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夜色温柔
《我的心灵藏书馆:夜色温柔(英文版)》描写的是一位出身寒微但才华出众的青年对富有梦幻色彩的理想的追求，但他最终遭到失败，暗示了“美国梦”的破灭。英文描写细腻，语言流畅，值得阅读与赏析，并配有注释导读，解释难词难句，介绍文化背景，是帮助读者阅读名著、英语知识的首选图书。 海报： -
永别了武器
《永别了，武器》（AFarewelltoArms）是欧内斯特·海明威于1929年写成的半自传体小说。小说以第一次世界大战中在意大利军中作战的美籍救护车司机中尉弗利德利克·亨利的角度进行叙事，精炼的语言，以第一次世界大战为背景，批判了战争的荒谬、虚无和非理性。 -
红字
小说以殖民地时期新英格兰生活为背景，以当时严酷的清教视为罪不可赦的一桩“通奸罪”为核心展开情节，细致入微地刻画了与这桩“罪行”有关的四个人物的神精世界。胸口上别着鲜红A字（Adultery——“通奸”一词的首字母）的赫斯特·普林经过长期赎罪而在精神上获得自新，那个耻辱的字母竟逐渐成为一个受人尊敬的标志。迪梅斯戴尔牧师则长期遭受信仰和良心的折磨，终于从狂热的宗教活动家成为一个有血有肉、敢于担当的男子汉。赫斯特的丈夫奇林沃思本是个皓首穷经的学者，却在复仇心理的驱动下完全丧失了人生。而“通奸”生出来的小波儿则活像个野性未驯的异教精灵。小说以人道主义的悲悯情杯，层层深入地探究了罪恶和人性的各种道德、哲理问题，全书以监狱和蔷薇开场，以墓地结束，充满丰富的象征意义。 -
永别了,武器
一战中，在意大利救护车队服役的美国中尉弗雷德里克·亨利爱上了英军护士凯瑟琳·巴克利。亨利在一次敌军轰炸中负伤，凯瑟琳在医院护理他，俩人共同度过了一段愉快的时光，后来，凯瑟琳怀孕了，亨利重返前线，他发现战友里纳尔迪因厌战而情绪消沉。在部队撤退中，亨利化装逃跑去与凯瑟琳相会，中途历经艰险。不久，他身份暴露，遭到追捕，俩人便一起逃往瑞士，在那里他们等待自己的孩子出生，然而，等到的却是婴儿夭折，凯瑟琳身亡，亨利孤身单影，漂泊异乡。 亨利与凯瑟琳的爱情悲剧提示了那场荒唐战争留给青年一代难以愈合的精神创伤。 -
最后的莫希干人
威廉·亨利堡司令的两个女儿前往堡垒探望父亲途中被劫，英军侦察员“鹰眼”和他的老友莫希干族酋长“大蟒蛇”钦加哥，以及钦加哥的儿子“快腿鹿”恩卡斯挺身而出，和劫持者展开了一场惊心动魄的大厮杀…… 詹·费·库柏被称为“世界伟大传奇小说家之一”，本书是他的代表作。巴尔扎克、歌德、莱蒙托夫和高尔基对其作品均给予高度评价。 -
The Portrait of a Lady
Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. -
Washington Square
在线阅读本书 Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell. Professor of English Literature. University of Keele Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870s, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to suppression. -
美国的悲剧
德莱塞在《美国悲剧》中描写了主人公克莱德·格里菲思受到社会上邪恶影响，逐渐蜕变、堕落为凶杀犯、最后自我毁灭的全过程。小说共分三卷。 -
黃昏時出發
李納德．席勒住在紐約市上西區，是小有名聲的作家，在他垂暮之年卻因海瑟的出現而心海生波。 海瑟是個「體型嬌小，穿著迷你裙的自傳作家」，一心想要以席勒的小說做為碩士論文題目。 艾瑞兒是有氧舞蹈老師，被海瑟毫不留情地視為「恪遵自己生物時鐘的另一個無趣的四十歲女人」。她的生命充滿了甜美和迷惑，熱切尋找著真愛以及可以和她孕育一個她期盼已久的小孩的父親，至於哪個先找到並不是很重要…… 這是一本精緻嚴肅的小說、一個引人入勝的溫馨故事。布萊恩．莫頓描繪出一個全心奉獻給文學的生命、一個值得為其喝采的英雄李納德．席勒。他將生命中的錯綜複雜化為完整而生動的意象，氣定神閒地實現了席勒致力一生的事，「透過藝術，把多一點美感，多一點容忍，和多一點的和諧帶到這個世界」。 【好評推薦】 ◎「《黃昏時出發》講述的是一個藝術家的掙扎，一個作家的生命故事；生命本身所表現出來的決心和勇氣在書中俯拾皆是，這樣的生命也因之成為一種藝術。」～《今日美國》 ◎「溫柔優雅的文字……一個令人傷感的故事，述說了堅定的意志與深刻的憐憫。」～《出版人週刊》重點評論 ◎「莫頓以令人驚艷的細膩優美，將筆下的人物呈現在讀者眼前。」