馬克·吐溫短篇小說集

內(nèi)容概要

美國的短篇圣手馬克·吐溫最初便以寫作幽默小品登上文壇，盡管此后也寫作了《哈克貝利·費恩歷險記》、《湯姆·索亞歷險記》等幾部長篇作品，而他的短篇創(chuàng)作卻持續(xù)了一生，舉凡《百萬英鎊》、《競選州長》、《亞當(dāng)夏娃日記》等篇均膾炙人口，一直為世界各國的讀者所喜愛。作為美國黃金時代的代表作家，馬克·吐溫素以筆鋒犀利、語言幽默詼諧著稱，而他的這些特點尤其表現(xiàn)在他的短篇創(chuàng)作中。《馬克·吐溫短篇小說集(英文版)》遴選馬克·吐溫的中短篇小說30余篇，分量適中，兼顧了作家各時期的創(chuàng)作。

作者簡介

作者：（美國）馬克?吐溫（Mark Twain）  MARK TWAIN （1835-1910） grew upin Hannibal， after toiling as aprinter in various cities， hebecame a master riverboat piloton the Mississippi River， beforeheading west to join Orion.While as a reporter， he wrote ahumorous story， The CelebratedJumping Frog of CalaverasCounty， which became verypopular and brought nationwideattention. Twain had found hiscalling.He achieved great success as awriter and public speaker. Hiswit and satire earned praise fromcritics and peers， and he was afriend to presidents， artists，industrialists， and Europeanroyalty. Twain is considered thegreatest humorist of I9thCentury American literature.

書籍目錄

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY
RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR
THE 1,000,000 BANK NOTE
THE 30,000 BEQUEST
A DOG'S TALE
WAS IT HEAVEN? OR HELL?
A CURE FOR THE BLUES
THE ENEMY CONQUERED, OK LOVE TRIUMPHANT
THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE
A HELPLESS SITUATION
A TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION
EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE
THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE
THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES
ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR
A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHY
HOW TO TELL A STORY
THE GOLDEN ARM
GENERAL WASHINGTON'S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT
WIT INSPIRATIONS OF THE"TWO-YEAR-OLDS"
AN ENTERTAINING ARTICLE
A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
AMENDED OBITUARIES
A MONUMENT TO ADAM
A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN
INTRODUCTION TO "THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE
AND ENGLISH"
ADVICE TO LITTLE GIRLS
POST-MORTEM POETRY
THE DANGER OF LYING IN BED
DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD?
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY
EVE'S DIARY

章節(jié)摘錄

版權(quán)頁：   It was a great day for the pair of Fosters. They werespeechless for joy. Also speechless for another reason: aftermuch watching of the market, Aleck had lately, with fearand trembling, made her first flyer on a "margin," usingthe remaining twenty thousand of the bequest in this risk.In her mind's eye she had seen it climb. point by point-always with a chance that the market would break-until atlast her anxieties were too great for further endurance-shebeing new to the margin business and unhardened. as yet-and she gave her imaginary broker an imaginary order byimaginary telegraph to sell. She said forty thousand dollars'profit was enough. The sale was made on the very day thatthe coal venture had returned with its rich freight. As I havesaid, the couple were speechless, they sat dazed and blissfulthat night, trying to realize that they were actually worth ahundred thousand dollars in clean,imaginary cash. Yet so itwas, It was the last time that ever Aleck was afraid of a margin;at least afraid enough to let it break her sleep and pale hercheek to the extent that this first experience in that line haddone. Indeed it was a memorable night. Gradually the realizationthat they were rich sank securely home into the souls of thepairs then they began to place the money. If we could havelooked out through the eyes of these dreamers, we shouldhave seen their tidy little wooden house disappears andtwo-story brick with a cast-iron fence in front of it take itsplace; we should have seen a three-globed gas-chandeliergrow down from the parlor ceiling; we should have seenthe homely rag carpet turn to noble Brussels, a dollar anda half a yard; we should have seen the plebeian fireplacevanish away and a recherche, big base-burner with isinglasswindows take position and spread awe around. And weshould have seen other things, too; among them the buggy,the lap-robe, the stove-pipe hat, and so on. From that time forth, although the daughters and theneighbors saw only the same old wooden house there, it wasa two-story brick to Aleck and Sally and not a night went bythat Aleck did not worry about the imaginary gas-bills, andget for all comfort Sally's reckless retort: "What of it? We canafford it."

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《馬克?吐溫短篇小說集(英文版)》編輯推薦：對于喜歡閱讀名著的讀者，這是一個最好的時代，因為有成千上萬的書可以選擇；這又是一個不好的時代，因為在浩繁的卷帙中，很難找到適合自己的好書?！恶R克?吐溫短篇小說集(英文版)》精選作者多篇膾炙人口的作品，這些作品內(nèi)容廣泛，寓意深刻，每一篇都充溢著幽默的諷刺趣味。

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