牛津系列旅游故事Oxford Bk Of Travel Stories

出版时间：1996-12  出版社：Oxford University Press, USA  作者：Patricia Craig　著  页数：441  

内容概要

Travel, associated as it is with strangeness, marvels, and excitement, has always proved an irresistible subject for writers. 'The Oxford Book of Travel Stories' brings together some of the best short fiction on this most exhilarating of subjects from writers as diverse as Anthony Trollope, Edith Wharton, Ring Larner, William Trevor, Sylvia Townsend Warner, John Cheever, Beryl Bainbridge, and V. S. Pritchett. Readers of this anthology will be able to revel in the atmosphere of nineteenth-century Palestine, the Riviera of the 1920s, or a botanical tour of Greece. There are stories set in far distant locations - China, Australia - and others closer to home, such as Benedict Kiely's entrancing 'A Journey to the Seven Streams'. Most are high-spirited, in keeping with the theme, some are wonderfully funny and one or two productively unsettling, such as Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'. Some deal with the journey itself, and encounters on train or boat; others see travel as a literal rite of passage, an escape or a sudden growing-up. All of them illustrate, in various ways, how travel has to do with stimulus, enrichment, and a sense of achievement - 'Not fare well', as T. S. Eliot has it, 'but fare forward, voyagers'.

书籍目录

IntroductionCHARLES DICKENS  from The Holly-TreeCHARLES DICKENS AND WILKIE COLLINS  from The Lazy Tour of Two Idle ApprenticesANTHONY TROLLOPE  A Ride Across PalestineELIZABETH VON ARNIM  From Miltzow to LauterbachEDITH WHARTON  A JourneyE LIZABETH BOWEN  Human HabitationEVELYN WAUGH  CruiseRING LARDNER  TravelogueF.SCOTT FITZGERALD AND ZELDA FITZGERALD  Show Mr and Mrs F. to NumberWILLIAM PLOMER  Local ColourWILLIAM SANSOM　Gliding Gulls and Going PeopleREBECCA WEST　DeliveranceFLANNERY O'CONNOR　A Good Man is Hard to FindDAN JACOBSON　Request StopJACK KEROUAC  Big Trip tO EuropeJOHN CHEEVER  BrimmerBENEDICT KIELY  A Journey to the Seven StreamsANITA DE5A   Scholar and GypsyY.S.PRITCHETT  The Ladv from GuatemalaPAUL THEgOUX  Loser WinsWILLIAM TREVOR  Death in lerusalemSYLVIA TOWN5END WARNEg　Siegfried on the RhineE LlZABETH HAgDWICK  The FaithfulJ.I.M.5TEWAgT　The Bridge at ArtaALICE AOAM5　Greyhound PeopleRAYMOND CARVEg  The CompartmentPENELOFE LIVELY　A Long Night at Abu SimbelBERYL BAINl3RfDGE  The Man Wh0 Blew AwayJANE GAgDAM  Chinese FuneralOAVlO MALOUF  The KVyogle LmeDIANE JOHN50N  Cuckoo Clock……