～《圖書館學刊》重點評論 ◎「《黃昏時出發》從來沒有因為書中想要探索的概念而變得沈重不堪，因為莫頓以書中角色的人性和各種不同的疑惑為出發點……讓人目不轉睛。」～《舊金山紀事報》 ◎「一本帶來驚喜的小說。」～《達拉斯晨報》（The Dallas Morning News） ◎「布萊恩．莫頓的小說總是能讓人拍案叫絕……優美生動……它的大受歡迎確是實至名歸。」～《棕櫚灘郵報》 ◎「一個永垂不朽的英雄。」～《華爾街日報》 ◎「讀來令人愛不釋手。」～《紐約時報書評》 ◎「優雅的文風……以豐富的語言和思維，深刻觀察了一個作家落寞卻不輕言放棄的生命。」～《前進報》 ◎「本書以銳利又帶著哀傷的畫面呈現出文學生命的變幻無常……精鍊卻又苦澀的場景……明確剖析了鼓動文學生命的渴望與狂亂。」～《柯克斯書評》 ◎「精采的故事……莫頓筆下最動人的一點是：他運用現代譬喻的方式，卻不落於俗套或空洞貧乏……莫頓的隱喻融會得如此不著痕跡，如此優美，文句經常在你心情低落時浮現在你的腦海之中……」～《新聞日報》 ◎「莫頓對於人在內心衝突上的體認非常深刻。」～艾莉斯．希柏德（Alice Sebold，《蘇西的世界》作者） ◎「較之諸多現代美國小說，莫頓的作品是一種更為隱晦，更為悲憫的聲音。」～《費城詢問報》 -
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market for too long. Wharton charts the course of Lily's life, providing, along the way, a wider picture of a society in transition, a rapidly changing New York where the old certainties of manners, morals and family have disappeared and the individual has become an expendable commodity. -
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow
The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite specter of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard. The story was immediately matched by a thrice marvelous adventure of Brom Bones, who made light of the Galloping Hessian as an arrant jockey. He affirmed that on returning one night from the neighboring village of Sing Sing, he had been overtaken by this midnight trooper; that he had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin horse all hollow, but just as they came to the church bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire. All these tales, told in that drowsy undertone with which men talk in the dark, the countenances of the listeners only now and then receiving a casual gleam from the glare of a pipe, sank deep in the mind of Ichabod. . . . -
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet. -
Daddy Long Legs
