经典小说收藏版系列：米德尔马契（2024年新出版） Wordsworth Collectors Editions：Middlemarch

基本信息

Publisher：Wordsworth Editions Ltd

Language：English

Format:Hardback

ISBN-13：9781840228571

Dimensions：13.46 x 18.03 cm

信息仅供参考，具体以实物位置

书籍简介

《米德尔马契》是英国作家乔治·艾略特创作的长篇小说，出版于1872年。

该书中有两条贯穿其中的主线：一为少女多萝西娅的婚姻悲剧与理想的破灭，一为青年医生利德盖特爱情与事业的双重挫折与失败。在这两大主线之中，作者运用了对比、平行以及重复等多种描写手法，从而将两条主线交织在一起，把书中的众多人物，如费瑟斯通、布尔斯特罗德、高思一家等男女主人公悲欢离合的人生写进小说，突出了“社会挫败人”这一大主题。

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Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.

Henry James described Middlemarch as a ‘treasure-house of detail’ while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot’s masterpiece as ‘one of the few English novels written for grown-up people’

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS

In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain’s ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin’s brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or necessary. But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a “disgusting murderer” and he wanted to remind people of this fact in a powerful and memorable way. But how to do it? A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience; a traditional novel would take too long to write. Orwell hit on the inspired idea of combining the moralism of the traditional ‘beast fable’ with the satire of Gulliver’s Travels. A group of farmyard animals, led by the pigs, overthrow their human masters. Their revolution is inspired by high ideals: the farm will be run in the interests of its animals with no more slaughtering, plenty of food for all and comfort in retirement. But when Napoleon the pig takes command, he quickly corrupts their principles, creating a new tyranny worse than the old.

Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging ‘cold war’ (a phrase that Orwell himself coined). It also became a site of that conflict itself, suffering various attempts to subvert or change its meaning.

Today, Animal Farm remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages.

Our edition also includes the following essays: Shooting an Elephant; Charles Dickens; Inside the Whale; The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda; Literature and Totalitarianism; Fascism and Democracy; Patriots and Revolutionaries; Gradualism; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; Why I Write; Writers and Leviathan.

作者简介

乔治·艾略特（1819年11月22日—1880年12月22日），英国作家。原名玛丽·安·伊万斯，1819年出生在华威郡一个中产阶级商人家庭，19世纪英语文学有影响力的小说家之一。乔治·艾略特的创作素材来源于英国历史和现实生活。艾略特小说中的生活描述生动详实，人物具有代表性，心理描写真实细致，忠实地反映了19世纪英国乡镇普通百姓生活的动荡与变迁。主要作品有：《亚当·比德》《弗洛斯河上的磨坊》《米德尔马契》《织工马南》等。与萨克雷、狄更斯、勃朗特姐妹齐名。

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), one of the leading writers of Victorian times. Like many of her contemporary female writers, she published her books using a male name in order to be taken seriously. Her novels, including ‘Adam Bede’, ‘The Mill on the Floss’ and ‘Middlemarch’, have remained perennially popular and the subject of numerous television adaptations.

The writer and woman we now think of as George Eliot was born on November 22nd,1819; her given name was Mary Anne Evans, her forename often shortened within the family, and later among her friends, to Mary Ann. Her father Robert Evans was the agent for the Arbury Hall Estate in Warwickshire; her mother was Christiana Pearson, Evans’ second wife, his first having died in 1809. Mary Ann was the third of Christiana’s children, and she also had two half-siblings, Robert and Frances, who were already adolescents when she was born. Early in her life, the family moved to Griff House, a pleasant red-brick house, where she was to spend the formative years of her life. The countryside roundabout formed the basis of the landscape she imaginatively recreates in The Mill on the Floss, where she also draws on her mother’s family as the inspiration for some of the characters. Her close early relationship with her nearest brother, Isaac, is generally thought to have provided the material for the relationship between Maggie and Tom in that novel.