马克·吐温短篇小说集

出版时间：2012-5  出版社：中央编译出版社  作者：马克·吐温  页数：335  字数：307000  

内容概要

美国的短篇圣手马克·吐温最初便以写作幽默小品登上文坛，尽管此后也写作了《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》、《汤姆·索亚历险记》等几部长篇作品，而他的短篇创作却持续了一生，举凡《百万英镑》、《竞选州长》、《亚当夏娃日记》等篇均脍炙人口，一直为世界各国的读者所喜爱。作为美国黄金时代的代表作家，马克·吐温素以笔锋犀利、语言幽默诙谐著称，而他的这些特点尤其表现在他的短篇创作中。《马克·吐温短篇小说集(英文版)》遴选马克·吐温的中短篇小说30余篇，分量适中，兼顾了作家各时期的创作。

作者简介

作者：（美国）马克•吐温（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.

书籍目录

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

章节摘录

版权页：   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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用户评论 (总计16条)

•   Makrk Twain的小说是美国文学经典；这本的印刷不错
•   对于他的幽默和深刻，非常喜欢。总是给人警醒。
•   這是名著，著名的作家，就不用擔心類容啦，因為一定開卷有益的，重在包
•   老师让读马克吐温作品，值得一看
•   我很满意这本书，封面很精致，内容也不错，好像还有书签哦
•   我很满意，包装也不错，很精美，赞 A
•   书很喜欢，是正版，包装也漂亮，还未开始读。
•   纸张印刷很好，很喜欢
•   值得一看，学英语的同学
•   有点难度，很多单词都不懂，慢慢学
•   感觉一般吧，这本小说集看起来太旧了，里面纸张泛黄且被压皱了角，而且没有想象中的厚，觉得有点不值···
•   挺喜欢的，大致翻了一下，看到以前读过的文，马克吐温的文字功底确实很高。
•   内容不错，不过生词有点多，高一的有点不适合
•   朋友的英语很厉害，买了很多原版的英文书。
•   这本书蛮好的虽然读不懂
•   我买的马克吐温的，送来一本艾伦.坡的。