Novel: A Tale Of Two Cities
Book the First: Recalled to Life
Chapter 1: The Period
Author: Charles Dickens
Narrator: Frank Muller
Source: Jiuliqiangwei It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity;it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair;we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
這是最好的時代，這是最壞的時代；這是智慧的時代，這是愚蠢的時代；這是信仰的時期，這是懷疑的時期；這是光明的季節，這是黑暗的季節；這是希望之春，這是失望之冬；人們麵前有著各樣事物，人們麵前一無所有；人們正在直登天堂，人們正在直下地獄。簡而言之，那時跟現在非常相象，某些最喧囂的權威堅持要用形容詞的最高級來形容它。說它好，是最高級的；說它不好，也是最高級的。
A Tale of Two Cities And Charles Dickson
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events, most notably Charles Darnay, a French once-aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Sydney Carton, a dissipated British barrister who endeavours to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife, Lucie Manette.
Charles Dickson was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era. His work has been praised for its mastery of prose and unique personalities by writers such as George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton, though others, such as Henry James and Virginia Woolf, criticised him for sentimentality and implausibility.
林貝卡 2010夏 於美國 |
我以前讀過這部小說，具體的情節我記不太清楚了。九裏薔薇在美語論壇分享了這部小說的音頻和文字版本，我喜歡小說開始的這段文字，狄更斯寫的太好了，對比是如此的簡潔精練，猶如散文。
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