书名：Camille茶花女

作者：Alexandre Dumas
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2004
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451529206
商品尺寸：10.7 x 1.8 x 17.5 cm
包装：简装
页数：272 （以实物为准）
Camille《茶花女》是法国作家亚历山大·小仲马创作的长篇小说，也是其代表作。故事讲述了一个青年人与巴黎上流社会一位交际花曲折凄婉的爱情故事。这部作品通过一个妓女的爱情悲剧，揭露了法国七月王朝上流社会的糜烂生活，对贵族资产阶级的虚伪道德提出了血泪控诉。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文版，由Toril Moi写导言，Edmond Gosse作翻译，书本轻巧便携。
Marguerite Gautier is the most beautiful, brazen—and expensive—courtesan in all of Paris. Despite being ill with consumption, she lives a glittering, moneyed life of nonstop parties and aristocratic balls and savors every day as if it were her last.

Into her life comes Armand Duval. Young, handsome, and recklessly headstrong, he is hopelessly in love with Marguerite, but not nearly rich enough. Yet Armand is Marguerite’s first true love, and against her better judgment, she throws away her upper-class lifestyle for him. But as intense as their love for each other is, it challenges a reality that cannot be denied.…
This Signet Classics version is the only available paperback edition of Camille, a story as old as time and as timeless as love itself.
Translated by Sir Edmond Gosse, with an Introduction by Toril Moi.
Review
“One of the greatest love stories in the world.”— Henry James

亚历山大•小仲马，法国小说家，戏剧家，大仲马的私生子。7岁时大仲马才认其为子，但仍拒不认其母为妻。私生子的身世使小仲马在童年和少年时代受尽世人的讥诮。成年后痛感法国资本主义社会的淫靡之风造成许多像他们母子这样的被侮辱与被损害者，决心通过文学改变社会道德。他曾说：“任何文学，若不把完善道德、理想和有益作为目的，都是病态的、不健全的文学。”这是他文学创作的基本指导思想。而探讨资产阶级的社会道德问题，则是贯穿其文学创作的中心内容。

Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–95) was the illegitimate son of a Belgian seamstress and the famed novelist Alexandre Dumas. He was educated in several Parisian private schools and the Collège Bourbon. The elder Dumas acknowledged him as his natural son and for some time made him his constant companion. In 1847, the younger Dumas published his first novel, Adventures of Four Women and a Parrot, followed a year later by Camille (The Lady of the Camellias), and ten other novels over the next decade. Following the great success of the dramatic version of Camille, Dumas was gradually drawn away from the novel to the stage. He was elected to the French Academy in 1874 and continued to produce a long line of successful plays until his death.

Toril Moi is James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University. Widely known for her work on feminist theory, she is the author of Sexual/Textual Politics; What Is a Woman?; and Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. The editor of The Kristeva Reader and French Feminist Thought, she recently published a book on Henrik Ibsen.
In my opinion, it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time studying men, as it is impossible to speak a language until it has been seriously acquired. Not being old enough to invent, I content myself with narrating, and I beg the reader to assure himself of the truth of a story in which all the characters, with the exception of the heroine, are still alive. Eye-witnesses of the greater part of the facts which I have collected are to be found in Paris, and I might call upon them to confirm me if my testimony is not enough. And, thanks to a particular circumstance, I alone can write these things, for I alone am able to give the final details, without which it would have been impossible to make the story at once interesting and complete.

This is how these details came to my knowledge. On the 12th of March, 1847, I saw in the Rue Lafitte a great yellow placard announcing a sale of furniture and curiosities. The sale was to take place on account of the death of the owner. The owner’s name was not mentioned, but the sale was to be held at 9, Rue d’Antin, on the 16th, from 12 to 5. The placard further announced that the rooms and furniture could be seen on the 13th and 14th.