吉卜林选集 Everymans Library Classics：Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling

基本信息

Series:Everyman's Library Classics Series

Format:Hardback 960 pages

Publisher:Random House USA Inc

Imprint:Everyman's Library USA

ISBN:9780679435921

Published:18 Oct 1994

Weight:850g

Dimensions:211 x 137 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

鲁德亚德-吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling，1865-1936 年）是英国王室统治时期生活在拉合尔的一位年轻作家，他被一个巨大的题材--印度--所吸引，而他描绘印度之美和奇异之处的天才在当时就已经完全形成，以至于我们不得不从莎士比亚和狄更斯等人那里寻找同样早熟的作家。更令人惊叹的是，他的才华随着时间的推移不断增长和发展。他在漫长写作生涯末期的作品甚至比其辉煌开端的作品更加出色。

这里收录的 40 篇小说涵盖了令人惊讶的各种题材和技巧。 这里有他出色的战争小说《玛丽-波斯特盖特》、《园丁》和《前后鼓声》，也有他的恐怖小说《野兽的标记》、科幻小说《夜邮》和鬼故事《外科医生之家》。《会成为国王的人》是一个令人难忘的冒险故事，《'Love-o'-Women'》和《Without Benefit of Clergy》揭示了他对爱情和激情的洞察力，而《咩咩，黑羊》则是对吉卜林童年创伤的痛彻心扉的重温。从《莫罗比-朱克斯的奇异之旅》中噩梦般的寓言和《架桥人》中的神秘幻象，到他的代表作《许愿屋》中对痴迷和牺牲的精彩描绘，这些故事展示了吉卜林非凡的叙事天赋。

As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865­–1936) was possessed by an enormous subject—India—and his genius for rendering its beauty and strangeness was even then so fully formed that we have to look to the likes of Shakespeare and Dickens to find writers equally precocious. What is even more astonishing, and what this selection of stories from across his entire career reveals, is the way that his talent grew and developed over time. The work he did toward the end of his long writing life is even better than that which marked its splendid beginnings.

The forty stories collected here range across a surprising variety of subjects and techniques. Here are his superb war stories, “Mary Postgate,” “The Gardener,” and “The Drums of the Fore and Aft,” as well as his famous forays into horror in “The Mark of the Beast,” science fiction in “With the Night Mail,” and the ghost story in “The House Surgeon.” “The Man Who Would Be King” is an unforgettable adventure tale, “‘Love-o’-Women’” and “Without Benefit of Clergy” reveal his insight into love and passion, and “Baa Baa, Black Sheep” is a searing revisiting of Kipling’s childhood trauma. From the nightmarish allegory of “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes” and the mystical visions in “The Bridge-Builders” to the brilliant portrait of obsession and sacrifice in his masterpiece, “The Wish House,” these stories showcase Kipling’s remarkable narrative gifts.

作者简介

1865 年 12 月 30 日，鲁德亚德-吉卜林出生在印度孟买，父母是英国人。1871 年，鲁德亚德和三岁的妹妹特里克斯被留在英国南海的一对夫妇家中照顾。五年后，他才再次见到父母。他的被遗弃感和绝望后来在他的故事《咩咩，黑羊》（1888 年）、小说《失败之光》（1890 年）和自传《我自己的一些事》（1937 年）中得到了表达。直到 1935 年，吉卜林仍对南海的 "荒凉之屋 "耿耿于怀： "我真想一把火烧了它，然后用盐犁地。

12 岁时，吉卜林进入一所小型公立学校，即位于北德文郡向西湖的联合服务学院。在《Stalky and CO. (1899）中，近视的甲壳虫是一幅自画像，而在向西湖（Westward Ho）的日子则让他百感交集。16 岁时，性格古怪、文思泉涌的吉卜林乘船前往印度，成为一名记者。他在印度的经历创作了七卷小说，包括《士兵三》（1888 年）和《Wee Willie Winkie》（1888 年）。

24 岁时，他回到英国，并迅速成为文学界名人。在伦敦，他与美国人（查尔斯）沃尔科特-巴勒斯提尔（Wolcott Balestier）成为好友，并与他合作创作了一部被评论家称为 "一角钱商店小说 "的作品。1891 年，沃尔科特突然去世，几周后吉卜林与沃尔科特的妹妹卡罗琳结婚。新婚夫妇定居在佛蒙特州的布拉特伯勒，吉卜林在那里写下了《丛林之书》（1895 年）和《勇敢上校》（1897 年）的大部分内容。

1899 年，吉卜林夫妇在英国苏塞克斯定居，在那里，他写下了《 金》（Kim，1901 年）、《故事就这样》（Just So Stories，1902 年）和《普克斯山的鸭子》（Puck of Pooks Hill，1906 年）。1907 年，他获得了诺贝尔文学奖。1936 年 1 月 18 日他去世时，评论界对他的作品众说纷纭，但他的书仍被成千上万的人阅读，《贡嘎丁》、《如果》、《想当国王的人》和《里基-提基-塔维》等令人难忘的诗歌和故事一直留在后人的记忆中。

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India to British parents on December 30, 1865. In 1871, Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three, were left to be cared for by a couple in Southsea, England. Five years passed before he saw his parents again. His sense of desertion and despair were later expressed in his story Baa Baa, Black Sheep (1888), in his novel The Light That Failed (1890), and his autobiography, Something of Myself (1937). As late as 1935 Kipling still spoke bitterly of the “House of Desolation” at Southsea: “I should like to burn it down and plough the place with salt.”

At twelve he entered a minor public school, the United Services College at Westward Ho, North Devon. In Stalky and CO. (1899) the myopic Beetle is a self-caricature, and the days at Westward Ho are recalled with mixed feelings. At sixteen, eccentric and literary, Kipling sailed to India to become a journalist. His Indian experiences led to seven volumes of stories, including Soldiers Three (1888) and Wee Willie Winkie (1888).

At twenty-four he returned to England and quickly tuned into a literary celebrity. In London he became close friends with an American, (Charles) Wolcott Balestier, with whom he collaborated on what critics called a “dime store novel.” Wolcott died suddenly in 1891, and a few weeks later Kipling married Wolcott’s sister, Caroline. The newlyweds settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote The Jungle Book (1895), and most of Captains Courageous (1897). By this time Kipling’s popularity and financial success were enormous.

In 1899 the Kiplings settled in Sussex, England, where he wrote some of his best books: Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), andPuck of Pooks Hill (1906). In 1907 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. By the time he died, on January 18 1936, critical opinion was deeply divided about his writings, but his books continued to be read by thousands, and such unforgettable poems and stories as ”Gunga Din,” “If,” “The Man Who Would Be King,” and “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi” have lived on in the consciousness of succeeding generations.