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The two Alice books--Lewis Carroll's masterpieces--are ranked by many as peers of the great adult works of English literature. And despite their riches of "untranslatable" puns, nonsense, and parody, they have been happily translated around the world. The matchless original illustrations by Tenniel share with Carroll's text the glory of making Alice immortal.
作者简介
Christopher Hart is the acclaimed author of countless illustration tutorials, including two of the best-selling art books in the US-Manga Mania and Anime Mania. He has sold more than one million books worldwide and makes his home in Connecticut.
精彩书评
From Publishers Weekly
If Zwerger's Alice (reviewed above) is deliciously cryptic, Oxenbury's (Tom and Pippo books) brims with the fun and frights of a visit to an amusement park. In perhaps her most ambitious work to date, Oxenbury applies her finely honed instinct for a child's perspective to create an Alice accessible to all ages. With the opening scene of a tomboyish heroine slumped against her sister who is reading under a tree, the artist seems to answer Alice's first line: "What is the use of a book... without pictures or conversations?" Nearly every spread contains either a spot-line drawing or full-bleed full-color painting. The artist nods to Tenniel with her hilarious portrait of the waistcoated White Rabbit and even extends the metaphor of the "grin without a cat" with a quartet of watercolors as the Cheshire Cat begins to disappearAuntil only his grin remains. The villains here are more stoogelike than menacing, including the baby-throwing Duchess and the Queen of Hearts, and Oxenbury makes the most of such comic opportunities as the entangled powdered wigs of the Frog-Footman and Fish-Footman. A series of cleverly choreographed closing scenes shows Alice in the Queen's courtroom, pelted by the playing cards that, on the next spread, seem to have transformed into the falling leaves of the tree where Alice awakens and her sister gives her a kiss; a poignant parting shot of Alice's sister silhouetted at dusk under the tree, with sheep grazing in the field, acknowledges the shift in tone of Carroll's conclusion. An ideal first introduction to a lifelong favorite read. Ages 8-up. (Nov.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From School Library Journal
Grade 4 Up-- Edens has compiled and arranged illustrations from 25 editions of Alice in Wonderland published in the early to mid-1900s. The result is a fascinating look at a variety of illustrative styles. This is far less jarring than one might expect because the original illustrator, John Tenniel, has so strongly influenced his successors that their interpretations are often similar in design. In fact, the fascination in these pictures is the differing details--Alice's dress, her hairstyle, and her expressions tell much about the time period and the artist's viewpoint. Edens has also done a fine job of integrating the pictures with the text. He varies interest by utilizing full-page plates, half plates, vignettes, and even reducing some illustrations to fit the design so the book flows fairly well and these myriad illustrations blend into a whole rather than distract the eye. The reproduction is excellent. A must for collections with historical interest in children's literature and large libraries. --Karen K. Radtke, Milwaukee Public Library
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"A book of wonder and nonsense laced with lethal wit."
--Guardian
"Precise, dream-like, subversive."
--Independent on Sunday--From the Paperback edition.
目录
Autobor's Note
ONE Down the Rabbit-Hole
TWO The Pool of Tears
THREE A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
FOUR The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
FIVE Advice from a Caterpillar
SIX Pig and Pepper
SEVEN A Mad Tea-Party
EIGHT The Queen's Croquet Ground
NINE The Mock Turtle's Story
TEN The Lobster Quadrille
ELEVEN Who Stole the Tarts?
TWELVE Alice's Evidence
精彩书摘
From Tan Lin's Introduction to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There pursue what lies beyond and down rabbit holes and on reverse sides of mirrors. But mainly their subject is what comes after, and in this sense the books are allegories about what a child can know and come to know. This quest, as in many great works of literature, unwinds against a larger backdrop: what can and what cannot be known at a particular historical moment, a moment that in Lewis Carroll's case preceded both Freud's speculations on the unconscious and Heisenberg's formulation of the uncertainty principle. Yet because the books were written by a teacher of mathematics who was also a reverend, they are also concerned with what can and cannot be taught to a child who has an infinite faith in the goodness and good sense of the world. But Alice's quest for knowledge, her desire to become something (a grown-up) she is not, is inverted. The books are not conventional quest romances in which Alice matures, overcomes obstacles, and eventually gains wisdom. For when Alice arrives in Wonderland, she is already the most reasonable creature there. She is wiser than any lesson books are able to teach her to be. More important, she is eminently more reasonable than her own feelings will allow her to express. What comes after for Alice? Near the end of Through the Looking Glass, the White Queen tells Alice, "Something's going to happen!"
