出版时间:2010-1 出版社:中央编译出版社 作者:德莱塞 页数:582
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内容概要
《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》是美国20世纪第一部描写都市生活的力作,小说真实地再现了一个农村姑娘如何受到芝加哥灯红酒绿、浮华丑恶氖围的熏染,逐渐泯灭淳朴的个性,以牺牲色相为代价成为纽约电影界的名演员,从而跻身于上流社会。小说因其太过真实的描写剌痛了道德家们的眼睛。当年为出版社审阅书稿的就是美国著名作家、长篇小说《章鱼》的作者弗兰克·诺克斯,尽管诺克斯对这位文学新人身上闪现着的深刻、敏锐的批判精神大加赞赏,最终也没能扭转遭禁的厄运。 美国第一位诺贝尔文学奖得主辛克莱·刘易斯曾满怀深情地说:“德莱塞于三十年前写作了他的处女作《嘉莉妹妹(英文版)》,而我在二十五年前就读到了它;它像一股自由、强劲的西风吹进闭塞、沉闷的美国,给我们滞塞的个人天地里带来了自马克’吐温和魏特曼以来的第一缕新鲜空气。”
作者简介
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.
书籍目录
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
章节摘录
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.
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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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