马克 · 吐温短篇故事全集 Bantam Classics：The Complete Short Stories Of Mark Twain

基本信息

by Mark Twain (Author)

Format:Paperback 679 pages

Publisher:Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc

Imprint:Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Edition:Revised ed

ISBN:9780553211955

Published:1 Mar 1984

Dimensions 104 x 173 x 33mm | 403g

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书籍简介

马克-吐温的作品情节精巧，创造力丰富，人物形象令人难忘，其语言出色地捕捉了美国人生动的语言节奏，没有任何美国作家能与之相比。这本熠熠生辉的文集涵盖了吐温无以伦比的全部作品，从他早期的宽泛喜剧到晚年的辛辣讽刺。

他的60篇故事中的每一篇都在这里：从《卡拉维拉斯县的跳蛙》（The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County）的边疆幽默，到《腐蚀哈德利堡的人》（The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg）对人类的辛辣看法，再到《他是生是死》（Is He Living or Is He Dead）的令人愉快的搞笑。本书洋溢着吐温热情洋溢的机智和对人性缺陷的深刻洞察力，是对H.L. Mencken所说的 "我们民族文学之父 "的职业生涯的生动总结。

For deft plotting, riotous inventiveness, unforgettable characters, and language that brilliantly captures the lively rhythms of American speech, no American writer comes close to Mark Twain. This sparkling anthology covers the entire span of Twain's inimitable yarn-spinning, from his early broad comedy to the biting satire of his later years.

Every one of his sixty stories is here: ranging from the frontier humor of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," to the bitter vision of humankind in "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg," to the delightful hilarity of "Is He Living or Is He Dead?" Surging with Twain's ebullient wit and penetrating insight into the follies of nature, this volume is a vibrant summation of the career of-in the words of H. L. Mencken-"the father of our national literature."

作者简介

马克-吐温生于1835年，名叫塞缪尔-兰霍恩-克莱门斯。1865年，他出版了《卡拉维拉斯县的跳蛙》（The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County）一书，获得了全国性的关注，但《哈克贝利-费恩历险记》（The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn，1885年）则被文学界公认为是一位伟大的作家。1880年，吐温开始推广和资助命运多舛的佩奇排字机，这是一项旨在使印刷过程完全自动化的发明。在他天真乐观地参与这项几乎使他破产的技术 "奇迹 "时，他出版了讽刺小说《康涅狄格州的美国佬在亚瑟王宫》（1889）。受个人悲剧和经济失败的困扰，马克-吐温在阴郁和愤懑中度过了他生命中的几年，写下了关于 "该死的人类 "的寓言。

Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835. He gained national attention as a humorist in 1865 with the publication of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," but was acknowledged as a great writer by the literary establishment with The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (1885). In 1880, Twain began promoting and financing the ill-fated Paige typesetter, an invention designed to make the printing process fully automatic. At the height of his naively optimistic involvement in the technological "wonder" that nearly drove him to bankruptcy, he published his satire, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Mark Twain spent the last years of his life in gloom and exasperation, writing fables about "the damned human race."