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发表于2024-09-10
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Book Description
Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain was also a skilled chronicler of his own life and experiences. In his youth, Twain traveled extensively throughout the untamed American West with his brother, working his way from town to town in a variety of jobs, including gold prospector, reporter, and lecturer. Roughing It is Twain's personal recollection of his wanderlust years. It is a wildly humorous adventure yarn that combines hard facts with a healthy dose of the author's unique perspective, one that helped define the course of American literature.
Pocket Books' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enriched for the contemporary reader. This edition of Roughing It has been prepared by Professor Henry B. Wonham of the University of Oregon. It includes his introduction, notes, selection of critical excerpts, and suggestions for further reading as well as a unique visual essay of period illustrations and photographs.
Synopsis:
Mark Twain's sublime collection of autobiographical essays brings the American West to life as no other chronicler ever has. A classic in every sense of the word, Roughing It is a wildly humorous adventure that combines hard facts with a dose of the author's unique perspective, one that helped define the course of American literature.
Amazon.com
There is no nicer surprise for a reader than to discover that an acknowledged classic really does deliver the goods. Mark Twain's Roughing It is just such a book. The adventure tale is a delight from start to finish and is just as engrossing today as it was 125 years ago when it first appeared.
Roughing It tells the true-ish escapades of Twain in the American West. Although he clearly "speaks with forked tongue," Roughing It is informative as well as humorous. From stagecoach travel to the etiquette of prospecting, the modern reader gains considerable insight into that much-fictionalized time and place. Do you know about sagebrush, for example?
Sage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule. But their testimony to its nutritiousness is worth nothing, for they will eat pine knots, or anthracite coal, or brass filings, or lead pipe, or old bottles, or anything that comes handy, and then go off looking as grateful as if they had had oysters for dinner.
Roughing It is informally structured around the narrator's attempts to strike it rich. He meets a motley, colorful crew in the process; many mishaps occur, and it shouldn't surprise you that Twain does not emerge a man of means. But he withstands it all in such a relentless good humor that his misfortune inspires laughter. Roughing It is wonderful entertainment and reminds you how funny the world can be--even its grimmer districts--when you're traveling with the right writer.
From Library Journal
In this 1872, Twain reminisces about his five years of roaming around the country from 1861 to 1866. This edition contains the complete original text plus the original illustrations. Though pricey, this volume should be considered for collections specializing in Twain.
Book Dimension:
length: (cm)16.8 width:(cm)16.2
马克·吐温(Mark Twain,1835-1910),原名萨缪尔·兰亨·克莱门(Samuel Langhorne Clemens),美国著名小说家、幽默大师。
马克•吐温的非虚构文学,书名曾被译为《苦行记》,其实并不准确,但是似乎也难以找到更好的译法。虽然书太厚而考人耐心,但是内容十分丰富,文字非常好,不卖弄文采,不过分依靠长句,时不时还有特别有意思、让人哈哈一笑的地方。
评分书很厚,啃了一个寒假,都快成为“苦读记”了。该本书描述了马克吐温在西部所经历的种种,有传奇的西部英雄故事,有一波三折的淘金故事,有难以置信的荒诞故事,也有西部风土人情的详细描写,大致是还原了当时西部的生活状况和作者的人生经历。散记的形式让人对时间的界定相对模糊,但马克吐温的幽默风趣的文笔还是令人读来畅快不已。
评分马克•吐温的非虚构文学,书名曾被译为《苦行记》,其实并不准确,但是似乎也难以找到更好的译法。虽然书太厚而考人耐心,但是内容十分丰富,文字非常好,不卖弄文采,不过分依靠长句,时不时还有特别有意思、让人哈哈一笑的地方。
评分马克•吐温的非虚构文学,书名曾被译为《苦行记》,其实并不准确,但是似乎也难以找到更好的译法。虽然书太厚而考人耐心,但是内容十分丰富,文字非常好,不卖弄文采,不过分依靠长句,时不时还有特别有意思、让人哈哈一笑的地方。
评分马克•吐温的非虚构文学,书名曾被译为《苦行记》,其实并不准确,但是似乎也难以找到更好的译法。虽然书太厚而考人耐心,但是内容十分丰富,文字非常好,不卖弄文采,不过分依靠长句,时不时还有特别有意思、让人哈哈一笑的地方。
“这真是一本第一流的好书。” 新版中译本《苦行记》引用写作当中信心满满的作者自己的话(而且似乎是节选)作为主要宣传语显然比较古怪,有点像马克•吐温式的自黑。 一个半世纪以后的今天再看《苦行记》,最要紧的意义有两个: 一是它的松散结构与巨大篇幅绝对为马克•吐...
评分读万卷书行万里路,行路中能和书本挂钩的东西好像不太多,有的也只是非常粗浅的,最多用来怡情。盲目的学习和读书,随波逐流的出行,最终陷入一片混沌。 这本书的结构复杂,语言娴熟,内容已经完全超出了我的生活常识。支持读完这边书的力气来源于马克吐温的奇特比喻和想象逗我...
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评分《苦行记》以游记的方式写了作者在美国一个典型时代的见证。整本书基本上看不出所谓的苦行,因为不能用现在的情况或观点去衡量那个年代的人和事。但所谓的苦是因为美国的那个时代那个特定时期的混乱。 大师的厉害之处一方面在于生活阅历的丰富,另一方面在于语言运用的技巧。二...
评分放弃了大河(The Mississippi River)上“值得留恋的引水员”生涯,刚刚被兄长聘为“内华达准州州务秘书”的“私人秘书”的山姆•克莱门斯,怀着成为“既轻松愉快又严肃认真”的男子汉的梦想,于新城圣约瑟夫,跟重达两千八百磅的邮件一起被塞进一辆摇来晃去的六驾马车,...
Roughing It pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024