚姻，结果一团糟；他们组成读书会，专门讨论自杀的作家们，他们还计划不周地匆匆去金丝雀群岛旅行…… 这是英国当红作家尼克·霍恩比第四部长篇小说，他的小说风格充满喜剧色彩而给人以温暖。在这部首印达17万册的新作中，他娴熟地驾驭自杀这样沉重的话题，时不时令读者发出会心一笑。小说刚刚在美国上市就占据《纽约时报》小说排行榜第四名，其受欢迎程度可见一斑。新年前夜，四个生活失意的陌生人在伦敦著名的自杀圣地顶层大厦上不期而遇。马丁是个名誉臭了大街的电视节目主持人，JJ是个失败的音乐人，中年妇女莫琳除了一个植物人儿子之外一无所有，而洁丝是个四处碰壁的青春期叛逆少女。经过一个荒唐的夜晚，四人组成所谓的自杀俱乐部，试图互相帮助，走出抑郁的低谷。新的烦恼与笑料由此产生……
最近更新 2019-11-21
作者 : 梭维斯特
《屋顶间的哲学家》是法国作家梭维斯特的代表作。一个住在巴黎屋顶间（一种贫民窟）的哲学家，从他高踞在上的屋顶间，俯视下界蝇营狗苟的众生，生动地写下了这部日记体的作品。书中十二个分散的故事，像十二首美丽动人的诗篇，充溢着爱和同情的人生哲学，处处表现出恬淡谦挹（yì）的人生观。作者对普通人的真诚关怀和对人生罪恶的深切痛恨，充分透露出上一世纪一个有良知的知识分子处身乱世不肯随欲浮沉的磊落胸襟和博大情怀。No one succeeds in obtaining a prominent place in literature, or in surrounding himself with a faithful and steady circle of admirers drawn from the fickle masses of the public, unless he possesses originality, constant variety, and a distinct personality. It is quite possible to gain for a moment a few readers by imitating some original feature in another; but these soon vanish and the writer remains alone and forgotten. Others, again, without belonging to any distinct group of authors, having found their standard in themselves, moralists and educators at the same time, have obtained undying recognition.
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