马克吐温经典作品集 Signet Classics: The Signet Classic Book of Mark Twains Short Stories

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 812 pages

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Imprint:Signet Classics

ISBN:9780451530165

Published:2 May 2006

Weight:380g

Dimensions:173 x 107 x 39 (mm)

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书籍简介

在马克-吐温出版他优秀的小说《哈克贝利-费恩历险记》之前的近二十年里，他一直在精益求精地创作短篇小说和小品，并赢得了极高的人气。从经典的边疆小品《卡拉韦拉斯郡臭名昭著的跳蛙》到想象力丰富的寓言故事《斯托姆菲尔德船长的天堂之行摘录》，这本寓教于乐、内容丰富的作品集收录了马克-吐温优秀的65篇短篇小说。这本作品集由普利策奖得主、马克-吐温的学者和传记作者贾斯汀-卡普兰（Justin Kaplan）编纂，收录了马克-吐温诙谐、有见地的作品。

For nearly two decades before Mark Twain published his finest novel,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he was refining his craft and winning tremendous popularity with his short stories and sketches. This richly entertaining and comprehensive collection presents sixty-five of the very best of Mark Twain’s short pieces, from the classic frontier sketch “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” to the richly imaginative fable “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven.” Compiled by Pulitzer Prize–winning Twain scholar and biographer, Justin Kaplan, this collection represents some of Mark Twain’s wittiest and most insightful writing.

作者简介

马克·吐温（Mark Twain，1835年11月30日-1910年4月21日 ），原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门（Samuel Langhorne Clemens），美国作家、演说家，“马克·吐温”是他的笔名，原是密西西比河水手使用的表示在航道上所测水的深度的术语。

12岁时，父亲去世，他只好停学，到工厂当小工。曾做过密西西比河的领航员、矿工及新闻记者工作。渐渐地手写一些有趣的小说，开始了自己的写作生涯。代表作品有小说《百万英镑》《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》《汤姆·索亚历险记》等。

马克·吐温是美国批判现实主义文学的奠基人，马克·吐温一生写了大量作品，体裁涉及小说、剧本、散文、诗歌等各方面。从内容上说，他的作品批判了不合理现象或人性的丑恶之处，表达了这位当过排字工人和水手的作家强烈的正义感和对普通人民的关心；从风格上说，专家们和一般读者都认为，幽默和讽刺是他的写作特点。他经历了美国从初期资本主义到帝国主义的发展过程，其思想和创作也表现为从轻快调笑到辛辣讽刺再到悲观厌世的发展阶段，前期以辛辣的讽刺见长，到了后期语言更为暴露激烈。

贾斯汀-卡普兰著有《克莱门斯先生和马克-吐温》（普利策奖和国家图书奖得主）、《马克-吐温和他的世界》、《林肯-斯蒂芬斯》和《沃尔特-惠特曼：生平》。1985 年，他当选为美国艺术与文学学院院士。他的一本书是《当阿斯特家族拥有纽约》。他于 2014 年去世。

Debbie Macomber 的一本书于 1982 年由 Silhouette 出版，如今她的图书发行量已超过 7000 万册。她的《纽约时报》畅销书包括《好纱》（A Good Yarn）、《花街小店》（The Shop on Blossom Street）、《红莓角 44 号》（44 Cranberry Point，Quill Book Award 获奖作品）和《奇迹先生》

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died in Redding, Connecticut in 1910. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing, but toward the end of his life he went bankrupt and undertook a round-the-world lecture tour in order to pay off his creditors. He lives in American letters as one of our greatest humorists and novelists, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”

Justin Kaplan is the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; Mark Twain and His World; Lincoln Steffens; and Walt Whitman: A Life. In 1985, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His final book was When the Astors Owned New York. He died in 2014.

Debbie Macomber’s first book was published by Silhouette in 1982, and today she has more than seventy million books in print. Among her many New York Times bestselling titles are A Good Yarn, The Shop on Blossom Street, 44 Cranberry Point, a Quill Book Award winner, and Mr. Miracle.