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美国作家路易莎·奥尔科特的代表作《小妇人》,一部美国文学的经典著作,一本道德家世小说。马奇家四姐妹对自立的权力的追求,以及她们对家庭的忠诚眷顾构成了全书一贯的矛盾,使故事熠熠生辉,情节生动感人。《小妇人》出版后获得了巨大成功,成为公认的美国名著,100多年来一直受到读者热烈欢迎。入选美国图书协会、美国教育协会100种学生必备书,其中又精选出25种,《小妇人》列居榜首,世界上已有数十种不同语言的译本,30年代此书已风靡中国大陆。
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《小妇人》美国作家路易莎·奥尔科特代表作,本书以家庭生活为描写对象,以家庭成员的感情纠葛为线索,描写了马奇一家的天伦之爱。马奇家的四姐妹中,无论是为了爱情甘于贫困的梅格,还是通过自己奋斗成为作家的乔,以及坦然面对死亡的贝思和以扶弱为己任的艾美,虽然她们的理想和命运都不尽相同,但是她们都具有自强自立的共同特点。着重描写了她们对家庭的眷恋;对爱的忠诚以及对亲情的渴望。本书故事情节简单而真实,感人至深,问世一百多年以来,多次被搬上银幕,并被译成各种文字,成为世界文学宝库中的经典名作。
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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, which was originally published in two volumes. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. It is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic.
The book has been adapted for film twice as silent films, and four times with sound, in 1933, 1949, 1978 and 1994. Four television series were made, including two in Britain in the 1950s and two anime series in Japan in the 1980s. A musical version opened on Broadway in 2005. An American opera version in 1998 has been performed internationally and filmed for broadcast on US television in 2001.
作者简介
路易莎·M·奥尔科特(1832-1888),美国作家。1832年11月29日出生在宾夕法尼亚州的杰曼镇。路易莎10岁时便已热心于业余戏剧演出,15岁时写出第一部情节剧,21岁开始发表诗歌及小品。1868年,一位出版商建议她写一部关于“女孩子的书”,她便根据孩提的记忆写成《小妇人》。出乎作者意料的是《小妇人》打动了无数美国读者,尤其是女性读者的心弦。之后,路易莎又续写了《小男人》和《乔的男孩子们》,1873年又以小说形式出版了自传著作《经验的故事》。路易莎成名后,继续撰写小说和故事,并投身于妇女选举运动和禁酒运动。美国内战期间她在华盛顿做过军队救护人员,后来,她还担任过一家儿童刊物(Robert Merry's Museum)的编辑。
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PART I
CHAPTER 1 PLAYING PILGRIMS /2
CHAPTER 2 A MERRY CHRISTMAS /15
CHAPTER 3 THE LAURENCE BOY /29
CHAPTER 4 BURDENS /41
CHAPTER 5 BEING NEIGHBORLY /55
CHAPTER 6 BETH FINDS THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL /69
CHAPTER 7 AMY’S VALLEY OF HUMILIATION /77
CHAPTER 8 JO MEETS APOLLYON /85
CHAPTER 9 MEG GOES TO VANITY FAIR /98
CHAPTER 10 THE P.C. AND P.O. /116
CHAPTER 11 EXPERIMENTS /130
CHAPTER 12 CAMP LAURENCE /143
CHAPTER 13 CASTLES IN THE AIR /165
CHAPTER 14 SECRETS /176
CHAPTER 15 A TELEGRAM /187
CHAPTER 16 LETTERS /197
CHAPTER 17 LITTLE FAITHFUL /208
CHAPTER 18 DARK DAYS /217
CHAPTER 19 AMY’S WILL /227
CHAPTER 20 CONFIDENTIAL /237
CHAPTER 21 LAURIE MAKES MISCHIEF, AND JO MAKES PEACE /245
CHAPTER 22 PLEASANT MEADOWS /259
CHAPTER 23 AUNT MARCH SETTLES THE QUESTION /268
PART II
CHAPTER 24 GOSSIP /282
CHAPTER 25 THE FIRST WEDDING /297
CHAPTER 26 ARTISTIC ATTEMPTS /305
CHAPTER 27 LITERARY LESSONS /317
CHAPTER 28 DOMESTIC EXPERIENCES /326
CHAPTER 29 CALLS /343
CHAPTER 30 CONSEQUENCES /357
CHAPTER 31 OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT /371
CHAPTER 32 TENDER TROUBLES /383
CHAPTER 33 JO’S JOURNAL /397
CHAPTER 34 FRIEND /411
CHAPTER 35 HEARTACHE /429
CHAPTER 36 BETH’S SECRET /442
CHAPTER 37 NEW IMPRESSIONS /449
CHAPTER 38 ON THE SHELF /462
CHAPTER 39 LAZY LAURENCE /476
CHAPTER 40 THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW /492
CHAPTER 41 LEARNING TO FORGET /499
CHAPTER 42 ALL ALONE /514
CHAPTER 43 SURPRISES /524
CHAPTER 44 MY LORD AND LADY /542
CHAPTER 45 DAISY AND DEMI /548
CHAPTER 46 UNDER THE UMBRELLA /555
CHAPTER 47 HARVEST TIME /572
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PLAYING PILGRIMS
“Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents,” grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.
