书名：The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories通天铁路和霍桑其他故事集

作者：Nathaniel Hawthorne纳撒尼尔·霍桑
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：2006
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451530202
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.2 x 17.3 cm
包装：简装
页数：336 （以实物为准）
The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories《通天铁路和霍桑其他故事集》是美国作家纳撒尼尔·霍桑的经典短篇小说集，内容包括《通天铁路》《罗杰·马尔文的葬礼》《我的亲戚莫利纳斯少校》《遗孀》等。霍桑的小说，除了早期极少数哥特式的恐怖小说和冒险故事之外，都不同程度地反映出他思想的一个主要倾向，即对人类灵魂深处执着的探索和由此而产生的深沉的忧思。霍桑更关心的是造成罪恶现实的根本原因。

本书为Signet Classics推出的英文原版，书本轻巧便携。

Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.” By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne explored the destinies and concerns of early American settlers and citizens. In several of the stories in this collection, characters who hold themselves apart from their fellow man fall prey to the corroding desires of lust for perfection. Then they unwittingly commit evils—against themselves and others—in the name of pride. Edgar Allan Poe noted of Hawthorne’s writing: “Every word tells, and there is not a word which does not tell.”

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“He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”  — Henry James
纳撒尼尔·霍桑（1804~1864），美国心理分析小说的开创者，也是美国文学史上写作短篇小说的作家，被称为美国19世纪伟大的浪漫主义小说家。霍桑被评价为一个生活的旁观者，这一人生态度决定了他对人的内心、心理活动的兴趣和洞察力。他深受原罪思想的影响，而且原罪代代相传，倡导人们以善行来洗刷罪恶，净化心灵。其代表作包括长篇小说《红字》《七角楼房》，短篇小说集《重讲一遍的故事》《古宅青苔》《雪影》等。其中《红字》已成为世界文学经典，亨利·詹姆斯、爱伦·坡、赫尔曼·麦尔维尔等文学大师都深受其影响。

Nathaniel Hawthornewas born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. He lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride in a prosperous past. His boyhood was, in most respects, pleasant and normal. In 1825 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and he returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his Twice-Told Tales (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. The Scarlet Letter (1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by The House of the Seven Gables (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Ross C. Murfin, professor of English at and former provost of Southern Methodist University, has also taught at the University of Virginia, Yale University, and the University of Miami, where he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of such books as Swinburne, Hardy, Lawrence and the Burden of Belief and The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence: Texts and Contexts. He is coauthor, with Supryia Ray, of TheBedfordGlossary of Critical and LiteraryTerms (second edition) and series editor of Bedford/St. Martin’s popular Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism.
Roger Malvin’s Burial罗杰·马尔文的葬礼

My Kinsman, Major Molineux我的亲戚莫利纳斯少校
The Wives of the Dead遗孀
The Gray Champion苍发勇士
Wakefield韦克菲尔德
The Ambitious Guest雄心勃勃的客人
Young Goodman Brown年轻的古德曼•布朗
The Minister’s Black Veil-A PARABLE一则寓言——牧师的黑面纱
The Maypole of Merry Mount欢乐山的五月柱
The Great Carbunde - A MYSTERY OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS巨型的石面及白山故事集
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment海德格尔博士的实验
Lady Eleanore’s Mantle埃莉诺小姐的斗篷
Egotism , or, The Bosom Serpent自我主义或心底之蛇
The Celestial Railroad通天铁路
The Birthmark胎记
Rappaccini’s Daughter拉帕奇尼的女儿
The Snow Image - A CHILDISH MIRACLE雪景
Ethan Brand - A CHAPTER FROM AN ABORTIVE ROMANCE伊桑�9�9布兰德

“There is not two days’ life in me, Reuben,” said the other, calmly, “and I will no longer burden you with my useless body, when you can scarcely support your own. Your wounds are deep and your strength is failing fast; yet, if you hasten onward alone, you may be preserved. For me there is no hope, and I will await death here.”
“If it must be so, I will remain and watch by you,” said Reuben resolutely.