红字

作者简介

《红字(英文版)》围绕四个人物讲述了一个情感的悲剧。身体畸形的英国老学究齐灵窝斯送年轻的妻子海斯特定居于波士顿，两年后回到此地，却发现妻子正立在该镇的刑台上，怀里抱着一个私生子。海斯特因拒绝说出通奸同犯，被判胸前带红色“A”字终生受辱……七年后，年轻的牧师齐姆斯太尔终于坦白了自己的罪恶，随之猝然而死。一直暗中侦查妻子的情夫的齐灵窝斯也因心力交瘁，一年后死去。女主人海斯特因其勤劳、善良，最终获得了人们的谅解，但她美好的年华也在痛苦的等待中耗尽了。只有活泼可爱的珍珠健康地成长起来，后来嫁给一位英国贵族，获得美满结局。

书籍目录

THE CUSTOM-HOUSE INTRODUCTORYTO THE SCARLET LETTERTHE SCARLET LETTERI. THE PRISON DOORII. THE MARKET-PLACEIII. THE RECOGNITIONIV. THE INTERVIEWV. HESTER AT HER NEEDLEVI. PEARLVII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALLVIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTERIX. THE LEECHX. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENTXI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEARTXII. THE MINISTER'S VIGILXIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTERXIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIANXV. HESTER AND PEARLXVI. A FOREST WALKXVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONERXVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINEXIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDEXX. THE MINISTER IN A MAZEXXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAYXXII. THE PROCESSIONXXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTERXXIV. CONCLUSION

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　　1. 霍桑出身于一个宗教气氛浓烈的传统家庭，美国东部早期移民的生活场景及神秘倾向一直在他的作品表现得十分突出，这也正是霍桑的许多文学作品的诱人之处，人们力求探寻到这种神秘力量背后蕴含的东西，而这种神秘倾向又为他的作品平添了朦胧之　美。　　2. 霍桑在未成名之前曾勤勤恳恳地练笔十余年，因而，他的作品大都以精美的构思和准确的人物、景物描写见长，文采灿然，是研习英语文学的绝佳的典范文本。　　3. 《红字(英文版)》出现于美国本土文学的初创期，也就是所谓美国的文艺复兴时期，霍桑与爱默生、麦尔维尔、梭罗等都是这一时期的代表人物，标志了美国在精神上的独立及文学上的成熟，学习美国文学史的人此书当然不可不读。

内容概要

霍桑(1804—1864)，美国19世纪后期浪漫主义文学的重要作家。他的代表作《红字》一经问世，便引起了巨大轰动，在时隔一个半世纪后的今日仍是不朽的经典名著。小说以深邃的主题，象征、隐喻等艺术手法的运用而形成了独特的风格，其中象征手法影响了《白鲸》的作者麦尔维尔、法国的波德莱尔以及现代派文学的象征主义。此外，霍桑对美国文学史上一批卓有成就的作家诸如海明威、菲兹杰拉德、福克纳等都产生过影响。

章节摘录

　　often overflows and along which, at the base and in the rearof the row of buildings, the track of many languid years isseen in a border of unthrifty grass——here, with a view fromits front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect,and thence across the harbours.tands a spacious edifice ofbrick. From the loftiest point of its roof, during preciselythree and a half hours of each forenoon.floats or droops,in breeze or calm, the banner of the republic; but with thethirteen stripes turned vertically, instead of horizontally,and thus indicating that a civil, and not a military, post ofUncle Sam's government is here established. Its front isornamented with a portico of half-a-dozen wooden pillars,supporting a balcony, beneath which a flight of widegranite steps descends towards the street Over the entrancehovers an enormous specimen of the American eagle, withoutspread wings, a shield before her breast, and, if I recollectaright, a bunch of intermingled thunderbolts and barbedarrows in each claw. With the customary infirmity of temperthat characterizes this unhappy fowl, she appears by thefierceness of her beak and eye, and the general truculencyof her attitude, to threaten mischief to the inoffensivecommunity; and especially to warn all citizens careful oftheir safety against intruding on the premises which sheovershadows with her wings. Nevertheless, vixenly asshe looks.many people are seeking at this very momentto shelter themselves under the wing of the federal eagleimagining, I presume、 that her bosom has all the softnessand snugness of an eiderdown pillow. But she has no greattenderness even in her best of moods, and.　　……

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