那是最好的時代,那是最壞的時代 英國文學泰斗狄更斯代表作!全球暢銷2億冊! BBC百大受歡迎圖書! 收錄作家安德魯.朗格5000字長文導讀 1757年12月,巴黎的年輕醫生曼內特,被帶往侯爵家出診,不料卻目睹了殺人事件。他決心為受害者伸張正義,結果卻遭了算計,被祕密關進巴士底獄。他的妻子大受打擊,不久便去世了,去世前託付友人將女兒露西帶到倫敦撫養。十八年後,長大成人的露西,突然得到父親的消息,她從倫敦趕往巴黎,父女終得團聚。 父女兩人返回倫敦的途中,邂逅了達尼,露西和達尼情愫漸生,並論及婚嫁,然而,曼內特見到達尼時總是心神不寧,原來這位法國來的年輕人正是當年陷害醫生的侯爵的侄子。不過,法國大革命爆發時,達尼為了營救家中老僕,自願回到法國,反而遭到逮捕入獄,眼看命在旦夕,幸虧和達尼身材、外貌皆相似的英國律師卡爾頓出手搭救…… 「我現在所做的事,遠比我做過的一切都更加美好; 我將獲得的休憩,遠比我知道的一切都更加安逸。」 狄更斯在書中運用了很多對稱、排比,比如英國之於法國、卡爾頓之於達尼,在敘述場景時更是充滿畫面與音樂感,如手拉手繞圈旋轉的卡瑪奧勒舞、面對面搖動磨刀石的男人,狄更斯運用種種文學手法,構築出一部高潮迭起、結構完整的鉅作。
A self-made millionaire and a social revolutionary are at odds with each other in a novel set against the background of a nineteenth-century New York streetcar strike.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes and...
"17-year-old Molly Ayer, an orphan in foster care, is sent to help take care of a 91-year-old woman in Maine who is an alumni of the so-called orphan trains, which took orphans from the east coast to families in the farmlands of the Midwest ...
Hout, it will just be to get crane-berries, or whortle-berries, or some such stuff, out of the moss, to make the pies and tarts for the feast on Monday. — I cannot get the words of that cankered auld cripple deil's-buckie out o' my head ...
Holmes succeeds Case at Detroit , or more properly in the Thanies country , and even improves on the numbers returned by his successful predecessor ; a great achievement after such a revival . 59. RYAN , like his friend Case ...
Down to that time , and , in some ways , much later , those who were local in name were largely travelling in practice ; so much so as to be , in many cases , the pioneers in breaking up new ground and forming original societies .
曹雪芹编著的《红楼梦(导读版)》以贾宝玉、林黛玉、薛宝钗之间的恋爱婚姻悲剧为主线,描写了以贾家为代表的四大家族的兴衰,揭示了封建大家庭的各种错综复杂的矛盾,表现 ...
He held a match close to the bowl of Rubin's pipe , cupping the flame . “ Then why do you do it ? " “ It works best for me that way , Allan . I have arthritis . ” He slanted his eyes left at his pupil . “ Do you ?
sense of stopping . Also to blanch , Nor heav'n peep thro ' the blanket of the dark , To cry bold , hold . Kacbeth , i , B. with reference to the blanchers . But Cibber , in his Lives of the Poets BLANK . The white mark in the centre ...
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