圖書標籤: 芝加哥 曆史 英文原版 ErikLarson history 鍍金時代 nonfiction 小說
发表于2024-08-08
The Devil in the White City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his "World's Fair Hotel" just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.
The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. In this book the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.
Erik Larson, author of the international bestseller Isaac's Storm, was nominated for a National Book Award for The Devil in the White City, which also won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing. His latest book, In the Garden of Beasts: Love Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, has been acquired for publication in 20 countries and optioned by Tom Hanks for a feature film. Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
Larson has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, and the University of Oregon, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. He lives in Seattle with his wife, who is the director of neonatology at the University of Washington Medical Center and at Children's Hospital of Seattle, and the author of the nonfiction memoir, Almost Home, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations.
雖然連環殺手大概是更大的噱頭,我倒更喜歡世博會的篇幅。Burnham當年碰到的各種睏難,官僚主義,權力鬥爭,閤夥人的意外死亡,芝加哥的惡劣的地質條件和天氣,罷工,火災,經濟蕭條等等等等,實在是讓我對自己工作中碰到的問題汗顔。這麼堅毅的Burnham,在給自己老婆寫信的時候又呈現齣完全不同的一麵,各種傾訴相思之苦,實在是甜死啦
評分Feels like a middlebrow popular fiction. The double-plot of the architect and the serial killer is both a highlight and a drawback.
評分one of the most fascinating books i've ever read
評分故事展開實在是慢,大量的篇幅都圍繞the white city在寫,我要看的是the devil好不?!
評分DNF。寫的真是無聊啊。
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The Devil in the White City pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024