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作者： （美）霍桑（Hawtherne,N.）著，曹航 注释
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出版时间： 2001-4-1字数：版次： 1页数： 202印刷时间：开本： 32开印次：纸张：I S B N ： 9787810800372包装： 平装内容简介
霍桑生于马萨诸塞州萨莱姆镇一个破落的贵族世家，全家信奉基督教，深受清教道德观念的影响。霍桑早年不幸：四岁时生父死于海难，九岁时摔伤，终身腿残；家境的败落和家乡激烈的宗教派别争斗使他性格抑郁，但亦激发了他学习文学的欲望。
1821年，霍桑入博多因学院学习。这所乡村学院规模虽然不大，霍桑却在那里感受到了活跃的自由思想，呼吸到了浓厚的艺术空气，还结识了几位后来载入史册的政治家和文人，如美国第14任总统富兰克林皮尔斯和诗人朗费罗等人。不过，他的学习在当时并不出众，然读书甚广，且以作文见长。毕业时，他自费出版了处女作《范肖》，旋即自觉笔力不济将其销毁。此后，他为建立其语言特色、行文风格、写作题材而苦苦探索，将自己囚于室内、游离于主流社会之外达十数年之久。他在幽居生活中先后写出了《三个山丘的洞穴》和《一个老妇人的故事》，于．1832年匿名发表了自认为最出色的短篇小说《我的亲戚莫里纳少校》和《罗杰马尔文的葬礼》，然公众对这些作品却少有反响。直到：1837年第一部署名小说《重述一遍的故事》面市后，他才声誉渐起。于是，霍桑决定从事专业写作。
目录
THE CUSTOM HOUSE—lNTRODUCTORY
1 THE PRlSON-DOOR
2 THE MARKET-PLACE
3 THE RECOGNITION
4 THE INTERVlEW
5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6 PEARL
7 THE GOVERNOR’S HALL
8 THE ELF．CHlLD AND THE MINISTER
9 THE LEECH
10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATlENT
11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
12 THE MINISTER’S VIGI
13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
15 HESTER AND PEARL
16 A FOREST WALK
17 THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
18 A FLOOD OF SUNSHlNE
19 THE CHILD AT THE BROOK-SlDE
20 THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
21 THE NEW ENGL．AND HO LlDAY
22 THE PROCESSION
23 THE REVELATlON
24 CONCLUSION
书摘插图
THE CUSTOM HOUSE—lNTRODUCTORY
It is a little remarkable, that -- though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fneside, and to my personal friends --an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken posses-sion of me, in addressing the public. The first time was three or fouryears since, when I favored the reader inexcusably, and for no earth-ly reason, that either the indulgent reader or the intrusive author couldimagine -- with a description of my way of life in the deep quietude ofan Old Manse. And now -- because, beyond my deserts, I was happyenough to find a listener or two on the former occasion -- I again seizethe public by the button, and talk of my three years experience in aCustom House. The example of the famous "P. P., Clerk of this Par-ish, was never more faithfully followed. The truth seems to be, how-ever, that, when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author ad-dresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take itup, but the few who will understand him, better than most of his school-mates or lifemates. Some authors,indeed, do far more than this, and in-dulge themselves in such confidential depths of revelation as~ could fit-tingly be addressed, only and exclusively, to the one heart and mind ofperfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wideworld, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writers own
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