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内容简介
本书是欧·亨利的短篇小说合集,欧?亨利的作品中以描写纽约曼哈顿市民生活的作品著名。其作品的成功主要在于他善于捕捉和把握生活中的典型场面,他的作品构思新颖,语言诙谐,结局常常出乎意料,又描写了众多的人物,富于生活情趣,被誉为“美国生活的百科全书”。
作者简介
欧·亨利,1862—1910,原名威廉?西德尼?波特。美国著名作家,世界三大短篇小说大师之一,被誉为曼哈顿桂冠散文作家和美国现代短篇小说之父。欧?亨利的作品构思新颖,语言诙谐,结局常常出人意料,代表作有小说集《白菜与国王》、《四百万》、《命运之路》等。其中一些名篇如《爱的牺牲》、《警察与赞美诗》、《带家具出租的房间》、《贤人的礼物》、《最后一片藤叶》等使他获得了世界声誉。译者:青闰(1965~),河南武陟人。本名宋金柱,常用笔名听泉、宣碧。现供职于焦作大学翻译中心。擅长双语互译。迄今已在外文出版社、译林出版社、上海交通大学出版社、东华大学出版社、大连理工大学出版社、中国宇航出版社等出版双语著作多部。另在《世界文学》《译林》《当代外国文学》《英语世界》等重要报刊发表译文和论文多篇。他翻译的原则是:“以雅俗共赏为基点,注重选材的广度、深度和科学性,整体把握字词句段篇,力求做到形声色味神的完美统一。”
精彩书评
如果一个孩子在12岁之前没有养成阅读习惯。一生就不会养成良好的阅读习惯。
——中国教育学会副会长、新教育改革发起人 朱永新
励志版名著之所以广受欢迎,一是因为它强调了阅读的本义,代表了素质阅读的高水平;二是因为它的真情实感,显示出一种真诚的力量!
——北大教授、当代文学教研室主任 陈晓明
目录
Hearts and Hands / 心与手 1
Witches’ Loaves / 女巫的面包 4
The Cop and the Anthem / 警察与赞美诗 9
The Gift of the Magi / 麦琪的礼物 17
The Romance of a Busy Broker / 忙碌经纪人的浪漫史 24
The Mammon and the Archer / 财神与爱神 29
The Love-Philtre of Ikey Schoenstein / 埃基?舍恩斯坦的媚药 37
The Last Leaf / 最后一片叶子 43
The Exact Science of Matrimony / 精确婚姻学 51
The Furnished Room / 带家具出租的房间 59
Springtime A La Carte / 菜单上的春天 67
A Service of Love / 爱的奉献 74
A Double-Dyed Deceiver / 双料骗子 81
The Lotus and the Bottle / 莲与瓶 94
A Lickpenny Lover / 吝啬的情人 106
Memoirs of a Yellow Dog / 黄狗回忆录 113
The Count and the Wedding Guest / 伯爵和婚礼来客 119
While the Auto Waits / 当汽车等着的时候 127
Telemachus, Friend / 生死之交 133
Between Rounds / 回合之间 142
An Unfinished Story / 未了情 149
Skylight Room / 天窗屋 157
Confessions of a Humorist / 幽默作家的自白 165
Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet / 催眠师杰夫?彼得斯 176
The Roads We Take / 我们选择的道路 184
The Marionettes / 提线木偶 190
Conscience in Art / 艺术良心 205
Let Me Feel Your Pulse / 让我摸摸你的脉搏 213
The Red Roses of Tonia / 托妮亚的红玫瑰 228
The Hand that Riles the World / 混世魔手 239
The Pendulum / 钟摆 246
By Courier / 爱情信使 252
After Twenty Years / 二十年后 257
A Retrieved Reformation / 浪子回头 261
The Princess and the Puma / 公主与美洲狮 271
The Ransom of Red Chief / 红酋长的赎金 279
The Passing of Black Eagle / 飞逝的黑鹰 292
Roads of Destiny / 命运之路 305
精彩书摘
At Denver there was an influx of passengers into the coaches on the eastbound B. & M. express. In one coach there sat a very pretty young woman dressed in elegant taste and surrounded by all the luxurious comforts of an experienced traveler. Among the newcomers were two young men, one of handsome presence with a bold, frank countenance and manner; the other a ruffled, glum-faced person, heavily built and roughly dressed. The two were handcuffed together.
As they passed down the aisle of the coach the only vacant seat offered was a reversed one facing the attractive young woman. Here the linked couple seated themselves. The young woman’s glance fell upon them with a distant, swift disinterest; then with a lovely smile brightening her countenance and a tender pink tingeing her rounded cheeks, she held out a little gray-gloved hand. When she spoke her voice, full, sweet, and deliberate, proclaimed that its owner was accustomed to speak and be heard.
“Well, Mr. Easton, if you will make me speak first, I suppose I must. Don’t you ever recognize old friends when you meet them in the West?”
The younger man roused himself sharply at the sound of her voice, seemed to struggle with a slight embarrassment which he threw off instantly, and then clasped her fingers with his left hand.
“It’s Miss Fairchild,” he said, with a smile. “I’ll ask you to excuse the other hand; “it’s otherwise engaged just at present.”
He slightly raised his right hand, bound at the wrist by the shining “bracelet” to the left one of his companion. The glad look in the girl’s eyes slowly changed to a bewildered horror. The glow faded from her cheeks. Her lips parted in a vague, relaxing distress. Easton, with a little laugh, as if amused, was about to speak again when the other forestalled him. The glum-faced man had been watching the girl’s countenance with veiled glances from his keen, shrewd eyes.
“You’ll excuse me for speaking, miss, but, I see you’re acquainted with the marshall here. If you’ll ask him to speak a word for me when we get to the pen he’ll do it, and it’ll make things easier for me there. He’s taking me to Leavenworth prison. It’s seven years for counterfeiting.”
“Oh!” said the girl, with a deep breath and returning color. “So that is what you are doing out here? A marshal!”
“My dear Miss Fairchild,” said Easton, calmly, “I had to do something. Money has a way of taking wings unto itself, and you know it takes money to keep step with our crowd in Washington. I saw this opening in the West, and—well, a marshalship isn’t quite as high a position as that of ambassador, but—”
“The ambassador,” said the girl, warmly, “doesn’t call any more. He needn’t ever have done so. You ought to know that. And so now you are one of these dashing Western heroes, and you ride and shoot and go into all kinds of dangers. That’s different from the Washington life. You have been missed from the old crowd.”
The girl’s eyes, fascinated, went back, widening a little, to rest upon the glittering handcuffs.
“Don’t you worry about them, miss,” said the other man. “All marshals handcuff themselves to their prisoners to keep them from getting away. Mr. Easton knows his business.”
“Will we see you again soon in Washington?” asked the girl.
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