飘(英文版)
分類: 图书,小说(旧类),世界名著,美洲,美国,
品牌: 玛格丽特·米切尔
基本信息·出版社:上海世界图书出版公司
·页码:660 页
·出版日期:2004年
·ISBN:7506261537
·条形码:9787506261531
·包装版本:2004-08-01
·装帧:平装
·开本:16开
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内容简介《飘》(英文版)是编者们找来了专访研究西方发展史、西方文化的专家学者,请教了专业的翻译人员,精心挑选了几部可以代表西方文学的著作,并听取了一些国外专门研究文学的朋友建议,不做注释,不做删节,不做任何人为的改动,严格按照原著的风格,提供原汁原味的西方名著,让读者去自由地阅读、想像和发挥,无形中,你会发现,自己的英语水平已经有了大幅度的提高,不仅是词汇语法,更多的是对英文,对整体西方文化的了解。
作者简介玛•米切尔(1900—1949)出生于美国佐治亚州亚特兰大,她以整整十年的时间写成此书,亚州亚特兰大是南北战争中南方联盟的铁路供应和工业基地,因此作家的这本书在著写时就显得得心应手,仪态从容,《飘》问世于1936年,1937年获普利策奖,根据小说拍摄的电影《乱世佳人》获1946年奥斯卡奖,已经成为一部家喻户晓的传世之作。
编辑推荐世界文学名著《飘》(英文版)表现了作者所描述的特定时代的文化,读手给人的除流畅的文笔、逼真的描述、详细的刻画外,更多是对那个时期历史文化的回味和休会。为此,我们将这套精心编辑的“名著典藏”奉献给广大读者。
目录
A STUDY IN SCARLET
THE SIGN OF FOUR
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE MEMOIRS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
THE VALLEY OF FEAR
HIS LAST BOW
THE CASE-BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
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文摘In the year 1878 1 took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London,and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army. Havingcompleted my studies there, I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as assistant surgeon. The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it,the second Afghan war had broken out. On landing at Bombay, I learned that my corps hadadvanced through the passes, and was already deep in the enemy's country. I followed, how-ever, with many other officers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded inreaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my newduties.
The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing butmisfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, withwhom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezailbullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen intothe hands of the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown byMurray, my orderly, who threw me across a packhorse, and succeeded in bringing me safelyto the British lines.
Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had undergone, I wasremoved, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar. Here Irallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even tobask a little upon the veranda,when I was struck down by enteric fever, that curse of our In-dian possessions. For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself andbecame convalescent, 1 was so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not aday should be lost in sending me back to England. 1 was despatched, accordingly, in thetroopship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth je
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