Quests for mastery are continually frustrated in the Alice books. In comparison with the ever—sane Alice, it is the various Wonderland creatures who appear to be ridiculous, coiners of abstract word games. Yet Carroll also frustrates, with equal precision, Alice's more reasonable human desires. Why, after all, cannot Alice know why the Mad Hatter is mad? Or why will Alice never get to 20 in her multiplication tables? In Carroll, the logic of mathematical proofs runs counter to the logic of reasonable human desire—and neither logic is easily mastered. To his radical epistemological doubt, Carroll added a healthy dose of skepticism for the conventional children's story—a story that in his day came packaged with a moral aim and treated the child as an innocent or tabula rasa upon which the morals and knowledge of the adult could be tidily imprinted.
Alice embodies an idea Freud would later develop at length: What Alice the child already knows, the adult has yet to learn. Or to be more precise, what Alice has not yet forgotten, the adult has yet to remember as something that is by nature unforgettable. In other words, in Alice childhood fantasy meets the reality of adulthood, which to the child looks as unreal and unreasonable as a Cheshire Cat's grin or a Queen who yells "Off with her head!" But even as she calls adult reality unreal, Alice, as the most reasonable creature in her unreasonable dreams, doesn't quite yet realize that the adult's sense of reality has already taken up residence in her. The principal dream of most children—the dream within the dream, as it were—is the dream of not dreaming any longer, the dream of growing up. For the adult, the outlook is reversed. The adult's quest is an inverted one: to find those desires again, in more reasonable forms—and this involves forgetting the original childhood desires (to become an adult) in order to remember them as an adult. The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips notes: "Freud is not really saying that we are really children, but that the sensual intensities of childhood cannot be abolished, that our ideals are transformed versions of childhood pleasures. Looking forward . . . is a paradoxical form of looking back. The future is where one retrieves the pleasures, the bodily pleasures of the past."1 The Alice books manage to show both these quests—that of the child to look forward, and of the adult to look back—simultaneously, as mirror logics of each other.
