Washington Irving was born in New York in 1873, the son of a British merchant and the youngest of eleven children. He trained as a lawyer, but practised only briefly, preferring to work as a journalist and writer of essays and poems, some of which were published as a book, Salmagundi, in 1808.
In 1809, he introduced the eccentric Dutch character Dietrich Knickerbocker, supposedly a collctor of stories and a historian of the Dutch regime in New York. The Sketch Book, published in 1820, contained essays about life in England, which Irving has recently visited, as well as adaptations of German folk tales, among them Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Spleepy Hollow, which won him international fame.
Irving was appointed diplomatic attache to Spain (1826-9), then secretary to the US Legation in London (1829-32). He continued to write, and his later works included Legends of the Alhambra(1832), A Tour of the Prairies(1835) and a five-volume biography of George Washington, of which the first volume was published in 1855 and the last in 1859, the year of Irving's death.
Poor Rip Van Winkle is married to a
terrible nag of a woman and never seems
to be able to do anything right. His only
peace comes when he heads into the
Catskill Mountains on his own to do a bit
of hunting or fishing. One day, during just
such a trip, he meets a strange man
carrying a keg of liquor and is tempted
to taste just a little of it. He falls asleep
and when he awakens again, the world
is inexplicably different from the one he
left behind.
What has become of his wife, his children
and his trusty dog? Why does no one in
the village recognize h m? This classic
tale is an amusing and thought-provoking
read.
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早上論述的時候總覺得不太對,迴來掃瞭一遍,果然不對!
评分In the 20-year sleep came an end to despotism, freeing Rip Van Winkle from "petticoat government" and the States from Old England, his Majesty.
评分與王質對弈爛柯相仿,不過這個耙耳朵是偷酒喝罷瞭
评分【12.21】通過一覺醒來竟已過去二十年的離奇經曆來寫美國社會的巨大改變,那種因時代變遷産生的滄桑感拿捏得好。另外,從對新舊社會的不同描寫挺能看齣歐文本人態度的。Rip害怕老婆管製這點挺有趣的哈哈,在得知老婆去世後鬆瞭一口氣讓人懷疑他睡過去的二十年究竟是否真實呀。相比那些變化巨大的如社會形態,男人害怕老婆管製這一點始終不變。竟然帶著惡意地有趣呢。
评分像觀棋爛柯一樣。山中方七日,世上已韆年。浪漫的故事
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