嘉莉妹妹

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《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》是美國20世紀(jì)第一部描寫都市生活的力作，小說真實地再現(xiàn)了一個農(nóng)村姑娘如何受到芝加哥燈紅酒綠、浮華丑惡氖圍的熏染，逐漸泯滅淳樸的個性，以犧牲色相為代價成為紐約電影界的名演員，從而躋身于上流社會。小說因其太過真實的描寫剌痛了道德家們的眼睛。當(dāng)年為出版社審閱書稿的就是美國著名作家、長篇小說《章魚》的作者弗蘭克·諾克斯，盡管諾克斯對這位文學(xué)新人身上閃現(xiàn)著的深刻、敏銳的批判精神大加贊賞，最終也沒能扭轉(zhuǎn)遭禁的厄運(yùn)?！　∶绹谝晃恢Z貝爾文學(xué)獎得主辛克萊·劉易斯曾滿懷深情地說：“德萊塞于三十年前寫作了他的處女作《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》，而我在二十五年前就讀到了它；它像一股自由、強(qiáng)勁的西風(fēng)吹進(jìn)閉塞、沉悶的美國，給我們滯塞的個人天地里帶來了自馬克’吐溫和魏特曼以來的第一縷新鮮空氣?！?/pre>


作者簡介
Theodore Dreiser （1871-1945） wasan American novelist andjournalist. In 1892, when Dreiserbegan work as a newspaperman,he "began to observe a certaintype of crime in the United Statesthat proved very common. Itseemed to spring from the factthat almost every young personwas possessed of an ingrownambition to be somebodyfinancially and socially." 
　　He pioneered the naturalistschool and is known forportraying characters whose valuelies not in their moral code, butin their persistence against allobstacles, and literary situationsthat more closely resemblestudies of nature than tales ofchoice and agency.


書籍目錄
Chapter I THE MAGNET ATTRACTING——A WAIF AMID FORCES Chapter II WHAT POVERTY THREATENED——OF GRANITE AND BRASSChapter III WEE QUESTIONOF FORTUNE——FOUR-FIFTY A WEEKChapter IV THE SPENDINGS OF FANCY——FACTS ANSWER WITH SNEERSChapter V A GLITTERING NIGHT FLOWER——THE USE OF A NAMEChapter VI THE MACHINE AND THE MAIDEN——A KNIGHT OF TODAYChapter VII THE LURE OF THE MATERIAL——BEAUTY SPEAKS FOR ITSELFChapter VIII INTIMATIONS BY WINTER——AN AMBASSADOR SUMMONEDChapter IX CONVENTION'S OWN TINDERBOX——THE EYE THAT IS GREENChapter X THE COUNSEL OF WINTER——FORTUNE'S AMBASSADOR CALLSChapter XI THE PERSUASION OF FASHION——FEELING GUARDS O'ER ITS OWNChapter XII OF THE LAMPS OF THE MANSIONS——THE AMBASSADOR'S PLEAChapter XIII HIS CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED——A BABEL OF TONGUESChapter XIV WITH EYES AND NOT SEEING——-ONE INFLUENCE WANES Chapter XV THE IRK OF THE OLD TIES——THE MAGIC OF YOUTHChapter XVI A WITLESS ALADDIN——THE GATE TO THE WORLDChapter XVII A GLIMPSE THROUGH THE GATEW——HOPE LIGHTENS THE EYEChapter XVIII JUST OVER THE BORDER——A HAIL AND FAREWELLChapter ~IX AN HOUR IN ELFLAND——A CLAMOR HALF HEARDChapter XX THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT——THE FLESH IN PURSUITChapter XXI THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT——THE FLESH IN PURSUITChapter XXII THE BLAZE OF THE TINDER——FLESH WARS WITH THE FLESHChapter XXIII A SPIRIT IN TRAVAIL——ONE RUNG PUT BEHIND Chapter XXW ASHES OF TINDER——A FACE AT THE WINDOWChapter XXV ASHES OF TINDER——THE LOOSING OF STAYSChapter XXVI THE AMBASSADOR FALLEN——A SEARCH FOR THE GATEChapter XXVII WHEN WATERS ENGULF US——WE REACH FOR A STARChapter XXVIII A PILGRIM, AN OUTLAW——THE SPIRIT DETAINEDChapter XXIX THE SOLACE OF TRAVEL——THE BOATS OF THE SEAChapter XXX THE KINGDOM OF GREATNESS——THE PILGRIM ADREAMChapter XXXI A PET OF GOOD FORTUNE——BROADWAY FLAUNTS ITS JOYS Chapter XXXII THE FEAST OF BELSHAZZAR——A SEER TO TRANSLATEChapter XXXIU WITHOUT THE WALLED CITY——THE SLOPE OF THE YEARSChapter XXXIV THE GRIND OF THE MILLSTONES——A SAMPLE OF CHAFFChapter XXXV THE PASSING OF EFFORT——THE VISAGE OF CAREChapter XXXVI A GRIM RETROGRESSION——THE PHANTOM OF CHANCEChapter XXXVII THE SPIRIT AWAKENS——NEW SEARCH FOR THE GATE Chapter XXXVIII IN ELF LAND DISPORTING——THE GRIM WORLD WITHOUTChapter XXXIX OF LIGHTS AND OF SHADOWS——THE PARTING OF WORLDSChapter XL A PUBLIC DISSENSION——A FINAL APPEALChapter XLI THE STRIKEChapter XLII A TOUCH OF SPRING——THE EMPTY SHELLChapter XLIII THE WORLD TURNS FLATTERER——AN EYE IN THE DARKChapter XLIV AND THIS IS NOT ELF LAND——WHAT GOLD WILL NOT BUYChapter XLV CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POORChapter XLVI STIRRING TROUBLED WATERSChapter XLVII THE WAY OF THE BEATEN——A HARP IN THE WIND