“It’s so dreadful to be poor!” sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress.
“I don’t think it’s fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all,” added little Amy, with an injured sniff.
“We’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” said Beth contentedly from her corner.
The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, “We haven’t got Father, and shall not have him for a long time.” She didn’t say “perhaps never,” but each silently added it, thinking of Father far away, where the fighting was.
Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, “You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents this Christmas was because it is going to be a hard winter for everyone; and she thinks we ought not to spend money for pleasure, when our men are suffering so in the army. We can’t do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly. But I am afraid I don’t,” and Meg shook her head, as she thought regretfully of all the pretty things she wanted.
“But I don’t think the little we should spend would do any good. We’ve each got a dollar, and the army wouldn’t be much helped by our giving that. I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintram for myself. I’ve wanted it so long,” said Jo, who was a bookworm.
“I planned to spend mine in new music,” said Beth, with a little sigh, which no one heard but the hearth brush and kettle-holder.
“I shall get a nice box of Faber’s drawing pencils; I really need them,” said Amy decidedly.
“Mother didn’t say anything about our money, and she won’t wish us to give up everything. Let’s each buy what we want, and have a little fun; I’m sure we work hard enough to earn it,” cried Jo, examining the heels of her shoes in a gentlemanly manner.
“I know I do—teaching those tiresome children nearly all day, when I’m longing to enjoy myself at home,” began Meg, in the complaining tone again.
“You don’t have half such a hard time as I do,” said Jo. “How would you like to be shut up for hours with a nervous, fussy old lady, who keeps you trotting, is never satisfied, and worries you till you’re ready to fly out the window or cry?”
“It’s naughty to fret,—but I do think washing dishes and keeping things tidy is the worst work in the world. It makes me cross, and my hands get so stiff, I can’t practice well at all.” And Beth looked at her rough hands with a sigh that any one could hear that time.
“I don’t believe any of you suffer as I do,” cried Amy, “for you don’t have to go to school with impertinent girls, who plague you if you don’t know your lessons, and laugh at your dresses, and label your father if he isn’t rich, and insult you when your nose isn’t nice.”
“If you mean libel, I’d say so, and not talk about labels, as if Papa was a pickle bottle,” advised Jo, laughing.
“I know what I mean, and you needn’t be ‘statirical’ about it. It’s proper to use good words, and improve your vocabilary,” returned Amy, with dignity.
“Don’t peck at one another, children. Don’t you wish we had the money Papa lost when we were little, Jo? Dear me! How happy and good we’d be, if we had no worries!” said Meg, who could remember better times.
“You said the other day you thought we were a deal happier than the King children, for they were fighting and fretting all the time, in spite of their money.”
“So I did, Beth. Well, I think we are. For though we do have to work, we make fun for ourselves, and are a pretty jolly set, as Jo would say.”
“Jo does use such slang words!” observed Amy, with a reproving look at the long figure stretched on the rug. Jo immediately sat up, put her hands in her pockets, and began to whistle.
“Don’t, Jo; It’s so boyish!”
“That’s why I do it.”
“I detest rude, unlady-like girls!”
“I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!”
“Birds in their little nests agree,” sang Beth, the peace-maker, with such a funny face that both sharp voices softened to a laugh, and the “pecking” ended for that time.
“Really, girls, you are both to be blamed,” said Meg, beginning to lecture in her elder-sisterly fashion. “You are old enough to leave off boyish tricks, and to behave better, Josephine. It didn’t matter so much when you were a little girl, but now you are so tall, and turn up your hair, you should remember that you are a young lady.”
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