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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another...
In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an "outlander"—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord...1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life ...and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire...and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Amazon.com
In Outlander , a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library.
While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.
I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness."
Gabaldon creates characters that you'll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you've finished the book.
--Candy Paape
From Publishers Weekly
Time-traveler Claire Randall returns to 18th-century Scotland in this compulsively readable sequel to Outlander.
From Library Journal
After being separated by seven years of World War II, Claire and Frank Randall return to the Scottish Highlands for a second honeymoon. Left to her own devices while her husband immerses himself in historical pursuits, Claire inadvertently enters a circle of standing stones and is plunged back 200 years to a Scotland on the verge of the second Jacobite uprising. Her pluck and skill as a nurse win the Scots' grudging respect, but only marriage to a Scot will save her from the clutches of Frank's vicious forbear, Black Jack Randall. Though first novelist Gabaldon uses time travel primarily to allow a modern heroine, this is basically a richly textured historical novel with an unusual and compelling love story. The author, an assistant professor of research in environmental studies, was encouraged to publish by fellow users of CompuServe and has two more books contracted. If these fulfill the promise of the first, they should win a devoted audience. Literary Guild alternate; Doubleday Book Club main selection.
- Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.
From Kirkus Reviews
Once-in-a-lifetime romantic passion and graphically depicted torture sessions are only the two extremes of this lively time- travel romance set in 18th-century Scotland--an imaginative and lighthearted debut by a promising newcomer. World War II has finally ended and Claire Beauchamp Randall, a British Red Cross nurse, has gone off to Scotland with her historian husband, Frank, to try to resume their married life where it left off six years before. Their diligent attempts to make a baby come to a halt, however, when Claire discovers an ancient stone circle on a nearby hilltop, slips between two mysterious- looking boulders, and is transported willy-nilly to the year 1743. Stumbling down the hillside, disoriented and confused, Claire is discovered by Jonathan ``Black Jack'' Randall, an evil English officer who happens to be her husband's direct ancestor and physical look-alike. Randall notes Claire's revealing 1940's summer dress, assumes she is a whore, and attempts to rape her, whereupon she is rescued by the fierce MacKenzie clan, who take her to their castle and confine her there. Claire adjusts to her changed circumstances with amazing ease, using her nursing experience to tend to her hosts' illnesses while she impatiently awaits a chance to return to the circle of stones. Before she can get away, circumstances force her into a marriage with James Frazer, a Scottish renegade from English justice and Jonathan Randall's archenemy. Young Jamie's good looks, passion, and virility soon redirect Claire's energies to defending her stalwart new husband against her former mate's evil clone, and the fierce, courageous but historically doomed Scottish clans against the course of destiny itself. A satisfying treat, with extra scoops of excitement and romance that make up for certain lapses in credibility.
From AudioFile
Gabaldon's genre-crossing classic of romance, fantasy, and historical fiction tells the story of Jamie and Claire, lovers from different centuries caught in the bloodshed of the Scots' struggle to be free of the English. It achieves a new dimension in the audio format. Davina Porter maintains the distinct voices she creates for each character throughout the lengthy narration. Her delivery of eighteenth-century language sounds authentic and is easily understandable. The hot sex and graphic violence, integral to the story, are far more vivid on tape than they are on paper. D.T.H.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)17.5 width:(cm)11.3
戴安娜·加瓦尔东(Diana Gabaldon):
美国作家,北亚利桑那大学海洋生态学博士与荣誉人文学博士,曾在大学教授解剖学,还是多本科技、电脑期刊的撰稿人、评论员。1988年,黛安娜·加瓦尔东为了“练习”而开始写小说,不料一写就写出了风靡全球的Outlander系列。她学识渊博,感情细腻,又具有大胆的想象力和幽默感,而这些特质正是Outlander魅力的来源。
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评分我们耳熟能详的许多小说作家,往往在小说作家这个身份之外,还拥有其它完全不同的身份和经历。例如,作为小说家的海明威,同时也是位穿越火线的战地记者;靠小说夺得诺贝尔文学奖桂冠的莫言,也曾经有过军旅生活;写就科幻小说《火星救援》的安迪•威尔,自十五岁起就被美国...
pretty ok~~~
评分鑑於電視劇目前只到第一部的一半兒,拿原著來看。 實乃穿越題材良心之作,作者在故事背景準備上是下了大功夫的。本來是打算當略瑪麗蘇的女強文來看的,沒想到第一部後面口味略重啊⋯⋯Jamie此等花樣美青年果然放哪個時代都不安全,上至公爵大叔下至村婦少女都惦記著,還娶了個護士人妻少婦。某君用「蘇格蘭熱」作為標題真實貼切啊。
评分看到后来实在无聊
评分鑑於電視劇目前只到第一部的一半兒,拿原著來看。 實乃穿越題材良心之作,作者在故事背景準備上是下了大功夫的。本來是打算當略瑪麗蘇的女強文來看的,沒想到第一部後面口味略重啊⋯⋯Jamie此等花樣美青年果然放哪個時代都不安全,上至公爵大叔下至村婦少女都惦記著,還娶了個護士人妻少婦。某君用「蘇格蘭熱」作為標題真實貼切啊。
评分非常好看的18r言情。
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