章節(jié)摘錄
　　It was in August, 1889. She was eighteen years ofage, bright, timid, and full of the illusions of ignorance andyouth. Whatever touch of regret at parting characterizedher thoughts, it was certainly not for advantages now beinggiven up. A gush of tears at her mother's farewell kiss, atouch in her throat when the cars clacked by the flour millwhere her father worked by the day, a pathetic sigh as thefamiliar green environs of the village passed in review, andthe threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and homewere irretrievably broken. To be sure there was always the next station, where onemight descend and return. There was the great city, boundmore closely by these very trains which came up daily.Columbia City was not so very far away, even once she wasin Chicago. What, pray, is a few hours——a few hundred miles？She looked at the little slip bearing her sister's address andwondered. She gazed at the green landscape, now passing inswift review, until her swifter thoughts replaced its impressionwith vague conjectures of what Chicago might be. When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one oftwo things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomesbetter, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standardof virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The cityhas its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller andmore human tempter. There are large forces which allurewith all the soulfulness of expression possible in the mostcultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often aseffective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinatingeye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and naturalmind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blareof sound, a roar of life. a vast array of human hives, appealto the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without acounselor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, whatfalsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguardedear！ Unrecognized for what they are, their beauty. like music,too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simplerhuman perceptions.　Caroline, or Sister Carrie, as she had been halfaffectionately termed by the family, was possessed of amind rudimentary in its power of observation and analysis.Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was,nevertheless, her guiding characteristic. Warm with thefancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of theformative period. possessed of a figure promising eventualshapeliness and an eye alight with certain native inteUigence,she was a fair example of the middle American class——twogenerations removed from the emigrant. Books were beyondher interest——knowledge a sealed book.




編輯推薦
　　WHEN Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago,her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitationalligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leathersnap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister'saddress in Van Buren Street, and four dollars in mone It was inAugust, 1889. She was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, and full ofthe illusions of ignorance and youth. Whatever touch of regret atparting characterised her thoughts, it was certainly not for advantagesnow being given up. A gush of tears at hermother's farewell kiss, a touch in her throatwhen the cars clacked by the flour mill whereher father worked by the day. a pathetic sigh asthe familiar green environs of the village passedin review, and the threads which bound her solightly to girlhood and home were irretrievablybroken.Sister Carrie （1900） is a novel by TheodoreDreiser about a young country girl who movesto the big city where she starts realizing herown American Dream by first becoming amistress to men that she perceives as superiorand later as a famous actress.　In his Nobel Prize Lecture of 193o, SinclairLewis said that "Dreiser's great first novel,Sister Carrie, which he dared to publish thirtylong years ago and which I read twenty-fiveyears ago, came to housebound and airlessAmerica like a great free Western wind, andto our stuffy domestidity gave us the first freshair since Mark Twain and Whitman".





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