Like both Freud and the surrealists, Carroll implicitly understood that a child's emotions and desires appear omnipotent and boundless to the child—and thus make the adult's forgetting of them difficult if not illogical. Growing up poses psychological and logical absurdities. The quandary of a logically grounded knowledge constituted out of an illogical universe pervades both books. The questions that Alice asks are not answered by the animals in Wonderland nor by anyone after she wakens. It is likely that her questions don't have answers or that there are no right questions to ask. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass remain the most prophetic of the nineteenth century's anti-narratives, inverted quest romances, circular mathematical treatises on the illogical logic of forgetting one's desires. They display a logic that the child must master in order to grow up. As the White Queen remarks of the Red Queen: "She's in that state of mind . . . that she wants to deny something—only she doesn't know what to deny!"
书名:星辰的低语:银河系边缘的探险 作者:艾莉亚·凡尔纳 装帧:精装 适读年龄:12岁及以上 内容简介: “星辰的低语”带领读者踏上了一场宏大而又无比私密的宇宙旅程,故事的主角是年轻的星图绘制师,卡西安·洛克伍德。卡西安生长在一个被严密保护的知识堡垒——“阿卡迪亚学院”中,那里的人们相信,宇宙的真理早已被记录在古老的星图中,任何偏离既定航线的探索都是危险且徒劳的。然而,卡西安的心中燃烧着对未知边界的强烈渴望。 故事的开端设定在纪元345年的“大静默”时期。人类文明已经扩散到银河系的数千个殖民地,但一场突如其来的“信息瘟疫”切断了星际间的大部分实时通讯。巨大的星际网络陷入瘫痪,各个殖民地开始退化成孤立的文化孤岛。官方解释称这是太阳耀斑引发的自然灾害,但卡西安在整理一批尘封已久的观测数据时,发现了一个惊人的异常:那些被认为早已消亡的、古老文明的信号,似乎正在从银河系最为偏远的“暗区”——一个被官方禁止涉足的区域——微弱地响起。 卡西安的导师,严谨而保守的首席天文学家奥古斯都教授,坚决否认这些信号的真实性,认为这不过是仪器老化导致的幻影。但卡西安利用自己对失传的“弦理论导航技术”的深刻理解,秘密修复了一艘老旧的勘探飞船——“信标号”。这艘飞船的独特之处在于,它不依赖于主流的量子纠缠网络,而是依靠一种更原始、更依赖数学和直觉的导航方式。 他的首次行动,表面上是为了测试“信标号”的引擎稳定性,但真正的目标是追踪那个微弱到几乎无法捕捉的信号源。这次行动立刻引来了学院内部安全部门的注意,特别是冷酷的执行官维拉·萨姆斯。维拉相信秩序高于一切,任何擅自脱离管制轨道的行为都威胁着人类最后的稳定。 卡西安的旅程很快就超出了预设的轨道。他穿越了被称作“破碎之环”的小行星带,那里的碎片并非随机分布,而是遵循着某种复杂、近乎音乐般的几何排列。在穿越这片区域时,他首次接触到了“低语”——那些从暗区传来的信号,它们并非语言,而是一种复杂的、基于光子脉冲的情感和概念的交流。 随着“信标号”深入银河系外缘,卡西安遇到的挑战也愈发超乎想象。他首先抵达的是一个被遗忘的、由早年太空移民建立的采矿殖民地——“铁砧星站”。这里的居民已经与世隔绝了数百年,他们的技术退化成了依靠蒸汽和机械能的工业文明,但他们保留了一套独特的口述历史,其中提到了“守夜人”——那些在数千年前就预测到“大静默”的先驱者。 在铁砧星站,卡西安遇到了古怪的机械师和民间史学家,伊莱亚斯。伊莱亚斯向卡西安展示了一张用熔融金属铸造的星图,这张图与阿卡迪亚学院的官方星图完全不同。它将银河系的结构描述成一个不断自我折叠的有机体,而“暗区”并非虚无,而是星系结构中的“折痕”。伊莱亚斯相信,那些低语正是来自“折痕”彼岸的智慧生命,它们试图通过数学的和谐来重建中断的联系。 卡西安接受了伊莱亚斯的帮助,升级了“信标号”的接收器,使其能够解析更深层次的“低语”。这些信息揭示了一个令人震惊的真相:大静默并非自然现象,而是被一种古老的、控制信息流动的“元秩序”系统有意识地关闭的。这个系统并非为了毁灭,而是为了保护分散的人类文明免受某种“噪音”的干扰,而这种噪音,卡西安渐渐意识到,可能就是学院一直以来所依赖的量子通讯网络本身产生的副作用。 追捕卡西安的维拉·萨姆斯也紧随其后。她并非纯粹的反派,她只是坚信,学院维持的秩序是抵御混乱的唯一屏障。她的飞船“正义之剑”装备了最先进的追踪系统,她相信卡西安的行为正把人类文明推向未知的风险。 卡西安最终抵达了信号的源头——一个被巨大的、近乎静止的气体云环绕的区域,被称为“镜湖”。在这里,他发现了一个超乎想象的结构:一个由纯粹的、排列整齐的暗物质构成的巨型几何体,它正在缓慢地、周期性地发出那些低语。 在“镜湖”中,卡西安与一个实体进行了前所未有的交流。这个实体并非生物,而是一种纯粹的信息集合体,它向卡西安展示了宇宙的真正历史:人类文明在扩张过程中无意中激活了一个自我防御机制,这个机制是为了防止跨越星系的意识污染而设立的“防火墙”。 当卡西安试图将这些发现传回学院时,维拉的“正义之剑”赶到。一场激烈的追逐和对峙在“镜湖”边缘展开。卡西安必须做出抉择:是服从学院的命令,将这个发现报告为“危险的异常并予以摧毁”,还是冒着被视为叛徒的风险,尝试利用“镜湖”的能量,向所有孤立的殖民地发送一个包含真相的、非主流的“基础和弦”信号,以此重启真正的星际对话。 在关键时刻,卡西安利用他对弦理论导航的直觉,引导“信标号”与“镜湖”的几何结构产生了一次短暂的共振。他成功地向外发送了信息,信息以一种全新的、非技术依赖的方式传播,它跨越了被切断的网络,直接触及了那些沉睡的殖民地的心智。 维拉目睹了这一过程,她开始质疑自己维护的“秩序”的本质。她最终选择了停止攻击,但她选择了保持沉默,带着“正义之剑”返回,她需要时间来处理她所看到的与她所受教导完全相悖的事实。 故事的结局并非是所有问题都得到解决。卡西安没有回到阿卡迪亚学院。他选择留在“镜湖”附近,成为新的“守夜人”,观察和翻译那些从宇宙深处传来的、持续不断的“星辰的低语”。他知道,真正的探险才刚刚开始——不是向外探索物理空间,而是向内探索如何重建一个基于诚实与理解的星际文明。这本书以一个开放式的、充满希望的哲学沉思结束,邀请读者思考,在浩瀚的宇宙中,我们所依赖的“真理”是否只是被精心编排的局部信号。