1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. Lately of the John Grier Home for orphans, of which too little good cannot be said, Miss Abbott embarks upon a course of college study funded by an anonymous benefactor. This epistolary story contains her charming letters to her unknown Daddy-Long-Legs, named by Miss Abbott because only once at the orphanage did she see his shadow drawn out in the headlights of the car toward which he walked. The insight and wit in this little book are priceless. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. -
伊甸园
美国青年作家戴维在20年代中和妻子凯瑟琳从巴黎到法国南部地中海地中海海滨度蜜月，沉 醉在浪漫的性爱生活中。戴维想继续写作，妻子却只想及时行乐，找发型师把头发铰短，甚 至在结织外国姑娘玛丽塔后，怂恿丈夫爱她，三人投入了危险的性爱游戏中。但“好景”不 长，因玛丽塔支持戴维写作，凯瑟琳由妒生恨，把他的手稿付之一炬后留信出走。戴维在玛 丽塔的呵护下，文思泉涌，把最喜爱的一个短篇一字不错的重写出来，又回到了“伊甸园” 中。这是海明威1961年自杀后出版的遗作，虽然写于晚年身体日渐衰退的时期，但全书焕 发着如火如茶的生命力与爱情，是一部难得的青春小说。 -
了不起的盖茨比
上世纪二十年代的美国，空气里弥漫着欢歌与纵饮的气息。一个偶然的机会，穷职员尼克闯人了挥金如土的大富翁盖茨比隐秘的世界，惊讶地发现，他内心惟一的牵绊竟是河对岸那盏小小的绿灯——-灯影婆娑中，住着他心爱的黛西。然而，冰冷的现实容不下飘渺的梦，到头来，盖茨比心中的女神只不过是凡尘俗世的物质女郎。当一切真相大白，盖茨比的悲剧人生亦如烟花般，璀璨只是一瞬，幻灭才是永恒。菲茨杰拉德起落颠沛的人生正是盖茨比的写照，《了不起的盖茨比》生动地反映了上世纪二十年代“美国梦”的破灭，展示了大萧条时朗美国上层社会“荒原时代”的精神面貌。 -
奥利弗的故事
《奥利弗的故事》由埃里奇·西格尔编著。 《奥利弗的故事》是《爱情故事》的续篇。主人公奥利弗怀着丧妻之痛一直独居纽约，事业有成的他又遇到了一位处处都跟他合得来、近乎完美的女性玛西，可两人之间这段新的爱情终究因为丢不开刻骨铭心的詹尼而画上了句号。已经踏上社会的奥利弗仍旧怀揣着理想和信念，思念着詹尼继续他的人生之路。 -
Eclipse
Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour Eclipse, the much anticipated third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob - knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which? -
The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. -
伊甸园
美国青年作家戴维在20年代中和妻子凯瑟琳从巴黎到法国南部地中海地中海海滨度蜜月，沉醉在浪漫的性爱生活中。戴维想继续写作，妻子却只想及时行乐，找发型师把头发铰短，甚至在结识外国姑娘玛丽塔后，怂恿丈夫爱她，三人投入了危险的性爱游戏中。 但“好景”不长，因玛丽塔支持戴维写作，凯瑟琳由妒生恨，把他的手稿付之一炬后留信出走。戴维在玛丽塔的呵护下，文思泉涌，把最喜爱的一个短篇一字不错的重写出来，又回到了“伊甸园”中。 这是海明威1961年自杀后出版的遗作，虽然写于晚年身体日渐衰退的时期，但全书焕 发着如火如茶的生命力与爱情，是一部难得的青春小说。 -
普汉先生
《普汉先生》是一部启发张爱玲写出《半生缘》的小说，一部感伤的美国上流社会婚恋挽歌。讲述了亨利生长于波士顿，在哈佛大学上学时，认识了并非上流社会出身的比尔，两人成为好友。毕业后，比尔说服亨利放弃去父亲创办的金融公司上班的机会，留在纽约创业。亨利结识了在同一公司上班的玛文，两人相爱，并到了谈婚论嫁的地步，可亨利的父亲突然去世，他只能回乡奔丧。鉴于长子的身份和家庭的重担，亨利留在了波士顿，没有再回纽约。比尔造访波士顿的时候结识了亨利幼年的伙伴凯，两人暗生情愫，但比尔终究只是个过客。不久，凯便在家人的安排下与亨利结婚。婚后，凯还一直忘不了比尔。二十五年后，哈佛同学会上，亨利和玛文再次相遇，亨利再度对玛文动心，可他最终还是选择回到凯的身边。曾经的爱恋，纵使心动依然，却也只能是“我们回不去了”，半生纠缠难解的缘分，永远封存心底，时而浮现的悸动，注定是命运对人生无情的捉弄……淡淡的忧伤与怅惘，写尽美国上流社会男女围城内外的苦痛与挣扎。
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